US presidential election 2024: Haley ends White House bid, declines to endorse Trump, says she has ‘no regrets’
- Nikki Haley ended her presidential campaign on Wednesday, setting up a rematch of the 2020 election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden
- The former UN ambassador declined to endorse Trump but called on him to earn the support of moderates and independents who backed her in the primary
Republican former UN ambassador Nikki Haley suspended her White House campaign on Wednesday, declining to endorse former president Donald Trump but calling on him to earn the support of moderates and independents who backed her in the primary.
“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,” Haley said in a televised address in Charleston, South Carolina.
Haley’s decision to cede the nomination to Trump sets up a rematch of the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.
Both urged her supporters to move to their camps after she ended her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump, the presumptive Republican standard-bearer, invited Haley’s voters to “join the greatest movement in the history of our nation” while Biden, who is sure to win the Democratic nomination, said there is “a place for them in my campaign.”
Both Biden and Trump prevailed in almost every Super Tuesday nominating contest, including victories in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah that demonstrate their respective holds over their political parties.