Trump chooses South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as United Nations ambassador

Similarly, Trump appointed Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General, Mike Pompeo as the Central Intelligence Agency director and Reince Priebus to lead his team as the Chief of Staff. They’re also asking if any potential conflicts have affected policy positions. “It has been embarrassing for both parties”.

Nikki Haley was announced as the US Ambassador to the United Nations by the President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Upon confirmation, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster will take Haley’s place as governor.

Reports initially floated Haley’s name as a Secretary of State candidate under Trump’s administration, a position that has gone unfilled as of early Wednesday.

In the early days of the Republican primary contest, Haley was mentioned as a possible vice presidential pick. Marco Rubio of Florida in the GOP presidential contest “to show that that’s not all of who we are”.

The Republican-dominated Senate need to agree to the appointments of Haley and DeVos.

The president-elect also nominated a MI education philanthrophist to be his secretary of education, signaling his administration would strongly push charter schools and vouchers for private schools.

Born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa in 1972 in Bamberg, South Carolina, Haley served in the state’s House of Representatives from 2005-2011.

The other Trump appointments announced so far are U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama for attorney general, U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo as Central Intelligence Agency director, retired Army General Mike Flynn as White House national security adviser, former Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon as chief strategist and Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus as chief of staff.

DeVos, from MI, is a longtime advocate for charter schools and school vouchers.

The pro-life politician has previously expressed her opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran, preferring to keep state sanctions.

The 58-year-old DeVos is a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman. DeVos is married to the heir of Amway, which Forbes estimated has assets of $5.1BN.

The Pences plan to spend Thanksgiving Day in MS, where their son, Michael, is in Marine Corps pilot training.

“This month’s elections have brought exciting changes to America”.

He made the comments in Ankara, Turkey, at meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation. “We must resist that temptation”, she said. “Believe me. Because they don’t like what’s happening in our country”. President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to nominate Haley to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations.

In May, the SC governor signed a bill that bans abortions in the state at 20 weeks after fertilization.

The United States is one of five permanent veto-powers on the 15-member U.N. Security Council, along with Russia, China, France and Britain.

Beyond that, Haley has made very few public comments on foreign policy ever, though she did say back in January that a Republican president “would make worldwide agreements that were celebrated in Israel and protested in Iran”.

As governor, she has also been embroiled in the thorny issue of nuclear waste amid federal facilities in the state aimed at storing and converting such materials. Still, Haley won the GOP primary for governor that year against a SC congressman, an attorney general and a lieutenant governor.

Haley, the second USA governor of Indian heritage, is the first SC governor who is not a white man.

“Six years ago, South Carolinians bestowed upon me the greatest honor of my life”.

“I always yearned to see Punjab – my motherland – and now I am so proud to be here after nearly 40 years”, she told TV reporters at the time, her voice choking with emotion as she steadied herself with nips from a water bottle.

Haley is married to Michael Haley, an officer in the South Carolina National Guard and has two children.

Bad blood between Trump and Haley was evident through much of the campaign. But on Monday she said none of that came up at their meeting last week in NY.

Trump also criticized Haley on Twitter, writing in March that “the people of SC are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!”.

Considered a part-time job, the lieutenant governor’s current duties are to preside over the Senate and oversee the Office on Aging.

Trump’s appointment makes Haley the third consecutive female USA ambassador to the United Nations, following Susan Rice and current ambassador, Samantha Power. And the move at least temporarily bridges the divide with her and Trump.

KELEMEN: In his statement, Trump praised Haley as a proven dealmaker who has traveled overseas to negotiate with worldwide companies on behalf of SC. “She will be a great leader representing us on the world stage”.