https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/us/politics/republican-megadonors-trump-haley.html A network of Republican megadonors has invited aides to both Donald J. Trump and Nikki Haley to make presentations at the group’s winter meeting next week, as the wealthy contributors assess the presidential race with just nine months until Election Day.
The network, known as the American Opportunity Alliance, is expected to hear from Ms. Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, and Mr. Trump’s top adviser, Susie Wiles, at the gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., according to two people familiar with the event.
The group’s meeting was earlier reported by Puck.
The network was founded a decade ago by a group of wealthy donors, including members of the Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs, and the investors Paul Singer and Kenneth Griffin.
But the donors in the American Opportunity Alliance do not move in unison, and people supporting Ms. Haley — and who had supported Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who dropped out of the race last Sunday — are part of the network. Some members of the group have been open about wanting a candidate other than Mr. Trump.
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But even when officials representing Ms. Haley and Mr. DeSantis presented at the group’s meeting in Dallas in early October — when their campaigns were the only two whose advisers had been invited — some people working with A.O.A. were clear that the focus was more on the general election than on the primary cycle. A Republican strategist working with the group called Mr. Trump’s path to the nomination “straightforward” at the time. Since then, Mr. Trump has won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, beating Mr. DeSantis and Ms. Haley in the first contest and Ms. Haley in the second, despite having little by way of major donor money. He also has some supporters who have worked with A.O.A. in the past, such as Linda McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration under President Trump. Both invitations went out before the New Hampshire primary voting last Tuesday, according to one of the people familiar with the plans. Ms. Haley has been aggressively fund-raising and is well-funded, as the race heads toward the primary on Feb. 24 in South Carolina, her home state but where Mr. Trump is also popular. Mr. Trump has begun wooing large donors, as he and his team prepare for a general election in which they anticipate that Democrats will be well-funded. Yet Mr. Trump has a complicated relationship with the party’s major donors. He is also facing four criminal indictments and was ordered by a federal jury in a civil case on Friday to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her decades ago, more than $83 million in damages,
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Many of the donors are closely tied to the vestiges of the pre-Trump Republican Party and tried to stop his rise in 2016. Mr. Trump also has repeatedly attacked major donors as being part of the “swamp” that he derides. He issued such a threat this week on his social media platform, Truth Social, when he promised to ice out any donors who supported Ms. Haley going forward. Ms. Haley’s campaign said the reaction to that threat was the opposite of what Mr. Trump had intended, saying that she had a huge uptick in fund-raising in the 24 hours that followed. This weekend, the political network established by the industrialist Koch brothers, Americans for Prosperity, is holding its own meeting. The network supported Ms. Haley, but as The New York Times recently reported, some of its donors regretted that endorsement. At the meeting, held in Indian Wells, Calif., a small group of donors were given a briefing by two top officials with the network’s political arm, Americans for Prosperity Action. According to two people briefed on what was said, the two senior advisers, Emily Seidel and Michael Palmer, said that backing Ms. Haley had been the right choice but that officials had known it would be a hard climb for anyone to beat Mr. Trump to the nomination. They also suggested that they would be focusing intensely on Senate and House races, especially if Mr. Trump became the nominee. Ms. Haley held a video call with the donors at the meeting and answered questions about her path forward, according to one of the people briefed on what had taken place.
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>>1262098 Ooooh I just hate that guy!!!
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>>1262098 Stop it anon, i can only get so hard
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>Donald Trump has donors >This is news? ARGHNOLD REEEEEE dROUMPF!!!
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>>1262133 He's not even the focus of this story. But merely mentioning him has set you people into defensive mode.
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>>1262137 >defensive mode. What's the point of this article in the first place?
There's nothing to defend.
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>>1262140 If they were democrats you would be posting it 5 different times from clickbait sources, each with editorialized headlines and no pasted article text
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>>1262173 Why would I do this? I already know Democrats have super PACs and megadonors.
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>>1262232 I have no idea why you do shit like that. I don't now if YOU know why you do shit like that. I think you think it's going to make the eternal leftist /news/ poster boogeyman seethe, when really you're just smearing shit on the walls and waiting for a reaction.
in any case this is still news. Cope,seethe,dilate,etc..
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>>1262237 >I think you think it's going to make the eternal leftist /news/ poster boogeyman seethe "But what shit is smeared?", is the question.
This is absolutely nothing. That is, unless you think Democrat voters don't understand there are super PACS and megadonors.
Is that the point you're making?
>Democrats are retarded so you'd spread something like this everywhere to show them modern political process OMG. That would be damaging.
Also, fuck off.
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>>1262238 I really don't get your resistance to the reporting of this news story. Why is this making you angry?
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>>1262173 >>1262237 What makes you like this? You are literally imagining the other side as a Boogeyman complaining that the Boogeyman you have imagined complains that your side is a Boogeyman.
Your insane m8
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>>1262240 Again, why are you melting down right now? Are you a republican megadonor or somethng?
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>>1262240 >imagining m8 have a look at the catalog sometime.
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>>1262241 This was my first post in the thread. I didn't even read this whole reply chain, just the previous 4 posts before mine, because they were visible on front page.
I just thought your argument was kinda dumb. You were accusing someone else of the exact behavior you yourself were displaying
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>>1262239 I have no resistance to it, aside from the fact that it's a useless story.
Also, fuck off trollfag.
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>>1262247 >You're angry that the OP story reports on Republican megadonors for some reason >I'm actually trolling One of these is true and it's not the second one
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>>1262254 He's right tho.
The point of this story is "a group of political donors want politicians to speak at an event"
It's pretty lame
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>>1262256 He's not right, I know he's not right, You know he's not right. Why go on with pretending to be right? Are you even capable of admitting it when you're wrong?
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>>1262260 Point of the article?
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>>1262254 Point of the article?
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>>1262260 Ok sure he's wrong.
A group of political donors want politicians to speak at an event?
Wowza!
Man this is so interesting and not milquetoast journalism
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>>1262264 Found the American Opportunity Alliance operative
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>>1262095 Republitards itt just blatantly ignoring the dark money elites that control their minds. They're well trained.
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>>1262239 It;s the op image. Ivan is angry.
nikki nikki nine doors, bend 4ward, & touch the floor
nikki nikki nine doors, bend 4ward, & touch the floor Tue 30 Jan 2024 08:19:18 No. 1262285 Report i want to go camping with Nikki. she can sleep in my tents
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>>1262285 She will have lots of free time soon
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>>1262279 Republitards ITT are the dark money elites apparently
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>>1262342 Debunked, lying lefty.
Democrats are the undisputed kings of dark money according to the facts:
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>>1262342 DemoKKKrats being disingenuous turds is par for the course
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>>1262343 >>1262361 Really shitty damage control. You people invented datk money.
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>>1262362 Source: you’re freshly gaped asshole
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>>1262362 I'm using dark money right now
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>>1262471 i buy my groceries every week with dark money. I just gave a hobo $5 of dark money... it was nighttime tho, i dont think he saw it