{"id":15016,"date":"2024-02-02T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/trump-haley-battle-for-big-donors-while-biden-campaign-sits-on-massive-cash-reserve\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T12:47:28","slug":"trump-haley-battle-for-big-donors-while-biden-campaign-sits-on-massive-cash-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/trump-haley-battle-for-big-donors-while-biden-campaign-sits-on-massive-cash-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Haley battle for big donors while Biden campaign sits on massive cash reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden\u2019s reelection campaign ended 2023 with nearly $117 million in its coffers, far ahead of his potential GOP rivals as they seek to woo big Republican donors.<\/p>\n

Former President Trump\u2019s campaign committee closed out the year with $33 million, and Nikki Haley, Trump\u2019s last major rival for the GOP nomination, ended 2023 with around $15 million.<\/p>\n

The campaign totals are only a partial picture. Trump donors contributed a total of $188 million in 2023 to support various committees, yet that was offset by paying tens of millions in legal bills of the former president, the Wall Street Journal reported. Across the board, Trump and his outside political groups had around $65 million cash on hand by Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

Haley, who came in second place in New Hampshire and third place in Iowa, is still buoyed by a steady flow of campaign donations in her uphill fight against Trump.<\/p>\n

In the week after the New Hampshire primary, Haley\u2019s campaign raised more than $5 million, according to a source familiar with the fundraising.<\/p>\n

Her fundraising spree hasn\u2019t let up as she attended 10 fundraisers in a two-week span. At a series of donor meetings in New York and Florida, Haley brought in $2.5 million.<\/p>\n

Haley\u2019s campaign has pointed out that with Trump as the nominee, down-ballot races for House and Senate could be impacted.<\/p>\n

At one meeting with high-dollar GOP donors in Florida on Wednesday, both Haley and Trump\u2019s campaigns made their pitches to the meeting of the network known as the American Opportunity Alliance (AOA). Haley\u2019s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, told the group that Trump\u2019s former ambassador to the U.N. was the last hope at preventing a Trump vs. Biden rematch in 2024 that a majority of Americans don\u2019t seem to want.<\/p>\n

\u2018We know the House is gone if Trump is the nominee,\u2019 a source familiar with the campaign told Fox News Digital. \u2018There are 18 seats held by Republicans that Joe Biden won in 2020, 10 of them by five points or more,\u2019 the source added. \u2018November\u2019s Senate map highly favors Republicans, but that favorability won\u2019t last past this year \u2018Because there are no Democrats up in Trump states in 2026 or 2028.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the Florida AOA fundraiser, Susie Wiles, a top adviser on the Trump campaign, pitched the former president at the meeting despite his rocky relationship with some GOP donors. The case for Trump, according to reports, centered around the low possibility of Haley\u2019s path to victory. She didn\u2019t win either of the first two nominating contests, and South Carolina \u2014 her home state \u2014 looks to be no different.<\/p>\n

\u2018President Trump\u2019s campaign is fueled by small dollar donors across the country from every background who are sick and tired of Crooked Joe Biden\u2019s record-high inflation, wide open border, crime and chaos. President Trump continues to dominate Biden in every single battleground poll, and we are more confident than ever that he will take back the White House in November,\u2019 said Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a statement.<\/p>\n

Trump has made his legal fights a central theme of his political campaign, accusing Democrats of using \u2018ridiculous\u2019 lawsuits and criminal charges to keep him off the ballot. In the early days of the GOP primary last year, he did see a dramatic rise against Republican rivals as he faced more and more indictments.<\/p>\n

However, the Trump payments to law firms fighting four criminal cases and several civil trials caught Haley\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

\u2018He can\u2019t beat Joe Biden if he\u2019s spending all his time and money on court cases and chaos,\u2019 Haley posted on X this week.<\/p>\n

The post-Iowa and New Hampshire fundraising figures for the Trump campaign have not been released, so it\u2019s unclear what boost he may have seen after his commanding victories in the first two contests.<\/p>\n

Haley did appear to get a boost from donors after Trump said anyone who donated to Haley\u2019s campaign following his initial victories would be \u2018will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp.\u2019<\/p>\n

Haley\u2019s campaign says it raised half a million dollars from selling more than 15,000 \u2018permanently barred\u2019 T-shirts.<\/p>\n

Though Trump has had a stormy relationship over the years with some in the GOP donor class, he has been making an effort this cycle to mend fences and court top-dollar contributors.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think they\u2019re running a much more sophisticated campaign this year than ever before,\u2019 a major GOP bundler who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News Digital in a previous interview. \u2018And so, as part of that, they\u2019re looking to consolidate Republican support, both politically and financially.\u2019<\/p>\n\n

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