During her campaign challenging serial sex abuser and convicted felon Donald Trump (SACFT) for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley managed to outlast all her rivals. She said quite a few negative things about him but all somewhat obliquely to avoid alienating the MAGA cult. When it came to the age issue, she said that the first party to nominate someone under the age of 80 would win the election. This number was clearly carefully chosen to be ambiguous to avoid being an obvious disqualifier for SSACFT, who is 78 years old. As long as Joe Biden was in the race at the age of 81, she could try to have it both ways, highlighting her being young while not explicitly saying that SSACFT was too old. With Biden leaving and the 59-year old Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive nominee, that prediction that was meant to advance her own candidacy, has become a little too uncomfortable for her.

Like almost all the other Republican politicians who at some point ventured to criticize him, she eventually crawled and groveled back into his and the party’s good graces. But the primary numbers showed that there is a sizable number of people both Republican and non-Republicans who disliked the idea of SSACFT as the party’s nominee and hoped that her long-shot bid could stop him, and not all of them are following her back into the fold. An organization calling itself ‘Haley Voters for Harris’ have set up a PAC and claims to represent some of those Haley supporters.

The PAC, officially know as PIVOTPAC, was set up to encourage former Haley supporters, many of whom expressed doubts about both Biden and former President Trump, to vote for the Democratic nominee.

According to its FEC filings, it has raised nearly $400,000 in the past year. Most of that money has come from anti-Trump groups. It did not spend any of those funds until February, with its first major expenditure coming with ads on Facebook on March 6, the same day Haley dropped out of the race for president.

Needless to say, Haley is not pleased at the implication that she might in any way be supportive of Kamala Harris, and her lawyers have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the group.

“Kamala Harris and I are total opposites on every issue. Any attempt to use my name to support her or her agenda is deceptive and wrong,” Haley said in a statement. “I support Donald Trump because he understands we need to make America strong, safe, and prosperous.”
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In a letter on Haley’s behalf, attorney Michael G. Adams demands that the group stop any use of Haley’s “name, image or likeness that implies her support for the election of Kamala Harris as President of the United States.”

Haley Voters for Harris said in a statement that it does not claim to speak on behalf of Haley or her views.

It is not clear to me that Haley can stop the group from using the name ‘Haley Voters for Harris’. As the group’s director Craig Snyder said, the group’s name is “a factual statement of the way a lot of people feel and the way a lot of people intend to vote in November.”

Add this to one of the many lawsuits that are already flying around.