Haley's campaign said it has received 70,000 donations since she
declared her bid on Feb. 15, with the biggest hauls coming from
Florida, Texas and South Carolina. It noted that Haley's
fundraising figure exceeded the $9.5 million raised by rival
Donald Trump in the fourth quarter of 2022, when he declared his
candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
"That's a very solid number and a testament to what a strong
launch she had," Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said of
Haley's fundraising numbers. "The key question is: will she be
able to build momentum in the second quarter, especially as
Trump surges?"
Trump's campaign said he has raised $8 million since last
Thursday, when news broke that he would face criminal charges in
Manhattan in a case related to hush-money payments during his
2016 campaign. Trump, who pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34
felony counts of falsifying business records, has not yet
released fundraising totals for the first quarter of the year.
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations under Trump, is polling in a distant third
place in the Republican race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll
released on Monday. Some 6% of Republican primary voters intend
to vote for Haley, according to the poll, versus 48% for Trump
and 19% for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has not yet
entered the race.
The Republicans are aiming to deny Democratic President Joe
Biden a second term in 2024.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery; editing by Will Dunham and Andy
Sullivan)
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