Without a second Watergate, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are not going to challenge President Trump, let alone defeat him in a primary. Hopes of a Pence-Haley ticket, or hopes of a Haley-Pence ticket for that matter, are fever dreams fueled by too much wishful, cable television thinking.

That hasn’t quelled this president’s paranoia though. The New York Times reports that Trump has been alarmed by the rising diplomatic star of the former South Carolina governor and even grown suspicious of Haley’s political ambitions. “Republicans close to the White House whisper about the prospect of an alliance between Ms. Haley and Vice President Mike Pence,” the Times reports, possibly to run as a ticket in 2020.