Nikki Haley bows to the inevitable

Admittedly Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and ex-US ambassador to the United Nations under Donald Trump, was in a tricky position. But now she has come out and said she will vote for Trump in November, although she didn't go so far as to formally endorse the former president. She really had little choice. She couldn't ignore the very large elephant in the room for ever, and she couldn't have voted for, let alone, endorse Joe Biden because that would have been viewed as a betrayal to her Republican party and a betrayal to her many loyal supporters. So she went half way and will presumably let her supporters make up their own minds what they do in the November election. I suspect a lot of them will go with Nikki Haley and vote for Trump which has to be good news for the Manhattan court defendant. Haley has been scoring high numbers in primaries despite dropping out of the presidential race, so there's a good chunk of Republicans who may well switch their loyalties to Trump, not that he needs them at this stage in the campaign because he has effectively won the Republican nomination already. But Trump loves big numbers. He has always claimed that millions more voters wanted him as president rather than Biden in 2020, and now he will have potentially significant numbers of Haley fans joining the Trump bandwagon. Biden has a lot of work on his hands to stay in the White House.