An official working with President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign is attempting to recruit Nikki Haley’s voters after her Super Tuesday losses.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday, Rufus Gifford, the finance chair for the 2024 Biden/Harris campaign, said: “Dear supporters of @NikkiHaley, we may not agree on every issue but @JoeBiden’s campaign is open to all looking to move our country forward.”
“Feel free to DM me,” Gifford wrote.
The post also included a screenshot of a message shared by former President Donald Trump on Truth Social where he criticized Haley, calling her “Birdbrain” and saying that “Anybody that makes a ‘contribution’ to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them, and will not accept them.”
Newsweek reached out to Biden and Haley’s campaigns via email for comment.
The context:
On Wednesday, multiple outlets reported that Haley was planning to suspend her 2024 presidential campaign after Trump secured several victories in the Republican primary race on Super Tuesday.
What we know:
Following Super Tuesday, exit polls from ABC News found that 51 percent of Haley voters in Virginia and 50 percent in North Carolina approve of Biden as president. Haley has repeatedly criticized both Biden and Trump.
On Tuesday, Haley declined to say if she would endorse Trump as the party’s nominee if he secured the votes.
“I haven’t heard him pledge to me that he would support me if I won, so I don’t know why I have to go and pledge to him that I would support him,” Haley said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
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This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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