Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she has raised more than $11 million in the six weeks since she announced her run for the White House.
Haley’s campaign on Wednesday told Fox News the fundraising haul comes from 70,000 donations, including more than 67,000 donations from people who gave $200 or less. She ended the first quarter with $7.8 million cash on hand.
The former South Carolina governor received contributions from supporters in all 50 states, according to her campaign, with her home state, South Carolina, Florida and Texas ranking as the candidate’s top three fundraising states.
“In just six weeks, Nikki Haley’s massive fundraising and active retail campaigning in early voting states makes her a force to be reckoned with,” said Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney.
The former United Nations ambassador has hosted 19 grassroots events in Iowa and New Hampshire — first-in-the-nation Republican presidential candidate nominating states — alone. Haley is scheduled to be back in Iowa next weeks, with planned stops in Salix on April 10, Denison, Storm Lake and Fort Dodge on April 11, and in Des Moines April 12, according to the campaign.
Haley boasted that the $11 million raised in her first six weeks on the campaign trail is more than the $9.5 million top Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raised in his first quarter following his mid-November announcement through the end of 2022, and “more than was raised by nearly all 2016 Republican presidential candidates in their first quarters.”
But Trump’s campaign reportedly has raised more than $8 million since his indictment last week. More donations were expected to flow into the former president’s campaign coffers following his unprecedented arrest Tuesday in Manhattan on more than 30 felony counts related to 2016 hush payments to porn star Stormy Daniels over her alleged affair with Trump.
“It’s gonna be a new campaign strategy. Get yourself indicted and you raise a lot of money,” Trump attorney Attorney Joe Tacopina said on Newsmax’s “The Balance.” He discussed what many see as a partisan witch hunt against Democrat President Joe Biden’s potential Republican challenger in the 20224 election.
“Most people get indicted, and if they happen to be running for an office or something, that’s sort of the end of their run and most likely their political career. Donald Trump gets indicted and his numbers go through the roof,” Tacopina said.
“He’s raising more money than he had before and that’s simply because his base — they are now fully aware that everything he was saying about the justice system being weaponized against him, about his political opponents taking action through the justice system, is coming to fruition.”
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is sitting on a mountain of campaign cash. Earlier this year, his political committee had more than $71 million unspent from his easy re-election campaign, which hauled in a record-breaking $210.9 million in the 2022 election cycle.
The campaign for Ohio businessman and anti-woke crusader Vivek Ramaswamy has said the political outsider took in donations from more than 10,000 individual contributors in the first month of his campaign. The Republican presidential candidate, the youngest in the growing field of hopefuls, announced his campaign in February.
“First-time donors to the party are off the charts for us,” Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital. “This is just organic…I think there’s something unique going on. This sort of takes a sledgehammer to the roof of expectations of what we were supposed to do in the first month, which is great.”
He recently announced a multi-million ad buy in Iowa.
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Nikki Haley” by Nikki Haley.
