Smoldering Nikki Haley Gets 21.7% of Votes in Indiana GOP Primary Despite Ending Campaign in March

Almost two months after she got out of the presidential race, Nikki Haley received more than 128,000 votes in Indiana’s GOP presidential primary yesterday (May 7).

Former President Trump won the race with 78.3 percent of the vote, but Haley brought in 21.7 percent of the vote,” according to data from The New York Times.

The Hill noted that Haley’s “sizable showing Tuesday follows other primaries in which she has notched significant shares of the vote despite leaving the campaign trail more than two months ago.” Late last month, Haley got more than 150,000 votes in the Pennsylvania GOP primary.

The former governor of South Carolina and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations suspended her presidential campaign in March, after suffering a major loss in the Super Tuesday primaries, despite winning Vermont and Washington, D.C. 

Speaking on March 6 in Charleston, South Carolina, she ended her campaign with the same words she began over a year ago quoting a verse from the Bible: “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. For God will be with you wherever you go,” she told her supporters, “especially to so many of the women and girls out there who put their faith in our campaign.”

She didn’t formally endorse former president Donald Trump but congratulated him on his potential primary victory. She said she wants her former boss to earn her supporters’ votes heading into the general election. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that.” Emphasizing the importance of party unity, she said she would “wish anyone well who would be America’s president,” adding that “our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.” She has “always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee,” she added. 

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Last month, Haley joined Hudson Institute as the Walter P. Stern chair, the Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank announced on April 15. The former governor of South Carolina and the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N is the fourth member of Trump’s administration to join Hudson, according to The Guardian.  

“When our policymakers fail to call out our enemies or acknowledge the importance of our alliances, the world is less safe. That is why Hudson’s work is so critical,” she said in a statement. “They believe the American people should have the facts and policymakers should have the solutions to support a secure, free, and prosperous future. I look forward to partnering with them to defend the principles that make America the greatest country in the world.”

Top photo, Nikki Haley greets her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, who returned to the United States after completing his year-long deployment in Africa with the South Carolina National Guard. Photo courtesy, Nikki Haley/Facebook