Nikki Haley to pull out of presidential race – reports
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nikki Haley is to pull out of the 2024 presidential election race. It says the candidate is expected to make a brief appearance at 10am ET (3pm GMT).
Haley has won only two primaries – the District of Columbia and Vermont – during her campaign.
Quoting “people familiar with her plans”, the paper reports:
Haley won’t announce an endorsement Wednesday, the people said. She will encourage Donald Trump, who is close to having the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, to earn the support of Republican and independent voters who backed her.
She is expected to emphasize that she will continue to advocate for the conservative domestic and foreign policies she supports and caution against some of the dangers, such as isolationism and a lack of fiscal discipline, that she sees coming from Washington.
Nikki Haley hosts a campaign event in Houston earlier this week. Photograph: Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters
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Osita Nwanevu writes for the Guardian today cautioning that Joe Biden and the Democrats are sleepwalking into a potential Trump win. Here is an excerpt:
All told, we have every reason to believe that the hole Joe Biden is in is real, as unfair as it might seem to his supporters. As rosily as they might evaluate his record in office so far, it looks substantially more mixed now than it did six months ago. It’s true that the economy is roaring by all available macroeconomic metrics and that Democrats under Biden have managed to pass the most expansive domestic policy agenda of any president since at least Lyndon Johnson.
But it’s also true that voters have been stung by high prices and interest rates, as well as the expiration of pandemic relief programs. Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was brave and laudable – both morally and strategically overdue. But he was hammered for it in the press and now faces a progressive insurrection over the US’s support for Israel’s inhumane offensive in Gaza so severe that the campaign is reportedly reducing large in-person events to avoid protesters.
And on immigration, still at the front of mind for many voters, Biden has functionally conceded that Trump has been right about the state of the border; while immigrants are less prone to crime than the native-born population and substantially responsible for the economic boom we’re experiencing, Democrats are trying their best to outflank the right on border security and asylum, to little effect thus far, rather than countering the racist myths Trump has propagated directly and focusing on a positive immigration reform agenda.
Read more here: Osita Nwanevu – Biden and the Democrats are sleepwalking into a potential Trump win
Jared Gans at The Hill has this snap assessment of Nikki Haley’s bid to secure the Republican nomination for president, which is expected to end today. He wrote:
Haley pitched herself as the best opportunity to move on from the former president, whom she attacked during the race on various issues, like the rising national debt during his presidency and his foreign policy stances.
She also criticized the “chaos” she said followed Trump, and called for a new generation of leaders to move on from both him and President Biden. She repeatedly pointed to polling that showed her performing the strongest against Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup of all the top Republican presidential candidates.
Haley had several strong debate performances in which audiences appeared to view her as at least one of the winners. But she could not rally enough support to stop Trump from taking both of the first two states – Iowa and New Hampshire – to vote to give herself a needed boost to potentially stop his nomination.
Reuters is also reporting that “a source familiar with the matter” has confirmed to it that Nikki Haley will be announcing she is stepping down from the presidential race later today, but declined to make any further comment.
Last night, Nikki Haley’s campaign had been attempting to remain upbeat, even as Donald Trump cruised to victory in 14 of the 15 Republican primaries taking place.
Rather than making public appearances, Haley was with staff near her South Carolina home. “The mood is jubilant,” spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas had said. “There is lots of food and music.”
Perez-Cubas had gone on to say that the results showed the party was far from united, and that voters had serious concerns about another Donald Trump presidency.
“Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united,’” she had said. “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success.”
Steve Peoples at AP notes that Haley’s departure would mark a painful blow to voters, donors and Republican Party officials who opposed Trump and his “Make America Great Again” politics. She was especially popular among moderates and college-educated voters, constituencies that play a pivotal role in general elections, but represent a minority of Republican primary voters.
Haley is now expected to announce at 10am ET (3pm GMT) that she is suspending her campaign to be president.
In its report claiming that sources familiar with the matter have told the Wall Street Journal that Nikki Haley is to pull out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the paper offers a snap analysis, with John McCormick writing:
Haley was the first major candidate to challenge Trump for the nomination and the last to stand down, showing determination even as she came under significant attack by the former president and his supporters.
As she exits the race, it is hard to know whether Haley is part of the party’s future or a last gasp of more traditional Republicanism that favors a hawkish foreign policy, fiscal discipline and limited government.
