Nikki Haley

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Nikki Haley (2017)

Nimrata "Nikki" Haley (* 20th January 1972 in Bamberg , South Carolina , as Nimrata Randhawa ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2011 to 2017 she was the first woman governor of South Carolina and the second woman governor in the USA with an Indian migration background. From January 2017 she was US Ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump . On October 9, 2018, she announced her resignation at the end of the year.

Personal

Haley was born to Indian immigrants. Her parents Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa belong to the Sikh religious community . They come from the Indian district of Amritsar and emigrated to Canada in 1969, where their father received a professorship for biology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . They later emigrated to the USA and were the first Indian immigrants in their new hometown Bamberg. The father accepted a professorship at Voorhees College in Denmark , South Carolina. Her mother founded the Exotica International Gift Shop clothing store in 1976 .

She helped her mother in her business and at the age of 13 she started taking care of the bookkeeping . After college at Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, she studied accounting at Clemson University and then worked for a North Carolina company before returning to her mother's company as CFO. Together with her mother, she expanded the business into a company with sales in the millions.

In September 1996, she married Michael Haley, an Army National Guard officer , according to the Sikh and Methodist rites . Haley is now a member of the Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church . She has two children.

Political career

Haley is sworn in as UN ambassador by US Vice President Pence , January 25, 2017

Haley was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004 . Here she sat down against the also the Republican Party belonging Larry Koon through. In 2006 she was re-elected.

Before the 2010 gubernatorial election , she prevailed against three prominent Republicans in the party primary in 2009. Her biggest donor is the businessman Shalabh Kumar . She was one of the candidates Sarah Palin supported; Haley was counted among the Mama Grizzlies and was close to the tea party movement .

In the election campaign she had to contend with the claim that she was not a real Christian because she was brought up in the faith of the Sikhs. In 2010, Republican John M. "Jake" Knotts, Jr., then a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, called her Raghead . This expression is a racially denoted , derogatory term for people who wear traditional headgear such as turbans or keffiyehs . This statement was sharply criticized by Haley's campaign manager and members of the Republican Party. Haley won the main election against the Democrat Vincent Shaheen, who had previously been State Senator, with 51.4 to 46.9 percent.

On November 4, 2014, Haley was elected governor for a second term.

In the primary election for the 2016 presidential election , Haley voted for Marco Rubio . When Rubio withdrew from the nomination race, she voted for Ted Cruz . She was in talks for various offices in the Trump cabinet , which the elected US President Donald Trump put together in November 2016, including as possible foreign minister.

The elected president of Trump nominee Haley in November 2016 Ambassador of the United States at the United Nations ; her predecessor was Samantha Power . The Senate confirmed the appointment on January 24, 2017. She then submitted her resignation as governor. He was succeeded by Vice Governor Henry McMaster .

As the United States Ambassador to the United States, Haley played a prominent role in the Trump administration's foreign policy . Politico newspaper found her more present than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during the first year, calling her de facto Secretary of State after his dismissal in March 2018, before his designated successor, Mike Pompeo , was confirmed by the Senate. In doing so, she formulated independent positions that sometimes encountered resistance in the White House, for example when she described Russian influence on the US election campaign in 2016 as an act of war at the beginning of 2017 or when in autumn 2017 in the course of the #MeToo debate she called for the Women who accused President Trump of sexual assault should be heard. In April 2018, she took a tough line on sanctions against Russia, which Trump later withdrew, stating that Haley had misunderstood something. She was the first cabinet member to publicly oppose such a characterization, which Politico referred to as the "red line" that Haley had set for the president, who repeatedly publicly exposes employees. On October 9, 2018, she surprisingly announced her resignation at the end of the year.

Political positions

Haley speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor
on March 15, 2013

Haley has spoken out against abortions , same-sex marriage, and the Obama administration 's health insurance reform Obamacare . She advocates a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution , which prohibits the US government from restricting the right to possess and carry weapons.

