Social Media Reacts To Republican Nikki Haley's Endorsement Of Trump

When Nikki Haley ended her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in March, she said that Donald Trump would have to “earn the votes of those in our party, and beyond it, who did not support [him].”

Turns out he didn’t even need to do that, as the former South Carolina governor announced on Wednesday that she plans to vote for the former president despite previously saying that she didn’t believe he could beat Joe Biden.

“I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, who was the U.N. ambassador in Trump’s administration, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. “Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech.”

Considering that Haley said Trump was unfit to be president and the fact that she is still scoring double-digits in GOP primaries 2½ months after suspending her campaign, many critics on X (formerly Twitter) considered her a hypocrite.

Oh, and it got brutal.

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