Nikki Haley plans to suspend her presidential campaign on Wednesday, a source close to the politician told The Associated Press. This sets the stage for what is almost certainly a rematch in the 2020 election campaign between Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.
Haley is expected to make an announcement Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press, but three people with direct knowledge of Haley’s decision confirmed the news on condition of anonymity.
Haley’s resignation follows Trump’s Super Tuesday victories in all participating states except Vermont, which Haley won. She also won the Republican primary in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
On Super Tuesday, Biden will be in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. However, he lost to businessman Jason Palmer in the American Samoa territory.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden currently appear to be the leading candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively. The two last faced each other in 2020, when Biden prevailed despite President Trump’s repeated claims that the election was fraudulent. Outrage over this result led to the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, has been impeached twice and has been charged in multiple states with felonies including falsifying business records, mishandling classified documents, conspiracy, and extortion. Despite this, he is running for a second term.
There are growing concerns about Biden’s acumen, which is 81 years old, while Trump, at 77, is just four years younger. variety‘s Daniel Daddario wrote in a column about Biden’s recent appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” that Biden is “a Washington guy who doesn’t seem very impressed with the entertainment industry.” I wrote. But it also means that, even at the best of times, he was a little lost as to how best to utilize it to his own ends. ”
