SC’s Nikki Haley says she raises $11M in first 6 weeks on the presidential campaign trail
Nikki Haley raised more than $11 million since launching her 2024 White House bid in mid-February, her campaign announced Wednesday.
Her campaign said it received more than 70,000 individual donations, with 67,000 of the contributions being $200 or less.
She ended the quarter, which ran from Jan. 1 through March 31, with $7.8 million cash on hand, according to a news release.
However, according to the latest fundraising report released April 15 by the Federal Election Commission, Haley’s main campaign committee reported $5.1 million, including $1.8 million transferred in from a joint fundraising committee.
Team Stand for America, a joint fundraising committee benefiting Haley’s leadership PAC and pro-Haley super PAC Stand for America, raised $4.3 million.
Haley’s leadership Stand For America PAC, raised $1.5 million, showing $598,000 in contributions and $886,000 transferred in from the joint fundraising committee.
Haley’s campaign said her top fundraising states were South Carolina, Florida and Texas.
“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,” Haley’s campaign manager Betsy Ankney said in a statement.
Haley’s campaign did not release fundraising totals the first week as is traditional for campaigns, which political analysts thought may be a potentially troubling sign.
The former South Carolina governor’s haul is more than the $9.5 million raised by former president Donald Trump in the first month-and-a-half of his 2024 campaign, and is more than was raised by nearly all 2016 Republican presidential candidates in their first quarters.
Trump, however, has raised about $8 million since he was indicted Thursday in New York in a hush money case, as his campaign has seen a spike in interest and media attention.
Haley still sits in single digits in national polls, trailing Trump’s 47% and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 33% in the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Republican voters.
On the campaign trial, Haley has said her poll numbers will increase as the year and campaign go on.
“As Nikki said in her announcement speech in Charleston on Feb. 15, ‘I’ve been underestimated before. That’s always fun,’” Ankney said.
So far only Trump, Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have announced campaigns for the GOP nomination.
Since kicking off her campaign, Haley has made several visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, two other early voting states in the presidential campaign order. She also visited the Southern border earlier this week.
Haley is scheduled to hold a rally in Lexington County Thursday, her third rally in the South Carolina, which holds the first-in-the-South GOP primary.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect fundraising totals released by the Federal Election Commission on April 15.
This story was originally published April 5, 2023 at 1:34 PM.
