Haley raises $11m, battling with Florida’s DeSantis

Nikki Haley has ramped up her fund-raising in recent months, a sign that her performance in the early presidential debates may have invigorated her 2024 candidacy.

Haley, who, according to her campaign, has raised $11 million across her political committees, entered October with significantly more cash on hand that can be spent on the 2024 primary than Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida — $9.1 million to roughly his $5 million — even as he outraised her overall.

But both Haley’s and DeSantis’s fund-raising figures were dwarfed by the man they are chasing in the polls: Former president Donald Trump announced in recent days that he had raised $45.5 million in the quarter and had $36 million on hand that is eligible to be spent on the primary.

Haley’s campaign provided her fund-raising figures for the third quarter, from July 1 to the end of September, to The New York Times in advance of the Oct. 15 disclosure deadline. The numbers underscore not just her financial gains from the debates but the extent to which she has run a lean operation, keeping a limited payroll and eschewing campaign-backed television ads so far.

Her campaign said it had saved roughly half of every dollar it had raised into her 2024 account in the last three months.

Her campaign said it had received more than 165,000 donations in July, August, and September, including from 40,000 new donors. Overall, her campaign has topped 100,000 unique contributors.

In some surveys in New Hampshire and in her home state of South Carolina, Haley has taken the second spot.