The former South Carolina governor announced she was ending her campaign in a speech in Charleston after spending the biggest day of the primaries hidden from the public eye.

Donald Trump won Virginia and North Carolina as the first states closed their polls on Super Tuesday as he hopes for a massive sweep of victories that will knock rival Nikki Haley out of the race.

The result in D.C. comes one day after Trump’s clean sweep of GOP primaries in Idaho, Michigan and Missouri on Saturday as he inches closer to a rematch with Biden in November.

Americans For Prosperity Action, the influential conservative organization backing Haley in the Republican presidential primary, has decided to cease its financial support for her campaign.

NEIL: Trump claimed in his South Carolina victory speech that he had ‘never seen the Republican Party more unified’. That is untrue.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants Nikki Haley to stay in the 2024 presidential primary race because she is essentially a ‘surrogate’ for Democrats.

Follow DailyMail.com’s live coverage from reporters in The Palmetto State ahead of the results on Saturday night.

Nikki Haley told supporters Saturday night in Charleston that she was staying in the presidential race – despite being trounced by Donald Trump in her home state of South Carolina.

Donald Trump ran away with a victory in South Carolina on Saturday night with a  win that gives him a straight sweep of the four early primary contests in the Republican presidential primary.