{"id":52796,"date":"2025-11-26T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:42:10","slug":"nikki-haleys-son-nalin-says-he-is-voice-of-gen-z-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52796\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley’s son, Nalin, says he is voice of Gen Z frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikki Haley\u2019s son sees socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral victory<\/a> in New York as a symptom of Gen Z pain \u2014\u00a0and, while he\u2019s a conservative, he blames Republicans for not doing enough to listen to twenty-somethings. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy friends graduated with great degrees from great schools, and a year and a half later, none of them have a job. And that makes me upset because they didn\u2019t do anything wrong. They did everything they were supposed to,\u201d Nalin Haley, 24, told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [people who voted for Mamdani are] saying the same things. They just have some different ways to fix the problems. My issue is that the Democrats are listening to the younger people and it\u2019s time for the Republicans to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nalin Haley, son of former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, believes Republicans need to listen more to young people\u2019s concerns. Courtesy of Nalin Haley<\/p>\n

Haley, who works in finance in Fort Mill, South Carolina, recently made headlines for his appearance on Tucker Carlson\u2019s show<\/a>, where he shared views on immigration and foreign policy that are notably to the right of those of his mother, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations<\/p>\n

But Nalin says the political distance from his mom should not be a surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just from a different generation, so I have different viewpoints than my mom,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have parents with their ideas, and you have kids, and particularly if it\u2019s a conservative household, they are going in a different direction \u2026 It\u2019s literally every American household that is Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley recently appeared on the \u201cTucker Carlson Show,\u201d where he explained his generation\u2019s views. Tucker Carlson \/YouTube<\/p>\n

Haley has expressed the belief that only US-born citizens should be able to hold office, and described Israel as<\/a> \u201cjust another country\u201d \u2014 advocating for an \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n

He calls himself a Christian, a populist and a nationalist \u2014 and believes his views are typical of Gen Z conservatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we are seeing a shift in the economic stances of young Republicans, because \u2026 a free market is basically just a lawless market,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m tired of the Republican Party selling itself to elites and corporations while screwing over American workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Villanova University grad with a degree in political science, Haley believes his generation is far more suspicious of immigration and \u201cthe libertarian neoliberal market mindset\u201d that \u201chas not worked out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old believes his views are similar to many young male conservatives. Courtesy of Nalin Haley<\/p>\n

Haley says his family made sure he had a normal childhood, even though he grew up in the governor\u2019s mansion. Courtesy of Nalin Haley<\/p>\n

Among his views that have generated lots of chatter: He advocates for banning H1-B visas<\/a> and limiting legal immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t view it as responsible to have legal immigration at a time when our economy is fragile and companies aren\u2019t hiring Americans, and AI is taking over a lot of jobs,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes no sense to have foreign workers come here [while] we actually are not hiring our own kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though his maternal grandparents are immigrants from India, Haley said, \u201cAll I\u2019ve ever known is America \u2026 I\u2019m not gonna have any sort of weird loyalty to a country where I\u2019ve never been.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also says young Republicans are worried about the housing crisis and \u201ccorruption with insider trading.\u201d He thinks they\u2019re more traditional than prior generations because they\u2019re growing \u201ctired of modernity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley said that the Democrats are doing a better job addressing young people\u2019s struggles than Republicans are \u2014\u00a0which is why Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race in New York City. AP<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Haley seems to be emblematic of a new breed of Gen Z men raised by podcasts \u2014 stumping for isolationist policies and populist economics. He has, like many of his peers, recently converted to Catholicism being raised a Protestant.<\/p>\n

But he said he limits his social media use to weekdays and only allows himself to tweet twice a day. He insists there are no specific influencers or news sources that have shaped his views. <\/p>\n

In fact, Haley doesn\u2019t listen to podcasts at all \u2014\u00a0he\u2019d never listened to Tucker Carlson\u2019s show before being on it \u2014 and said he\u2019s never heard Nick Fuentes\u2019s<\/a> provocative \u201cAmerica First\u201d podcast, though he has empathy for its followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s becoming influential because \u2026 particularly my generation, they\u2019re very angry,\u201d he said of Fuentes. \u201cWhen people are voiceless, they look to someone to be their voice.<\/p>\n

Haley says that he began to think more independently and question the status quo in his junior year of high school. Tucker Carlson \/YouTube<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of getting angry at people for who they choose to be their voice, [we] should instead look to, Why are people angry in the first place? Why do they feel voiceless? What are these problems and how can we fix them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley says he\u2019s grateful to his parents who \u201ctried to give [him] a normal life\u201d and \u201cdid a very good job,\u201d despite growing up in the governor\u2019s mansion. The hardest part of having a parent in politics was seeing his mom derided online.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing the son of a politician who is being criticized is a lot harder than when people criticize me,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was involved in public service for the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nalin Haley does not listen to podcasts and limits his time online. Courtesy of Nalin Haley<\/p>\n

Nalin said he and his mother don\u2019t talk about politics. But he started to move away from mainstream Republican views in his junior year of high school, fueled by doing his own research online.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just started to think for myself, and I wasn\u2019t just accepting what Con Inc\u201d \u2014\u00a0a pejorative for establishment conservative interests \u2014 \u201cor the mainstream media was giving me,\u201d Haley said. \u201cI started [noticing] the things you supposedly weren\u2019t allowed to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when he became an advocate of \u201csmart capitalism that works for the interests of the average person, not just the elites,\u201d and became more suspicious of American involvement in foreign affairs, particularly our relationship with Israel, which he said needs to \u201cstop interfering in our politics\u201d if \u201cthey want a better relationship with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Haley has no plans to become politically active and says it was \u201cnever my intention to get any sort of platform.\u201d But he does hope to influence the Republican Party to move towards Gen Z\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel the older generation has written off all of the concerns of younger people. My hope is that [the party] will help my generation be able to have the same opportunities that the prior generations had,\u201d Haley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I hope is that it embraces a Christian ethic and American nationalism and just economic realism, just being real about the economy, and putting normal everyday American workers first as opposed to the elites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley\u2019s son sees socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral victory in New York as a symptom of Gen Z…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[235,2301,9,11,10,29179,5285,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-52796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-gen-z","9":"tag-immigration","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nikki-haley","14":"tag-republican-party","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}