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On the "NewsHour" tonight: Nikki Haley ends her presidential run after former President

Donald Trump dominates Super Tuesday, setting up a rematch between Trump and President Biden.

GEOFF BENNETT: On the eve of President Biden's third State of the Union address, we speak

with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

AMNA NAWAZ: And residents of Texas towns destroyed in historic wildfires struggle with the loss

LAURIE EZZELL BROWN, Publisher and Editor, The Canadian Record: I have never seen anything

And we have had wildfires before, and pretty devastating ones, but the extent of the damage

GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "NewsHour."

Nikki Haley's bid for the White House is now over.

AMNA NAWAZ: The former South Carolina governor suspended her campaign today, setting up a

rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.

Speaking in Charleston this morning, Haley did not promise to back her party's likely

NIKKI HALEY (R), Presidential Candidate: It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes

of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him.

At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away.

And our conservative cause badly needs more people.

AMNA NAWAZ: To discuss what comes next in the race for the White House, I'm joined now

by Republican strategist Kevin Madden, who's worked on Mitt Romney's presidential bids.

KEVIN MADDEN, Republican Strategist: Good to be with you.

AMNA NAWAZ: So let's just start with Haley's announcement today.

What do you make of that announcement on this day after what happened yesterday on Super

KEVIN MADDEN: Well, I think the numbers and the math became very obvious and that Nikki

Haley realized and her campaign realized that she just didn't have a path to the nomination.

I think it's pretty startling if you look at Trump's numbers and how dominant he was

in this Republican presidential primary, 64 percent of the overall vote, 24 contests versus

Nikki Haley, who won two contests, and 90 percent of the delegates.

This -- there is a voice for Nikki Haley and Nikki Haley-like candidates, I think, inside

the party, but it is very clear right now that this is a Donald Trump party driven and

And the Haley campaign came to that realization, based on the numbers they saw yesterday.

AMNA NAWAZ: So, in that same vein, we today saw outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch

McConnell endorse Mr. Trump officially, despite past criticism of him, especially after the

Here's a part of what Mr. McConnell said.

MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): I said in February of 2021, shortly after the attack on the Capitol,

that I would support President Trump if he were the nominee of our party, and he obviously

AMNA NAWAZ: So, Kevin, Haley has not endorsed Mr. Trump.

KEVIN MADDEN: I think she will ultimately.

But it is going to be an endorsement that is going to feel like an extraction over a

I think, clearly, first of all, the open wounds of a presidential primary will take some time

But I think, if she's looking to still have a voice in the party and still play a role

in the direction of the party, that ultimately playing a role in unifying that party, which

has its divisions, would be probably in her best political interests.

AMNA NAWAZ: So, where do her supporters go?

I mean, you take a look at the delegate count.

She did have a number of people backing her, although her delegate count did not compare

She ended up with 89 delegates to his 1,031.

Where does the more than $12 million she raised in February go?

KEVIN MADDEN: Well, I think backers, as well as voters, they are not a monolithic bloc

She has made an incredible, I think, impression on a lot of Republican voters, but she's not

So, I don't think that these voters are sort of calcified around Nikki Haley and waiting

He's going to have to work hard to gain their support and win them back in November, especially

But some of them are up for grabs as well for President Joe Biden.

So, the Nikki Haley voter, the profile of the Nikki Haley voter is the profile of a

swing voter in a lot of key battleground states.

They're going to determine who wins or loses this election.

AMNA NAWAZ: Does former President Trump need them, though?

Because to hear him today and his online post in response to yesterday, it doesn't look

He said: "Nikki Haley got trounced last night.

Much of her money came from radical left Democrats, as did many of her voters, according to the

At this point, I hope she stays in the race and fights it out until the end."

It's not exactly an appeal to Haley voters.

And, look, first of all, if we remember 2020 election, it came down to about 300,000 voters

So, you're going to try and get as many voters -- of these Haley voters as possible if you

But if today was the starter pistol for the general election and you looked at how Donald

Trump tried to appeal to these swing voters and how Joe Biden tried to appeal to them

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