Nikki Haley to End Presidential Campaign

Super Tuesday and that breaking news, Nikki Haley ending her 2024 run.

The rematch is set, a race between the president and the former president he defeated. Something we’ve seen only once before in American history. Donald Trump crushed Nikki Haley. He won 14 to 15 contests across the country. President Biden swept his races, but there were some surprises and big warning signs for both candidates. Rick Klein is here with the state of the race and one of the big questions, where will Nikki Haley’s voters go? Rachel Scott starts us off from Mar-a-Lago. Good morning, Rachel.

George, good morning and this news is just coming in. Sources tell us that in just a matter of hours, Nikki Haley is officially expected to drop out of the 2024 race, making Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee. Sources tell me that Haley is not expected to endorse the former president today. Instead, she’s expected to make it clear that he has work to do when it comes to winning the support of her voters.

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This morning, Nikki Haley is expected to end her 2024 campaign. ABC News learning the former South Carolina governor will drop out of the race today. It comes after Donald Trump swept nearly all 15 states on Super Tuesday. The former president now the presumptive Republican nominee, the stage set for a long general election rematch with President Biden.

November 5th is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country.

From Massachusetts to Virginia, Texas to California, millions of voters casting their ballots with more than a third of the GOP delegates up for grabs. Nikki Haley barely even made a dent, only winning Vermont and not even holding a campaign event. The former president didn’t mention her once in his remarks.

We have a great Republican Party with tremendous talent and we want to have unity and we’re going to have unity and it’s going to happen very quickly.

Haley blasting that call for unity. In a statement, her campaign saying, “There remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump.” Exit polls showing major warning signs for the former president as he faces 91 criminal charges with 79% of Haley voters saying they would be dissatisfied if Trump were the nominee. The exact same number saying he would be unfit for office if convicted of a crime.

I don’t want to vote for him again, and I don’t want to vote for Joe Biden. Right now, it’s kind of… I feel homeless. I feel homeless.

President Biden also won big on Super Tuesday. In a memo this morning, his campaign writing, “Donald Trump limps into the general election as a wounded, dangerous, and unpopular candidate.”

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But there are troubling signs for Biden too. In Minnesota, nearly 20% of Democrats voting uncommitted instead of voting for Biden. A significant protest vote fueled by concerns about his age and support over Israel.

Joe Biden has not done enough to earn my vote and not done enough to stop the war, stop the massacre.

Some voters now dreading the all but certain rematch between Trump and Biden, not sold on either candidate.

Could you even give me one reason? Except you’re like, “Hey, the other guy is bad.”

Just as the polls were closing yesterday, the former president lashed out at Haley, his former UN ambassador, calling her angry and bitter. Well, now the Trump campaign tells me this is welcome news. The former president has been calling on the party to unify around him as he prepares for this rematch now with President Biden, George.

Okay, Rachel, thanks.