Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador and governor of South Carolina, is preparing to announce her presidential run as soon this week — becoming the first declared GOP challenger to Donald Trump at a time when other prospective candidates slowed their moves.
Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador under Trump, said in 2021 that she wouldn’t run for president if Trump did. But she later changed course and during the past few months has been teasing campaign plans. In a recent interview with Fox News, Haley indicated she was moving quickly toward a decision and said there’s a need for “new leadership.”“And can I be that leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader,” she said.
“I think that everyone is waiting to see how the Trump campaign materializes,” said Fred Zeidman, a major GOP donor from Texas. “Because he’s obviously the 800-pound elephant in the room.” Despite the collective hesitance to officially jump in, possible contenders are well into laying the groundwork for national campaigns. Pence and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo have been traveling on book tours, and DeSantis is set to release his memoir on Feb. 28, paving the way for the kind of out-of-state trips that he took ahead of the midterms.
Some major donors who were with Trump in 2020 have not yet committed to his reelection, even after entreaties from Trump advisers. As one adviser to a major GOP donor put it, “I don’t think anybody in our world has picked a horse yet.”
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