--- title: In Defeat, Haley Voters Have Power to Build On description: Nikki Haley's primary voters can be a powerful bloc if they continue to support an anti-authoritarian agenda. canonical: https://time.com/6881656/nikki-haley-voters-2024-election/ author: Amanda Carpenter article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-03-06T17:59:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:40:16.789Z article:section: Ideas og:title: In Defeat, Haley Voters Have Power to Build On og:description: Nikki Haley's primary voters can be a powerful bloc if they continue to support an anti-authoritarian agenda. og:url: https://time.com/6881656/nikki-haley-voters-2024-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103ad591f37f181d/698a492547ca3841dc3bc16b/GettyImages-2056067740.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Announces She's Suspending Her Campaign og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: In Defeat, Haley Voters Have Power to Build On twitter:description: Nikki Haley's primary voters can be a powerful bloc if they continue to support an anti-authoritarian agenda. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103ad591f37f181d/698a492547ca3841dc3bc16b/GettyImages-2056067740.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # In Defeat, Haley Voters Have Power to Build On > Sponsored content. 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Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination._ by [Amanda Carpenter](https://time.com/author/amanda-carpenter/) and [Beau Tremitiere](https://time.com/author/beau-tremitiere/) Mar 6, 2024 5:59 PM UTC Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. by [Amanda Carpenter](https://time.com/author/amanda-carpenter/) and [Beau Tremitiere](https://time.com/author/beau-tremitiere/) Mar 6, 2024 5:59 PM UTC Super Tuesday may have eliminated hope by millions of Nikki Haley voters that they could deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination, but if they stick together, they could keep him from returning to the White House in 2025\. And if they embrace the “fusion” strategy suggested by Senators Mitt Romney and Joe Manchin, they could move us past the dangerous two-party politics that has pushed our democracy to the brink. Haley voters, while not enough to change the outcome of the GOP primary, are pivotal for the general election. The nearly 300,000 votes cast for Haley in last week’s Michigan primary roughly doubled Biden’s margin of victory in 2020—and were almost 30 times greater than Trump’s 2016 margin. Haley’s 140,000 votes in the New Hampshire primary more than doubled Biden’s 2020 margin of victory—and were more than 50 times greater than the margin in 2016\. In the Super Tuesday states that have any chance of being competitive in November—[Colorado](https://www.270towin.com/states/Colorado), [Maine](https://www.270towin.com/states/Maine), [Minnesota](https://www.270towin.com/states/Minnesota), [North Carolina](https://www.270towin.com/states/North%5FCarolina), and [Virginia](https://www.270towin.com/states/Virginia)—Haley voters exceed recent general election margins of victory. Polling from swing states with primaries later in the year, like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, suggests the same pattern. That doesn’t mean these are automatic Biden votes. A large share of Haley’s supporters are [at least open](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/nikki-haley-voters-trump-biden.html) to supporting Trump in November. And many inevitably will. But their opposition in the primary reflects their willingness to express some degree of independence from MAGA orthodoxy. They may not feel at home in today’s Republican Party, but they are not Democrats, either, and deserve better than to throw away their votes with a protest option. While write-in protest votes may privately comfort the conscience of disaffected voters, doing so is unproductive. So is voting for a [No Labels](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/no-labels-2024-election/677570/) ticket with [no chance](https://reason.com/2023/10/15/third-party-candidates-shouldnt-get-their-hopes-up/) of winning 270 electors. (Due to poorly designed legal rules from the early 19th century, a third-party ticket that wins **_some_** but not a majority of electors would likely trigger a [constitutional crisis](https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4480690-a-no-labels-unity-ticket-could-be-catastrophic-for-american-democracy/).) There is a better strategy, seriously [explored](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4203907-romney-manchin-explored-new-political-party/) by two prominent senators recognized for their efforts to bridge divides and defy partisan convention: Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. They proposed creating a new party to represent moderates and conservatives committed to democracy at home and abroad who do not identify with either major party today. Crucially, this party “would not . . . support a separate candidate,” but instead “pledge support to the \[Democratic or Republican\] candidate who came closest to aligning with its agenda.” This approach eliminates the principal concern with most third-party efforts—that a third candidate would siphon votes from the more closely aligned, competitive candidate and, as a result, potentially elect someone that most voters oppose. Instead, voters who do not fit neatly in either major party can help elect the better of the two viable options, while also remaining true to their distinctive political identity. By delivering a decisive bloc of votes—enough to make the difference between victory and defeat in a close race—this party can rightfully demand that the candidate prioritize their key issues in office, at the risk of losing their support in the future. This dynamic used to appear frequently in American elections, often by the term “[fusion](https://protectdemocracy.org/work/fusion-voting-explained/),” referring to multiple parties fusing together to support one candidate. Time and again, this has been a key strategy for groups out of sync with the major parties to win elections, build political power, and shape policymaking. The Liberty Party, Free Soil Party, and other antislavery minor parties used this approach to shatter the bipartisan, pro-slavery status quo in the 1840s-50s and then channeled their hard-won leverage into forming the antislavery Republican Party. Decades later, a multiracial alliance of Republicans and Populists fused together in North Carolina to dethrone Jim Crow Democrats, the only period after Reconstruction when segregationists lost control of a Southern state government. Unfortunately, many states have laws that make this approach difficult today. Elected officials and concerned citizens are already hard at work in [Michigan](https://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2023/schwarz-helps-form-new-common-sense-political-party), [New Jersey](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/us/politics/new-jersey-moderate-party.html), and a number of other states to fix these statutes and allow voters to test Romney and Manchin’s idea. For the millions of Haley voters who tried to wrest the Republican nomination away from a candidate who has [promised](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/) to be a “dictator for one day,” this could be the beginning of a long-lasting cross-partisan coalition that protects democracy for the future. ## Transcript Good morning. Just over a year ago. I launch my campaign for president when I began I said the campaign was grounded in my love for our country. Just last week my mother a first-generation immigrant got to vote for her daughter for president only in America. I am filled with gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country. But the time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets and although I will no longer be a candidate. I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in. Our national debt will eventually Crush our economy a smaller federal government is not only necessary for our freedom. It is necessary for our survival. The road to socialism is the road to ruin for America. Our Congress is dysfunctional and only getting worse. It is filled with followers. Not leaders term limits for Washington politicians are needed now more than ever. Our world is on fire because of America's Retreat standing by our allies in Ukraine Israel, and Taiwan is a moral imperative, but it's also more than that. If we Retreat further, there will be more war not less. As important while we stand strong for the cause of Freedom. We must bind together as Americans. We must turn away from the darkness of hatred and Division. I will continue to promote all those values as is the right of every American. I sought the honor of being your president but in our great country being a private citizen is privileged enough in itself. And that's a privilege I very much look forward to enjoying. In all likelihood Donald 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. I have always been a Conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee. But on this question as she did on so many others Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said quote never just follow the crowd always make up your own mind. 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 at its best politics is about bringing people into your cause not turning them away and our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing. I end my campaign with the same words. I began it from The Book of Joshua. I direct them to all Americans but especially to so many of the women and girls out there who put their faith in our campaign. Be strong and courageous do not be afraid do not be discouraged for God will be with you wherever you go in this campaign. I have seen our country's greatness from the bottom of my heart. Thank you America. 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