知情人士向美国广播公司(ABC News)证实，妮基·黑利本周将会见大约100名支持她竞选共和党总统候选人的最大捐助者，这是她在败给主要竞争对手、前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)后再次重返公共生活的又一步。
由《华尔街日报》首先报道的这次务虚会将于周一和周二在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿举行，距离海莉在该州低地的家不远。
海莉是特朗普时期的前美国驻联合国大使，预计她仍不会在会议上支持她的前盟友，也不会要求捐助者为其他竞选活动捐款。相反，该活动被宣传为海莉感谢支持者在她自己的竞选活动中给予她的支持的机会。
不支持特朗普的决定对她的公众形象产生了重大影响，引发了人们对这位前南卡罗来纳州州长下一步行动的猜测。
她在退出竞选的当天告诉支持者，现在要靠特朗普“赢得我们党内以及党外不支持他的人的选票”，这一举动使海莉成为她在2024年共和党候选人中的异类。许多曾经挑战特朗普提名的共和党人在退出竞选后迅速站到了他的身后。
尽管海莉此后一直保持相对低调的姿态两个多月前辍学，她继续累了州共和党初选中的数十万张选票-最近在印第安纳州获得了超过12万张选票，约占22%的选票。
迄今为止，海莉总共赢得了近400万张选票，约占总票数的20%。
周六，在Axios的一篇报道似乎证实海莉将参加竞选后，海莉的名字曾短暂地成为特朗普的潜在副总统候选人——特朗普和他的竞选团队很快谴责了这一谣言。
川普说:“妮基·黑利不在副总统的考虑范围内，但我祝她一切顺利。”发布在他的社交平台上谣言浮出水面后不久。
但她在一个目前由特朗普主导的政党中的政治前景仍不明朗。
上个月，哈利被任命为保守派哈德逊研究所智囊团的主席。海莉在宣布任命的声明中表示，她将把“捍卫使美国成为世界上最伟大国家的原则”作为自己的使命。
最近几周，她开始再次在社交媒体上积极发帖，批评乔·拜登总统对以色列加沙战争的处理，并抨击校园内的大学抗议活动，表示声援加沙平民-但没有提到特朗普或他击败拜登的竞选活动。
在竞选的最后几天，海莉以越来越明显的措辞描绘了共和党初选的利害关系。2月底，她在接受《华尔街日报》采访时表示，提名特朗普领导共和党候选人无异于“为我们的国家自杀”，并在其他时候在发表贬低性言论后称他“不合格”特朗普谈到了她丈夫的兵役记录.
根据提交给联邦选举委员会的记录，尽管不再是候选人，但海莉在竞选结束前一直保持着健康的竞选资金——她的主要竞选委员会手头有780万美元的现金，她的联合筹款委员会有1170万美元的现金。海利的领导力PAC也报告称，4月份在银行的存款约为340万美元。
她现在有资格将这笔资金转化为一个新的政治超级政治行动委员会，或者将其转移到她已经创建的一个现有政治行动委员会网络，但她尚未表示这些资金在未来几个月将如何使用(如果有的话)。
Nikki Haley reemerges to thank big donors, not expected to endorse Trump
Nikki Haley will meet with roughly 100 of her biggest donors who supported her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week, taking another step toward reemerging back into public life following her defeat at the hands of her chief rival, former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the event confirmed to ABC News.
The retreat, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, will take place on Monday and Tuesday in Charleston, South Carolina, not far from Haley's home in the state's low country.
Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, is still not expected to endorse her former ally, now the presumptive Republican nominee, at the meetings or to ask donors to give to other campaigns. Rather, the event is being billed as an opportunity for Haley to thank her backers for their support throughout her own campaign.
The decision not to endorse Trump has been one that has loomed large over her public persona, fueling speculation as to what the former South Carolina governor's next steps may be.
Telling supporters on the day she dropped out that it was now up to Trump "to earn the votes of those in our party, and beyond it, who did not support him," the move made Haley an outlier in her class of 2024 GOP candidates. Many of the Republicans who once challenged Trump for the nomination quickly fell into line behind him after exiting the race.
But while Haley has maintained a comparatively low profile sincedropping out more than two months ago, she has continued to rack uphundreds of thousands of votes in state Republican primaries-- most recently garnering more than 120,000 votes in Indiana, about 22% of the vote.
Overall, Haley has won nearly 4 million votes to date, roughly 20% of the total votes cast thus far.
Haley's name was briefly floated as a potential vice-presidential contender for Trump on Saturday following a report from Axios that appeared to confirm she was in the running -- a rumor Trump and his campaign quickly rebuked.
"Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the V.P. slot, but I wish her well," Trumpposted on his social media platformshortly after the rumor surfaced.
But what lies ahead politically for her in a party now dominated by Trump remains unclear.
Last month, Haley was tapped to chair the conservative Hudson Institute think tank. In a statement announcing the appointment, Haley said she would make it her mission to "defend the principles that make America the greatest country in the world."
In recent weeks, she has begun actively posting again on social media, criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of Israel's war in Gaza and blasting on-campus college protests expressing solidarity with civilians in Gaza -- but no mention of Trump or his campaign to defeat Biden.
In the final days of her campaign, Haley painted the stakes of the GOP primary in increasingly starker terms, telling the Wall Street Journal in late February that nominating Trump to lead the Republican ticket would be like "suicide for our country" and at other times called him "not qualified" following disparaging remarksTrump made about her husband's military service record.
Despite no longer being a candidate, Haley maintained a healthy campaign war chest through the end -- closing out her candidacy with $7.8 million cash on hand in her principal campaign committee and another $11.7 million in her joint fundraising committee, according to records filed with the FEC. Haley's leadership PAC also reported having about $3.4 million in the bank in April.
She is now eligible to convert that money into a new political Super PAC or could transfer it to an existing network of PACs she already created, though she has not yet signaled how -- if at all -- those funds could be used in the coming months.
