COLUMBIA – Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, has started a political action committee that could bolster her brand ahead of an anticipated 2024 presidential run.
The PAC, named after her other political group Stand for America, will be “laser-focused on the 2022 midterms and electing a conservative force to the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to serve as a bulwark against the liberal agendas of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi,” Haley said in an email to supporters Wednesday.
Haley has demurred when asked about her presidential ambitions. But she has taken several steps since leaving the United Nations at the end of 2018 to suggest she will run, including releasing a second book and starting the first Stand for America political advocacy group.
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In a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the new PAC lists Bradley Crate of Massachusetts as the treasurer. Crate’s firm was the treasurer for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and he was a top financial officer in Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
“Ambassador Haley is focused on supporting strong conservative candidates and winning back the House and Senate in 2022,” Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton said. A website for the PAC is already online.
Haley wrote in her email the PAC will work to recruit and train new conservative candidates while defending incumbents in swing states. The PAC allows her to contribute up to $5,000 to campaigns and produce ads.
Importantly, the PAC will pay for Haley to travel around the country to campaign for other candidates, a move that will provide her more publicity among voters while building GOP allies ahead of a 2024 White House bid.
She spent much of 2020 campaigning for House and Senate candidates, including in the recent Georgia runoffs. Both Republican Senate incumbents lost that runoff, giving control of the Senate to the Democrats.
Staley’s rebuke shows how Haley has little room to play both sides in expected 2024 bid
Still, Haley is seen as potential frontrunner if Trump does not try to seek a second term in 2024. Haley was able to walk a tightrope while in Trump’s cabinet, backing the president she criticized during his 2016 campaign while touting how she was able to disagree with him on occasion.
In her email announcing the PAC and asking for contributions, Haley sounded a lot like a candidate, taking aim at Democrats who soon will hold control of Capitol Hill and the Oval Office.
“You can be sure the Democrats won’t abandon their big-government vision in 2022, including ‘defund the police,’ the Green New Deal, and Medicare for All,” she wrote. “They are simply ‘rebranding’ – which is just an attempt to hide the truth about what they really believe from voters.”
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Now here’s someone I would support 110% for president in 2024. It looks like we are going to have her going up against Kamala Harris.
C’mon… you don’t seriously think Biden will last even his first term, do you?
Right now, i don’t think ANY ‘conservative/republican’, has a chance in 2022 let alone 2024… THE LEFTISTS fraud machine is in FULL SWING, and i just can’t see it ever being stopped, or better yet, REVERSED.
The democrats are after every Republican. They are Now trying to kick us out of Congress
Any Republican that backed trump. This time is a coup. A coup is when you arrest or kick out of office all your Opponent’s. In msn, today a article about getting rid of trump backers in Congress.
AND It won’t just be those in OFFICE, they go after. IT WILL BE ALL OF US who voted for him, as well!
Nikki, another deep state, New World Order, open borders globalist. Maybe you can have a Bush, as your Vice President.
As she in not part of the old guard that betrayed Donald Trump she should fill the bill nicely. If way back the party would have chosen Sarah Palen or Condoleezza Rice they surely could have won what the party darlings lost! If the 2016 primaries shook the foundations of the party I’m glad it did. We need less go along to get along and ending up with nothing and more outspoken advocates than than those who think political office should be a lifetime occupation.
I am not as behind her as I once would have been. She has seemed to stickup for the President, but I also seem to recall wincing more then once at her opinions. I would back Cruz though. Ted is an expert on the Constitution and would fight hard for returning to Constitutional law.
THat’s why imo, he won’t have a chance in hell of winning.. THE LEFT HATES HIM just as much as they hate trump, BECAUSE HE LOVES the constitution!
I believe she would make a good President!