Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Nikki Haley Campaign Hauls Whopping $24M in Q4 2023.

In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter.

The Haley campaign used the announcement to highlight its supposed grassroots support, noting that it received contributions from 180,000 donors across all three campaign committees in the past three months, including 83,900 new contributors. Furthermore, the campaign said that $16.25 million of the fourth quarter sum came through digital and mail grassroots efforts. With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching on January 15, the Haley campaign revealed it now has $14.5 million cash on hand to spend.

Haley currently leads her nearest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in the New Hampshire primary, and is making a play to overtake him in the Iowa caucus vote. Both candidates trail far behind leading GOP candidate and former president Donald Trump, who polls suggest has the support of over 50 percent of voters in the Hawkeye State.

The exponential growth in Haley’s fundraising is surely impressive, but it still pales compared to the fundraising efforts of Donald Trump. While the Trump campaign has not yet released its fourth quarter fundraising numbers, it raised a staggering $45.5 million during the third quarter of 2023, and finished September 2023 with $37.5 million in its coffers.

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In a sign of financial momentum, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's presidential campaign reported raising $24 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $11 million it raised in the third quarter. show more

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Endorses Donald Trump.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, has formally endorsed former president Donald Trump for the presidential race of 2024. Scalise joins Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, making him the latest top-ranking Republican to offer his public support to Trump, who is widely anticipated to be the Republican nominee.

“I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, and I look forward to working with President Trump and a Republican House and Senate to fight for those families who are struggling under the weight of Biden’s failed policies,” Scalise wrote on X.

In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Scalise criticized the Biden government’s handling of the border crisis, the economy, and energy policy. Scalise highlighted the sharp rise in gas prices, difficulties in housing affordability, doubled mortgage rates, and record high inflation and interest rates, attributing all of these negative developments to the Biden regime’s mismanagement of the nation’s economy.

Scalise has also contrasted Biden’s strategies with Trump’s past leadership, asserting that American workers and families thrived during Trump’s previous term. His endorsement brings the tally of public support for Trump from sitting Republican House members to at least 95. This crucial endorsement comes during the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses on January 15 and the New Hampshire primary the following week.

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, has formally endorsed former president Donald Trump for the presidential race of 2024. Scalise joins Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, making him the latest top-ranking Republican to offer his public support to Trump, who is widely anticipated to be the Republican nominee. show more

Ex-CIA Man Hints at Intel Agency Interference in 2024 Election.

A Georgetown University professor and former CIA intelligence analyst, Dr. John Gentry, has warned that the politicization of the intelligence community and its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are significant concerns. In his recently published book “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences”, Gentry claims these factors could lead to interference in the 2024 elections.

“My guess is that the the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like,” said Gentry, who discussed the response to the Hunter Biden laptop story, falsely “debunked” by 51 former intelligence officials in a letter approved by the CIA. The approval of this letter was a clear political move intended to aid the Biden campaign, according to Gentry.

“I long have thought we are likely to again see former intelligence officers be politically active against Trump or whomever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, and I expect leaking to resume,” Gentry said in an interview with Fox News. “The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected.”

Gentry also expressed concern over DEI policies in key intelligence agencies, including the CIA, arguing they detract from operational efficiency and promote a politically charged agenda. He points to the introduction of these policies under President Obama as significantly transforming the federal workforce. While Gentry admits internal political discussions were not as prevalent during his time in the CIA, agency sources say activism became commonplace under Obama. This shift, facilitated by figures like former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, has reportedly negatively impacted employee morale. Gentry says his hope is that his book will enlighten readers about the “significant political problem within the agencies.”

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A Georgetown University professor and former CIA intelligence analyst, Dr. John Gentry, has warned that the politicization of the intelligence community and its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are significant concerns. In his recently published book "Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences", Gentry claims these factors could lead to interference in the 2024 elections. show more

Trump Mulls Madison Square Garden Rally With NY In Play.

Former President Donald Trump raised the possibility of holding a rally at Madison Square Garden as a part of his strategy to leverage support in predominantly Democratic states, including New York. He stated, “I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota. I may rent Madison Square Garden and that’s the belly of the beast, right?”

Trump’s comments come shortly after a poll revealed the 45th President is within 10 points of Joe Biden in the Empire State, and just. few weeks since he brought the house down at a packed Christmas gala at Cipriani, Wall Street, hosted by the New York Young Republican Club.

Trump revealed his intention to hold rallies and give speeches in those states. He implied that a rally at Madison Square Garden, known as the “belly of the beast,” would be a significant political move and a substantial investment of campaign resources.

“That doesn’t mean I’m going to work them as hard as I work Pennsylvania, where I’m doing very well,” he told Breitbart News, adding, “[b]ut we’re going to do these other states too, and it will be a heavy move.”

