It’s unlikely Haley could help Trump improve on those numbers. In 2008, Sen. John McCain added Sarah Palin to his presidential ticket in a naked attempt to woo women who might have felt jilted over Hillary Clinton losing that year’s Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. Just 43 percent of women voted for McCain that year.

Of course, Haley is better credentialed and better prepared for the national spotlight than Palin, who was plucked from near-obscurity. But that’s precisely why Haley should stay far away from a Trump ticket.

If she bides her time, after all, she could get to run for the GOP nomination with a relatively clean slate. If she runs with Trump and he somehow wins, she’d end up stuck with his record as her own for four years. And if she runs with Trump and he loses, well, she’d have the stink of that failure on her record as well.