Nikki Haley Withdraws from Primary Race: Biden and Trump Courting Supporters

Anti-Trump highly educated women lose their focus
37% of Haley supporters “choose Biden”
Biden praises Haley for telling the truth
Trump also said to his supporters, “Let’s be together.”
Haley announces withdrawal from primary race Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announces suspension of election campaign in Charleston, South Carolina, USA on the 6th. Charleston is his hometown and the city where he held his presidential campaign, and former Ambassador Haley served as governor of this state twice. In the announcement that day, he did not announce his intention to support his rival, former President Donald Trump. CHARLESTON = AP Newsis “There is a place for them in my campaign” (U.S. President Joe Biden)

“I invite you to join this great movement.” (Former US President Donald Trump)

On the 6th, President Biden and former President Trump are engaged in a heated competition to win over the support base of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who withdrew from the primary for the U.S. opposition Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Former Ambassador Haley is a Republican, but as a 52-year-old Indian woman, she has received support from moderate conservatives. Accordingly, there is a prediction that the one between President Biden and former President Trump who can attract more supporters of former Ambassador Haley, who has lost her way, will have an advantage in the November presidential election. In a recent Quinnipiac University opinion poll, 37% of former Ambassador Haley’s supporters said, “If she resigns, I will vote for Biden instead of Trump,” so her presence as a ‘casting vote’ is significant.

● Haley: “It’s Trump’s job to win my supporters’ votes”

Former Ambassador Haley held a press conference in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina on the 6th to withdraw from the primary, but did not declare support for former President Trump. He again said, “I’m no longer a runner, but I won’t stop using my voice,” and “It’s up to (former President Trump) to get the votes of people who didn’t support him.” This is in contrast to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who previously resigned from the primary, and others who publicly expressed their support for Trump.

Former Ambassador Haley solidified her position as a ‘Trump opponent’ through this primary process. In addition, he has emerged as the most likely alternative if former President Trump, who was charged with four criminal charges, is found guilty and his presidential candidate status is shaken. Apart from former President Trump’s return to power, he is also prepared to independently run for the Republican presidential nomination again four years later.

This is not unrelated to the phenomenon in which he is gaining even support from high-income, highly educated, female, and non-white conservative voters who do not support former President Trump. In the North Carolina primary held on ‘Super Tuesday’ on the 5th, exit polls showed that 47% of voters with a master’s degree or higher and 33% of college graduates supported former Ambassador Haley. Additionally, among voters who identified themselves as moderate, 57% said they “voted for former Ambassador Haley.”

● Biden-Trump camps are all courting Haley.

The Democratic and Republican parties’ courtship of former Ambassador Haley is also in full swing. President Biden issued a statement on the 6th and praised Haley, saying, “In a Republican Party where few people tell the truth about Trump, Haley was willing to tell the truth.” “Trump said he doesn’t want Haley supporters,” he said, adding, “I tell you this, there is a place for them in my presidential campaign.”

President Biden especially emphasized, “We can find common ground on the issues of preserving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and fighting against America’s enemies.” Unlike former President Trump, who was negative about support for Ukraine, former Ambassador Haley’s remarks are interpreted as a conscious statement that she, like him, supports the U.S. interventionist line.

Former President Trump urged on social media, “All Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in American history (her re-election campaign).” However, “Haley suffered a record-breaking defeat in the primary on the 5th. “Most of his campaign funds came from the far-left Democratic Party,” he said, and did not hide his discomfort with former Ambassador Haley, who did not support him.

Even famous election strategist Karl Rove, known as the Republican Party’s ‘kingmaker’, said on Fox News that former President Trump should be interested in unifying the Republican Party, calling former Ambassador Haley a ‘bird brain’. They were concerned that if they were disparaged, integration would never be achieved. This means that failure to embrace anti-Trump conservatives could result in a fatal blow in the presidential election.

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