Hints and tips:
...Where the Haley campaign has felt a crunch, on top of its poor polling numbers, is with the wavering allegiances of mega-donors who fund affiliated super Pacs....
...Trump had $30.5mn, even though Haley outraised him in January....
...While DeSantis and Haley have been fighting on the debate stage for weeks, the Trump campaign has also started to target Haley....
...Tuesday’s result in New Hampshire aside, Haley is trailing even further behind Trump elsewhere....
...Wall Street megadonors including Paul Singer and Ken Griffin are bankrolling Nikki Haley SFA Fund, a super Pac supporting Nikki Haley, raised $69mn last year, and burnt through all but $3mn of it....
...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....
...Nikki Haley, Trump’s remaining Republican rival, has sought to portray herself as the strongest candidate to challenge Biden....
...Nikki Haley’s campaign has announced a $24mn haul during the fourth quarter of 2023, but official filings from the campaigns or their affiliated super Pacs will not be received until the end of the month...
...Groups supporting Nikki Haley, Trump’s challenger in the Republican primary, had only 166,000 donors for the whole of last year, fewer than Trump received in the week surrounding the release of his mugshot...
...Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...Republican primary: Republican presidential candidate and former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley will campaign in the state of New Hampshire as the party’s megadonors warm to her as their anti-Trump...
...Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who benefited from two strong debate performances, was more frugal, raising $8.2mn and spent $3.5mn....
...Trump’s victory has raised the stakes for Haley and DeSantis, write James Politi and Lauren Fedor in West Des Moines....
...Griffin, a Republican mega-donor, originally backed Nikki Haley’s campaign. He stopped short of endorsing Trump, jokingly asking if he could “just have a moment to be sad about Nikki?”...
...The nominating contests have only just begun, and Nikki Haley, whose policies I believe to be far better than either Trump’s or Biden’s, remains in the Republican race....
...Sam Bankman-Fried: The founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX will be back in court today for a hearing over a potential conflict of interest involving his new lawyer Marc Mukasey....
...Meanwhile, Jan Koum, the co-founder of WhatsApp, sent $5mn in support of the presidential bid of Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor....
...Other candidates — including Trump’s vice-president Mike Pence, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley — are polling in the single digits....
...Ron DeSantis isn’t being asked about his record as governor, Nikki Haley isn’t being asked about her plan to fix inflation, Tim Scott is not being asked about his plan to stop China,” said Stepien....
...We had help this week from Josh Gabert-Doyon, Sam Giovinco, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber, Gavin Kallmann and Zach St Louis. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...This Elizabeth Weil profile of Sam Altman and his family in New York magazine is a bell-ringer....
...Will this be the moment when Nikki Haley stands down?...
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