Nikki Haley, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, smiles as President Trump compliments her last October in the White House after she announced plans to leave the job. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)Two months after leaving her post as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley is wading back into national politics with a new policy group and a forthcoming book — while saying that a presidential run in 2024 has not crossed her mind. “With the hyperpolarization that we have right now and the division that we have right now, I want to make sure that we put out good policy,” Haley said in an interview with The Washington Post ahead of Monday’s launch of “Stand for America,” her new policy group. Nikki Haley, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, talks during a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on April 19, 2018. At the United Nations, Haley had success translating Trump’s “America First” policies into a less-confrontational style.

Source: Washington Post February 25, 2019 20:03 UTC