The 52-year-old could still have a future in presidential politics, but her sharp criticism of Trump in the final two months of her campaign will likely make that challenging while he still has a hold on the party.
Super Tuesday was always seen as likely to make or break her campaign. She has lagged badly behind Donald Trump in Republican polling, and yesterday she won just 43 of the Republican delegates available, while Trump emerged with 764.
The state of the Republican nomination race
Nikki Haley to pull out of presidential race – reports
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nikki Haley is to pull out of the 2024 presidential election race. It says the candidate is expected to make a brief appearance at 10am ET (3pm GMT).
Haley has won only two primaries – the District of Columbia and Vermont – during her campaign.
Quoting “people familiar with her plans”, the paper reports:
Haley won’t announce an endorsement Wednesday, the people said. She will encourage Donald Trump, who is close to having the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, to earn the support of Republican and independent voters who backed her.
She is expected to emphasize that she will continue to advocate for the conservative domestic and foreign policies she supports and caution against some of the dangers, such as isolationism and a lack of fiscal discipline, that she sees coming from Washington.
Nikki Haley hosts a campaign event in Houston earlier this week. Photograph: Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters
More details soon …
As George Chidi and Dani Anguiano reported earlier, the United States has not witnessed a primary campaign season with so little competitive tension since political primaries began to dominate the nomination process in the 1970s. Every race went the way of Joe Biden or Donald Trump as expected, with the exception of Nikki Haley taking Vermont, and Biden being defeated in American Samoa.
Neither the current president nor the former president secured the nomination of their respective parties yet, but both are likely to do so within the next two weeks.
A reminder that you can get all the results from the primaries across the US in our live results tracker.
David Smith
David Smith was in Palm Beach, Florida for the Guardian to watch Donald Trump give his victory speech. Here is an extract from his analysis:
This was Trump as Eeyore. No balloons, no confetti, no parade of family members on stage and no mention of opponent Nikki Haley. No fun.
“Some people call it an experiment – I don’t call it an experiment,” Trump said of the United States. “I just say this is a magnificent place, a magnificent country, and it’s sad to see how far it’s come and gone … When you look at the depths where it’s gone, we can’t let that happen. We’re going to straighten it out. We’re going to close our borders. We’re going to drill baby drill.”
He has upended and inverted yet another political convention: optimism. Not for him Ronald Reagan’s morning in America or Bill Clinton’s place called Hope or Barack Obama’s yes, we can. Instead only murder, mayhem and total darkness.
If only he had still been running things, he lamented, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, Israel would not have been attacked and Iran would be broke. Now inflation is “destroying the middle class, it’s destroying everything”.
“Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime, and that’s Biden migrant crime,” Trump grimaced. “But it’s a new category and it’s violent, where they’ll stand in the middle of the street and have fistfights with police officers. And if they did that in their countries from where they came, they’d be killed instantly. They wouldn’t do that. So the world is laughing at us. The world is taking advantage of us.”
Read more here: Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech: grim visions of an American apocalypse
Trump wins Utah in final call of Super Tuesday
The AP declared Donald Trump the winner of Utah’s presidential caucuses, the last of the primary races to be called.
Voters gather in groups to discuss the Republican presidential candidates and other issues during the Republican Caucasus at Wasatch Elementary school in Provo, Utah on Super Tuesday. Photograph: George Frey/AFP/Getty Images
Long lines and technical difficulties beset the contest. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that:
The Republican party had urged caucus attendees to pre register through their website to make the checking process go smoothly. But chaos ensued Tuesday night, after digital systems crashed at multiple caucus locations. At several locations lack of internet slowed down and even stopped the process, leaving attendees stuck in long lines according to one Utah Republican source.
It quoted one organiser saying “when people come up, either their voter ID doesn’t seem to load even though they’ve been voting for a long time, or when we try to look them up by their name and address that’s not coming up either.”
Eventually vote counts began to be released in the early hours, with Trump outperforming Nikki Haley in yet another state.
The victory of Jason Palmer in the Democratic contest in American Samoa was one of few eye-catching moments on Super Tuesday. Palmer, a Maryland resident, said “I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me.”
