Trump certainly thought Haley could “help” when he put her in his White House cabinet. Let’s not pretend her RINO credentials were not well established
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Nikki was Gov of SC, which he talked her into leaving to be Ambassador to the United Nations. This is not a cabinet position. She was a decent ambassador though. I think the Lt Gov was who Trump wanted for Gov of SC.
“It was not a Cabinet-level position under the George W. Bush administration (from 2001 to 2009),[2][3] but was once again elevated under the Obama administration, and initially retained as such by the Trump administration during the tenure of Nikki Haley.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_the_United_Nations#