Haley super PAC fires back at Trump with New Hampshire ad

A super PAC backing former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley fired back at former President Trump in a new 30-second ad buy released in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

Stand for America (SFA) released its ad attacking the former president the same day the Make American Great Again (MAGA) Inc. super PAC released its own video taking aim at Haley. The ad supporting Haley suggested that Trump is attacking the former South Carolina governor because she is the only threat to him securing the GOP nomination.

“Of all the Republicans running for president, why is Donald Trump only attacking Nikki Haley? Because Trump knows Haley’s the only one who can beat him,” the narrator in the SFA ad stated. “As governor, Nikki Haley cut taxes for small businesses by 40%. And now she’s pledging to eliminate the federal gas tax. Want an 80-year-old name from the past or new generation of conservative leadership?”

MAGA Inc., Trump’s primary supporting PAC, launched its ad in New Hampshire earlier Tuesday slamming Haley for walking back a 2013 South Carolina gubernatorial promise to not raise the gas tax. Her campaign has since denied that she was ever in support of raising the gas tax while governor.

Haley took the MAGA Inc. ad as a positive sign for her campaign in a Tuesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. 

“Two days ago, Donald Trump denied our surge in New Hampshire existed. Now, he’s running a negative ad against me,” she said on X. “Someone’s getting nervous.”

In recent weeks, Haley has surged in New Hampshire to surpass Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for second place in the GOP primary. A recent poll by CBS News/YouGov found that 29 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire say they would vote for the former South Carolina governor, putting her 15 points behind Trump, the front-runner to win the GOP nomination.

According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ average of polls, Haley has about 23 percent support in New Hampshire while Trump maintains a strong lead with 45 percent support.