Not long ago, the former South Carolina governor was arguing that Donald Trump was too old, too chaotic, too “unhinged” and too prone to temper tantrums to be president again and said he couldn’t beat president Joe Biden

“I feel no need to kiss the ring,” Haley said in February before suspending her primary campaign. “My political future is of no concern.”

But on Wednesday, she delivered the implicit endorsement everyone knew was coming sooner or later. Haley said that while Trump had not been “perfect” on issues that matter to her, like foreign policy and the national debt, Biden had been a “catastrophe.”

So, I will be voting for Trump,” said the former US ambassador to the United Nations, who served in the ex-president’s Cabinet.

After a friendly photo-op in front of the Oval Office fireplace, she left that job in 2018 before she could be tarnished by association with Trump’s mayhem. As 2024 loomed on the calendar, Haley said she would not run for president against her old boss — then did so anyway — to Trump’s lingering fury.