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Just a few months ago, she called him “unhinged,” “not qualified” and said voting for him “is like suicide for our country.”
But man, it was striking to hear Haley’s unity message after her repeated personal swings at Trump over the past year.
“Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period,”
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
“In politics, the herd mentality is enormously strong,” she said. “A lot of Republican politicians have surrendered to it. … Of course, many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be for our party. They’re just too afraid to say it out loud.”
Now Haley is saying out loud she’s voting for Trump. But she had little choice but to join the herd if she wants a future in a party dominated by its presumptive nominee. It’s the same decision reached by Ted Cruz, whose wife was once publicly humiliated by Trump but who has long since attached himself to the former president. On Wednesday night, the Harvard Law School graduate, who presently represents Texas in the US Senate,
refused an invitation by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to unconditionally accept the forthcoming results of the 2024 election.
“Look, if the Democrats win, I will accept the result. But I’m not going to ignore fraud regardless of what happens,” said Cruz, who then, in true Trump fashion, cited baseless claims that the 2020 contest was rife with fraud.
There’s not much of a path in the alternative: former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a onetime rising GOP star, became an example of what happens to conservative foreign policy hawks who refuse to temper warnings that Trump is a danger to democracy.