After Super Tuesday’s resounding national defeat, Nikki Haley called off her presidential campaign on Wednesday, leaving Donald Trump as the sole major contender for the Republican nomination in 2024.
Haley made a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, without endorsing the former president. Rather, she urged him to win over the coalition of independent voters and moderate Republicans who backed her.
“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. “At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people.”
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Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations, entered the race in February 2023 and quickly became Trump’s first serious opponent.
Throughout the last stages of her campaign, she vehemently advised the Republicans not to support Trump, claiming he was too consumed by chaos and personal grudges to beat President Joe Biden in the general election.
Her exit frees Trump to concentrate only on his anticipated rematch with Biden in November. Later this month, the former president is expected to secure the Republican nomination with 1,215 delegates.
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