Former President Donald Trump took a parting shot at Nikki Haley as she dropped out of the presidential race while asking her voters to back him in November.
Trump easily topped the former South Carolina governor on Super Tuesday and is all but guaranteed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. As she made a scheduled speech bowing out of the race, he called her out in a social media post.
“Nikki Haley got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion, despite the fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermont, and various other Republican Primaries,” Trump wrote in a lengthy post. Vermont was the only state Haley won, along with the District of Columbia earlier in the week.
Trump added later, “I’d like to thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me to produce, by far, the most successful Super Tuesday in HISTORY, and would further like to invite all of the Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our Nation.”
Haley did not endorse Trump upon exiting the race.
“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that,” she said. “At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.”
Trump has long accused Haley’s supporters of being Democrats, and President Joe Biden also called on her voters to back him on Wednesday morning.
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“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters,” Biden said. “I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign.
“I know there is a lot we won’t agree on,” Biden continued. “But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to America’s adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground.”