Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacts whereas talking about her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, who’s presently deployed with the South Carolina Nationwide Guard, throughout a marketing campaign cease on the Clemson College at Greenville ONE constructing forward of the Republican presidential major election in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. February 20, 2024.
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People for Prosperity Motion, the community backed by billionaire Charles Koch, is pausing its monetary assist of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s marketing campaign a day after she misplaced to former President Donald Trump in her home-state major in South Carolina.
AFP Motion stated it nonetheless endorses Haley for president however now its assist will solely come within the type of phrases — not money.
“Given the challenges within the major states forward, we do not consider any exterior group could make a cloth distinction to widen her path to victory,” AFP Motion CEO Emily Seidel wrote in an electronic mail to employees, first reported by Politico. “And so whereas we are going to proceed to endorse her, we are going to focus our sources the place we will make the distinction.”
AFP Motion declined to offer additional remark past the employees memo.
AFP Motion closing its pockets is the subsequent nail within the coffin for the previous South Carolina governor who has taken a collection of hits for the reason that begin of the election yr. Together with AFP Motion, billionaire Reid Hoffman has additionally stopped funding Haley’s presidential bid.
Regardless of the setbacks, Haley has pledged to remain within the race by Tremendous Tuesday on March 5. Her marketing campaign stated AFP Motion pulling funding has not modified that calculus and that it nonetheless has the sources to remain afloat.
“AFP is a superb group and ally within the struggle for freedom and conservative authorities. We thank them for his or her super assist on this race,” Haley’s marketing campaign stated in an announcement Sunday. “Our struggle continues, and with greater than $1 million coming in from grassroots conservatives in simply the final 24 hours, we’ve loads of gas to maintain going. We’ve a rustic to avoid wasting.”
AFP Motion will as an alternative channel its sources to finance Republican campaigns on the congressional stage. It has to this point endorsed 5 candidates operating for Senate and 19 candidates operating for Home seats.
“With the South Carolina presidential major this weekend and the Senate engagement actually heating up,” Seidel wrote within the electronic mail. “It is time to take inventory of the place we’re and – as we all the time do – be sure we’re optimizing our sources.”
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