Nikki Haley makes it official, will vote for Donald Trump in November

One of the last Republican holdouts has announced she is going to vote for Donald Trump in November's presidential election.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was the last GOP candidate challenging Trump for their party's nomination. She bowed out in early March and did not endorse Trump. Instead, she urged him to earn the support of voters who supported her.

"As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who is going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account, who would secure the border -- no more excuses. (I want) a president who would support capitalism and freedom (and) understand we need less debt, not more debt,"she said Wednesday when asked if she would vote for Trump or President Joe Biden.

Haley made the announcement at the Hudson Institute in Washington after a moderator prompted the question. She also said while Trump "has not been perfect," she described Biden as "a catastrophe."

She went on to criticize Biden in a series of posts on her X account.

“Look at what Biden has done in Ukraine. He did nothing to deter the invasion. He assumed Ukraine would fall within days," Haley wrote, in part. "While the Ukrainians have proven to be amazing fighters, Biden refuses to help them win. He gives them just enough to survive, while Russian missiles and tanks grind their country to dust."

Haley worked for Trump in the past. She served as his ambassador to the United Nations, butaggressively warned the GOP against embracing him. She argued Trump was too consumed by chaos and personal grievance to defeat Biden in the general election.

"It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that," she said when she suspended her campaign on March 6. "At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing."

Thatcleared the way for Trump to go head-to-head with President Biden in November.