Mike Pence defends fundraising tempo as debate deadline attracts in close proximity to

Naomi Lim

July 29, 10:10 PM July 29, 10:10 PM

NEVADA, Iowa — Former Vice President Mike Pence remains assured he will qualify for up coming month's to start with Republican main debate, inspite of not still conference the donor threshold.

"I will not think it has taken that prolonged," Pence explained to the Washington Examiner. "Appear, I acknowledge the problem... I am also grateful for the fact that we quickly distinct the polling necessity."

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"We are perhaps a pair of weeks absent," he reported, contending the requirements is "considerably new."

"We will get there, but our concentration is not on achieving some arbitrary purpose established by the Republican Nationwide Committee. It's about telling our tale right here in Iowa like we were previous week telling our story in New Hampshire."

Pence has previously stated that he appeals to 1,000 donors a day, repeating that he is "closing-in" on the Republican Nationwide Committee's 40,000 special donor conventional, and is "self-assured" there will be 200 men and women every from 20 various states or territories.

"Persons seem at our career, search at our constant conservative file, and they know that that is the voice that belongs in that debate," he mentioned. "So I am grateful for that support."

Distinguishing himself from his one particular-time manager, Pence in contrast former President Donald Trump's expending to that of President Joe Biden, as he underscored his desire to reform entitlement courses and his opposition to abortion. He in addition criticized Biden for his delayed choice to accept his illegitimate granddaughter.

The previous vice president, also, defended his perception transgender service members should really not be permitted in the armed forces as military leaders specific issues about recruitment.

"Our administration banned transgender staff from the American army, seriously as a perform of addressing readiness and unit cohesion," he said. "I imagine the thought of admitting individuals who would start off a multi-year process of heading through a gender transition, chemical or surgically, people that would not be deployable through that interval time makes no perception."

As it stands, Trump has an ordinary of 52% support, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has 18%, Pence and biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have 5%, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has 4%, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has 3%, in accordance to RealClearPolitics.

WATCH: Haley responds to Mayorkas 'secure' border claim by exposing feeble fence

Luke Gentile

April 19, 02:30 PM April 19, 02:30 PM

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and current 2024 presidential hopeful, responded to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's claim that the border is "secure" with a video exposing a feeble chain-link fence put up by the current administration.

Mayorkas endured a second day of grueling public hearings on Capitol Hill and made it clear that he believes the border is protecting the public.

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"It is my testimony that the border is secure, and we are working every day, day and night, to increase its security," he told Republican lawmakers.

Footage of his testimony went viral, and Haley responded with a video of her at the border, showing what President Joe Biden's administration has put in place to protect citizens.

Haley showed the measures put in place by previous administrations, including former President Donald Trump's wall, before exposing a basic chain-link fence.

"This is now what Biden has put up," she said. "That's not gonna stop anybody. All they've got to do is cut it up and come over. That's the problem you've got on the border."

"It's not a real border. It's not a border at all. We need to finish what we started," Haley continued, pointing to the Trump-era wall. "A chain-link fence. That's not gonna stop anybody, and that's why we see so many illegal immigrants coming across."

2024 GOP presidential hopefuls head to Indianapolis for NRA convention

Mabinty Quarshie

April 14, 10:42 AM April 14, 10:42 AM

Multiple Republican presidential contenders will descend on Indianapolis, Indiana, to speak at the National Rifle Association's annual convention on Friday, a testament to the power Second Amendment activists still have on the GOP.

Former President Donald Trump will speak to the activists in person, his first public appearance after he was arraigned in a Manhattan court last week after being indicted on charges of a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star. Former Vice President Mike Pence will also attend in person. This will likely be the first time the two are in the same room after leaving the White House weeks after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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While Trump has already declared a presidential run, Pence has not, but he could jump into the 2024 race in the next few months. Trump and Pence are both set to speak Friday afternoon during the event's "Leadership Forum."

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, also running for president, will speak to the attendees via video, as will Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), both potential 2024 candidates. Scott announced a 2024 exploratory committee this week, while DeSantis continues to poll higher than all other 2024 contenders except for Trump. DeSantis, though, has not yet announced a presidential bid.

Other attendees with 2024 aspirations include former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), and Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH).

The NRA convention's three-day Leadership Forum lasts from April 14 through April 16 and is being held just days after a mass shooting left five people dead and eight injured in Louisville, Kentucky, and mere weeks after another mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, at Covenant School, a private Christian institution, left six people dead.

As the nation's most influential gun rights group, the NRA still holds considerable sway over the Republican Party. The NRA endorsed Trump during his first presidential run in 2016 and spent more than $54 million supporting Republicans in 2016, according to the watchdog group Open Secrets.

But in recent years, the NRA has been referenced in national conversations about mass shootings. The group's convention last year was held in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, where a gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers.

Following the NRA convention, several of the high-profile attendees, including Trump, will head to Nashville for the Republican National Committee’s donor retreat.

Trump slammed in Nikki Haley campaign memo for being 'consumed by the grievances of the past'

Jack Birle

April 11, 08:59 AM April 11, 08:59 AM

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's campaign blasted former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign for being consumed in past grievances and drama in a memo.

