A super PAC that urged non-Republicans to cast primary votes for Nikki Haley is pivoting to November, urging Haley’s voters to support President Joe Biden. Starting today, Primary Pivot will become Haley Voters for Biden, and urge anyone who supported Haley in a swing state to stick with the president in November.
“This is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,” said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
In a statement, Primary Pivot said it would focus on Haley voters in states where they could be counted — nearly 300,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in North Carolina. The super PAC, which started by urging New Hampshire Democrats to temporarily switch their registrations, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to activate potential Haley voters in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.
> “This is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,” said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
That’s the right argument.
A conservative voter doesn’t have to like Biden’s policies to recognize the difference between a President who believes in the rule of law and one who does not. Asa Hutchinson in an NPR interview this morning made allusion to this but stopped short of saying anything positive about Biden.
It’s not going to pull over a lot of Haley voters but everything helps.
I didn’t see this coming but I like it.
I’m all for this but if Trump gets indicted and/ or for whatever reason in unable to run at a certain point, won’t Haley then become the GoP candidate?
Haley has massively increased her name recognition while avoiding alienating any significant Republican faction. She’s very well positioned for 2028. Haley is the “competent fascist” people were worried would follow Trump, and Democrats love her
How can I support them?
Even if this gets a few thousands people to consider that’s great.
They have more in common with Biden than they do with Trump. You just have to look past that little d and little r next to their names.
popcorn dot gif
Will be interesting to see what she does. A lot of people have talked she is running for 2028. Piss off the MAGA crowd and she has no shot. Not go after Trump, and there may never be a chance for her to win in 2028. The easy answer is: stand on your principles and do what’s right, but I don’t trust her to have solid ones.
How this is bad for Biden!
Excellent!!
“Walk Away from Trump”
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! I am, hearby, starting a new conspiracy theory for the MAGAS to go crazy over. I think that the polls are being manipulated to show Trump beating Biden just long enough to get rid of all the Republicans, like Hailey, who actually could beat him. 3D CHECKMATE!
It’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.
At least donors will know that their money isn’t going to pay Trump’s legal expenses.
Commendable
Republicans could not see a decent candidate in 2024.
If they would have elected her i would have had faith.
It’s unconventional, but I think the Biden camp needs to pivot away from making the campaign for Biden about him, and highlight the entirety of the cabinet.
The Trump campaign is a demented cult of personality centered around a cankerous hemorrhoid of a man that is more preoccupied with personal vendettas than anything else.
The Biden campaign needs to be “team adult”, a bunch of dedicated, effective administrators that wouldn’t be ok with their boss banging a pornstar while his wife is recovering from childbirth and then use campaign funds as hush money.
Sounds positive!
Good. I want to cram this down the throat of all the people, especially in this sub, who kept saying, “They’re Republicans. They’ll all vote for Trump in the end. None of them will support Biden”
A PAC for a republican candidate is now spending money to support a democrat. This is unprecedented. It matters. This is good news. Will most Republican voters support Trump, sure. We don’t need most, we just need that narrow slice near the middle. We get that, Trump and MAGA are doomed.
They’re gonna be real disappointed when Haley endorses Trump in two or three days.
I believe that most of her voters were/are democrats.
2024 truly is a year for strange political bedfellows
This is just a continuation of a trend of Romney type moderate Republicans leaving the party while previous tea party types which morphed into the MAGA movement have taken over. Haley’s margins in some places are likely already being used by the Biden camp to figure out what to target in the general election. Even if somehow the map is the same as last time, we are not going to get the same coalitions coming out for Biden and Trump. The coalitions are always in flux.
This is a nice way to siphon Conservative super-pac money away from the RNC (better than DT spending it all on himself); Things are looking pretty dire for the Republican war chest.
I also think the correlation of “purpleness” and “haley supporter share” is high
Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
Focus on those and get to work!!
Orange Jesus’s head just exploded over this.
If republicans would campaign against trump like they campaign against democrats maybe the dnc will try it too? They won’t but it’s a nice fantasy in my head.
Abigail Spainberger, who is a Democrat, said it best in 2021. “We didn’t elect him to be FDR, we elected him to be normal.”
Very much my feeling about Biden
Yesterday: Trump is dangerous!
Today: We love Trump!
Consider me onboard. Historically Republican voter who supported Christie, then Haley, and will likely be voting for Biden. Trump’s gotten far too unhinged since 2020, and his actions to try and overturn the election results are a dealbreaker.
Til she gets the VP bid… don’t have high expectations for her morality on trump
Is there a scenario where she supports Biden, in exchange for Secretary of State? Or have I been watching too much West Wing
But will Nikki Haley endorse Biden?
Haley voters were always for Biden. Shocker
Here’s a free slogan.
The enemy of my enemy, vote Democrat. 👍🏽
Your welcome.
LOL they were never for Haley, this just proves it.
This is the way.
She should just enter the election as independent because she’ll be blackballed from trumps Republican Party anyway. Her smart voters will vote Biden anyway and the rep never Biden crowd could be stolen from Trump.
In other news, water is wet.
Now that was not something I had expected to see today.
