Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is slamming a group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for using the former U.N. ambassador’s name.
“Haley Harris supporters” Pivot PAC supporting HarrisThe post aims to “encourage voters across the political spectrum, especially Haley supporters, to vote for Kamala Harris in November.” According to the campaign website:They were previously known as the “Haley Biden Supporters” but changed their name after Biden announced he was not seeking reelection.
Haley, who has urged delegates she won in the Republican primaries to support former President Trump, fired back at the group in a statement.
“Kamala Harris and I are polar opposites on every issue, and it is deceptive and wrong to use my name to endorse her or her policies,” Haley said. “I support Donald Trump because he understands what it takes to make America strong, safe and prosperous.”
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s lawyers wrote the letter. First reported by Fox News They then shared the message with The Hill, demanding that the group “stop unlawfully using Ambassador Haley’s name in the name of its political action committee and stop using her name, image or likeness to imply support for Kamala Harris for President of the United States.”
“Furthermore, your use of Ambassador Haley’s name, image and likeness is done without her permission. Ambassador Haley has made clear her support for Ms. Harris’s opponent. Any suggestion that Ambassador Haley endorses Ms. Harris is knowingly false and misleading,” the letter argues. change name.
“Haley supporters, Harris supporters” release “We will not be oppressed,” the group declared. X has 7,000 followers.
“Once we receive the letter, we will review it with our legal counsel and will comment further in the coming days,” the group said. “We enthusiastically supported Ambassador Haley over former President Trump in the primary election, and our mission is to urge like-minded voters to cast their ballots for Vice President Harris in the November election.”
The group Clarified “We are not, and never have been, claiming to speak for Nikki Haley. We are reaching out to a small segment of Haley’s supporters who vote with their conscience,” they said in a previous post.
Haley, who challenged Trump in the Republican primary and was a vocal critic of him before dropping out, has now said she “strongly supports” the former president as he faces a tough election campaign this fall.
Some Republicans have continued to cast protest votes even after Haley suspended her campaign, raising questions about where those supporters will go on Election Day.
Trump had been expected to face Biden in a rematch, but the incumbent Biden took the unprecedented step of dropping out of the race and endorsing Harris, plunging 2024 into uncharted territory.
