Nikki Haley knows all about hard choices, how politics can create strange bedfellows, and how elections teach you all about your real friends. She’s lived this life many, many times! In 2016, for instance, her mentor Jeb Bush arrived in South Carolina with an ailing presidential campaign and the hope that Haley, then the state’s popular governor, might throw him a bone and offer her endorsement. Instead, Haley went with Marco Rubio, a more promising non-Trump candidate, despite the nurturing she received from Bush throughout her career. In the end, of course, none of it meant anything. Like most others in the party, Haley eventually sidled up to Trump, who made her U.N. ambassador, and whom she harshly criticized after Jan. 6 (before semi-reversing herself, again and again).