With Nikki Haley Out, Biden Makes Appeal To Her Trump-Skeptic Voters

President Joe Biden held out an olive branch to Republican voters who cast their ballot for Nikki Haley on Wednesday, right after the former South Carolina governor announced her withdrawal from the GOP presidential primary.

Haley, who was the first Republican to challenge Trump in the 2024 presidential race, suspended her campaign after a massive loss on Super Tuesday. The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was the last GOP candidate to drop out in what started as a crowded field of Trump challengers, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

“It takes a lot of courage to run for President — that’s especially true in today’s Republican Party, where so few dare to speak the truth about Donald Trump,” Biden said in a statement Wednesday morning. “Nikki Haley was willing to speak the truth about Trump: about the chaos that always follows him, about his inability to see right from wrong, about his cowering before [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.”

In her speech in her home state of South Carolina announcing the end of her campaign, Haley said she was “filled with gratitude” for her supporters and had “no regrets” about her decision to run for president. But while she congratulated Trump on being the presumptive GOP nominee, Haley did not specifically endorse him — instead challenging him to earn her voters’ support.

Back in January, Trump posted on Truth Social that anyone who makes a contribution to the former governor — who he referred to as “Birdbrain” — will be “permanently barred from the MAGA camp.”

“We don’t want them, and will not accept them, because Put America First, and ALWAYS WILL!” he wrote at the time.

Biden said that those comments had “made it clear”