President Joe Biden’s campaign is flush with cash after Thursday $26 million fundraising in New Yorkis using some of those advantages in a new ad that aims to directly target supporters of Nikki Haley in support of the Democrat’s re-election.
Senior members of the Biden campaign played the planned ad during a meeting of the National Finance Committee in New York on Friday, two sources involved told NBC News. After the Biden campaign placed the X version of it.
The ad features former President Donald Trump, in his own words, calling the former South Carolina governor “Birdbrain” and saying his supporters are not welcome in his campaign.
In the January post His Truth Social websiteTrump said: “Anyone who ‘Contributed’ to Birdbrain will be permanently removed from the MAGA camp from now on. We do not want them and we will not accept them.”
After Haley left the race, Trump withdrew the threat. said in his writing that he “We would like to invite all Haley supporters to join the largest movement in our Nation’s history.”
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new ad, including how widely it will air on pay television.
Trump has never lost a race for the Republican nomination this year and secured his party’s third consecutive presidential nomination earlier this month to set up the longest general election campaign in the nation’s history.
Although Biden advisers have been closely monitoring the level of support both earlier, in the contested Republican primaries and caucuses, and since Haley’s decision to end her campaign for indicators that Democrats may be able to potentially win support from independents and even Republicans. Voters who voted against Trump.
Moderate and anti-Trump Republicans Contributed to Biden’s victory in 2020. Some political observers told NBC News in March Former Haley voters said they could make a difference in some battleground states, including Pennsylvania, which Biden narrowly won in 2020.
“Donald Trump has made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: I have a place for them in my campaign,” Biden said in a statement after dropping the South Carolina Republican nomination. Biden also praised Haley for having the “courage” to challenge the former president.
The Trump campaign is pushing back against the Biden campaign’s efforts. A senior Trump campaign official said “a good portion of the people who voted for Nikki in some states” were “Democrats.”
The official added that “we made it clear to supporters of Haley, a Republican, that the door is always open.” “We have no doubt we’re going to bring them back because they’re faced with a choice from an economic standpoint, from a security standpoint, from a border security standpoint, to continue the descent, and so much more.”
Allan Smith and Ali Vitaly contributed.