Posted on 10/09/2023 11:08:14 AM PDT by RandFan
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, has ramped up her fund-raising in recent months, a sign that her performance in the early presidential debates may have invigorated her 2024 candidacy.
Ms. Haley, who, according to her campaign, has raised $11 million across her political committees, entered October with significantly more cash on hand that can be spent on the 2024 primary than Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida — $9.1 million to roughly his $5 million — even as he out-raised her overall.
But both Ms. Haley and Mr. DeSantis’s fund-raising figures were dwarfed by the man they are chasing in the polls: Former President Donald J. Trump announced in recent days that he had raised $45.5 million in the quarter and had $36 million on hand that is eligible to be spent on the primary.
Ms. Haley’s campaign provided her fund-raising figures for the third quarter, from July 1 to the end of September, to The New York Times in advance of the Oct. 15 disclosure deadline. The numbers underscore not just her financial gains from the debates, but the extent to which she has run a lean operation, keeping a limited payroll and eschewing campaign-backed television ads so far.
Her campaign said it had saved roughly half of every dollar it had raised into her 2024 account in the last three months.
“We have seen a big surge in support and have real momentum,” said Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokeswoman for Ms. Haley. “Nikki is emerging as the candidate who can move America beyond the chaos and drama of the past and present, and we have the resources we need to do it.”
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actually, i think there are lotsa Dems whoo are now registered Republicans...except they aren't.
She can raise all she wants. She isn’t going to buy my vote under any circumstance.
Neither Nikki nor DeSantos are going anywhere. Not happening.
Wonder how many gals will be voting for Nikki because it is so important to get a woman into the White House? You know...just like the gals who voted for Biden to get Harris into the VP slot?
I also think there are lots of democrats who ran as republicans in congress.
The NY Times has not endorsed a Republican since Eisenhower.
May very well be. I can never get how Collins or Murkowski get elected. Surely Republicans in name only.
Now we are back to debating natural born citizenship?
This issue of natural born citizenship comes up a lot on Free Republic.
Some Freepers say that both of your parents must have been citizens when you were born, for you to be a natural born citizen.
Other Freepers say, that as long as you yourself were born in America, the citizenship status of your parents doesn’t matter. Those Freepers argue that since you didn’t have to be naturalized, that this means you are natural born.
So which Freepers are we supposed to believe?
When a comes to national office, that discussion was never finished. It may simply be down to us as individual voters, to have the final say, but I suspect eventually the Supreme Court will address it. Probably, when the first in eligible republican runs, you can be sure the Democrats will scream, bloody murder, and demand the Supreme Court speak up.
True, that may well happen. Democrats would not be intellectually honest on this, because both Obama and Kamala are not natural born, according to the strictest criteria some people use to determine status. But it may well be decided when Democrats decide to raise the issue.
I haven't kept up: Why is she ineligible?
She was born in S.C, and I think she's over 35... I don't think she would be running if she weren't eligible.
She is an anchor baby of two non-citizen parents.
Nick Knack Paddywhack Give a Uke a Bomb making a strong run at . . . DeSoros for a distant second. I predicted this-—that donors would dump DeSoros and move to her or White Lizzo.
Latest republican primary polls: Friday, October 6
2024 Republican Presidential Nomination I&I/TIPP
Trump 54, DeSantis 13, Haley 6, Ramaswamy 7, Pence 5, Christie 3, Scott 2, Burgum 0, Hutchinson 1
Trump +41
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