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Even allies of Nikki Haley admit after Super Tuesday it's time to back Donald Trump as she suspended her presidential campaign.
Haley's concession to Trump on Wednesday morning did not include any mention or intention to endorse the former president.
Former U.N. Amb. Haley's allies in her home state of South Carolina have already backed Trump's bid to regain his seat in the Oval Office – and they are now calling on her and her supporters to join them in helping him beat President Joe Biden in 2024.
'To the voters who supported Nikki Haley, thank you for voting,' Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Tuesday on Fox News. 'It is time to coalesce around the future – the future of America – that is best represented by Donald Trump.'
Haley's only endorsement in the House, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), told reporters on Wednesday that he is now supporting Trump in the 2024 general election.
'It's time to unite. I'll be supporting Trump 100 percent,' the lawmaker said as Haley prepares to drop out of the race.
South Carolina's Republican Sens. Tim Scott (left) and Lindsey Graham (right) are urging fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley to now get behind Donald Trump
Former UN Amb. Nikki Haley suspended her presidential bid on Wednesday after sweeping losses in Super Tuesday's primary elections across the country
Norman also plans to soon speak with the former president on the phone.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was the first in the Senate to endorse Trump's 2024 primary bid.
'President Trump is on track to not only win the Republican nomination, but be elected as our next president in November,' the senior South Carolina senator said. 'He enjoyed an overwhelming victory this Super Tuesday and is clearly the choice of Republican voters to be our standard bearer in 2024.'
'I appreciate Ambassador Haley and all she has done for our state, country, and party, but I hope after tonight we can all unite behind President Trump to ensure the nightmare of the Biden presidency comes to an end,' he wrote in a post on X.
Haley, 52, will finally surrender to Trump in a speech at 10:00 am Wednesday morning after the ex-president delivered a series of devastating blows to her failing campaign on Super Tuesday.
The former South Carolina governor exiting the race now guarantees a rematch between Biden and Trump in November.
Haley encouraged Trump to earn the support of Republican and independent voters who backed her in the Republican primary – even though he doesn't need them to win the primary, but will if he wants to beat Biden.
'It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him,' Haley said in her concession speech. 'And I hope he does that at its best.'
'Politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people.'
Former President Donald Trump nearly swept all 15 Super Tuesday states against Nikki Haley – with the exception of Vermont
Haley's only endorsement in the House was from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). He told reporters on Wednesday that he is now supporting Trump in the 2024 general election and plans to speak with the former president soon
This is in line with Haley's rhetoric in recent days, where she has bristled at pressure to get out of the race, and tried to put the onus back on Trump himself to unify the party and insisted she is obviously not in the running to be his vice president pick.
Haley's departure sets up a slugfest between President Joe Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, which many voters say in polls that they do not want – even though both men scored decisive electoral wins in their parties.
'Are we really in this country going to have two 80 year olds running for president? It is a fact that when you are their age, you have mental decline,' Haley told CBS news days ago.
On Tuesday, Haley told Fox & Friends, 'I haven't heard him pledge to me that he would support me if I won, so I don't know why I have to go and pledge to him that I would support him.'
Trump doesn't need to reach out to Haley's supporters to prevail in the primary. But he will need them in what is expected to be a close race against Biden. In states with open or semi-open primaries, Haley was attracting supports from independents and a sliver of Democrats, as well as a faction of 'never Trump' Republicans.
Trump has built a narrow lead over Biden in the popular vote and in key battleground states, but at the moment Republicans are at a fundraising disadvantage, while Trump continues to face challenges on the legal front.