Honored to announce my victory in the American Samoa presidential primary. Thank you to the incredible community for your support. This win is a testament to the power of our voices. Together, we can rebuild the American Dream and shape a brighter future for all #VoteJasonPalmerpic.twitter.com/Txf771rhtI
He said he’d never visited the territory, but before the caucus had been “campaigning remotely, doing Zoom town halls, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,” and ended up winning 51 of the 91 ballots cast.
Here is the answer to a question that has almost certainly crossed your mind while reading this: Who is Jason Palmer?
As is traditional with US voting, Associated Press has explained how it has called the primaries. The AP declared Donald Trump the winner in 14 states shortly after polls closed, with Trump leading Nikki Haley in some places by margins of three- or four-to-one. It declared Haley the winner in one state, where the contest was more competitive. It called Vermont’s primary at 10:30pm EST – nearly four hours after polls closed – after vote returns indicated she had opened a lead in the Democratic-leaning state that Trump would be unable to overcome.
Niall Stanage at The Hill has assessed his winners and losers from Super Tuesday. In the winners column he put Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Pro-Palestinian Democrats, Rep Adam Schiff and American Samoa. Of the latter he said “the tiny territory made its voice heard to an outsize degree for the second election cycle in a row”. It handed Biden his only defeat of the night.
For him the losers were Nikki Haley for whom “any lingering flame of hope was snuffed out, and Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses have gone from a first-in-the-nation contest to, Stanage says, creating “no ripples at all”. He also nominates “Excitement for the American public” saying yesterday was “a snooze”. He concludes:
The overall outcome was in no doubt at all – and the wins for Haley in Vermont and the hitherto-unknown Palmer in American Samoa did nothing to change the broader contours. This, in turn, underlines the main paradox of this year’s race. Biden and Trump are going to secure their party nominations with ease, yet polls indicate millions of Americans look at that prospect of a 2020 rematch with grim resignation.
Rachel Leingang
If you missed it overnight, Rachel Leingang pulled together these five key takeaways from Super Tuesday. Here are the highlights:
The protest vote continues Perhaps the biggest threat to Biden in the Democratic primary is coming from no one – or, rather, from a concerted effort by anti-war Democrats to issue a protest by urging voters to cast ballots for uncommitted or no preference options.
Biden and Trump is inevitable Despite the hopes of many voters this election year, it’s going to be Trump and Biden redux in November – unless something non-electoral happens, like a prison sentence or health crisis.
What will last candidates standing do Dropout announcements could come in the next few days from either side of the ticket.
Low turnout Because of the lack of competition and lagging enthusiasm for Trump and Biden, voters don’t seem excited to head to the polls this primary season. Turnout has fallen below past races, though in some states, uncommitted campaigns newly energized those voters who might have stayed home.
Far-right machinations in the states Alabama’s Republican voters chose not to closely challenge the abortion politics of their state’s highest jurists on Tuesday. And in North Carolina, Lt. Gov Mark Robinson captured about two-thirds of the Republican primary vote on Tuesday to win the nomination for governor. Robinson has made a litany of inflammatory public comments about race, gender, sexual orientation and religion, with repeated and particular attacks on Jews.
Read more of Rachel Leingang’s analysis here: Super Tuesday key takeaways: protest vote, low turnout and far-right machinations
Republican and Democratic delegates: as it stands after Super Tuesday
Sixteen states and one territory held presidential candidate contests yesterday on Super Tuesday.
In the Republican primary, 874 of 2,429 total delegates were up for grabs, and the winning candidate will ultimately need 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination.
In the Democratic contest, 1,421 delegates, representing roughly a third of all delegates, were be up for grabs on Super Tuesday, and Joe Biden will need 1,968 delegates to officially win the nomination.
Welcome and opening summary …
Super Tuesday may not have had the potential to shake up the race to be presidential nominee like in years gone by, but it did nevertheless throw up a few surprises. Here are the headlines …
Joe Biden and Donald Trump picked up easy victories across the US this Super Tuesday, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections.
Biden and Trump won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota.
The two candidates sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden warned that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into nativist rhetoric about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”.
Biden also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40.
Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race.
A Hitler-quoting candidate, Mark Robinson, won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat Josh Stein in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November.
In California, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican ex-baseball player Steve Garvey advanced in the open primary for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
It is Martin Belam with you for the next couple of hours. You can contact me at [email protected].
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