23-11-2016 19:04 via news.yahoo.com

Haley lends Trump team diversity but little diplomatic heft

By picking fellow Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick rounded out his early Cabinet choices with his first woman and ethnic minority. In tapping the popular governor of a state that supported him, Trump's choice could signal an attempt to reach out to minorities in the wake of his Nov. 8 victory following a bitterly divisive campaign. Trump said on Wednesday that Haley could bring people togeth
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