Former Nikki Haley allies Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott call on her to support Trump to ensure party wins in November

Even allies of Nikki Haley admit that after Super Tuesday, it is time to support Donald Trump while she has suspended her presidential campaign.

Haley’s concession to Trump on Wednesday morning contained no mention or intention of supporting the former president.

Former UN Ambassador. 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 defeat President Joe Biden in 2024 .

“To the voters who supported Nikki Haley, thank you for voting,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said on Fox News on Tuesday. “It’s time to unite around the future – America’s future – best represented by Donald Trump.”

Haley’s lone endorsement in the House of Representatives, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), told reporters Wednesday that he is now supporting Trump in the 2024 general election.

‘It’s time to unite. I will support Trump 100 percent,” the lawmaker said as Haley prepared to drop out of the race.

South Carolina Republican Sens. Tim Scott (left) and Lindsey Graham (right) urge fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley to stand behind Donald Trump now

Former UN Ambassador. Nikki Haley suspended her presidential bid on Wednesday after major losses in the Super Tuesday primaries across the country

Norman also plans to speak with the former president on the phone soon.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was the first in the Senate to support Trump’s 2024 primary bid.

“President Trump is on track to not only win the Republican nomination, but also to be elected our next president in November,” the senior senator from South Carolina said. “He won a landslide victory this Super Tuesday and is clearly Republican voters’ choice to be our standard bearer in 2024.”

“I appreciate Ambassador Haley and all she has done for our state, our country and our party, but I hope that after tonight we can all rally behind President Trump to ensure that the nightmare of the presidency comes to an end from Biden,” he wrote in a message. on X.

Haley, 52, will finally surrender to Trump at 10 a.m. Wednesday after the ex-president dealt her failing campaign a series of devastating blows on Super Tuesday.

The former South Carolina governor’s exit from 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 supported her in the Republican primaries — even if he doesn’t need them to win the primaries, but he does if he wants to beat Biden.

“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond who did not support him,” Haley said in her concession speech. “And I hope he does that to the best of his ability.”

‘Politics is about involving people in your cause, not rejecting them. And our conservative cause desperately needs more people.”

Former President Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley in almost all fifteen Super Tuesday states – with the exception of Vermont

Haley’s only endorsement in the House came from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). He told reporters on Wednesday that he now supports 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, in which she has been under pressure to drop out of the race, trying to put the onus back on Trump himself to unite the party, emphasizing that she is clearly not in the race to become his. elect vice president.

Haley’s departure sets off a slugfest between President Joe Biden (81) and Trump (77), which many voters say in polls they do not want – even though both men won decisive election victories in their parties.

“Are we really going to have two 80-year-olds running for president in this country? The fact is, when you get to their age, you deteriorate mentally,” Haley told CBS News days ago.

On Tuesday, Haley told Fox & Friends, “I didn’t hear him promise that he would support me if I won, so I don’t know why I have to promise him that I would support him.”

Trump doesn’t need to reach out to Haley’s supporters to prevail in the primaries. 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 drew support from independents and a small group of Democrats, as well as from a faction of “never Trump” Republicans.

Trump has built a narrow lead over Biden in the popular vote and in key battleground states, but right now Republicans are at a fundraising disadvantage while Trump continues to face challenges on the legal front.