Sad Nikki Haley (Photo via EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images).
Nikki Haley spent the early part of the year running a doomed campaign against Donald Trump. While seeking the Republican nomination, the former Trump administration official said her former boss was “unhinged” and “mentally unfit” and “like suicide for our country.” On May 22, she said that she would be voting for the unhinged, mentally unfit, suicide for our country guy.
After Haley dropped out of the race — though before she openly declared her fealty to Trump — a SuperPAC supporting Haley set up a campaign called Haley Voters for Biden. Haley didn’t do much about that, but now, some four months later and after the campaign has rebranded as Haley Voters for Harris, the former South Carolina governor fired off a cease-and-desist letter.
“Any use by you of Ambassador Haley’s name, image, or likeness is without her permission. Ambassador Haley has been clear in her support of Harris’ opponent. Any intimation that Ambassador Haley supports Harris is intentionally false and misleading,” Haley’s attorneys from Chalmers, Adams, Backer & Kaufman warned the group.
Another SEC fight over NIL, eh?
In a letter sent out yesterday, the PAC noted that its name doesn’t say “Haley supports Harris,” but that Haley voters do. Probably because they made the mistake of trusting her when she said things like, I dunno, “unhinged” and “mentally unfit” and “like suicide for our country.”
And thus, the PAC explained, Haley can get bent. Though they put it in much nicer terms.
The disclaimer for the Haley Voters for Harris website accurately states, -Paid for by PivotPAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.- And the website additionally states, -Statements expressed on this site are our own and may not reflect Nikki Haley’s or Vice President Harris’s views.- The letter fails to identify a single statement that misrepresents Ambassador Haley’s views. The suggestion that PivotPAC may be engaged in intentional misrepresentations to the public is frivolous and defamatory.
Further, the organization notes, “We shall not cease and desist and our First Amendment speech will not be silenced because our activities under the — Haley Voters for Harris — campaign are fully compliant with the law.
It must be tough for a politician to see their name so callously invoked to support the principles they pretended to hold a few months earlier. Alas, “Haley Voters” are not, in fact, “Haley.”
But one suspects Haley is less interested in stifling this group than letting certain someones know that she’s deeply committed to the Trump cause.
And how could you not trust her at her word at this point?
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