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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Saturday she “could not” vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election should he win her party’s nomination again — but that also doesn’t mean she could cross party lines for President Joe Biden, either. “I could not” vote for Trump, Murkowski said in a phone call with NBC News on Saturday night, adding, “I can’t vote for Biden.” She urged those like her who want an alternative not to “quit” on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nikki Haley has crisscrossed the country in the days leading up to Super Tuesday with a private pitch to donors about why they should keep giving her money. But according to six sources who have heard it, that plan has been missing a key element — a potential path to victory over former President Donald Trump. While most candidates offer more candor behind the scenes with the donors funding their bids, Haley’s private message has largely matched her public one: She’s in it un…
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WASHINGTON — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Friday that she has not spoken to “anybody” about a third-party bid with No Labels — despite what she called their “smoke signals” of interest in her — citing a misalignment of her conservative goals with that of a would-be Democratic running mate. “I’m a Republican,” Haley said in an hour-long conversation with a small group of invited reporters here, making her most extensive comments about a No Labels bid to date. “If I were to do No Label…
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OREM, Utah — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday called on Republican National Committee members to hold an on-the-record vote on a draft resolution that would curb the national party’s ability to direct its funds toward legal fees, including former President Donald Trump’s. “All Americans, and Republicans especially, deserve a vote on the record on that resolution,” Haley said while campaigning here. “We deserve to know how the RNC is going to spend their money and if it’s going to…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Three years ago, Rep. Nancy Mace criticized Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and called on her party to “start over.” Now, she’s backing Trump — and angling for the former president’s support ahead of her next primary race in June. It’s been a long journey for the second-term House member, who has cast herself as an outsider willing to take on her own party. Her allies describe her as a maverick; her detractors say she lacks political principles. Mace does oft…
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PHILADELPHIA — Democrats are facing a tough set of Senate races in 2024. From his perch in perhaps the nation’s most important swing state in recent years, Sen. Bob Casey argues his contest is a must-watch. “It’ll be a close, tough race,” Casey told NBC News during a day shadowing him recently on the campaign trail. “But look, there’s a lot on the line every time. Every time I’ve run for public office in Pennsylvania, I’ve had to earn the vote and the trust of the people. And I got to do that, a…
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign has requested a protective detail from the Secret Service, a spokesperson for Haley confirmed Monday. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, cited “multiple issues” regarding threats in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on her application for Secret Service protection. The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night. Haley, wh…
about 2 months ago
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The Republican National Committee could move next week to declare former President Donald Trump the “presumptive 2024 nominee” for the party’s presidential nomination. A draft resolution anointing Trump and obtained by NBC News from two sources has been circulating among RNC members, who could vote on it at their winter meeting in Las Vegas. The resolution asserts in part that “all evidence negates the possibility of a mathematical path forward to the 2024 Republican nomination by any candidate…
2 months ago
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., endorsed Donald Trump on Friday night at a rally in New Hampshire, throwing his support behind the former president instead of fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley. “I came to the very warm state of New Hampshire to endorse the next president of these United States — President Donald Trump,” Scott said. He is the latest in a string of former Republican presidential rivals to support Trump, following Vivek Ramaswamy’s decision Monday to drop out of the 2024 race and back Tr…
2 months ago
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — She campaigns in sweaters that declare, “She who dares wins.” She brushes off attacks from her opponents as pettiness from “the fellas.” Her heels, she says, were made for kicking. But when Nikki Haley asks voters to help her make history, she says it’s not that history. “Think of the fact that you might be making history in this moment,” the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told Iowa voters in a weekend swing through Cedar Falls ahead of Monday’s first-in-the-natio…
2 months ago
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Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is taking direct aim at Republican rival Nikki Haley in a new advertisement airing in New Hampshire in a shift in strategy just weeks before the state’s primary. The 30-second ad, viewed by NBC News, marks the first time the campaign has gone after Haley, a former Trump administration official, on the airwaves in the state ahead of its Jan. 23 primary. The ad tries to connect Haley’s immigration positions with those of President Joe Biden by arguing that both opposed…
