Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley confirmed reporting that she has applied for Secret Service protection, amid an uptick of threats.
“We’ve had multiple issues,” Haley told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) after a campaign event in South Carolina on Monday. “It’s not going to stop me from doing what I need to do.”
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, had been the target of two “swatting” attempts at her home in the Palmetto State, according to reporting from ABC News .
On Monday, the WSJ noted an increase in the number of protesters at her events in recent days, demonstrating against her support for additional aid to Ukraine and Israel. The news outlet noted that last week, a woman tried to rush the stage at a Haley campaign event, but she was tackled by a member of the candidate’s security detail.
“When you do something like this, you get threats,” Haley told reporters last week, per the WSJ. “It’s just the reality.”
She added that her campaigning has not been impeded, despite the fact that she has needed to “put a few more bodies around us.”