Well, it's the end of the road for Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador under Donald Trump,

former governor of South Carolina.

She is dropping out of the race today because Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday.

This, of course, was not a shock.

The only question was why she was staying in because the reality was that in every state,

except for Vermont, Trump not only won, he won convincingly.

In her home state of

South Carolina, he beat her by about 20 points. He beat her 60 to 40. In North Carolina, he beat her

73 to 23. In Virginia, he beat her 63 to 34. These are all, particularly Virginia. Virginia is a

moderate Republican state. That is not a left-wing Republican state or right-wing Republican state. And he beat her

very soundly in that state in California. He beat her 78 to 18. What this suggests is that she really

had no shot at the nomination after Iowa. No one had a shot at the nomination after Iowa, as I pointed

out, which is why Rhonda Sanchez dropped out early. It's also why Nikki Haley then stayed in in the hope that she'd win New Hampshire. She didn't win New Hampshire. She overperformed a little bit. And then she stayed in past that. Mainly to, I think, put up a flag to the rest of the Republican Party that should Trump lose in November, she will be the leader of the opposition ready to come in and take over. I think that's a misread of how

Republicans think of Donald Trump. I think that even if Donald Trump loses in November in the general

election to Joe Biden, it's very unlikely that the Republican Party is then going to swivel and

turn to Nikki Haley, especially because Nikki Haley seems to be making the same mistake that

Ted Cruz made in 2016 after losing the primaries to Donald Trump. You'll recall that Ted Cruz then went to the Republican National Convention, and he said, vote your conscience. Instead of just endorsing Trump, he sort of left it up in the air pleasing no one. He suggested to the Trump voters that maybe he wasn't supportive of Trump and to the not Trump voters that maybe he was supportive of Trump, and he ended up winning no backing because of that.

Nikki Haley seems to be playing the same game, which doesn't seem particularly politically smart to me. It's one thing for Nikki Haley to say, I'm staying in as an alternative to Trump because I think that he's going to lose. But now that he's the nominee, he's the nominee for her to sit outside and not endorse Trump seems to me a bit of political malpractice. according to the Wall Street Journal,

Haley plans to suspend

her Republican presidential

primary bid in a speech on Wednesday. The former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador

is expected to make an appearance to deliver brief remarks around 10 a.m. Eastern.

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