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From Semafor’s David Weigel:
A super PAC that urged non-Republicans to cast primary votes for Nikki Haley is pivoting to November, urging Haley’s voters to support President Joe Biden. Starting today, Primary Pivot will become Haley Voters for Biden, and urge anyone who supported Haley in a swing state to stick with the president in November.
“This is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,” said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
In a statement, Primary Pivot said it would focus on Haley voters in states where they could be counted — nearly 300,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in North Carolina. The super PAC, which started by urging New Hampshire Democrats to temporarily switch their registrations, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to activate potential Haley voters in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.
Read the full story [here](https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2024/pro-haley-super-pac-relaunches-as-haley-voters-for-biden?utm_campaign=semaforreddit).
> “This is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,” said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
That’s the right argument.
A conservative voter doesn’t have to like Biden’s policies to recognize the difference between a President who believes in the rule of law and one who does not. Asa Hutchinson in an NPR interview this morning made allusion to this but stopped short of saying anything positive about Biden.
It’s not going to pull over a lot of Haley voters but everything helps.
I didn’t see this coming but I like it.
I’m all for this but if Trump gets indicted and/ or for whatever reason in unable to run at a certain point, won’t Haley then become the GoP candidate?
Haley has massively increased her name recognition while avoiding alienating any significant Republican faction. She’s very well positioned for 2028. Haley is the “competent fascist” people were worried would follow Trump, and Democrats love her
How can I support them?
Even if this gets a few thousands people to consider that’s great.
They have more in common with Biden than they do with Trump. You just have to look past that little d and little r next to their names.
popcorn dot gif
Will be interesting to see what she does. A lot of people have talked she is running for 2028. Piss off the MAGA crowd and she has no shot. Not go after Trump, and there may never be a chance for her to win in 2028. The easy answer is: stand on your principles and do what’s right, but I don’t trust her to have solid ones.
How this is bad for Biden!
Excellent!!
“Walk Away from Trump”
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! I am, hearby, starting a new conspiracy theory for the MAGAS to go crazy over. I think that the polls are being manipulated to show Trump beating Biden just long enough to get rid of all the Republicans, like Hailey, who actually could beat him. 3D CHECKMATE!
It’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.
At least donors will know that their money isn’t going to pay Trump’s legal expenses.
Commendable
Republicans could not see a decent candidate in 2024.
If they would have elected her i would have had faith.
It’s unconventional, but I think the Biden camp needs to pivot away from making the campaign for Biden about him, and highlight the entirety of the cabinet.
The Trump campaign is a demented cult of personality centered around a cankerous hemorrhoid of a man that is more preoccupied with personal vendettas than anything else.
The Biden campaign needs to be “team adult”, a bunch of dedicated, effective administrators that wouldn’t be ok with their boss banging a pornstar while his wife is recovering from childbirth and then use campaign funds as hush money.
Sounds positive!
Good. I want to cram this down the throat of all the people, especially in this sub, who kept saying, “They’re Republicans. They’ll all vote for Trump in the end. None of them will support Biden”
A PAC for a republican candidate is now spending money to support a democrat. This is unprecedented. It matters. This is good news. Will most Republican voters support Trump, sure. We don’t need most, we just need that narrow slice near the middle. We get that, Trump and MAGA are doomed.
They’re gonna be real disappointed when Haley endorses Trump in two or three days.
I believe that most of her voters were/are democrats.
2024 truly is a year for strange political bedfellows
This is just a continuation of a trend of Romney type moderate Republicans leaving the party while previous tea party types which morphed into the MAGA movement have taken over. Haley’s margins in some places are likely already being used by the Biden camp to figure out what to target in the general election. Even if somehow the map is the same as last time, we are not going to get the same coalitions coming out for Biden and Trump. The coalitions are always in flux.
This is a nice way to siphon Conservative super-pac money away from the RNC (better than DT spending it all on himself); Things are looking pretty dire for the Republican war chest.
I also think the correlation of “purpleness” and “haley supporter share” is high
Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
Focus on those and get to work!!
Orange Jesus’s head just exploded over this.
If republicans would campaign against trump like they campaign against democrats maybe the dnc will try it too? They won’t but it’s a nice fantasy in my head.
Abigail Spainberger, who is a Democrat, said it best in 2021. “We didn’t elect him to be FDR, we elected him to be normal.”
Very much my feeling about Biden
Yesterday: Trump is dangerous!
Today: We love Trump!
Consider me onboard. Historically Republican voter who supported Christie, then Haley, and will likely be voting for Biden. Trump’s gotten far too unhinged since 2020, and his actions to try and overturn the election results are a dealbreaker.
Til she gets the VP bid… don’t have high expectations for her morality on trump
Is there a scenario where she supports Biden, in exchange for Secretary of State? Or have I been watching too much West Wing
But will Nikki Haley endorse Biden?
Haley voters were always for Biden. Shocker
Here’s a free slogan.
The enemy of my enemy, vote Democrat. 👍🏽
Your welcome.
LOL they were never for Haley, this just proves it.
This is the way.
She should just enter the election as independent because she’ll be blackballed from trumps Republican Party anyway. Her smart voters will vote Biden anyway and the rep never Biden crowd could be stolen from Trump.
In other news, water is wet.
Now that was not something I had expected to see today.