SC Governor Haley picked by Trump for UN Ambassador

Haley also added that this year US President Elections had brought exciting changes in America.

Haley faces a tough challenge at the United Nations during a time of worldwide uncertainty over Trump’s promises to scale back Washington’s central role in global security. Resolve that showed in the days after the Charleston church shooting previous year and culminated with Haley spearheading action to remove the Confederate battle flag from the SC state house. “It puts her in a position to get foreign policy experience and really to be either a career-long diplomat, maybe move up to Secretary of State in the next administration, or to use it as a jumping-off point if she has ambitions to come back and maybe run for U.S. Senator at some point, or even if at some point she decides to go for the presidency”, he says.

The nasty campaign season included clashes between Trump and his new Cabinet selections. -Mexican border to curb illegal immigration and reviewing trade agreements, and his suggestion that he would push North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners to pay more for their own defense.

Trump’s stated intention of banning immigration by Muslims from countries that are a source of Islamist militancy has played well with many in India, a majority Hindu nation that has always been at odds with Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Asked what he sees as America’s role in the world, Trump replied: “That’s such a big question”.

The UN ambassador is the chief official for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and is the direct line between the UN and the U.S. Department of State. Among those he has interviewed is 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who repeatedly denounced Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Haley would succeed Obama’s United Nations envoy, Samantha Power, in the high-profile position.

Much of the diplomacy over the rivalry between India and Pakistan, both nuclear-armed powers, plays out in the corridors of United Nations headquarters in NY and Haley’s appointment is likely to be seen positively in New Delhi in that light.

JASON MILLER: I think there is also a natural chemistry between the two when they met and started talking about their vision of how we wanted the United States represented on the world stage.

DeVos, 58, is a billionaire Republican donor, a former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and an advocate for the privatisation of education. “We must resist that temptation”.

Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s critics in the past, praised the nomination and wrote, “Haley would be a strong voice for United Nations reform and stand for American interests throughout the world”.

“I’m just giddy, and if you talk to any of the governors here, we are so excited at the possibility and the opportunities that are going to be here”, she said after Mr Trump’s win.

She rose to prominence after former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed her in a Republican primary during her campaign for governor in 2010, part of an effort to tap female candidates from the extreme-right Tea Party movement.

The American Federation for Children Action Fund, which DeVos chairs, and its state-affiliated PACs invested in 121 races in 12 states in the general election, spending spent $210,000 to support “pro-school choice” candidates in Oklahoma alone.

The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, condemned DeVos’ nomination.

DeVos said in her own statement, “The status quo in education is not acceptable”.