Everything You Need to Know About Rising Republican Nikki Haley, Trump's Pick For UN Ambassador

Nikki Haley's original base was made up largely of Tea Party voters, and Sarah Palin may have helped her shore up their support. In Sarah Palin's endorsement message, posted on her Facebook page in 2012, the former Alaska governor said, "Nikki is a strong pro-life, pro-Second Amendment fiscal conservative who served with distinction as a state lawmaker, a reformer who fought her own party to protect the interests of the taxpayer, a proud daughter of immigrants who worked night and day to achieve the American dream, a wife of an officer in the Army National Guard, a board member at her family's Methodist church, and — most proudly — the loving mother of two beautiful kids."