After a series of losses in the GOP nomination elections on Super Tuesday, Haley announces her resignation
- Haley is not expected to endorse Trump, according to sources.
- Trump defeated 12 prominent Republican candidates in the primaries.
- The former president won primaries in 14 states on Super Tuesday.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, announced her exit from the Republican presidential race on Wednesday, leaving former President Donald Trump as the only Republican candidate and paving the way for a rematch between Trump and Biden in November 2024. cnn reported.
After a series of losses in the GOP nominating contests on Super Tuesday, Haley announced she would lose the race during remarks in Charleston, South Carolina.
However, according to sources familiar with her, Haley is not expected to endorse Trump. Instead, she is calling on the former president to earn the support of voters who backed her. Her plan leaves her room to endorse the former president before the November presidential election.
Haley was the last of 12 prominent candidates the former president defeated in a Republican primary in which he excelled from start to finish, including a landslide victory in 14 of the 15 Republican contests on Super Tuesday.
In her latest speeches, Haley had begun to hone her attacks on Trump, questioning his mental fitness and grouping him with President Joe Biden, the likely Democratic nominee, as one of two “grumpy old men.”
Haley's campaign.
His campaign focused on a message of ushering in a “new generational leader” and challenging 20th century political norms. Despite her political experience and name recognition, she started out as a relatively dark horse and gradually became Trump's leading contender.
When the race came down to just Haley and Trump, she encountered setbacks in New Hampshire and her home state of South Carolina. Despite winning the Washington, DC primary shortly before Super Tuesday, she came up short.
In an attempt to distinguish herself from Trump's vision for the Republican Party, Haley honed her attacks, raising concerns about Trump's commitment to the Constitution and calling his likely nomination “suicide for our country.”
While Haley continued to draw sizable crowds, rumors of a third-party bid were repeatedly shot down. In his speech before the South Carolina primary, she clarified that his goal was not just to oppose Trump but to express concerns about current and former presidents.
