Former South Carolina GOP Governor Nikki Haley ended her campaign. But the damage is done.
Because a disturbing truth about Nikki Haley has been exposed for all to see.
Nikki Haley originally claimed that she would be staying in the Republican presidential primary up until the bitter end because she believed she had a chance as long as there were more primaries to win.
Her tone suddenly changed though after the primaries on March 5th as Nikki Haley announced that she would be suspending her campaign after she faced a massive loss on Super Tuesday, making very little progress with gaining delegates from the 15 states that voted on that day.
I end my campaign with the same words I began it from the Book of Joshua. I direct them to all Americans, but especially to so many of the women and girls out there who put their faith in our campaign.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. For God… pic.twitter.com/XAwgOGzKdy
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) March 6, 2024
Now, in the wake of her campaign, conservatives in Congress and millions of Trump voters are arguing that she stayed in the race longer than she should have. She, overall, polled worse than Ron DeSantis but he read the writing on the wall a long time ago and suspended his campaign appropriately.
By staying in the race, she continued to draw attention away from Donald Trump who many say was always going to be the GOP nominee as long as he wanted it. There’s consequences for that.
New reports are coming out indicating that Nikki Haley’s failure of a presidential campaign spent tens of millions of dollars, support that could’ve gone to Donald Trump in his rematch against incumbent Democrat Joe Biden.
FEC reports indicate that groups such as Americans for Prosperity Action and the SFA Fund, alongside the Haley campaign, spent north of $120 million dollars to make her the next President of the United States.
In Iowa alone, those in Haley’s corner put up more than $40 million dollars for an early primary race win in the state which never materialized as Donald Trump mopped the floor with his opponents right from the start.
In New Hampshire? Haley supporters spent more than $31 million on her bid in that early state primary race.
Then the real end of the road was when she got embarrassed in her home town in South Carolina, as she lost the Palmetto State race by double digits. There, her supporters still spent nearly $10 million.
However, after she faced those major losses, the money stopped rolling in for her. Across all fifteen of the Super Tuesday races, Haley and her supporters only poured in about $900,000.
No doubt, Haley had a ton of money behind her to be able to at least compete in a normal presidential primary race. But this was no normal presidential primary race. This is one where many Trump supporters believe he deserves a second shot, no questions asked.
Republican officials are reportedly lamenting that it took so long for Nikki Haley to drop out.
“She probably should have got out when she lost her own state,” a Republican Senator from Oklahoma shared with reporters. “I could understand why she stayed there for that, but the fact that she just stayed there and kept going after our nominee for the Republican party to be the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, it was a waste of money,” Mullin added.
On the bright side, Donald Trump doesn’t have to deal with primary contenders for as long as he did in 2016 when Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both took Donald Trump to task up until the end. They also performed much better than Haley did.
Now, Trump is going to get dialed in and fight like h*ll to beat Joe Biden in the general election this November. The polls are in his favor, the funds will stop being divided, and he has all the momentum in the world.
It will be on him to deliver for his supporters and not fumble this opportunity as many political experts believe Joe Biden might be the most vulnerable incumbent president since Jimmy Carter.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
