Nikki Haley has ended her White House bid, virtually ensuring Donald Trump will be the 2024 Republican nominee.

“The time has come now to suspend my campaign. I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that,” Haley said in a speech Wednesday morning, hours after the Super Tuesday results were tabulated.

She then congratulated Trump, but didn’t go as far as to endorse him — instead challenging him to get her supporters on his side.

“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support it. And I hope he does that,” Haley said.

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Donald Trump is expected to win the Utah GOP presidential primary, the Associated Press projects.

The win in the Beehive State earns the former president 14 of the 15 states that were up for grabs on Super Tuesday.

Nikki Haley scored her lone victory in Vermont earlier in the evening.

Donald Trump is set to win the Alaska caucus, the Associated Press projects.

The win adds to the former president's landslide Super Tuesday victory, handing him 13 of the 14 called elections.

Following The Last Frontiers results, Utah is the last state of the 15 elections up for grabs in Tuesday's GOP primaries.

The tech entrepreneur who topped President Biden in American Samoa’s Democratic caucus on Super Tuesday never campaigned on the collection of islands — and didn’t even know he pulled out the shocking victory until he received a bunch of texts.

The unlikely victory in the territory’s caucus — where just 91 ballots were cast — shot little-known businessman and political candidate Jason Palmer to prominence.

Palmer received 51 of the votes to Biden’s 40, according to the local Democratic party.

“I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me,” Palmer, 52, told the Associated Press late Tuesday night.

Palmer, who hails from Baltimore, didn’t even visit the territory leading up to the successful caucus, doing most of his campaigning over a screen.

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I think it's only right we give Palmer the last word after he provided some excitement on a night that was desperately short of it.

As we near 1 a.m. in New York, the Alaska and Utah Republican caucuses are too early to call, but we expect that they will go to Donald Trump -- who won 12 of the 13 called races tonight, with Nikki Haley avoiding a shutout with a narrow victory in Vermont.

On the Democratic side, Joe Biden won 15 of the 16 contests (American Samoa being the exception), but his campaign will likely be unnerved by the more than 45,000 Minnesota Democratic primary participants who voted "uncommitted" in a gesture of revolt.

Next up for the president: Thursday night's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress, a set-piece event that the Biden campaign envisions as another chance to refresh a re-election effort that is trailing his great rival Trump in almost every major poll.

We will have live blog coverage of the State of the Union address Thursday night.

But for now, we say good night on Super Tuesday.

President Biden quickly sailed to victory in Minnesota, but he was once again vexed by considerable defections as tens of thousands marked themselves “uncommitted” on Super Tuesday.

With three-quarters of the total vote counted, 69.6% backed Biden while 19.8% went uncommitted, according to a tabulation by The Associated Press.

Disgruntled progressive activists and organizations have embarked on a campaign to push voters to mark themselves “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s policies toward the Israel-Hamas War.

This marks the continuation of a trend for Biden. Late last month over 100,000 Michiganders — 13% of the Democratic primary — went uncommitted in protest of his policies in the Israel-Hamas War.

The Gopher State, which is home to a sizeable liberal population in its Twin Cities, marked the largest defections against Biden on Super Tuesday.

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Upstart Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer wasn't even watching the results trickle in from American Samoa when he found out he had defeated President Biden in the island territory's caucus.

“I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me,” Palmer told the Associated Press in an interview late Tuesday.

“I have been campaigning remotely, doing Zoom town halls, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,” he added.

The Baltimore-based investor snagged at least four of the island's six delegates away from Biden without even setting foot in the tropical paradise.

Palmer also loaned his campaign more than $500,000 of his own money to stay in the race at one point, according to federal campaign finance filings.

Steve Garvey is not going light on the baseball metaphors as he addresses supporters in Los Angeles after advancing to the general election for the US Senate Nov. 5.

"What you all are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run," the Republican says.

"Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader," he goes on. "So, keep the evening of Nov. 5 open as we will celebrate again."

The 75-year-old adds that his supporters shared his belief that "California is no longer the heartbeat of America" before switching back to baseball.

"When I stepped on the field for the Dodgers and the Padres," he says. "I didn't play for Democrats or Republicans or independents. I played for all the fans. And tonight I'm running for all the people."

Another one of the down ballot races we were watching tonight was Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon's fight to hold on to his office against 11 primary challengers.

With about a third of the expected vote in, Gascon tops the pack with 22.9% of the vote, followed by former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman with 18.1%

Jonathan Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor under Gascon, is third with 12.1%.

So, Gascon and Hochman on track for a November matchup as things currently stand, but still a long way to go.

Batter up!

Republican Steve Garvey, the former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres first baseman, will face Rep. Adam Schiff in the November election to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

In advancing to the general election, Garvey beat out two well-funded Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Katie Porter and Rep. Barbara Lee.

It is now 12 a.m.

The last polls have closed in Alaska, meaning the last polls have closed on this Super Tuesday.

Nikki Haley's campaign broke its silence late Tuesday and thanked voters who backed the former US ambassador to the United Nations, particularly in Vermont, where she scored her only win over Donald Trump.

“We’re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests," campaign national spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said in a statement.

"Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united.’ Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump."

Perez-Cubas added that "addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better."

So far, Haley has won Washington, DC, and Vermont, while Trump has thumped her in every other contest in which he has competed.

Haley had no watch party tonight and did not deliver any public remarks.