State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert’s unconventional path into the foreign policy world shouldn’t derail her nomination to lead the U.S. mission to the United Nations, according to a key Senate Republican.

“I don’t think that needs to be a threshold issue,” Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., said while discussing Nauert’s lack of traditional diplomatic experience. “Nikki Haley demonstrated that you can be an exceptional U.N. ambassador without coming from the foreign policy establishment, as it were.”