Nikki Haley announced she was suspending her 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday morning, after suffering disappointing losses across the country on Super Tuesday. Haley’s exit paves the way for former President Donald Trump to coast to the nomination, setting up an all but guaranteed rematch of the 2020 election with President Joe Biden.
Haley told a crowd in Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday morning that she would be suspending her campaign, saying she “has no regrets.”
“I’m filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we’ve received from all across our great country, but the time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said.
Haley told her supports she launched her campaign for Americans to have their voices heard, and she feels she has accomplished throughout her campaign.
“I sought the honor of being your president, but in our great country, being a private citizen is privilege enough in itself. That’s a privilege I very much look to enjoying,” she added.
Haley will not immediately endorse Donald Trump in her announcement that she is exiting the 2024 race.
The former U.N. ambassador under his administration, Haley toed the line against Trump early in her campaign, and even said she would support him as the party’s nominee if he was a convicted felon at the first GOP debate in August.
She sharpened her rhetoric against him in the final weeks, as she courted independent-minded voters. Although Haley insisted that she was not “anti-Trump,” she described him as a “disaster” for the Republican Party, “unstable and “unhinged.
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