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Just after 24 hours since Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court, representing a huge coup for Donald Trump. Today there has been sudden, an unpleasant shock to the system, with the announcement of resignation from the U.S ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro responded with horror on Twitter. Senator Lindsey Graham, so vociferous in his defense of Kavanaugh, led the tributes. It is obviously a blow to the Trump White House. Haley had been a great personality for the U.S and its allies at the U.N, especially Israel. She was vital in the thawing in relations with North Korea.

But, Haley has never been a natural Trump ally. She had been a vocal critic of him as a potential commander-in-chief before Trump even announced his decision to run for the presidency, speculating in 2015 that his temperament could lead to war. During the same year, she had criticized the presence of the Confederate flag on the state house building in North Carolina. She was the governor of North Carolina and broke ranks with other Republicans by calling out the president over allegations of womanizing and assault.

She said in 2017, “I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up. It would be more difficult to maintain a position in the administration has made such an assertion, given the allegations against him. It was barely possible to serve under the president himself whilst maintaining such a stance. It is a little secret that many in the GOP look at Haley as a presidential candidate of the future. She has cross-spectrum appeal, and ticks more boxes than any other serious politician on the left or right. She is the daughter of Indian migrants and a moderate.