Biden makes new play for 157,000 Haley vot­ers who reject­ed Trump in Penn­syl­va­nia

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s cam­paign is seiz­ing on Repub­li­can vot­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia frus­trat­ed with for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in a new ad released on Thurs­day that tar­gets for­mer South Car­oli­na Gov. Nik­ki Haley sup­port­ers.
More than 157,000 reg­is­tered Repub­li­can vot­ers snubbed Trump and vot­ed for Haley dur­ing the Key­stone State’s pri­ma­ry on Tues­day, a wor­ry­ing sign in the cru­cial bat­tle­ground state.
The 30-sec­ond “If You Vot­ed For Nik­ki Haley…” ad is part of the Biden campaign’s six-fig­ure ad buy as it gets more aggres­sive in court­ing Haley’s sup­port­ers, near­ly two months after she dropped out of the 2024 race.
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“For months, Don­ald Trump told Nik­ki Haley vot­ers that he didn’t want their sup­port, and they heard him loud and clear — that’s why more than 157,000 of them vot­ed against him in an uncon­test­ed pri­ma­ry,” Biden cam­paign com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor Michael Tyler said in a state­ment. “Our cam­paign has been clear from the begin­ning that we wel­com …