Nikki Haley has dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race after a humiliating Super Tuesday where she lost fourteen states to Donald Trump and won just one.

In emotional remarks she paid tribute to her mother, said the world is 'on fire' because of America's 'retreat' and then confirmed she wouldn't endorse Trump. 

She then wished him 'luck' and said she wasn't ready to back him by using the Margaret Thatcher quote: 'Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind.'

Thatcher in 1997 called the line the 'motto of her life,' adding that 'if necessary get the crowd to follow you.'

'It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him,' Haley said.

She referred to the large swath of her supporters who said on Super Tuesday that they will not vote for Trump in November, according to exit polls. 

An ABC exit poll found that the majority of Haley voters in North Carolina (78%), Virginia (68%) and California (69%) would not commit to backing whoever the GOP nominee is. 

'And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away,' Haley went on.

'In all likelihood, Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America's president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.'

Trump notably did not extend an olive branch in a statement posted by a campaign aide minutes after Haley spoke. He said she got 'TROUNCED last night' and said 'much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her supporters,' he wrote.