BREAKING: Nikki Haley Officially Drops Out Of 2024 Race

Nikki Haley has officially ended her presidential run, capping a long-shot effort to deny, or at least delay, former President Donald Trump the party’s nomination, she announced this morning.

The former South Carolina governor and lone challenger for the former president ended her presidential run Wednesday morning after winning just a single Republican primary in Vermont on Super Tuesday. She made the announcement in her hometown of Charlestown, South Carolina, the site where she began her improbable bid.

More than a third of all Republican delegates were up for grabs on Super Tuesday, with Trump nabbing 14 of the 15 elections. At least 1,215 delegates are needed to secure the GOP’s nomination, and the former president has secured 995 of those already pledged. Haley, having won just Vermont and a small primary in Washington, D.C., holds just 89.

Allies of President Trump were quick to crow about Tuesday’s results as they looked to cement the seemingly inevitable possibility of a showdown with President Joe Biden.

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“I do think it is time for her to step aside and let the party rally fully around Donald Trump so that he can take Joe Biden on and beat him in November,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former Trump spokesperson, told Fox following Tuesday’s results.

For weeks, Haley has attempted to drum up enthusiasm in the face of long odds. Even Tuesday night, she insisted that there was still a fight to be had against her leading rival.

“As much as everybody wants to go and push me out, I’m not ready to get out yet. I’m still sitting there fighting for the people that want a voice,” Haley emphasized.

Her campaign added in a late-night statement that “we’re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests.”

“Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better,” her team added.

President Trump has not yet made a statement about the news of his final Republican opponent’s departure from the race.