Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday morning after losing 14 out of 15 Super Tuesday states to her primary challenger, former President Donald Trump. Haley won only by a slight margin in Vermont.
“I am filled with gratitude for the outpouring of support we’ve received from across our great country,” Haley told supporters in a speech from Charleston, S.C. “But the time has now come to suspend my campaign.”
Trump celebrated his wins in a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening. Trump focused on party unity and did not mention Haley; instead, he shifted into general-election mode with a series of attacks on President Biden.
“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason and the pundits tell me there has never been one like this,” he said, adding it had been “an amazing night and an amazing day.” Trump called Biden the “worst president” in U.S. history and excoriated the current president for turning the U.S. into “a third world country.”
Specifically, Trump criticized Biden and his administration for its lenient open-border policies that have let in at least 10 million illegal immigrants since 2021. He cited a new bombshell report, which found that the White House directly transported over 320,000 illegal immigrants into the country via airplane, as another example of Biden’s exacerbation of the border crisis.
“We had everything going so beautifully. When Joe Biden goes to the beach, because somebody on his staff thinks he looks very good in a bathing suit, until he can’t get his feet out of the sand or lift the chair, which weighs about nine ounces,” Trump said. “Joe Biden, if he would have just left everything alone, he could have just gone to the beach, he would have had tremendous success at the border and elsewhere. So we’re going to take back our country.”
After Tuesday, there are still another 26 states and four territories that will vote, up until the final nominating contests on June 4 ahead of the Republican convention in July, explains National Review.
“I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard,” Haley said Tuesday. “I have done that. I have no regrets. And although I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in” Haley concluded in her speech.
