Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is leveraging former President Donald Trump's threats against potential donors to sell merchandise and raise campaign funds.
On Wednesday night, President Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that anyone who contributes to Haley will be “permanently banned from the MAGA camp.” The MAGA camp is a movement based on the 2016 election campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.”
Haley and her former ambassador to the United Nations under the previous presidential administration. campaign responded By raising make money with his words.
“Enough…bring your shirt here!” Haley said Thursday in a post on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Link to site Donors can donate $5 and get a T-shirt that says “Ban.” Permanently. ”
The former president defeated Haley by 11 points in the New Hampshire primary earlier this week, according to Decision Desk Headquarters. But he still attacked her in her victory speech, mocking her only remaining rival in the Republican primary, her attire and her optimistic concession speech.
“I have to say, it was very funny. I said, 'What a win,' and at seven o'clock someone came running up to the stage all dressed up, and now they just walked up. . It was 2 p.m.,” President Trump said Tuesday night.
“Let's not give someone a win when she had a really bad night,” Trump said. “She had a very bad night.”
One former staffer donated to Haley's campaign after Trump's initial warning.
“It's over,” Sarah Matthews, who left the Trump administration after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, wrote on X, posting a link to donate to Haley's campaign. “Donate to @NikkiHaley here.”
Matthews was one of several former Trump officials to testify before the Jan. 6 House committee investigating the riot.
In his first post pledging to belittle Haley's supporters, Trump said that when he won his first election, “the losing candidate's 'donors' immediately came to me. “You want to help…this is standard in politics,” he said. But he's not with me anymore. ”
“Anyone who 'contributes' to Birdbrain will now be permanently banned from the MAGA camp,” he wrote, using the nickname he gave Haley. “We don’t want them, we won’t have them, and we never will, because we put America first!”
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