Exactly . She ' s hedging her bets on two options , and both are probably pretty good for her . 1 She serves as ambassador , Trump loses in 2020 , and she sets herself up to run in 2024 as a successful 2 term Governor of an early primary state ! plus 4 years of her ambassadorship . She has both executive experience and foreign policy experience , which very few other potential candidates ever have . 2 Trump wins reelection in 2020 , and she ' d be quite likely to be at the very least strongly considered for Secretary of State , which sets her up for an even better run than in Option 1 . I suppose there is also a third option 3 She remains as Governor of South Carolina and is term limited she ' s partway through her final term now . Then what does she do ? Running for Congress would seem to be the most likely next step , but there isn ' t a guarantee that there would be a good opening for her both of the state ' s US Senators are Republicans and pretty popular , so she ' d have to run in a primary against Lindsey Graham in 2020 , which would be an , uh , interesting race .