A super PAC that urged non-Republicans to cast primary votes for Nikki Haley is pivoting to November, urging Haleyâs voters to support President Joe Biden. Starting today, Primary Pivot will become Haley Voters for Biden, and urge anyone who supported Haley in a swing state to stick with the president in November.
âThis is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,â said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
In a statement, Primary Pivot said it would focus on Haley voters in states where they could be counted â nearly 300,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in North Carolina. The super PAC, which started by urging New Hampshire Democrats to temporarily switch their registrations, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to activate potential Haley voters in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.
It wasnât enough to deliver a win, outside of Vermont, where Haley picked up votes from non-Republicans in the stateâs open primary. Schwartz hoped that Trumpâs reaction to that â a Truth Social post denouncing âthe fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermontâ â would fuel the new campaign.
âWe wanted to start this effort as soon as possible to lock in that kind of resentment toward the way Trump and MAGA have treated Haley voters,â he said.