United States’ former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley spoke in the Republican National Convention on Tuesday (India time), where raised a number of issues. 

On the foreign policy front, Haley denounced the policies adopted by former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, who is the Democratic presidential nominee for the November election.

“Obama and Biden let North Korea threaten America,” Haley said. “President Trump rejected that weakness, and we passed the toughest sanctions on North Korea in history,” she added.

She then spoke on racism, an issue that has gained prominence since the death of African-American man George Floyd, in May, this year.

“In much of the Democratic Party, it’s now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country,” Haley said. “This is personal for me. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants,” she said.

She spoke on the Black Lives Matter protests, and accused the Democratic Party of turning a blind eye towards “riots and rage”.

Reiterating the issue of racism, Haley said, “several lives are being ruined due to violence”. “We seek a nation that rises together, not falls apart in anarchy and anger.”

Extending support to President Donald Trump, she said, “President Trump and Vice President [Mike] Pence have my support.”