Haley Campaign Press Release - Nikki Haley Campaign Manager Betsy Ankney: It's Night and Day

"While Trump is spending $50 million on personal legal fees, Biden just booked five times that amount – $250 million – on air… The only way Republicans will get back to winning is if Nikki Haley is the nominee."

CHARLESTON, S.C. – On a press call this morning, Nikki Haley for President campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, recapped the major wins for Team Haley in the past week and stressed the stark contrast between Haley and Donald Trump, a candidate who is "confused, focused on the past, and won't debate" Haley.

Ankney on January's major fundraising haul…

"We just released our campaign fundraising numbers for the month…$16.5 million raised in the month of January, with $11.7 [million] of that from digital and mail, and 70,000 new donors just in the month of January. So this was our biggest month to date, and bigger than our Q1, Q2, and Q3 fundraising quarters."

Ankney on Nikki Haley's presence in South Carolina…

"[In the two weeks since the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump] has held exactly zero events in South Carolina and did one media hit on FOX with Maria Bartiromo. In that same time, Nikki has held 11 events in South Carolina with thousands of people, she's done dozens of media appearances, including two Sunday shows, The Breakfast Club, and – of course – Saturday Night Live."

Ankney on looking ahead to Super Tuesday…

"You saw we'll be in California this week for a rally. I'll again remind you that 11 of the 16 Super Tuesday states have open or semi-open primaries."

Ankney on running against Grumpy Old Men who won't debate…

"We launched Grumpy Old Men, the series hitting both Trump and Biden. Both are confused, focused on the past, and won't debate. We are going to continue calling on Trump every day to man up and debate Nikki. The people of South Carolina deserve a debate, but it's understandable why he's hesitant to commit. He must genuinely be concerned that he's declining and he knows that Nikki is younger and sharper than he is. It's harder to lie about Nikki's record when she's there to punch back, and he'll have to answer questions about his record which is a lot harder than reading wild screeds off a teleprompter or sending out late-night all-caps tweets."

Ankney on what's at stake for the GOP in November…

"Anyone who has seen a shred of credible data, who has been paying attention for the last eight years, or frankly has two eyes in their head knows that Nikki is the stronger general election candidate. The Trump team seems obsessed with proving that he can beat Biden, but the reality is, we've seen this movie before. When Trump took office in '16, Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the White House. In 2018, Dems had a net gain of 41 seats and we lost the House. In 2020, Trump not only lost the White House, but after hanging onto the Senate by the skin of our teeth, his antics in the aftermath of that election cost us two Senate seats in Georgia and majority control of the Senate. We know how this ends if Trump is the nominee. Republicans will lose.

"...And while Trump is spending $50 million on personal legal fees, Biden just booked five times that amount – $250 million – on air…The only way Republicans will get back to winning is if Nikki Haley is the nominee."

Ankney on Nevada this week…

"We have not spent a dime nor an ounce of energy on Nevada. We aren't going to pay $55,000 to a Trump entity to participate in a process that is rigged for Trump. Nevada is not and has never been our focus. I'm truly not sure what the Trump team is up to out there but they seem pretty spun up about it."

Ankney sets the record straight on Indiana...

"Many of you may have seen some of the hubbub...from Donald Trump. Look, this is more nonsense and confusion from Trump. We have more than enough signatures in each congressional district, and we will be filing this week before the February 9th deadline. So, I think any questions on that, you should be asking Donald Trump and Jim Banks whether they are simply confused, or whether they were intentionally lying and misleading people."