A super PAC that previously supported former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Republican primary cycle is now reportedly targeting her Republican supporters in Georgia on behalf of President Joe Biden.
The super PAC previously known as Primary Pivot formerly urged Democratic and unaffiliated voters to cast ballots for Haley in Republican primary contests, but rebranded after Haley dropped out of the race.
Now calling itself Haley Voters for Biden, the group’s leader Robert Schwartz suggested to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday that Georgia’s suburban Republican voters are ripe for the organization to target on behalf of Democrats.
“We’re really focused on the genuine Haley supporters. Many of them have strong policy disagreements with Joe Biden on things like Israel, the border,” said Schwartz, who suggested he may be able to bring the Democratic president closer to Haley politically.
He said, “We want to actually have conversations and push Joe Biden to come more to their position.”
Schwartz later suggested to the outlet that Haley Voters for Biden could make arguments that the Democratic president could not due to political vulnerabilities.
“We are going to be testing messages that perhaps Joe Biden cannot say on the border, about how he’s standing up to the Squad on protests, on things he maybe doesn’t want to emphasize,” he stated to the AJC.
The Biden campaign recently opened seven new offices and hired nine full-time staff members in Georgia. This move was instrumental to Biden’s rise to the White House in 2020 but reportedly is no longer viewed as a “top-tier” priority for Democratic donors and political strategists.
An aggregate of polls tracked by Real Clear Polling shows that former President Donald Trump currently leads Biden by 4 percent in Georgia. The last poll showing Biden winning in Georgia, tracked by the publication, was published last November.
Biden was determined the winner of Georgia’s votes in the Electoral College by just 12,000 votes in 2020. A group supporting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims it secured the necessary signatures for Kennedy to be on Georgia’s presidential election ballot in 2024.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Nikki Haley Supporters” by Nikki Haley.
