Nikki Haley endorses former rival Trump because 'the world is unsafe' under Harris presidency

A week after progressives celebrated onetime Donald Trump rival Nikki Haley for "absolutely trashing" his campaign by criticizing the Puerto Rico "island of garbage" joke by a comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally and telling Trump to tone down the "bromance" and "overly masculine" language, Trump's former United Nations ambassador and primary challenger made clear who she thinks is worse.

"The world is unsafe under Biden-Harris, and we shouldn’t expect that to change under a Harris administration," Haley wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday that urged voters primarily put off by Trump's "tone" and "his excesses, such as his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021," to consider the consequences of a Kamala Harris presidency.

"This election isn’t a referendum on him," and Haley agrees with Trump "most of the time" and the opposite with Harris "nearly all the time. That makes this an easy call."

The Biden-Harris administration is responsible for an average $13,000 increase in annual costs to each American compared to four years ago, the national debt skyrocketed "thanks in part" to her tie-breaking vote on "the grossly misnamed American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act," and her policies with President Biden made the southern border security threat "dramatically worse," she wrote.

The hasty exit from Afghanistan "created a new terrorist state" and "signaled weakness that sparked Russia’s war against Ukraine," while their "appeasement of Iran has enriched that despotic regime and emboldened it to pursue war with Israel through its terrorist proxies," Haley said. She added that indifference to China's rise over these past four years "has done nothing to impede the communist power’s expansion at our expense." 

Haley cited these as "enormous policy differences that will affect the lives of every American and much of the world." 

For "those of us clear-eyed enough to see Mr. Trump’s flaws and honest enough to acknowledge them, the question is whether we’re better off with his policies or his opponent’s," she wrote.

"On taxes, spending, inflation, immigration, energy and national security, the candidates are miles apart. And Mr. Trump is clearly the better choice."