Nikki Haley was the victim of a second swatting attempt, records show

Nikki Haley was dealt an unpleasant start to the new year.

On Jan. 1, authorities responded to a false 911 call directing them to Haley’s Kiawah Island home after a woman alleged the 2024 GOP hopeful had killed her daughter and was threatening to kill herself, an incident report revealed.

The episode took place two days after another bogus emergency call dispatched law enforcement to her South Carolina residence on Dec. 30, 2023, in an instance of a malicious criminal prank known as swatting.

The caller further dubiously claimed that her daughter was lying in a pool of blood on the floor.

A woman answered the door and a responding Charleston County Sheriff’s Office deputy quickly concluded the call was a hoax, the report, first scooped by Reuters, indicated.

Over the weekend, news first broke about the Dec. 30 incident, during which a caller spuriously claimed a man had shot a woman and was getting ready to injure himself.

“I was not home, but Michael and I take care of my parents. They are 87 and 90, and we take care of them. And they were at home and with their caregiver,” Haley said of the first swatting incident on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

“It is an awful situation. It put the law enforcement officers in danger. It put my family in danger. And, you know, it was not a safe situation.”

The South Carolina Republican then revealed, “We’ve had it happen twice.” Details of the second instance hadn’t been previously known.

Haley served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to early 2017 and as US ambassador to the UN from 2017 to 2018.

Swatting has been increasingly deployed against a bevy of high-profile politicians over recent months, including prominent politicians such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

Haley’s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment. The Post also contacted the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office for additional information.

“We have lived in a country of chaos for quite a while now. It is time that we remember what normal felt like. It is time that we remember what healing feels like,” Haley added on Sunday.

“It is time that we remember what it’s like not to have division, not to have hate.”

Haley is back in South Carolina, where she is planning to campaign vigorously over the next month for the Republican nomination.

The Palmetto State’s GOP primary is set for Feb. 24.