“Nalin Haley is going to quickly rise to become the face of the male Gen Z Right-Wing,” Evan Kilgore wrote on X in a post viewed over 400,000 times.

And Kilgore might be on to something. Fresh off an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, Nalin Haley, the 24-year-old son of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, has blown up on social media. Nalin Haley has also made clear that there is an ideological distance between himself and his mother, who was once seen as relatively moderate in Republican circles.

Haley is young, articulate and stands further to the right than some of his predecessors. He might be exactly what MAGA has been looking for.

Newsweek has contacted Haley for comment via social media.

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Gen Z, in particular, younger Gen Z men , increasingly identify

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