Former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador will suspend her presidential campaign. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro has four takeaways from Super Tuesday.
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Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley will suspend her campaign for the White House today, according to sources familiar with her thinking. The campaign announced planned remarks from Haley in Charleston at 10 a.m. ET, which is when she is expected to withdraw from the race.
Republican strategist Sarah Longwell tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that it now comes down to whether Haley plans to endorse Trump. Haley has won the support of college-educated, suburban voters by massive margins. „Those people are not going to vote for Trump,“ Longwell says.
Many leading Republicans are guests on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Speaking with Inskeep, he predicts that most of Nikki Haley’s supporters will eventually back Trump. He adds that Trump must work to appeal to suburban women.
NPR’s senior political editor/correspondent Domenico Montanaro joins the newsletter with analysis of last night’s results:
One should always be prepared for a day of surprises in politics. Super Tuesday this year wasn’t one of them.
