Nikki Haley dropped out of the 2024 presidential race after she lost almost all the Super Tuesday Republican races to Donald Trump. “The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador said in remarks Wednesday morning in Charleston.
While she congratulated Trump on becoming the party’s presumptive nominee, she refused to endorse him in her dropout speech.
“In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president,” Haley said. “Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.”
“I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee. But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, ‘Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind,’” she continued.
“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. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away, and our conservative cause badly needs more people,” Haley added. “This is now his time for choosing.”
