Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wasn't going to do anything for Nikki Haley's campaign, anyway. Haley won Vermont on Super Tuesday, beating Donald J. Trump 50% to 46%, but lost in the Big Day's 14 other GOP primary states and will end, or "suspend" her campaign for the presidential nomination NPR has confirmed Wednesday morning. She will not endorse ex-President Trump ... yet.

The former South Carolina governor was scheduled to make "brief remarks" about 10 a.m. in Charleston, The Wall Street Journal reports, and will encourage Trump to "earn the support" of Republicans and independents who backed her. As of Wednesday Trump has 995 of 1,215 GOP delegates needed to win the nomination, 722 from Tuesday, according to The New York Times, to Haley's 89, of which 46 were earned Tuesday.

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Haley's Waterloo?

MON-TUE 3/4-5/24

Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) endorsed former North Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for the GOP presidential nomination late last week, The Hill reports, as frontrunner Donald J. Trump tries to push on to the general election.

Collins told the Bangor Daily News she voted for Haley in Maine’s primary. “She has the energy, intellect, and temperament that we need to lead our country in these very tumultuous times,” the senator said. 

On this week’s Super Tuesday 874 of 2,429 GOP delegates, or 36% will be up for grabs, according to The New York Times, and ex-President Trump could pretty much put his one-time UN ambassador away. The March 5 Super Tuesday primaries are in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia, as well as the territory of American Samoa.

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