The former U.N. ambassador has been focusing in on Trump, his legal trouble and the potential general election consequences.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday called on Republican National Committee members to hold an on-the-record vote on a draft resolution that would curb the national party’s ability to direct its funds toward legal fees, including former President Donald Trump’s.
“All Americans, and Republicans especially, deserve a vote on the record on that resolution,” Haley said while campaigning here. “We deserve to know how the RNC is going to spend their money and if it’s going to go towards legal fees.”
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Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday called on Republican National Committee members to hold an on-the-record vote on a draft resolution that would curb the national party’s ability to direct its funds toward legal fees, including former President Donald Trump’s.
Haley went on to question if the RNC would end up shifting support from down-ballot Republicans to a “legal slush fund.”
“We brought forth these two resolutions to make sure there is a serious discussion about protecting the primary process while there are still two candidates competing and preventing the RNC from paying the legal bills of any political candidate unrelated to the election cycle,” Barbour said in a statement to NBC News last week.
On the campaign trail ahead of Super Tuesday, March 5, Haley dodged a question from NBC News about whether having leadership teams announced in states past Super Tuesday — for instance, Georgia — meant she could guarantee staying in until that point.
When pressed that voters might want to know how long they’ll have her as an alternative to Trump, she sidestepped again: “No … I want the conversation to be, where are we going in the country?“
Haley also reacted to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement Wednesday that he planned to step down from his leadership position.
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As a non-American it’s kind of insane to me that a political party can even potentially pay the legal fees of a party member (particularly when the fees are the result of completely personal crimes).
Republicans should be outraged about it too, but they apparently don’t realize they are being fleeced (again).
As an American, I feel the same way.
It’s because the Supreme Court made a ruling that affirmed that since corporations are people, and money is speech, it is unconstitutional to restrict how much money a corporation spends on political issues.
And what is a political issue? Trump says all of his legal issues are politically motivated. He’s lying, but does that (false) statement alone justify unlimited spending on this political issue?
And when they completely ignore her request (that she’s making knowing full well she has no leverage to make it happen) she’ll keep being a member of the Republican party and keep raising funds for them anyway
I wish she’d realize she does have leverage, even if it’s not much. She could a) launch an independent bid or b) campaign for Biden in exchange for a cabinet position with him. Either way she’d become a MAJOR problem for the GOP, and I think it stands to argue she could effectively guarantee a Trump loss. The one caveat is that she’d have to agree to effectively turn her back on her party (which she says is committing suicide anyway), and I have absolutely no faith that she’ll discover enough moral fortitude to ever do such a thing.
