Koch Network Endorses Nikki Haley in Bid to Push G.O.P. Past Trump

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/us/politics/koch-network-nikki-haley-endorsement-trump.html
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Koch Network Endorses Nikki Haley in Bid to Push G.O.P. Past Trump
The support will give Ms. Haley more organizational strength in the field as she battles Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida for the No. 2 spot in the Republican presidential race.
By Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan
Nov. 28, 2023 Updated 9:52 a.m. ET

The political network founded by the Koch brothers is endorsing Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary race, giving her organizational muscle and financial heft as she battles Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida for second place in Iowa.

The group announced its plans in a memo on Tuesday.

The commitment by the network, Americans for Prosperity Action, bolsters Ms. Haley as the campaign enters the final seven weeks before the first nominating contest. Since the first Republican primary debate, Ms. Haley has steadily climbed in polls, even as Mr. DeSantis has slipped. Former President Donald J. Trump remains the dominant front-runner in the race.

“In sharp contrast to recent elections that were dominated by the negative baggage of Donald Trump and in which good candidates lost races that should have been won, Nikki Haley, at the top of the ticket, would boost candidates up and down the ballot,” reads the memo from Emily Seidel, a senior adviser to Americans for Prosperity Action, who adds that Ms. Haley would win “the key independent and moderate voters that Trump has no chance to win.”

The memo goes on to say that the country “is being ripped apart by extremes on both sides,” adding: “The moment we face requires a tested leader with the governing judgment and policy experience to pull our nation back from the brink. Nikki Haley is that leader.”

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[intrepidity]

1. Goody, another target for Trump to vent his spleen towards. nt

[dalton99a]

2. The cult will send her another bird cage

[lindysalsagal]

3. Years overdue.

[Thunderbeast]

4. Could be worse...

[kimbutgar]

5. The orange maggot is probably working with Steven Miller to sharpen the attack knives against her.

And you know he’s is going to start saying her real Asian Indian name!

[Takket]

6. Wow that's huge

Drumpf will probably drop from 75% down to 74% after that move!!!

[Aristus]

7. It's interesting the way a white right-wing man has seriously underestimated

how much other white, right-wing men hate women of color.

Don’t think this is going to dissuade Trump’s coked-up howler monkey followers from continuing to support him.

[ificandream]

12. I think it will move some of his supporters away from him.

If the Koch bros. have more to say about this, it might just wake a few people up. And maybe it'll also make the next Republican debate more interesting in that they'll finally go after Trump this time.

[Hugin]

8. Well, that and they live to pull up social ladders...

and cut security nets. She's made that her platform.

[nevergiveup]

9. We need to prepare ourselves.

She will likely be the nominee and if she is it will be a very difficult election. IMHO

[uponit7771]

16. It'll be much harder than running against TFG but MAGAs don't value women so hopefully it's a wash

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Ugh. Hard to favor either side here.

More tfg? No thanks.
More Koch? No thanks.

[DFW]

11. Even Herman Cain had his 15 minutes, and the Republicans do NOT have a deep bench of talent

Even so, this is one more reason why I am sticking to my opinion that Trump will not be the Republican nominee next year. I have said in previous posts (and been trashed for it on DU) that if big Republican money is serious about mounting a challenge to Joe Biden, it will back someone other than Trump. I think one can safely include the Koch family in the category of "big Republican money." I think this is far from being the last chapter of the Republican nomination soap opera, too.

[KS Toronado]

15. You're not alone, been saying it'll be someone else for quite awhile.

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And it won't be DeSenseless.

[DFW]

18. I quite agree, as the song says

[Shrek]

17. +1

I continue to think that Trump's legal troubles will eventually sink him even if the voters don't.

If that comes to pass I think Haley is the most likely nominee.

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. The Koch network knows a better suck-up when they see one

Nikki would be more likely to acquiesce to their bullshit view of our country more than Dump. Dump is more of a threat to any power they might wish to wield.

[WarGamer]

14. Not a chance... it's all done but the crying.

Latest is Trump at 58% in the primaries...

It's over. It's been over.

It's Biden v Trump Part II

GOTGDFV

[Kennah]

19. GOP Presidential candidates need a Koch connection