Haley Drops Out

After failing to gain any traction in the Super Tuesday races, Nikki Haley suspended her campaign this morning. While she congratulated Donald Trump, she notably refused to endorse him.

She also repeated a major theme of her stump speeches, saying, “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party who did not support him. And I hope he does that.”

This narrative has been picked up by many pundits eager to sow division within the GOP. Some on Fox News this morning suggested that Trump has a big problem because a certain percentage of Republican voters say they don’t like him.

Well, there’s no evidence of a big problem in the national polls.

In the latest CBS News poll, Biden and Trump are both getting 96% of their party’s vote. In the latest New York Times poll, Trump gets 7% of Democrats, while Biden gets 6% of Republicans.  

In addition, many of the early states had open primaries, so we really don’t know who Haley’s voters are. For example, CNN’s exit poll found that among North Carolina Republicans who approved of Joe Biden’s job performance, 83% of them voted for Haley in yesterday’s primary.