The memo, obtained by Axios, outlined the Haley campaign's first quarter while criticizing Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is widely seen as a top 2024 presidential contender.

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"Donald Trump had a pretty good Q1, if you count being indicted as 'good.' The sensationalized partisan prosecution in Manhattan understandably made Republicans more sympathetic to the former president. It is an outrageous prosecutorial abuse. Still, it’s increasingly clear that Trump’s candidacy is more consumed by the grievances of the past and the promise of more drama in the future, rather than a forward-looking vision for the American people," the memo said.

The memo also offered the contrast of Haley being at the southern border while Trump was in a Manhattan courthouse.

Haley's campaign also took aim at DeSantis, saying he has "made one misstep after another" before announcing a White House bid.

"Ron DeSantis essentially launched his presidential campaign with a national book tour during this period and made one misstep after another, confirming what many observers have long suspected: He’s not ready for prime time. Among other things, he declared Russia’s brutal, unprovoked, and illegal invasion of Ukraine a mere 'territorial dispute,'" the memo said.

The memo also detailed the campaigning Haley has been doing in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, along with the $11 million fundraising haul in the first quarter.

"We raised over $11 million in six weeks. That’s more than Donald Trump raised in his first quarter in this race, and more than nearly all the Republican presidential candidates in 2016 raised in their first quarter. We had 70,000 donations from all 50 states — thanks to our tireless candidate, our great fundraising team, our grassroots supporters, and all who donated and hosted events around the country," the memo said.

Haley trails far behind the two leading contenders in the GOP field, with the Real Clear Politics polling average showing her in fourth place behind Trump, DeSantis, and just below former Vice President Mike Pence.

The former South Carolina governor is one of only a handful of announced GOP presidential candidates, alongside Trump, entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR). DeSantis, who is seen as one of the top contenders for the 2024 GOP nomination, is expected to announce his bid in late May or early June.

Nikki Haley confident she can defeat Trump

Brady Knox

March 29, 08:22 PM March 29, 08:23 PM

Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she is confident she can defeat former President Donald Trump.

Speaking with WHD News after a town hall event in New Hampshire, Haley said her strategy of personally meeting with voters has the potential to carry her to victory against the GOP front-runner. The former U.N. ambassador is trailing far behind in the polls. The RealClearPolitics average has her at just 5.2%.

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"When you look at the situation that we have, President Trump has 25% of Republicans. It’s a hard 25%. They are Trump or no one," she told WHD News. "There are 75% other Republicans there that are looking for a place to be."

"I am not going to focus on doing big rallies. … You have to go and answer the hard questions. You have to go face to face. You can’t fly in and fly out. I believe the American people want you to earn their vote," she said, apparently referring to Trump.

Haley emphasized her personal strategy of individually meeting with voters and being seen in the community.

"You’ll get tired of seeing me, but it’s because I want you to go tell your friends and family, 'I heard her at the next town hall. You need to go.' And let me tell them. And let me earn their support," she said. "We’re going touch hands over and over again. And I’m doing the same thing in Iowa, and I’m doing the same thing in South Carolina."

She also boasted about her "good" fundraising, saying her campaign has a lot of momentum.

Haley is trailing far behind Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as the Republican favorite despite being the second candidate to declare their candidacy. She is slated to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in April to discuss her planned immigration policy.

Year in Review: Counting down The View's most viral moments of 2022

Julia Johnson

December 28, 09:00 AM December 28, 09:00 AM

The ladies of The View made headlines weekly in 2022, whether they were trashing Republicans or acting as de facto Democratic spokeswomen. Some of the show's events were more attention-grabbing than others, so the Washington Examiner is counting down the most viral moments of The View in 2022.

It was a fierce competition, as the hosts made news each week with political guests and pointed criticisms — but here are the times that the ladies caught readers' attention the most.

5. WATCH: Stacey Abrams supports abortion 'until the time of birth' in some cases

Ahead of her battle with Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) in the midterm elections, which she lost, Democratic candidate and progressive star Stacey Abrams reiterated her support for unlimited abortion on The View.

According to Abrams, abortion is "a decision that should be made between a woman and her doctor, that viability is the metric, and that if a woman’s health or life is in danger, then viability extends until the time of birth."

Abrams didn't elaborate on what constituted a danger to a woman's life or health.

4. WATCH: Climate protesters interrupt Ted Cruz on live broadcast of The View

Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) appearance on The View in October was marred by several disruptions.

Climate protesters crashed the set of the talk show, yelling "cover climate now" at the hosts while Cruz spoke.

"Excuse me. Excuse me, ladies. Excuse us. Let us do our job. Let us do our job. We hear what you have to say, but you got to go," Whoopi Goldberg told them.

Later, a voice from the crowd is heard screaming "hey!" before the show muted its volume. Sunny Hostin appeared shocked at what the audience member said, and the program immediately cut to commercial.

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3. WATCH: Ted Cruz slams The View for allegedly letting Hillary Clinton lie about 2016

However, that wasn't the only instance of Cruz's The View appearance that made headlines. Readers couldn't get enough of the senator calling out the show for taking it easy on Hillary Clinton and not pushing back on her claims.

