With the former South Carolina governor's decision, Donald Trump would remain the Republicans' only candidate for the White House
On Super Tuesday, Haley barely eked out a win on the crucial day of Vermont's election calendar.
Nikki Haley will do what was expected today: suspending her Republican presidential campaign, clearing the way for former US President Donald Trump to win the party's nomination this year.
Although Trump's primary and poll results show that the former UN ambassador never posed a threat, she fought back.
But Super Tuesday was the final straw. Haley barely eked out a victory in Vermont on the crucial day of the electoral calendar, while the former president pocketed at least 14 states that had primaries yesterday, including California and Texas, which provided the most delegates.
The former governor of South Carolina is expected to give a speech in her state this Wednesday in the city of Charleston and, according to local media publications, will not support the candidacy of her former boss.
Haley sought to be the leading Republican alternative to Trump and yet surprised many when she gained significant momentum late last year, eventually overtaking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in most polls.
With Trump, it was a tough battle in which Haley found it impossible to defeat the former president, who always remained the favorite for the nomination.
The latest development follows double-digit losses to Trump in New Hampshire and Haley's home state of South Carolina, as well as an embarrassing defeat in a Nevada primary where the former governor's name wasn't even on the ballot, he recalled.
In addition to Vermont on Super Tuesday, she won the Republican presidential primary in Washington DC last weekend; However, Trump's triumphs from the day before mathematically mean he will achieve it.
At this point, the former Oval Office occupant has 1,057 of the 1,215 delegates he would need to be declared a candidate at the Republican National Convention, to be held in July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In 2021, Haley, who had done good work as a debater in the debates between Republican candidates before the primaries, said that she would not run for president in 2024 if Trump did so, but later changed her mind.
