{"id":5784,"date":"2017-09-23T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T11:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T11:18:45","slug":"nikki-haley-denies-designs-on-secretary-of-state-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nikki-haley-denies-designs-on-secretary-of-state-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley denies designs on Secretary of State job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York<\/p>\n<p>US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley tried to scotch speculation that she is gunning to become Secretary of State, saying she is not interested in the role.<\/p>\n<p>Facing questions about her political ambitions, the outspoken and charismatic diplomat said on Thursday that \u201cthere is going to be chatter about things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she wanted to be secretary of state, Haley gave a definitive-sounding \u201cno I do not.\u201d Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s tenure at the State Department has been a rocky one, with diplomats uneasy at promised budget cuts and suffering low morale.<\/p>\n<p>Haley was considered a potential running mate for Trump in 2016 and is tipped as a possible future presidential candidate herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I was a legislator, people have talked about what I am trying to do and supposed to do,\u201d said the former South Carolina governor and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to do is do a good job and I\u2019m trying to be responsible in my job and I\u2019m trying to make sure that I inform the American people of everything that I know.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m trying to serve the President and this country the best I can, and if people want to take it to mean something else, that\u2019s their issue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley tried to scotch speculation that she is gunning to become Secretary of State, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}