AFP Motion, the conservative wing of the highly effective and influential conservative People for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, has pulled funding for the presidential campaign of Nikki Haley.
In an electronic mail to staffers obtained by Fox Information, AFP Motion senior adviser Emily Seidel mentioned the group didn’t consider that “any outdoors group could make a fabric distinction to widen [Haley’s] path to victory.”
“And so while we will continue to endorse her, we will focus our resources where we can make the difference. And that’s the U.S. Senate and House,” Seidel wrote.
Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, throughout an election evening watch celebration in Charleston, South Carolina, US, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
The information was first reported by Politico earlier Sunday.
AFP Motion endorsed Haley in November, giving her a significant grassroots and organizational increase.
The deep-pocketed fiscally conservative community launched an advert blitz on behalf of Haley in January, together with mailers, digital advertisements, and linked TV spots.
AFP Motion, which pledged to spend tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to assist push the Republican Social gathering previous former President Trump because it endorsed Haley in late November, mentioned final month it was placing an preliminary $27 million behind this new wave of their ongoing marketing campaign.
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The information got here after Haley’s GOP rival, former President Trump, clinched the celebration’s nomination in Haley’s own residence state of South Carolina on Saturday.
Regardless of the loss, and defying calls to exit the race, Haley has mentioned it’s not the “end of our story” as she traveled Sunday to Michigan forward of the state’s main on Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks throughout her main election evening gathering at The Charleston Place on February 24, 2024 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
Within the lower than 24 hours following her Saturday evening loss, Haley’s marketing campaign mentioned that she had raised $1 million “from grassroots supporters alone,” a bump they argued “demonstrates Haley’s staying power and her appeal to broad swaths of the American public.”
However with Sunday additionally got here the tip of assist for Haley’s marketing campaign from People for Prosperity, the political arm of the highly effective Koch community.
Together with his win Saturday within the first-in-the South contest, Trump has now swept each main or caucus on the GOP early-season calendar that awards delegates. His performances have left little maneuvering room for Haley, his former U.N. ambassador.
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Nonetheless, Haley insists she is sticking round even with the rising stress to desert her candidacy and let Trump focus fully on Democratic President Joe Biden, in a 2020 rematch.
