NIKKI HALEY EXITS ELECTION 2024 CAMPAIGN, CEDING REPUBLICAN RACE TO TRUMP

Wed 06 March 2024:

Front-runner and former US President Donald Trump is the only contender left in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 after Nikki Haley officially ended her campaign.

Haley expressed gratitude to people who supported her presidential campaign at an address to a group of supporters in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday morning.

“But the time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said. “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.”

The decision comes after the former US ambassador to the United Nations was soundly defeated in most primaries during Super Tuesday elections.

Her departure from the race opens the way for a rematch between Trump and the incumbent Democrat, President Joe Biden, in November. It will be the first repeat presidential contest since 1956.

Haley spent the final phase of her campaign warning Republican voters against embracing Trump, whom she said was too consumed by chaos and personal grievances to defeat Biden.

On Wednesday morning, she said Trump was likely to win the Republican nomination.

“I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president,” she said. “Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.”

Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel in October made election campaigns shift towards foreign policy, and gave Haley the opportunity to showcase her experience from the UN. She argued that both Israel and the US could be made vulnerable by what she called “distractions”.

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