Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign on Wednesday, sources close to Nikki Haley told The Associated Press. This sets the stage for an almost certain rematch of the 2020 race between Donald Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden.
According to the Associated Press, Haley will make the announcement on Wednesday morning, but three people with direct knowledge of Haley’s decision confirmed the news on condition of anonymity.
Haley’s withdrawal comes in the wake of Trump’s victories on Super Tuesday in the Republican race for all participating states except Vermont, which Haley won. She also won the Republican primary in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
On Super Tuesday, Biden announced his victory in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia, but he lost the territories of American Samoa to businessman Jason Palmer.
It now appears that Trump and Biden are competing as candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively. The last confrontation between the two was in 2020, with Biden coming out on top despite Trump’s repeated claims that the election was rigged. Anger over the results led to Trump supporters storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, is running for a second term despite being impeached twice and indicted in several states on criminal charges including falsifying business records, mishandling confidential documents, conspiracy and racketeering.
Biden, who is 81, has been the subject of increasing concern about his severity, even though Trump is only four years younger than him at 77. diverse“A creature of Washington who seems somewhat unaffected by the entertainment industry,” Daniel Daddario wrote in a column about Biden’s recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” But it also meant that, even in the best of times, he didn’t know how to take advantage of it for his own purposes.