On the subject of potential support within New York, Trump highlighted the presence of reputed Republicans, including Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY). He stated, “So, I believe we have a chance to win New York. I believe we have a chance to win New Jersey.”

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Former President Donald Trump raised the possibility of holding a rally at Madison Square Garden as a part of his strategy to leverage support in predominantly Democratic states, including New York. He stated, “I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota. I may rent Madison Square Garden and that’s the belly of the beast, right?” show more

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Bannon: ‘Viper’ Haley Must Not Be VP, Will Try to Run Admin as Cheney-Style ‘Prime Minister’.

War Room host Steve Bannon warned on Monday that Nikki Haley is a “viper,” predicting a “big fight” between the Republican establishment and America First over whether Donald Trump should select her as his running mate.

“A big fight will take place in the spring; they’re going to try to force Nikki on the ticket, they’ll say Trump needs a woman… and she can bring together that 15 percent of Never Trumpers in the Republican Party,” the former White House Chief Strategist told commentator Jack Posobiec.

“We’re going to have to have that fight. If Nikki Haley is in this administration in any capacity, it will fail,” he warned.

“She’s a viper, and once she gets in there, she’ll try to run it as Prime Minister. She’ll try to be Dick Cheney… to Bush.”

If it does materialize, Bannon will have a powerful ally in this fight in the form of the 45th President’s eldest son, Don Jr.

“I wouldn’t have her on [the ticket], and I would go to great lengths to make sure that that doesn’t happen,” he said last month.

“Nikki Haley wants never-ending wars,” he continued, describing her as “a puppet of the establishment in Washington D.C.”

“By the way, all you’d get is her and team trying to destroy Donald Trump from within, forever,” he added.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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War Room host Steve Bannon warned on Monday that Nikki Haley is a "viper," predicting a "big fight" between the Republican establishment and America First over whether Donald Trump should select her as his running mate. show more

Ex UK PM Boris Johnson Blasts Attempts to Keep Trump off Ballot.

Writing in his Daily Mail column on Friday, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasted the Maine and Colorado decisions to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the ballot for the 2024 presidential elections.

Johnson, who has routinely been unkind about Trump, wrote of how the authoritarian attempts to keep Trump off the ballot make it impossible for Western nations to claim the moral high ground against dictatorships when their ruling elite classes act in the very same way:

Can we really say that it is the sovereign people, and the people alone, who get to decide who makes the law? I don’t think we can say that of the United States, today, where another court has just decided that Donald Trump’s name should not appear on the ballot paper for next year’s Presidential election. The judges of Maine have joined the judges of Colorado in effectively banning former President Trump from presenting himself as a candidate. I am amazed that this is not causing more general consternation.

Making clear he thinks Trump lost in 2020 while calling January 6th “dismaying”, the former Mayor of London also insisted that [Trump] did not prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and “has not been convicted of an insurrection, or an attempted insurrection.”

Refering to the former President as “an innocent man,” Johnson explains: “…think how this looks in the eyes of the rest of the world — all the places where they are fed up with being lectured about the joys of Western liberal democracy. Across the world there are dictatorial and sometimes brutal leaders who use a corrupt judicial system to disbar their opponents from seeking elective office.

“That is to say, they fabricate some charge against them at least to tie them up in legal knots — and, if necessary, actually send them to prison.

“It’s what they do in Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro did it to his opponent. It’s what Putin did to the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It’s what the Tatmadaw in Burma have done to Aung San Suu Kyi. It’s what they used to do in Ukraine — the Kremlin lackey Yanukovich locked up his opponent Yulia Timoshenko.

“Why do they lock them up? Because they are frightened of their potential popularity; because they will do anything they can to stop them appearing before the electorate.”

Johnson concludes: “It is four years since the deplorable events of January 6, 2020. The American public have had lots of time to decide what they think of Trump’s handling of the matter. They, and they alone, should decide whether he is fit for another term.”

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Writing in his Daily Mail column on Friday, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasted the Maine and Colorado decisions to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the ballot for the 2024 presidential elections. show more

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RINO Governor Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Prohibiting Trans Drugs & Surgeries for Minors.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill aimed at restricting sex change procedures for children. The Republican governor tried to argue signing the bill would imply the state government knows better than parents who want to transition their children, and could harm minors suffering from gender dysphoria.

“This bill would impact a very small number of Ohio’s children, but for those children who face gender dysphoria, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound,” DeWine claimed, sharing anecdotes from parents who say their children’s lives were saved by gender transition procedures.

The bill would have prohibited medical professionals from using puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgeries to try to “affirm” the perceived gender of minors who believe they are the opposite sex.

