![]() ![]() In an application for nonprofit status, the organization listed its largest budget expenditure category (38 percent of the budget) as “Digital Education and Organizing.” To that end, the organization has launched a boilerplate conservative agitprop newsletter called the Stand and spent more than $1.5 million on Facebook and Instagram ads to date. Stand For America, Inc., reported receiving $7.8 million from unnamed sources in 2019, its first year of existence. ![]() I started digging into Stand For America and pulled some of the group’s IRS filings after they mailed my parents a John Birch–style fundraising letter containing devalued Venezuelan currency. Much of Haley’s torrential meme output comes courtesy of Stand For America, Inc., a sort of bespoke small-batch think tank staffed by fresh-faced Young Republicans, Heritage Foundation–adjacent toadies, and former staffers from the offices of Haley, Senator Tim Scott, and ex-senator Jim DeMint. It’s a lifestyle akin to retirement, and I don’t understand why she wants to give it up. She lives in a vaguely Mediterranean mansion on Kiawah Island, a wealthy enclave of our crushingly poor state, posting memes about how unfair the world is to rich people and periodically calling in to speak on Fox News talk shows. Nikki Haley hasn’t held or run for a political office since leaving her Trump-appointed post at the United Nations on December 31, 2018. Assuming she really is running for president, here are some things you should know about her. But who knows? I’ve given up predicting things. She has said in interviews until recently that she wouldn’t run if Trump was running. ![]() Given Haley’s on-again, off-again political alliance with Donald Trump, I won’t be shocked if her endgame here is to drop out and become his running mate. As a South Carolinian who lived through Haley’s administration, I’m duty-bound to explain why you should never vote for this person. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is expected to announce a 2024 run for US president on February 15, according to the Associated Press. ![]()
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