'Desperate to light money on fire': Donald Trump Jr. roasts Koch Brothers' PAC plan to endorse Nikki Haley over Trump in 2024

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    -34% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    68% Negative

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"Trump Jr.'s post came in response to a New York Times report published Tuesday morning that the Koch-founded super political action committee Americans for Prosperity Action would support Haley's campaign in the GOP primary."
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24% Conservative
"Americans for Prosperity Action has already spent $9 million opposing Trump."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Trump called Charles Koch very stupid, awkward, and highly overrated when Americans for Prosperity Action first began spending against him."
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-46% Liberal
"In the aouncement, Seidel included a note of thanks and appreciation for DeSantis and said the group was proud to endorse him for re-election in 2022."
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44% Conservative
"In a memo aouncing the endorsement, Americans for Prosperity Action senior adviser Emily Seidel wrote that internal polling suggested Haley was best-positioned to beat Trump in a primary election and President Joe Biden in a general election."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In a memo aouncing the endorsement, Americans for Prosperity Action senior adviser Emily Seidel wrote that internal polling suggested Haley was best-positioned to beat Trump in a primary election and President Joe Biden in a general election."
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4% Conservative
"In a memo aouncing the endorsement, Americans for Prosperity Action senior adviser Emily Seidel wrote that internal polling suggested Haley was best-positioned to beat Trump in a primary election and President Joe Biden in a general election."
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4% Conservative
"Trump Jr.'s post came in response to a New York Times report published Tuesday morning that the Koch-founded super political action committee Americans for Prosperity Action would support Haley's campaign in the GOP primary."
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8% Conservative
"In Iowa, Haley notched 17"
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24% Conservative
"A separate memo detailing the group's internal polling on Tuesday showed a clear trend can be seen in terms of growing support for Haley and shrinking support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)."
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12% Conservative
"A separate memo detailing the group's internal polling on Tuesday showed a clear trend can be seen in terms of growing support for Haley and shrinking support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Other fans of former president Donald Trump had a similar response."
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10% Conservative
"Haley's endorsement comes after the network, founded in 2004 by Charles and David Koch, indicated in early 2023 that it would work to block Trump from receiving a third Republican nomination."
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10% Conservative
"Every dollar spent on Nikki Haley's candidacy should be reported as an in-kind to the Trump campaign, Romeo added."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Every dollar spent on Nikki Haley's candidacy should be reported as an in-kind to the Trump campaign, Romeo added."
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4% Conservative
"He said his best years were the four years during the Trump Administration, and now his people are aimlessly throwing away other people's money, Trump said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In comparison, Haley's campaign has $11.5 million cash on hand -- about $800,000 less than DeSantis, and $26 million less than Trump's campaign."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"In comparison, Haley's campaign has $11.5 million cash on hand -- about $800,000 less than DeSantis, and $26 million less than Trump's campaign."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"In comparison, Haley's campaign has $11.5 million cash on hand -- about $800,000 less than DeSantis, and $26 million less than Trump's campaign."
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-12% Liberal
"We also understand that some of the Governor's supporters, including some who support AFP, will be disappointed in our decision, Seidel said, before saying Trump won in 2016 largely because of a divided primary field, and we must not allow that to happen again, particularly when the stakes are even higher in 2024."
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-14% Liberal
"The group has so far spent more than $9 million in independent expenditures opposing Trump this year, but none of it explicitly supported any of his rivals, according to the Times."
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-22% Liberal
"No one has a stronger record of beating the establishment than Ron DeSantis, and this time will be no different."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Donald Trump Jr. mocked the political network founded by the Koch brothers for throwing its support behind former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the 2024 presidential election."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Trump called Charles Koch very stupid, awkward, and highly overrated when Americans for Prosperity Action first began spending against him."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"In sharp contrast to recent elections that were dominated by the negative baggage of Donald Trump and in which good candidates lost races that should have been won, Nikki Haley, at the top of the ticket, would boost candidates up and down the ballot, wiing the key independent and moderate voters that Trump has no chance to win, Seidel wrote."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"In sharp contrast to recent elections that were dominated by the negative baggage of Donald Trump and in which good candidates lost races that should have been won, Nikki Haley, at the top of the ticket, would boost candidates up and down the ballot, wiing the key independent and moderate voters that Trump has no chance to win, Seidel wrote."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"In sharp contrast to recent elections that were dominated by the negative baggage of Donald Trump and in which good candidates lost races that should have been won, Nikki Haley, at the top of the ticket, would boost candidates up and down the ballot, wiing the key independent and moderate voters that Trump has no chance to win, Seidel wrote."
Negative
-60% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump Jr.'s post came in response to a New York Times report published Tuesday morning that the Koch-founded super political action committee Americans for Prosperity Action would support Haley's campaign in the GOP primary.
55% : Americans for Prosperity Action has already spent $9 million opposing Trump.
27% : Trump called Charles Koch "very stupid, awkward, and highly overrated" when Americans for Prosperity Action first began spending against him.

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