Presidential candidate Nikki Haley leads former President Donald Trump not in polls but in donations from federal lobbyists.
According to financial disclosure analyzed Haley has the backing of 65 federal lobbyists who donated to Haley’s campaign and PAC in 2023, according to Bloomberg. The total amount was over $106,000.
By contrast, just eight federal lobbyists contributed nearly $42,000 in total to support the Trump campaign and PAC, according to disclosures.
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That aside, Haley has also received significant support from foreign lobbyists, despite her public calls for an end to foreign lobbying. According to ABC NewsOswaldo Palomo, Haley’s top financier, is a registered foreign agent and managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group.
As of last May, he had donated at least $6,600 to pro-Haley causes.
Per outlet:
Palomo represents a number of foreign organizations, including the Georgian government in Eastern Europe, where he has worked since at least 2018, and the Social Democratic Party of Romania, one of his recent clients, according to FARA registration records. Each of those clients paid him between $35,000 and $40,000 a month, and he reported contact with hundreds of U.S. lawmakers in the course of his lobbying efforts, according to FARA filings.
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Like Palomo, David Horton Wilkins, who served as U.S. ambassador to Canada under President George W. Bush and is currently a registered foreign agent, also contributed $6,600 to Haley’s Community Chest Committee, according to disclosure documents. donated dollars. A longtime ally of Haley, who previously served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, Haley led the transition team when she was first elected governor of South Carolina in 2010.
The father’s top surrogate, Donald Trump Jr., has said throughout the primary that the establishment wants a candidate they can control, or at least have a lot of influence over. , he said he knows that won’t happen to his father.
“The Republican establishment wants an alternative because it no longer represents the Republican Party, or at least the conservative base of America.” [to] Because they want that control,” Trump Jr. said during a December television appearance. Breitbart News Saturday.
He continued:
They want to be able to do nothing. They hope they can’t deliver. They want to be moderate towards China. Because some billionaire donors are saying: You can’t actually do that because you can’t actually make anything in America or support American manufacturing. ”
“And as you can see, it’s controlled by the donor class,” he said, explaining the phenomenon of the establishment moving from Gov. Ron DeSantis to Gov. Haley.
“The people who used to support DeSantis, who supported DeSantis to get rid of Trump and get the Dancing Monkey in the White House, have switched to Nikki Haley. “We’re trying to make that our last hope for some control,” he said. “It’s really sad, because that’s what this problem is about.”