It would also have stopped males from competing in female sports, and vice versa, on the basis of their gender identity.

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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill aimed at restricting sex change procedures for children. The Republican governor tried to argue signing the bill would imply the state government knows better than parents who want to transition their children, and could harm minors suffering from gender dysphoria. show more

‘Louisiana Woman’ Suing to Keep Trump Off Ballot is Self-Described ‘Neo-Communist’ & Democrat Party Operative.

A Louisiana woman has filed a state lawsuit with the goal of kicking Donald Trump off the state’s March 23rd Republican presidential ballot. Presented simply as a Louisiana citizen by establishment news outlets, Ashley Reeb is, in fact, a self-described “neocommunist” and member of  St. Bernard Parish Democrat Executive Committee.

Reeb’s lawsuit, filed on December 22nd, claims: “Both Trump’s actions (engaging in insurrection) as well as his inaction (giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists) on Jan. 6, 2021, disqualify him from holding any office of/under the United States.” Ms. Reeb’s legal claims echo those dismissed by state supreme courts in Minnesota and Michigan.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms. Reeb works as seasonal staff with the The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. From 1999 to 2005 she served as a part-time Administrative File Clerk with the Louisiana National Guard, and as a Deputy with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office from 2001 to 2003.

An examination of Ms. Reeb’s social media account on X (formerly Twitter) reveals she is a follower and reposter of a whose-who of ‘ResistanceLib’ accounts. Reeb herself has pushed the debunked Russiagate conspiracy theory as recently as August 21st, 2023. In addition, she has posted pro-Hamas propaganda on her Facebook page, claiming Israeli hostages were well treated by their Hamas terrorist captors and even ‘thanked’ them – with additional claims it is Israelis who have engaged in mass kidnappings of Palestinians. According to local reports, Ms. Reeb flies both a transgender flag and a Black Lives Matter flag outside her home.

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A Louisiana woman has filed a state lawsuit with the goal of kicking Donald Trump off the state's March 23rd Republican presidential ballot. Presented simply as a Louisiana citizen by establishment news outlets, Ashley Reeb is, in fact, a self-described "neocommunist" and member of  St. Bernard Parish Democrat Executive Committee. show more

2024 Will Make 2016 Look DULL, With 40+ National Elections, and Populists on the March Worldwide.

Nationalist and populist political parties will enter 2024 hoping for a bumper election year. Over the course of the year, 40 national elections will occur, representing 41 percent of the global population, and 42 percent of global gross domestic product.

If 2016 seemed like a populist-nationalist year to remember, 2024 could easily surpass it. Here are the most critical elections to watch for in 2024:

European Parliament: June 6-9, 2024

The European Union’s 27 member states will head to the polls in early June, choosing their representation at the supranational, globalist European Parliament. Typically already an election which attracts massive “protest votes,” Europe’s worsening migrant crisis will naturally push voters to the right, a concern already top of mind for European Union (EU) apparatchiks like Josep Borrell.

Recent victories for nationalist and populist parties in Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden also underscore a snowballing backlash against European elites over their embrace of open borders. The Identity and Democracy group, a bloc of eurosceptic and nationalist parties from 10 different European nations, appears poised to challenge the Liberals for position as the third largest voting block in the European Parliament. This is no small feat, given how heavily the deck is stacked against them by European Parliamentary authorities.

Continued economic stagnation, discontent over the accelerating migrant crisis, persistent warmongering, and general disenfranchisement could manifest a new, tectonic shift in European Union politics.

America, November 5, 2024.

Former President Donald Trump continues to pull ahead of Democrat incumbent Joe Biden. Much like Europe, the crisis at the U.S. southern border is fueling a voter backlash against Democrats nationally. Alongside a weak economy throughout 2023/24, as well as soaring crime and intensifying culture wars, America is evidently looking for a change. Biden’s approval ratings are lower than Trump’s at the same point in his first term, and nearly eight in 10 Americans say the country is on the wrong track.

Early polling also indicates Trump leads Biden in all but one of the critical 2024 swing states, with Biden yet to faces the additional headwinds from an advancing Congressional impeachment inquiry into his abuses of office and public corruption. Also of great concern for the 81-year old Democrat is growing discontent over the Ukraine-Russia war, the Israel-Hamas War, and indeed his popularity amongst minority voters.

In the hopes of heading off a Trump victory in 2024, the Biden regime has launched an unprecedented law-fare campaign against the near-certain Republican nominee. If elected, Trump has indicated his intent to use his second term to kneecap America’s “deep state” – using tools like the Schedule F designation to remove career federal bureaucrats.

