Former US President Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 election, after Nikki Haley suspended her campaign following the Super Tuesday primaries.
Trump swept 14 out of 15 states that held primaries on Tuesday, with Haley only winning in Vermont. At the end of the day, Trump stood at 995 Republican convention delegates – more than a tenfold lead over Haley’s 89.
“The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” Haley told supporters in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday morning.
“I have no regrets,” she said, noting that her first-generation immigrant mother was able to vote for her daughter in a presidential primary. Haley’s parents immigrated from India.
“In all likelihood Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well,” she added.
Haley served as the US ambassador to the UN during the first Trump presidency, but resigned after less than two years on the job, siding with the Democrats who tried to block Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
