Biden Campaign Begins Focus on 'Haley Republicans'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : His group spent the GOP primary season urging non-Republicans eligible to participate in various contests to do so, in an effort to boost Haley over Trump, before transitioning to encouraging her voters to back Biden.
54% : On March 6, when Haley exited the race for the White House following a virtual sweep by Trump in the GOP's Super Tuesday primaries the previous day, the president issued a statement complimenting her for "having the courage to run for president" and being "willing to speak the truth about Trump."
51% : They historically support candidates in general elections who believe in smaller government, tax cuts, significant reductions in government spending, and deregulation.
49% : We want to get Romneys and those out," Trump said during a March 4 campaign gathering in Virginia.
48% : They agree with Biden's robust support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, providing military funding for Ukraine as the embattled nation fends off a Russian invasion, and the president's sharp denunciations of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
43% : These voters were similarly repulsed by the Biden administration's decision to have the U.S. abstain during a Monday vote by the United Nations Security Council on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
42% : Prior to Haley's exit from the race, Trump won every GOP primary and caucus in which both competed, with the exception of Vermont and Washington, D.C.
40% : The two struck up a conversation, and soon after, Howes, who by day is a liberal arts lecturer at Princeton University, had organized a WhatsApp group chat with Gifford and eight other politically engaged Republicans who had backed Haley over Trump in the 2024 GOP primary.
34% : And so began the first direct, high-level courtship between a senior Biden campaign official and Republican activists and voters who pulled the lever for the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
34% : Indeed, roughly two weeks after Haley suspended her campaign, she received an average of 15.4 percent of the vote in Republican primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio, revealing substantial dissatisfaction with Trump.
31% : (In 2020, exit polls show Biden won 6 percent of self-identified Republicans and 14 percent of voters who consider themselves conservative -- nationwide -- while winning 51.3 percent of the vote overall and defeating Trump by 4.5 percentage points.)
30% : On these issues, the contrast with Trump is stark.
27% : Government spending increased on his watch; climate regulations aimed at reining in the fossil fuel industry were tightened; illegal immigration spiked at the Mexican border after the president relaxed executive security actions implemented by the Trump administration; and Biden is running on a commitmentment to make access to abortion legal nationwide, again, in the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that struck down Roe v. Wade.
21% : These politically active financiers tend to travel in overlapping circles and many of them have at least this much in common: They dislike Trump and oppose his return to the White House.
19% : Biden welcomed Haley's voters to join him."Donald Trump made it clear he doesn't want Nikki Haley's supporters.
15% : The day Nikki Haley suspended her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rufus Gifford, a national finance chairman for President Joe Biden's reelection bid, invited the former South Carolina governor's supporters to join the incumbent Democrat's effort to defeat Donald Trump.
15% : Many Haley voters -- more aligned in policy and temperament with Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, than the 45th president -- simply do not feel welcome in the GOP by Trump or his loyal supporters.
13% : So convincing such Republicans to vote for the Democratic incumbent will take more than warning them that Trump is a danger to democracy -- a feature of Biden's reelection message -- or that the former president's volatile temperament makes him unfit for the Oval Office.
12% : But the level of discomfort Haley voters have with Trump and his movement of conservative populists suggest the former president could have lasting problems with a faction of Republicans he likely needs to defeat Biden.

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