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...Trump is also vying to win over megadonors who had backed Nikki Haley as an alternative to the former president....
...Trump had $30.5mn, even though Haley outraised him in January....
...A Haley victory in New Hampshire would propel her campaign going into the February 24 primary in South Carolina, where Haley was governor....
...New York attorney Jay Lefkowitz, another Haley donor, added: “Without question, she should keep campaigning. And she will . . ....
...Ken Griffin gave a pro-Nikki Haley super Pac $5mn in December and January, boosting her campaign even as the hedge fund billionaire has cast doubt on her chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination...
...Haley and SFA Fund, the pro-Haley fundraising super-political action committee, have maintained that she will continue campaigning into next month’s South Carolina primary, though opinion polls show her...
...Last week, Trump said anyone who contributed to Haley would be “permanently barred from the MAGA camp”....
...“The race is now between Trump and Haley. No one should underestimate her.”...
...Read more on Nikki Haley here...
...Two of Haley’s top donors, billionaire investors Ken Griffin and Paul Singer, have so far declined to join Trump....
...While DeSantis and Haley have been fighting on the debate stage for weeks, the Trump campaign has also started to target Haley....
...Haley has yet to say if she will support Trump. One of the biggest fundraising challenges for Trump’s campaign is winning back Haley’s deep-pocketed donors....
...DeSantis on the X social media site weighed in too: “I agree with Christie that Nikki Haley is ‘going to get smoked’,” he wrote....
...Pro-Haley groups, meanwhile, have spent more than $7.8mn. If Haley loses in New Hampshire, the GOP primary race could essentially come down to South Carolina’s election on February 24....
...“If his withdrawal was meant to help Nikki Haley, it will further polarise the primary to be a battle between the Trump conservatives and Haley’s DC establishment base,” it said....
...Haley said in a statement that she was honoured to receive the endorsement....
...But many megadonors are also now backing him after previously pouring money into Republican primary rivals such as Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race for the party’s nomination last month....
...Trump has 244, while Nikki Haley has 43. Biden needs 1,968 delegates to win the Democratic party’s nomination; he currently has 206....
...“It’s not worth my time to respond to him,” said Haley....
...Alex Rogers And another example just this week of Wall Street hedging its bets, Ken Griffin announced that he gave $5mn to Nikki Haley super PAC....
...“Nikki is on fire,” said Bill Strong, an investor and Haley donor. “She has earned it.”...
...Pro-Haley groups, meanwhile, have spent more than $7.8mn....
...The host committee includes Elizabeth Ailes, the widow of the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes, Trump’s ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, and Republican megadonor Saul Fox....
...“They said that couldn’t be done, but then Nikki Haley came along and wiped them all out!”...
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