Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being “trounced” in 15 states across the US on Super Tuesday.
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President Joe Biden from the Democratic Party and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump have swept in their parties’ presidential nomination primaries held in 15 states across the US. Now, a rematch will be held between them in November. Indian American Nikki Haley scored a surprising victory over Donald Trump in the Republican primary in the US state of Vermont, her second win in the race for the White House in 2024.
Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being “trounced” in 15 states across the US on Super Tuesday. After Super Tuesday’s election results, former US president Trump, 77, had established a commanding lead in the delegate count over his only Republican opponent, 52-year-old Haley, who denied him a full sweep by winning Vermont.
“The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said on Wednesday in South Carolina. “I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets,” Haley said while announcing her exit from the presidential race.
While Trump, 77, maintains a lead in every other state, Haley’s triumph in Vermont marked her second victory in the primaries and her first in Super Tuesday.
Super Tuesday is the US presidential primary election day in February or March when the greatest number of US states hold primary elections and caucuses. Approximately one-third of all delegates to the presidential nominating conventions can be won on Super Tuesday, more than on any other day.
More than a third of all the Republican delegates were at stake on Super Tuesday, the biggest haul of any date on the 2024 primary calendar.
