Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has come around on Donald Trump, announcing his tepid support in a tweet that refused to even mention the presumptive Republican nominee by name.

"Last August, I said I'd support the GOP nominee," he said Wednesday morning. "It's now clear who the RNC delegates will nominate."

"He is better than she is," Walker continued, implying that his stated distaste for Trump had not so much dissipated as just lessened in comparison to the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

And though his refusal name Trump directly raised eyebrows – and spawned numerous references to "Harry Potter" on social media – Walker isn't the first Republican to avoid Trump's name.

As Trump locked up the nomination, reluctant Republican lawmakers across the country promised to "support the nominee."

Last August, I said I'd support the GOP nominee. It's now clear who the RNC delegates will vote to nominate. And he is better than she is. — Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) July 6, 2016

And unlike many of those lawmakers who have said they won't be at the Republican National Convention to be later this month, Walker has confirmed that he will be speaking at the quadrennial gathering in Cleveland.

"I think there is a clear contrast," Walker told a Wisconsin television station . "For those who raise concerns like I just did about the judgment of Hillary Clinton in terms of not just those emails, but some of the other issues out there, really there's only one alternative."

Walker's embrace of Trump, unenthusiastic as it may seem, is a reversal from last month , when he called both party's nominees "poor choices."

"It's just sad in America that we have such poor choices right now," he said in early June, saying he was so far unwilling to endorse Trump.

At the time, Walker described his support as conditional on Trump retracting his incendiary statements about the federal judge – who is of Mexican descent – overseeing a fraud lawsuit against Trump University.

"He's not yet the nominee," he said then. "Officially that won't happen until the middle of July and so for me that's kind of the time frame that, in particular, I want to make sure he renounces what he says – at least in regards to this judge."

Trump did not disavow his attacks, but the controversy has largely been forgotten in the churn of the news cycle, which has produced several other small controversies, including a flap over a tweet that was seen as anti-Semitic and praise of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in just the past few days.

But with Clinton looming, Walker has bowed to party unity.