One critical issue facing the U.S. electorate, however, is the integrity of the nation’s ballot processes. Long viewed as the “international observers”, the U.S. has fallen behind other nations in prioritizing election integrity, paper ballots, same day voting, and same day counting. Instead, America’s elections are plagued by weeks of mail-in voting, machine errors, and state-level denialism of such problems. These issues have routinely been exploited, predominantly by the political left, at both a local and national level.

The United Kingdom (by Jan 2025). 

Though it will likely occur in 2024, the manner in which the UK holds its elections is somewhat quirky, with the nation having tried the idea of a “fixed term Parliament” before reverting to a looser system whereby the Prime Minister can advise the Monarch to dissolve parliament at any point within a five year period.

Polls indicate the governing “Conservative” Party is likely to lose its functioning majority in Parliament to the Labour Party, which hasn’t been in power since the end of the war-hungry Blair/Brown regime of 1997-2010.

Populists enjoyed great influence in British politics through much of the Conservatives’ years in office, with the Damoclean sword of Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) forcing then-Prime Minister David Cameron to offer a referendum on leaving the EU – a plebiscite which was won by a 52-48 margin. Farage then went on to set up the Brexit Party, to ensure Britain actually left the EU.

Now reconstituted as the Reform Party, the organization has been a victim of its own success, sinking in the polls, and struggling to cut through outside the viewership of the less-left-wing ‘GB News’ channel.

The Conservatives, meanwhile, have squandered their majority, allowing the public tax burden to increase, boosting mass immigration, and supporting more wars around the world.

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is likely to further promote mass migration, climate change alarmism, and tax-hiking policies, a notion which has led Farage to seriously consider a return to frontline politics in order to stave off the country’s further decline.

Belgium Might Disappear.

The European Parliament elections will be closely followed by a federal election in Belgium, which French wartime leader Charles De Gaulle disparaged as “a country invented by the British to annoy the French.” The nation’s status as the EU institutions’ main center of power grants it outsized importance – and the 2024 elections could set it on a path to breaking up altogether.

Belgium is divided between French-speaking Wallonia to the south and Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north, with the EU and national capital of Brussels a Francophone enclave inside the latter. The country often goes for long periods without an elected parliament, as rival parties from the two regions struggle to hammer out coalition agreements. In Flanders, the populist Flemish independentist party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) is currently prospering at the expense of the establishment right.

Vlaams Belang’s growing appeal is driven by public dissatisfaction over a worsening migrant crisis, in a country already home to notorious no-go zones. Leader Tom Van Grieken has described the Belgian state as a “forced marriage,” and a strong election result could enable him to make good on a pledge to secure an “orderly division” of the country – or, if necessary, unilateral secession.

And So Much More.

With around forty national elections taking place in 2024, nationalist and populist parties will likely be competitive in both national and regional elections in Austria, India, South Korea, Romania, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia, Finland, Croatia, and further afield.

Taiwan will face a close national election between the liberal Democratic Progressive Party, the nationalist Kuomintang, and the populist Taiwan People’s Party. Russia and Ukraine are poised to face potentially impactful elections too. The National Pulse will be providing further insight as each election grows nearer. 


The National Pulse will be here to cover it all. Make sure you have the free app and turn on notifications to stay informed. Will Upton, Jack Montgomery, and Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.

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Nationalist and populist political parties will enter 2024 hoping for a bumper election year. Over the course of the year, 40 national elections will occur, representing 41 percent of the global population, and 42 percent of global gross domestic product. show more

Migrant Caravan Could Reach 15,000 Before Reaching U.S. Border in 2024.

The biggest migrant caravan in a year is currently marching on the United States, with between 6,000 and 10,000 would-be border crossers setting out from Tapachula, in southern Mexico, this past Sunday.

Reported to primarily hail from Cuba, Haiti, and Honduras, the migrants are accompanied and abetted by anti-borders activists such as Luis Garcia Villagran, quoted as saying the caravan could swell to 15,000 by the time it reaches the U.S. southern border, at its current pace, by spring 2024.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to Mexico to meet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday, where he will notionally plead for help in ameliorating the border crisis, which has seen crossings top 10,000 a day in recent weeks. He is being accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has often appeared to be on the cusp of being impeached over the crisis. In November, he escaped impeachment in a 209-201 vote, with eight Republicans joining with the Democrats to refer the matter to committee.

“[B]order agents are more than willing to sacrifice holidays to protect our fellow Americans, but what we are doing is not enforcing our laws, because of bad policy, our government is allowing cartels to control our border,” lamented the National Border Patrol Council in a statement.

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The biggest migrant caravan in a year is currently marching on the United States, with between 6,000 and 10,000 would-be border crossers setting out from Tapachula, in southern Mexico, this past Sunday. show more