When Alyssa Farah Griffin asked him whether President Joe Biden was legitimately elected in 2020, he told the hosts, "There are a lot of folks in the media that try to, any time a Republican is in front of a TV camera, try to say, 'The election was fair and square and legitimate.' You know who y’all don’t do that to?"

"You don't do it to Hillary Clinton, who stood up and said, 'Trump stole the election.' Or Stacey Abrams, who said that the election was stolen. They sat here and said it was illegitimate," he said.

Goldberg then said, "And it was."

2. WATCH: Nikki Haley slams 'racist' The View host for questioning her Indian name

In September, Hostin drew backlash after criticizing Nikki Haley for not going by her first name, Nimrata, instead opting for her middle name.

Hostin claimed that “there are some of us that can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our ethnicities so that we can pass" while discussing Haley's name.

Her co-hosts then called her out, noting that Hostin goes by a different name. Not seeing the irony, she claimed she doesn't go by her birth name, Asuncion, because people are unable to pronounce it due to "under-education."

"Thanks for your concern @Sunny. It's racist of you to judge my name. Nikki is an Indian name and is on my birth certificate — and I'm proud of that. What's sad is the left's hypocrisy towards conservative minorities. By the way, last I checked Sunny isn't your birth name," the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor responded on Twitter.

1. WATCH: Joy Behar says she supports free college — but not for future Tucker Carlsons

Joy Behar made for the most viral The View moment of 2022 when she claimed to support the idea of free college for some but excluded those she doesn't agree with, particularly someone who could become someone like WHD News host Tucker Carlson.

"I think that we need to target it a little bit," she told her co-hosts while discussing free college. "I don't wanna subsidize somebody who's going to go to college, no debt, and then become a hedge funder or Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson."

"But if you're going to work for UNICEF, if you're going to work for Doctors Without Borders, if you're going to become a social worker or a teacher or something of that ilk, yes, then I'm happy for it," she added.

Her remark came during a discussion on "crippling student debt," which Goldberg claimed "goes with you to the grave."

"You should be born with the guarantee of higher education if you want it," she told the audience prior to Behar's more strategic suggestion.

White House bid still on table for Nikki Haley as she calls for 'younger generation to lead'

David M. Drucker

November 19, 11:15 PM November 19, 11:15 PM

LAS VEGAS — Nikki Haley was to tell a gathering of Republican activists gathered to vet potential presidential contenders the party needs a course correction, the latest signal from the former ambassador that she is mulling a 2024 bid.

In excerpts of Haley’s speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, scheduled for delivery Saturday evening, she takes the GOP to task for repeated electoral failures. Haley hints at the problems that prevented Republicans from capitalizing on a favorable political environment in the midterm elections while also referring to the party’s failure to win the national popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential contests.

Among other needed changes, Haley says an infusion of fresh leadership is the antidote to what ails the Republican Party.

“The truth is, Americans weren’t feeling or trusting the state of our party. They don’t want chaos. They want stability and strength and unity. We didn’t have that. We have to look in the mirror,” Haley said, according to excerpts of her speech first shared with the Washington Examiner.

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“The Republican Party has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. That’s saying something,” Haley continued. “We’re behind the times. And we have to be honest with ourselves. Joe Biden turns 80 years old tomorrow. Happy birthday, Mr. President, but it’s time for a younger generation to lead!”

Haley’s remarks are significant because she had previously ruled out a White House bid if Donald Trump was a candidate. The former president announced Tuesday, but Haley is continuing to weigh a 2024 campaign, as she has been since leaving Trump’s Cabinet nearly four years ago. (Some Haley supporters emphasize the former ambassador’s opposition to running if Trump was in the race had softened.)

Haley’s appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition was proof enough she continues to be interested in running for president. The group’s annual conference at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas has amounted to the unofficial kickoff event of the next GOP presidential primary, drawing former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and others.

Some in this group used their prepared remarks to urge Republicans to move on from Trump and embrace new leadership atop the party, noting the former president has presided over three consecutive electoral defeats. Republicans lost the House in 2018, the Senate and White House in 2020, and underperformed expectations for a red wave in 2022.

Meanwhile, Haley also was set to comment on foreign policy matters in her speech, always of great interest to Republican Jewish Coalition members. Indeed, this excerpt was another smoke signal that Haley may choose to run for president. “If Biden succeeds in getting us back in the Iran deal, I will make you a promise,” she said. “The next president will shred it — on her first day in office!”

Haley, 50, has spent most of the last almost four years building policy and political organizations — and crisscrossing the country to raise money and campaign for Republican gubernatorial and congressional candidates. She was in her second term as South Carolina governor when Trump, newly elected, tapped her for his Cabinet as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Although not a foreign policy wonk, Haley was a quick study and swiftly rose to prominence as an effective spokeswoman for Trump’s overseas agenda. The ambassador also made a name for herself as an adviser who earned the former president’s respect without ingratiating herself. The two had a very public falling out over Trump’s handling of his loss to President Joe Biden and did not speak for several months.

But over time, they have repaired their relationship, at least somewhat.