U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki Haley deliver remarks to the press on the UN Human Rights Council, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman gave $250,000 to support former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s GOP presidential primary campaign—joining a growing list of deep-pocketed donors supporting Haley, as many view her as the best alternative to former President Donald Trump.
Hoffman, a frequent Trump critic who has helped finance various efforts against the former president, recently donated $250,000 to the pro-Haley super PAC Stand For America Fund Inc., Hoffman’s political advisor Dmitri Melhorn told Forbes after the donation was first made public by the New York Times.
He is not the only monied Democratic donor getting behind Haley: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon—who said he has been in contact with Haley, but stopped short of endorsing her and has not donated to her campaign—urged business leaders and “liberal Democrats” last week to support Haley as “a choice on the Republican side that might be better than Trump.”
New Hampshire billionaire Frank Laukien, who has donated to both Republicans and Democrats over the years, also recently endorsed Haley and co-founded a new super PAC, “Independents Moving the Needle,” designed to sway independents to support her, though he told local New Hampsire TV station WMUR the group is not “anti-Trump.”
In a major boon to her campaign last month, the Charles Koch-backed super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action (which reportedly raised $70 million in the first half of the year, including $25 million from billionaire Koch and his nonprofit groups) endorsed Haley, citing internal polling that shows she has the best chance at defeating President Joe Biden in a general election and announcing plans to launch an “extensive” pro-Haley ad blitz and field operation.
Other billionaires who previously expressed support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign are now considering backing Haley, including Citadel hedge fund founder Ken Griffin and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, who recently described Haley to CNBC as the only GOP candidate who has a chance at beating Trump, adding that he soured on DeSantis when he signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida.
Billionaire investor and philanthropist Stanley Druckenmiller urged Republicans to put their weight behind Haley shortly after Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) dropped out of the race last month, telling the Associated Press he is “hoping the field clears and it’s Nikki Haley one-on-one with the former president.”
Originally posted November 17, 2023.
In the Tom Woods Letter, Tom Woods trounces those supporting Amb. Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary. He writes:
There’s apparently still a wing of the Republican Party, even today, that considers George W. Bush to have been a great president and not a disaster at all.
This is the Nikki Haley wing of the party.
Well, now ol’ Nikki has this to say:
When I get into office, the first thing we have to do — social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms. Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing. The second thing is every person on social media should be verified by their name. That’s first of all, it’s a national security threat. When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots. And then you’re going to get some civility when people know their name is next to what they say accountability, and they know their pastor and their family member is going to see it, it’s going to help our kids and it’s going to help our country.
Sorry, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay: you’re going to have to knock off this Publius stuff as you write the Federalist!
Imagine being so tone-deaf as to think that a winning message to Republican voters, who have watched federal agencies demonize, persecute and selectively prosecute them, is: the government needs to know your name and what you’re writing!
But imagine being so incorrigibly tone-deaf as to be a Republican voter and cheer for this.
Some people like to post anonymously because they’d like to speak their minds without losing their jobs at the hands of control-freak psychos who want dissident voices suppressed. Is that motivation for anonymity all right with the police, Nikki?
Naturally, she considers “global warming” to be “one of the threats” to the security of the United States, and insists that “everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections.”
We can console ourselves that Haley is openly mocked in ways George W. Bush never was during the primaries.
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