A New York magazine profile, out Monday, of United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley goes to great lengths to portray her as a lady politician with lofty expectations—a future run for the presidency is all but assured, those close to her said—who manages President Trump, in part, by playing politics like a man. Andrew Rice writes: One of Haley’s political gifts — perhaps the most important, given the burden of sexism — is her ability to present herself with disarming modesty. She wears her obvious ambition in the genteel fashion of the South, where a woman will say “Bless your heart” when she wants to convey the sentiment “Fuck you.” “She is definitely driven, and she will run over people to get there,” says a woman who played a key role in Haley’s rise. “Like a very driven man would.” But for a savvy politician whose national profile grew with her handling of the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting—where removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse became the most immediate political goal—she’s also in lockstep with Trump as a member of his Cabinet, despite exchanging barbs with the future president on Twitter and attending the GOP convention to… Read full this story
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