{"id":15146,"date":"2024-02-06T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/haley-campaign-charges-nevada-republican-presidential-caucuses-rigged-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T00:46:17","slug":"haley-campaign-charges-nevada-republican-presidential-caucuses-rigged-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/haley-campaign-charges-nevada-republican-presidential-caucuses-rigged-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley campaign charges Nevada Republican presidential caucuses \u2018rigged\u2019 for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikki Haley\u2019s Republican presidential campaign says this week\u2019s dual GOP contests in Nevada aren\u2019t on its radar.<\/p>\n

\u2018In terms of Nevada, we have not spent a dime nor an ounce of energy on Nevada,\u2019 campaign manager Betsy Ankney told reporters on Monday. \u2018So Nevada is not and has never been our focus.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Ankney charges that Thursday\u2019s caucuses run by the Nevada GOP are \u2018rigged\u2019 for former President Donald Trump, whom Haley is challenging for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

Trump, who is the commanding frontrunner for the GOP nomination as he makes his third straight White House run, is the only major candidate running in the caucus. And Haley, the former South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, is the sole remaining candidate listed on the state\u2019s Republican primary ballot.<\/p>\n

The genesis of the competing contests dates back to 2021, when Democrats, who at the time controlled both Nevada\u2019s governor\u2019s office and the legislature, passed a law changing the presidential nominating contest from long-held caucuses to a state-run primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nevada GOP objected, but last year their legal bid to stop the primary from going forward was rejected. In a twist, the judge in the case allowed the state Republicans to hold their own caucuses. No delegates will be at stake in the Republican primary, while all 26 will be up for grabs in the GOP caucus.<\/p>\n

The state GOP ruled that candidates who put their name on the state-run primary ballot could not take part in the caucuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haley and some of the other now-departed Republican presidential candidates viewed the Nevada GOP as too loyal to Trump and decided to skip a caucus they believed was tipped in favor of the former president.<\/p>\n

Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald and both of the state\u2019s members of the Republican National Committee are supporting Trump.<\/p>\n

\u2018We made the decision early on that we were not going to pay $55,000 to a Trump entity that, you know, to participate in a process that was rigged for Trump,\u2019 Ankney argued.<\/p>\n

While Trump\u2019s assured of winning all 26 delegates at stake, sources say he and his campaign advisers have some concerns. An unpleasant potential scenario for Trump, who won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary by double-digits, could be Haley grabbing more votes in the primary than Trump lands in the caucus.<\/p>\n

While the GOP presidential candidates had to choose either the caucus or primary ballot, registered Republicans in Nevada can vote in both contests.<\/p>\n

And in the GOP primary, there\u2019s no vehicle for voters to write in Trump\u2019s name. The choices on the ballot are Haley and a \u2018none of these candidates\u2019 option.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s campaign has been working to get the message out to supporters in Nevada that if they want to vote for the former president, they need to show up at the caucuses.<\/p>\n

\u2018Your primary vote doesn\u2019t mean anything. It\u2019s your caucus vote,\u2019 Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas late last month. \u2018So in your state, you have both the primary and you have a caucus. Don\u2019t worry about the primary, just do the caucus thing.\u2019<\/p>\n

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who is supporting Trump, told the Nevada Independent last month that he would vote for \u2018none of the above\u2019 in Tuesday\u2019s primary and would caucus for Trump in the state GOP\u2019s contest on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A source in the former president\u2019s political orbit told Fox News that team Trump is \u2018fortunate that Haley doesn\u2019t have her act together in Nevada.\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump is expected back in Las Vegas on Thursday for a caucus celebration.<\/p>\n

Haley is not campaigning in Nevada and hasn\u2019t campaigned in the state since speaking in late October at the Republican Jewish Coalition\u2019s annual leadership conference.<\/p>\n

Haley heads to California on Wednesday, where she\u2019s scheduled to headline her first rally in any of the 15 states that hold nominating contests on Super Tuesday in early March.<\/p>\n

Ahead of her western campaign and fundraising swing, Haley is aiming to spotlight her momentum as she faces a steep uphill climb for the 2024 nomination against Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haley\u2019s team says they hauled in $16.5 million in fundraising last month across all of their campaign committees, including $11.7 million from small-dollar grassroots supporters.<\/p>\n

The January haul \u2013 Haley\u2019s best fundraising month to date \u2013 was first reported Sunday by Axios and confirmed by Fox News. Haley\u2019s campaign also said they added nearly 70,000 donors last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Haley has seen her fundraising continue to increase since launching her presidential campaign a year ago. She raised $7.3 million during the April-June second quarter of 2023 fundraising, $11 million during the July-September third quarter, and over $24 million during the final three months of last year, as first reported by Fox News.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hundreds of thousands of Americans are supporting Nikki\u2019s campaign because they don\u2019t want two grumpy old men and all their chaos, confusion and grievances. They want a strong, conservative leader who will save this country,\u2019 Haley campaign spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas argued, as she took aim at the 77-year-old Trump and 81-year-old President Biden.<\/p>\n\n

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