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Mr Haley often touches on her background - she was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa in Bamberg, South Carolina, to Punjabi Sikh immigrants from India who owned a clothing boutique. She has said she endured racist taunts throughout her childhood and, in a video announcing her presidential bid, said she grew up "not Black, not white - I was different".