CNN Suggests Haley Departure Might Be Connected to Kavanaugh Confirmation

During Tuesday’s edition of At This Hour With Kate Bolduan, the eponymous host and her panel reacted to the impending departure of United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who announced that she would step down from her post at the end of this year. While Haley stressed that she has decided to step down out of respect for term limits, citing her six-year tenure as Governor of South Carolina and her two years as US Ambassador to the UN, the CNN panel didn’t buy that explanation as the primary reason for her departure.  According to White House Reporter Abby Phillip, “the President has just come out of a major political fight involving his Supreme Court nominee who was accused of sexual misconduct, a time when we have been focusing in on the President’s standing with female voters. We have seen so much anger from women. And some folks are questioning the timing, saying that Haley doing this now naturally leads to questions about whether they are related.” Phillip later speculated that Haley’s departure from the administration will only further exacerbate the gender gap, which she described as “widening as we speak” and suggested that “some people in this White House are questioning whether the political timing of this was good for both President Trump and for Nikki Haley.”