After an altogether disastrous Super Tuesday showing and with the big money interests already disengaged, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced she would end her run for the White House on Wednesday.

Haley made the announcement from her campaign headquarters in South Carolina during a 10 a.m. press conference, though her departure was rumored for hours beforehand after sources close to her campaign let the information slip early this morning.

“The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” she said from Charleston. “I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets. ”

Haley did not immediately endorse former President Dontal Trump, but instead congratulated and encouraged him to make room under the conservative tent for the voters who supported her campaign and who feel left behind by the MAGA faithful.

“We must bind together as Americans. We must turn away from the darkness of hatred and division,” she said.

The former South Carolina governor’s departure marks the end of a primary race apparently decided the moment Trump chose to attempt a second try at a second term. Candidate after candidate thought they might, through imitation or direct confrontation, topple Trump from his towering perch atop Republican politics, only to find the 45th President’s base unpersuaded by their acts or barbs.

If polling is any guide, Trump was never in any real danger of losing the primary in a party he’s dominated since 2016.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came closest to outperforming him in pre-election surveys — at one point he was averaging within single digits of the former president — but his Trump-lite routine never stuck with voters and he entered the Iowa caucus far behind. He ended his campaign soon after and endorsed Trump ahead of the New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Republican primary.

The former president, true to form and as might be expected at this point, was not very gracious in victory.

“Nikki Haley got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion, despite the fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermont, and various other Republican Primaries. Much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her voters, almost 50%, according to the polls. At this point, I hope she stays in the ‘race’ and fights it out until the end! I’d like to thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me to produce, by far, the most successful Super Tuesday in HISTORY, and would further like to invite all of the Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our Nation. BIDEN IS THE ENEMY, HE IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!” he wrote on his Truth Social media platform, capitalization his.

Haley said it will be up to the former president to bring dissociated Republicans back into the fold, and “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.”

President Joe Biden issued a statement after Haley’s announcement, saying that her supporters are more than welcome to continue their opposition to the former president by joining with him.

“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign. I know there is a lot we won’t agree on. But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to America’s adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground,” he wrote.

Trump’s campaign was quick to hail Haley’s departure, issuing congratulations to the 45th President even before his former top diplomat made her campaign suspension official.

“Congratulations to President Donald Trump for vanquishing his opponents in record time. The same movement that powered President Trump to a primary victory will power him to a general election victory. Voters are eager to have the prosperity and safety of the Trump presidency restored,” Taylor Budowich, CEO of Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement.

The Super Tuesday results were not the only signs that Haley was going to have to eventually end her campaign and make way for a Trump to take on President Joe Biden again. Support from Charles Koch backed super PAC Americans For Prosperity, which threw its weight behind Haley in November, ended after she failed to win the party primary in her home state of South Carolina.