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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsACCOMPLISHED OPPORTUNIST - Nikki Haley is Taking the Tea Party Global
She has boundless ambition, and more than once in her political career has managed to step out of the shadows onto center stage as America's ambassador to the United Nations.
Dulcie Leimbach
09.22.18 9:02 PM ET
BAMBERG, South CarolinaNikki Haley, an accomplished opportunist in the risky world of President Donald Trumps cabinet, was born in 1972 here in the black belt of rural South Carolina.
Its an agricultural region where most people have African-American backgrounds and, as Haley wrote in her 2012 memoir, The railroad tracks divided Bamberg. On one side lived the black residents, on the other the white. Today the town of 3,000 people is so small and fast-diminishing that it no longer has a hospital or a supermarket. But Haleys fading picture still graces two welcome signs erected when she was the governor of the state.
Haley has not been back to Bamberg since Trump appointed her Americas ambassador to the United Nations in January 2017, according to several residents and officials here. Never mind. Haley remains Bambergs homegrown VIP, and the towns main claim to fame.
This week in New York City, Donald Trump will be looming large on Haleys turf at the U.N., making major speeches and presiding over the Security Council (and perhaps distracting from the D.C. encompassing allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh).
But Haley will be someone to watch as well, starting with Sundays talk shows. She has boundless ambition, and more than once in her political career has managed to step out of the shadows onto center stage. Indeed, for those who have watched her closely at the U.N., her performance makes the most sense not as a matter of diplomacy, but as a campaign for the big prize in 2024, or even 2020, with a hungry eye on Trumps core supporters.
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ACCOMPLISHED OPPORTUNIST - Nikki Haley is Taking the Tea Party Global (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2018
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)1. .
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no_hypocrisy
(46,115 posts)2. Won't play out, at least at the United Nations
Majority of nations are not Aryan, white-Christian, capitalist lemmings.
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)3. Yeah, she's another snake to watch