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An official working with President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign is attempting to recruit Nikki Haley's voters after her Super Tuesday losses.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday, Rufus Gifford, the finance chair for the 2024 Biden/Harris campaign, said: "Dear supporters of @NikkiHaley, we may not agree on every issue but @JoeBiden's campaign is open to all looking to move our country forward."
"Feel free to DM me," Gifford wrote.
The post included a screenshot of a message shared by former President Donald Trump on Truth Social in which he criticized Haley, saying, "Anybody that makes a 'contribution' to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don't want them, and will not accept them."
Newsweek reached out to Biden and Haley's campaigns via email for comment.
Biden later issued a statement of his own, saying that there is a "place" for Haleys' supporters in his campaign. He acknowledged there are issues Haley's supporters and his campaign might disagree on but said they're aligned on the "fundamental issues."
The context:
On Wednesday, multiple outlets reported that Haley was planning to suspend her 2024 presidential campaign after Trump secured several victories in the Republican primary race on Super Tuesday.
Across 15 states voting on Super Tuesday, Trump secured victories over Haley in 14, including Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, California and Alaska. Trump is now expected to have 995 delegates and needs 1,215 to secure the Republican Party's nomination.
Haley beat Trump in Vermont, bringing her to 89 total delegates.
What we know:
Following Super Tuesday, exit polls from ABC News found that 51 percent of Haley voters in Virginia and 50 percent in North Carolina approve of Biden as president. Haley has repeatedly criticized both Biden and Trump.
On Tuesday, Haley declined to say if she would endorse Trump as the party's nominee if he secured the votes.
"I haven't heard him pledge to me that he would support me if I won, so I don't know why I have to go and pledge to him that I would support him," Haley said Tuesday on Fox & Friends.
Views:
In a statement to the Associated Press on Tuesday evening, a spokesperson for Haley's campaign said, "Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump...That is not the unity our party needs for success."
Trump delivered a speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday night where he criticized Biden and said "This has been a day we've been waiting for."
What's next:
Haley's campaign confirmed that the former South Carolina governor was planning to hold an event at 10 a.m. ET in her home state on Wednesday. She is expected to announce that she is suspending her presidential campaign.
The decision will likely set up a 2020 rematch between Biden and Trump come November. Polls currently show a tight race between the two candidates in a hypothetical matchup.
Update 3/6/24, 8:20 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
Update 3/6/24, 10:52 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information about President Joe Biden's statement.
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