Nikki Haley is looking to stockpile resources for a protracted fight with Trump, traveling to New York this week for fundraisers, while her campaign manager Betsy Ankney laid out the stakes of her fight to a group of GOP megadonors on Tuesday.
"This is a fight for freedom," Ankney told the group of donors, known as the American Opportunity Alliance, per a source familiar with the Haley campaign's presentation. She also warned that Trump could drag down other GOP candidates on the ballot in 2024, and could cost Republicans control of Congress.
The Washington Post reported that Trump campaign co-chair Susie Wiles also met with the donor group on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, billionaire Ken Griffin recently cut a $5 million check to the pro-Haley super PAC SFA Fund Inc., CNBC's Brian Schwartz reports.
Fundraising reports due Wednesday to the Federal Election Commission will provide more clues about the financial state of Haley's campaign, her super PAC and other campaigns and outside groups. The reports will provide a look under the hood for Haley and Trump's campaigns during the last three months of last year, while PACs will file reports that cover the last six months of 2023.
The New York Times reports that Trump's PACs will show that he spent around $50 million in legal fees in 2023.
And a new filing from Win it Back PAC, a group that spent on ads opposing Trump but later pulled back, got an infusion of cash from Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, per Politico.
In other campaign news …
Across the aisle: For Haley to do well in South Carolina, she might need Democrats to decide to vote in the GOP primary rather than the Democratic contest, NBC's Matt Dixon and Jonathan Allen report.
Clyburn's cause: Biden's support has been slipping among young Black voters, and Biden supporters like Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., are trying to win them back, NBC's Peter Nicholas and Aaron Gilchrist report from the Palmetto State.
Ballot drama: An Illinois election board voted Tuesday to reject a challenge to Trump's position on the state's primary ballot due to his actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Biden also said Tuesday that it's "fine" for Trump to stay on the ballot in 2024.
Keep on trucking: Trump on Wednesday will meet with members of the Teamsters Union's executive board as he looks to take on Biden, who has cast himself as the most pro-union president in the country's history, per the Associated Press.
Sinema's decision: Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's latest fundraising report filed late Tuesday night found her fundraising dropped again in the final fundraising quarter of 2023, but she still has plenty of cash to spend on a re-election bid in Arizona if she decides to run. The Washington Post reports that her team is weighing whether voters will reward her bipartisan dealmaking as she faces that decision.
Eyes on the majority: Democrats are ramping up their spending in a special, open-seat Pennsylvania House election set to take place on Feb. 13, which will determine control of the state House chamber, NBC's Adam Edelman reports.
Impeachment consequences: Trump on Tuesday backed a Republican candidate in Texas challenging the state House speaker in a primary, who last year voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, The Hill reports.
Dysfunction on the border: NBC's Chuck Todd examines the political implications for both parties of the bipartisan immigration bill being negotiated in the Senate.
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