A day after Super Tuesday, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced his exit from the 2024 presidential race, ending his primary challenge to President Joe Biden's re-election campaign and offering him his full endorsement.
"I ran for President in 2024 to resist Donald Trump again - because Americans were demanding an alternative, and democracy demands options," Phillips wrote in a post to X , formerly known as Twitter.
In 2011, I hosted then VP Biden at my home. Most notable was his empathy and kindness to my daughters and the catering staff, with whom he sat and had ice cream (surprise-surprise). His decency and wisdom were rarities in politics then, and even more so today.
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) March 6, 2024
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"But it is clear that alternative is not me. And it is clear that Joe Biden is OUR candidate."
Hours earlier, former South Carolina Governor and 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley announced that she would be bowing out of the Republican primary, but stopped short of endorsing Trump for the job, HNGN previously reported.
"I congratulate [Trump] and wish him well," Haley said before invoking the words of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and saying she would not "follow the crowd."
Haley's decision to leave the presidential race follows a decisive loss on Super Tuesday that dealt a death blow to her already struggling campaign. Before speaking about Trump, however, Haley first mentioned that her mother - a first generation immigrant - was able to vote for her daughter for president of the United States.
"Only in America," Haley said.
Haley and Phillips' departures all but ensure a rematch between Biden and Trump in this year's general election.
