In exiting the race Wednesday morning, Haley issued a broad call for Republicans to rediscover what the party has previously stood for.
She outlasted the «fellas.» The money behind the mission never dried up. In the end, she won a pair of contests — in Washington, D.C., and Vermont.
Nikki Haley still came nowhere near the Republican nomination. She couldn’t prevent Super Tuesday from becoming a blowout, with former President Donald Trump cleaning up in red states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama), blue states (California, Massachusetts, Colorado) and historic and potentially emerging or reemerging battlegrounds (Virginia, North Carolina, Minnesota).
In exiting the race on Wednesday morning, Haley issued a broad call for Republicans to rediscover what the party has previously stood for. She also called on Trump himself to reach out to voters who are not yet convinced that he’s the right choice for their party or for the country.
«It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and those beyond it to support him,» Haley said in brief remarks in her home state of South Carolina. «I hope he does that.»
Pretty much at the same time she was speaking, Trump invited Haley supporters to join his campaign. But that was almost an afterthought in a social-media post that also declared that Haley «got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion» and alleged that she was secretly funded by «Radical Left Democrats.»
Contrast that with the statement President Joe Biden released Wednesday morning, praising Haley for the «courage» to run for president and try to defeat Trump.
«Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign,» the president said in a campaign statement.
Words aside, Haley’s campaign served to highlight potential limitations in Trump’s electoral coalition.