After the attack in Charleston , South Carolina on June 17, 2015, in which 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot and killed nine black members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church , Haley spoke out against the flag of the Confederate States of America - which is now known as The symbol of the southern states that previously advocated slavery is controversial - to be used on state property.

In early February 2017, Haley made his first appearance on the UN Security Council . She criticized the Russian approach in Ukraine as "aggressive"; the annexation of the Crimea she said the US sanctions against Russia would continue to exist, "has to Russia returned control of the peninsula to Ukraine".

A few days after her resignation announcement, she expressed theses that were interpreted as a clear distancing from Trump. Trump had previously assumed democrats in the election campaign before the 2018 mid-term elections that they were 'evil', 'crime-loving' and 'unwilling to defend the nation'.

Career in the private sector

Haley was elected to Boeing's Board of Directors on April 29, 2019 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Nikki Haley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shaila Dewan, Robbie Brown: All Her Life, Nikki Haley Was the Different One. In: The New York Times . June 13, 2010, accessed December 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Q&A: Nikki Haley on Faith, the 'War on Women,' and Why She Would Say No to VP. In: ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Meet Nikki Haley. (No longer available online.) In: Nikkihaley.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012 ; accessed on November 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / governor.sc.gov
  4. ↑ Home. (No longer available online.) In: Governor.sc.gov. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Republicans tap Haley for gov, make history. (No longer available online.) In: The State. June 22, 2010, archived from the original on June 26, 2010 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Dietmar Ostermann: Pitbull with lipstick. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 26, 2010, accessed October 27, 2010 .
  7. ↑ John O'Connor: Knotts' slur stirs the Haley storm. In: The State , June 3, 2010 (English).
  8. ↑ Nikki Haley bests Vincent Sheheen for South Carolina governor. In: Los Angeles Times , November 2, 2010 (English).
  9. ↑ Haley, Nikki. In: Our Campaigns. (English)
  10. ↑ Alex Isenstadt, Mike Zapler: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley endorses Marco Rubio. In: The Washington Examiner. February 17, 2016, accessed December 25, 2017 .
  11. ^ Patrick Svitek: Cruz Wins Support of Former Rubio Backers in Texas. In: Texas Tribune , March 16, 2016.
  12. ^ South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Under Consideration for Secretary of State, Other Positions in Donald Trump Cabinet. In: KTLA.com , November 16, 2016 (English).
  13. ↑ Veit Medick: A glimmer of hope. In: Spiegel Online , November 23, 2016.
  14. ↑ Michael K. Lavers: Senate committee approves Nikki Haley nomination. In: Washington Blade , January 24, 2017 (English).
  15. ^ Eliana Johnson, Burgess Everett: Haley sets a red line for Trump. In: Politico , April 18, 2018 (English).
  16. ↑ Marc Pitzke: Trump loses his best wife. In: Spiegel Online , October 9, 2018.
  17. ^ Maggie Haberman, Mark Landler, Edward Wong: Nikki Haley Resigns as US Ambassador to the United Nations. In: The New York Times , October 9, 2018.
  18. ↑ Nikki Haley. In: On the Issues .
  19. ↑ Governor wants to ban the Confederate flag. In: Spiegel Online , June 22, 2015.
  20. ↑ USA condemns aggressive actions by Russia. In: Spiegel Online , February 3, 2017.
  21. ↑ Sanctions against Russia - Trump calls for the return of Crimea to Ukraine. In: Spiegel Online , February 14, 2017.
  22. ↑ politico.com October 19, 2018: Haley breaks with Trump: 'In America, our political opponents are not evil'
  23. ↑ Haley, Scott, Staley to deliver UofSC commencement addresses , April 8, 2015, University of South Carolina press release
  24. ↑ Clemson awards 1,800 degrees, honorary doctorate to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley , May 10, 2018, newsstand.clemson.edu
  25. ↑ Nikki Haley awarded the Herzl Prize. Israelnetz.de , November 8, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Haley, Nikki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Randhawa, Nimrata (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg , South Carolina