3 months ago
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The super PAC backing former President Donald Trump is preparing to target Nikki Haley in upcoming ads in New Hampshire, according to new TV ad-buying paperwork — the first time the group will go negative against Trump’s former UN ambassador, in a sign of her continuing surge in the early primary state. The group, Make America Great Again Inc., sent information to the CBS station in Boston indicating an upcoming ad, titled “Really,” would mention Haley. The ad is set to begin running on Tuesday,…
3 months ago
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Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel will not run for re-election in his home state of North Carolina in 2024, instead opting to explore a run for U.S. Senate in 2026 after a GOP-led redistricting drastically changed his seat. “Republicans have rigged the system to favor themselves and I don’t have a path to run for re-election in the 13th District,” Nickel said in a statement, referencing redistricting in his state that fundamentally changed the demographic and partisan makeup of the statewide map. “Bu…
4 months ago
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WASHINGTON — A flurry of activity in the last 24 hours has injected some fresh hope into Senate immigration negotiations, according to key lawmakers and sources with knowledge of the talks, who also caution that there is still no agreement. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said both the White House and Republicans have made significant movements in their positions and that the discussions have grown more “productive” because “all the players are at the same table sitting down actually talking throu…
4 months ago
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WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday subpoenaed a top deputy to the special counsel investigating Hunter Biden as part of the Republican impeachment inquiry into the president. Lesley Wolf, a top prosecutor from the office of the U.S. attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, was asked to appear for testimony before the GOP-led committee on Dec. 7 in a subpoena reviewed by NBC News. Weiss, a Trump appointee, was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation in August. In a l…
4 months ago
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Leaders of Ron DeSantis’ Never Back Down super PAC met privately last Tuesday to hash out a strategy for fighting Nikki Haley’s rise in the polls. Instead, two of them nearly came to blows. Jeff Roe, the top consultant for the super PAC, got into a heated argument with longtime DeSantis confidant Scott Wagner while a small group of nine board members and senior staff were discussing budgeting. “You have a stick up your a--, Scott,” Roe fumed at Wagner, who is a member of the Never Back Down boa…
4 months ago
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Fight Right, a newly formed super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president, will go after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for comments she has made about Hillary Clinton in its first TV ad, according to a copy of the spot obtained by NBC News. The 30-second ad takes past Haley quotes about Clinton out of context. It is the latest instance of pro-DeSantis groups’ targeting Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, who has been rising in both early-state and national polls, t…
4 months ago
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Less than 24 hours after a surprise announcement that he was dropping his presidential bid, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is visiting with staff at the campaign’s Charleston headquarters, according to a campaign official — following a short Sunday night call with bewildered campaign workers who were surprised by the end of Scott’s 2024 run. Scott acknowledged to his staff that the announcement — made during an evening appearance on Fox News — “may have caught you by surprise.” But he argued t…
5 months ago
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is floating a plan that would reinstall him as House speaker and make a conservative Trump ally, Rep. Jim Jordan, the assistant speaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The pitch comes amid a prolonged impasse among Republicans, who have been unable to coalesce around a House leader for the past three weeks. Follow live updates on the speaker race The proposed alliance aims to unite warring factions of the House Republican Conferen…
5 months ago
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WASHINGTON — As Republicans remain stalled on picking the next House speaker, nearly a dozen men have looked in the mirror and — despite little to no name recognition or the possibility of getting the job — imagined themselves as the most powerful person in the House. Zero women within the GOP’s ranks have moved to do the same. That’s not because there aren’t options. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York serves as the No. 4 Republican in leadership. Reps. Lisa McClain of Michigan and Stephanie Bice o…
5 months ago
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WASHINGTON — An effort backed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to empower interim Speaker Patrick McHenry of North Carolina collapsed Thursday after it became clear it wouldn’t get enough support from House Republicans. Jordan, the GOP’s latest nominee for speaker, who lost two rounds of votes this week, had floated the idea of temporarily empowering McHenry while he worked to shore up enough support for his own candidacy, according to three sources. The plan would have empowered McHenry until Januar…
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