Nikki Haley tells Charlamagne Tha God why she doesn't embrace identity politics, despite minority status

On Wednesday's "The Daily Show," guest host Charlamagne Tha God asked GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley why she doesn't embrace identity politics.

"Why don't you play the identity politics game, though?" Charlamagne asked Haley on Wednesday. "Because that's something Democrats like to do. They always talk about how diverse they are. Why don't you get into the identity politics game and play up being Indian more? Because a lot of voters just think you're a White woman." Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.

"We were the only Indian family in a small rural southern town in South Carolina. We weren't White enough to be White. We weren't Black enough to be Black," Haley responded. "And I remember when I would get teased on the playground and I would come home, my mom would always say your job is not to show them how you're different, your job is to show them how you're similar. And that lesson on the playground has played out throughout my life, whether it was in the corporate world, whether it was as governor, whether it was as ambassador."