‘Saw the writing on the wall’: Nikki Haley ‘didn’t have a choice’ but to end campaign

University of North Carolina Political Science Professor Martha Kropf says Nikki Haley “saw the writing on the wall” and “didn’t have much of a choice” but to end her presidential campaign earlier this week. 15 states across the United States went to the poll to vote on Super Tuesday – the single largest day of voting in the US presidential primary calendar. Nikki Haley won one state – Vermont – making it the second contest she had won in the Republican primaries, alongside Washington DC. Ms Haley ended her presidential campaign after her defeat but did not endorse Donald Trump for president. “What’s interesting with the Nikki Haley withdrawal is, also that right after that, Mitch McConnell endorsed Trump,” Ms Kropf told Sky News Australia. “There were many observers who thought Nikki Haley might actually stick it out until the end because former president Trump has so many legal issues, and maybe, at the convention, it would come back to her. “I think that she just saw the writing on the wall. “Trump has a lot of popularity here, particularly among primary voters, who tend to be a pretty small subset, but if you look across the Republican establishment, they seem to have decided that Trump is going to be their candidate, so I think Haley just didn’t have much of a choice.”