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Nikki Haley is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race after winning just two Republican primaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said at a news conference on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her departure will leave her rival Donald Trump as the only Republican left after he dominated Super Tuesday, racking up a series of wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Haley did not endorse Mr Trump during her exit speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, she congratulated him and said she “wish[ed] him well”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said it is now up to Mr Trump “to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though Ms Haley came nowhere near to securing the party’s nomination, she found substantial support among voters who had rejected the former president, and in particular college-educated voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The question now will be whether her supporters, who made up a quarter of Republican primary voters in some states, will back Mr Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On his social media site Truth Social, Mr Trump said Ms Haley had been “trounced last night, in record setting fashion”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Haley had pitched herself as a fresh start for the party and the chance to move past Mr Trump. But she only won Vermont and the District of Columbia in the primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Nikki Haley is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race after winning just two Republican primaries. “The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said at a news conference on Wednesday morning. Her departure will leave her rival Donald Trump as the only Republican left after he dominated Super Tuesday, racking up a series of wins. Ms Haley did not endorse Mr Trump during her exit speech. Instead, she congratulated him and said she “wish[ed] him well”. She said it is now up to Mr Trump “to earn the votes of those in our party and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37965,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37962\/revisions\/37965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}