By EFE
06 Mar 2024, 07:37 AM EST
Washington – Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley decided to abandon the race for the Republican nomination, leaving former United States President Donald Trump (2017-2021) as the only candidate, sources close to Republican politics told US media.
CBS and CNN indicated that Haley is expected to make the announcement at a meeting with the press at 10 a.m. Eastern time (3:00 p.m. GMT) in the city of Charleston (South Carolina).
Haley, 52 years old and whose parents are originally from India, has obtained only two victories in the Republican primaries held so far: in the District of Columbia, to which Washington DC belongs, and in Vermont, one of the 15 states in the that votes took place this Tuesday.
In the Republican primary on Super Tuesday, Haley won just 43 of the Republican delegates, while Trump took 764.
Before the South Carolina primary in February, Haley vowed to stay in the race until Super Tuesday.
As he said then, he was going to continue in the nomination race “until the last person votes, because I believe in a better America and a brighter future for our children.”
Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during Trump’s presidency, was the last of a dozen major candidates to drop out of a race in which the former president was the favorite from the start.
If Haley confirms her decision in Charleston within a few hours, the two main candidates in the elections on November 5 will be, except unforeseen, the same as in the 2020 elections: Trump and the current president, Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump needs 1,215 delegates to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
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