Over a dozen Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley supporters, including former Women for Haley coalition members and the neoconservative’s state leadership teams, met with Joe Biden campaign deputy political director Juan Peñalosa on Wednesday.
Haley is declining to endorse Trump or actively campaign against Biden, and despite officially dropping out of the GOP race, she continues to schmooze donors. Mitti Randhawa, Haley‘s brother, has suggested her supporters intend to mount a final coup attempt against Trump on the floor of the Republican National Convention in mid-July.
National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has argued the Republican leadership should move to ban such plotters from the delegate floor at the Convention to forestall the “carnage” they could cause there.
"The Nikki Haley people are actually completely anathema to the Trump movement. These are neoliberals, neoconservatives, they want the MAGA base dead, they want Donald Trump out of the picture…" —@RaheemKassam pic.twitter.com/HnPuDEGk4e
— Anne Luty (@anneluty) May 23, 2024
On the meeting with Peñalosa, Robert Schwartz, who coordinated the call, said he believed Biden’s team “heard kind of loud and clear from a lot of Haley voters that they’re just not there yet, and they need Biden to send kind of clear signals that he’s going to govern in a kind of a more bipartisan centrist way.”
Schwartz founded Primary Pivot and is co-founder of the group urging Democratic and independent voters to join the GOP primary contest to back Haley against Trump. Following her primary failure, the group has rebranded as Haley Voters for Biden — somewhat misleadingly, considering Primary Pivot was not comprised primarily of GOP voters in the first place.
Biden supporters drove the Haley campaign significantly. Over 5,200 Biden donors bankrolled her, including Reid Hoffman, the Jeffrey Epstein-linked tech billionaire who has also been bankrolling E. Jean Carroll, MeidasTouch, Fusion GPS, and others.
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