Haley Voters for Harris launched a brand new marketing campaign to focus on over 77,000 Nikki Haley voters in Wisconsin to encourage them to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, drawing the ire of the previous Republican presidential candidate who has issued a cease-and-desist letter.
Former U.N. Ambassador Haley informed Fox Information Digital in an announcement, “Kamala Harris and I are total opposites on every issue. Any attempt to use my name to support her or her agenda is deceptive and wrong. I support Donald Trump because he understands we need to make America strong, safe, and prosperous.”
A regulation agency representing Haley’s presidential marketing campaign despatched the Haley Voters for Harris PAC a letter imploring the group to chorus from utilizing Haley’s title to counsel she helps Harris for president.
Over 4.4 million folks voted for Nikki Haley for president within the 2024 main, in accordance with the Haley Voters for Harris web site. If simply sufficient of those GOP main voters flip to Harris, she may win the presidency. Craig Snyder, director of Haley Voters for Harris and former chief of workers to the late Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, believes Haley voters may play a pivotal function in battleground states.
“In such a closely contested place as Wisconsin, this group of voters, who have already clearly expressed their disapproval for Trump, can easily decide the race if even any significant portion of them join the coalition now behind the vice president – a coalition spanning the entire American political spectrum, from Dick Cheney to Bernie Sanders,” Snyder informed Fox Information Digital.
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Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who served as United Nations ambassador beneath President Trump, obtained 76,841 votes after she had already dropped out of the race in Wisconsin’s April GOP main. Though Haley was trounced by the previous president, who received over 400,000 extra votes, Haley’s voters may very well be the important thing to swinging the election in Wisconsin.
President Biden narrowly received Wisconsin in 2020, profitable 49.45% to 48.83%, a margin of solely 0.62 share factors. Biden obtained 1,630,673 votes in comparison with Trump’s 1,610,065, a distinction of simply over 20,000. In 2016, Trump received by a razor-thin margin with 23,000 extra votes than Hillary Clinton.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks throughout the Ketagalan Discussion board on Indo-Pacific Safety, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 21, 2024. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
Haley’s voters within the main had been made up principally of college-educated and independent-minded Republicans. Haley Voters for Harris will goal these principally center-right and reasonable voters within the crucial swing states, together with Wisconsin, via social media and direct voter outreach.
The group will particularly be seeking to educate these voters on what Snyder calls Harris’ centrist report, specializing in her years as a “no-nonsense prosecutor” who guided the Biden administration towards the middle on points starting from the manager order ending the abuse of the asylum system, to record-setting oil manufacturing drilling permits, to federal help for hiring 100,000 further cops.
“We will be communicating directly with Haley voters and the other moderates in Wisconsin, through digital advertising, texting and direct mail, and while Gov. Haley herself has made the decision to support Trump, for whatever personal reasons, these independent-minded voters will decide for themselves what’s better for our country,” Snyder stated.
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After dropping out of the GOP race in April, Haley finally stated she would vote for Trump, finishing the Republican Celebration’s consolidation across the former president because the nominee. Haley formally endorsed Trump in a speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July, saying he has her “strong support” and that “you don’t have to agree with Trump 100% of the time to vote for him.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on Labor Day at Northwestern Excessive Faculty in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 2, 2024. (Sarah Rice for The Washington Submit by way of Getty Pictures)
William Howell, professor on the Harris Faculty of Public Coverage on the College of Chicago, informed Fox Information Digital that voters who turned to Haley within the primaries did so not as a result of they had been keen about her candidacy, however as a result of they had been dismayed by the course of the Republican Celebration.
“It’s possible, then, that their votes are still up for grabs,” Howell stated.
Howell thinks if Haley Voters for Harris places within the work, they will have an actual influence.
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“You don’t need to change many minds in order to have an outsized influence on this election – particularly if you can target the small segment of the population that remains undecided in one of the handful of competitive states. Haley voters in Wisconsin may be exactly that.”
Previous to President Biden’s disastrous debate efficiency on June 27, which in the end drove him to withdraw from the presidential race, Snyder led the Haley Voters for Biden marketing campaign, and stated in a July press assertion that “many of us strongly believed that the country needed to move on from Donald Trump.”
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A CNN ballot carried out by SSRS from Aug. 23-29 had Harris with a 50% to 44% lead over Trump. Different latest polling from Wisconsin reveals a tighter race and each Harris and Trump might want to win Wisconsin in the event that they hope to win the White Home.
