A Democrat thinks former Lexington resident Nikki Haley may run as a Republican for President in 2020.

The former governor and President Trump’s UN ambassador has said she is keeping the possibility of running in 2024, but a Democratic congressman thinks she might run sooner.

Rep. John Yarmuth, D-KY, warned his colleagues that removing President Trump from office may be “bad politics” and predicted that Republicans would nominate Haley if that happens.

On CNN, Yarmuth said, “It’s probably not a good thing to get rid of him [Trump]” despite his strong belief that the president should be impeached.

“I do think that it’s the right thing to do to remove him from office. I believe he is an imminent danger to this country and to our democracy, but I was saying that the political consequences may not be very good for the Democrats.”

Yarmuth predicted that the GOP would not go with Vice President Mike Pence as the presumptive nominee if the Senate did take the unlikely step of voting to remove Trump from office.

“If we remove him from office, I will guarantee you the Republican Party would not nominate Mike Pence to succeed him,” he said. “They would nominate somebody like Nikki Haley who would be much more difficult for a Democrat to defeat.”

Haley has repeatedly denied that she might be Trump’s 2020 running mate.