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Trump's U.N. envoy Nikki Haley quits, denies 2020 ambitions
By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton
Reuters9 October 2018
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced on Tuesday she is resigning, and immediately denied she was preparing to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office, Haley said her 18-month stint at the United Nations had been "an honour of a lifetime" and said she would stay on until the end of the year.
Describing her time at the United Nations as "fantastic" and "incredible," Trump said he had accepted Haley's resignation and would name her successor within two or three weeks.
A former governor of South Carolina who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley is a rising star in the Republican Party and is often mentioned as a possible candidate for the 2020 presidential elections.
But she said on Tuesday she would not be running and would campaign for Trump. "No, I am not running for 2020." she said.
Echoing previous statements from Trump, Haley said the United States under his presidency is now respected around the world.
"Now the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through," she said.
Haley has been the face of Trump's "America First" policy at the United Nations, steering the U.S. withdrawal from several U.N. programs and ardently defending his hard-line policies against Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
"She has done an incredible job. She is a fantastic person, very importantly, but she also is somebody that gets it," Trump said on Tuesday. She told Trump around six months ago that she was thinking of quitting by the end this year "to take a little time off," he said.
"She's done a fantastic job and we've done a fantastic job together. We've solved a lot of problems and we're in the process of solving a lot of problems," he said.
Haley discussed her resignation with Trump last week when she visited him at the White House, Axios news site reported.
Her U.N. counterparts described her as charming and yet very tough. She saw herself as a fighter.
"I don't see (my role) as pushing an 'America First' policy, I see it as defending America because every day I feel like I put body armour on. I just don't know who I'm fighting that day," Haley told Reuters earlier this year.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland; Additional reportng by Doina Chiacu, Makini Brice, Susan Heavey and Lisa Lambert in Washington and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Writing by Alistair Bell; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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SHE’S WITH HER
Meghan McCain Offers to Run a Nikki Haley 2020 Campaign Against Trump
‘If she ends up primarying President Trump, girl, I’ll run your campaign,’ ‘The View’ host told Nikki Haley on Tuesday morning.
Matt Wilstein
10.09.18 12:15 PM ET
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Nikki Haley has repeatedly insisted that she has no plans to run against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020. But if she changes her mind, has a strong base of support on
The View.
Following Haley’s
surprise resignation from her role as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday, the morning show co-host lavished praise on her and expressed hope that she would reconsider a primary run against the sitting president.
“I’m a little surprised, because didn’t she seem to add some stability to this administration?” Sunny Hostin said. “I think a lot of us looked to her to be the voice of reason,” she added, suggesting that Haley could have been the author of the
anonymous op-edcriticizing the administration in
The New York Times, a charge Haley
has denied.
“I think her position is very important in terms of how we engage with the rest of the world and I’m very, very concerned that she has resigned,” Hostin said, adding later that Haley is “the only one that has left this administration smelling like a rose.”
The View
NIKKI HALEY RESIGNS: The co-hosts react to the breaking news that the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will be leaving her post at the end of the year.
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Meghan McCain, who
returned to The View on Monday after a hiatus following her father’s death, called Haley a “real voice of reason” on national security issues involved Russia, Syria and “things globally that traditional conservatives believe.”
“I’ve never made any qualms about how much I love her, I know her,” McCain continued. “If she ends up primarying President Trump, girl, I’ll run your campaign, period.”
During a press appearance with the president Tuesday morning, Haley
reiterated her assertion that she has no plans to run against Trump. “No, I am not running in 2020,” she told reporters, definitively. “I look forward to supporting the president in the next election.”
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