Haley - VP or No Labels run, can Trump unite the GOP, and early 2025 gubernatorial numbers

Jan 19, 2024

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Topics - GOP nomination, General Assembly legislation, and a look ahead at the 2025 statewide races.

Jonathan Martin in Politico: The GOP Is Already Clashing Over Trump’s VP Pick While Trump tries to sew up the nomination, his camp is already feuding about his future running mate — and hoping it isn’t Nikki Haley.
Shaun Kenney in The Republican Standard: Spanberger, Miyares Post Excellent Numbers for Virginia’s 2025 Gubernatorial Contest Stoney gets outraised 3:1 while Sears invests in small dollar donors heading into an expected 2025 gubernatorial campaign
Interview with Marc Thiessen in WAPO: Opinion Can Trump unite this fractured GOP?
Axios Richmond - Report finds Richmond Public Schools officials knew of threats to Huguenot student before shooting
Virginia Mercury: Virginia Democrats continue push to hike state minimum wage to $15 Legislation passes out of first committees on party-line votes
Richmond Times Dispatch: Senate committee says no to legacy college admissions

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) knocked Congress for relying on 'Groundhog Day funding measures' to keep the government open after the House approved its third short-term spending bill so far in fiscal 2024 to avert a shutdown.
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Here’s how Virginia Republicans in the House voted:

Note the rural (Cline-Good-Griffith) vs exurban/suburban (Kiggans-Wittman) divide.

Abigail Spanberger - whose rise to stardom included defeating Dave Brat in VA-07, calling out "the Squad" for running on defunding the police in front of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and then successfully running as a Democrat in a redistricted VA-07 embracing not just the Fredericksburg area but Prince William County - is quickly emerging as the favorite liberal backed with largely progressive money.
Yet while Miyares is demonstrating strength, Sears is demonstrating reach — with many of her donors being small dollar ones both at home in Virginia and nationwide. Miyares alternatively has a sizeable donor pool as well, but the real strength of his PAC are large dollar donations from Richmond. The short version? Miyares is conserving his warchest for 2025, while Sears is steadily investing in mail and online donors in preparation for a contest.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top No Labels leader said Thursday that Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley 'would deserve serious consideration' for the group's nomination if it decides to run a third-party candidate for president.
Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator and co-chair of No Labels, said Haley's record as governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador would be a good fit for the group's plan to find a candidate in the likely event that the 2024 election becomes a rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.
Lieberman's comments about Haley came in response to a question before the abrupt end of a news conference in Washington where No Labels leaders called for the Department of Justice to investigate their critics. Several groups aligned with Democrats have aggressively criticized No Labels and are discouraging candidates and political operatives from working with the group, warning a third-party candidate can't win but would help Trump return to the White House.
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