After a third-place finish in Iowa, Nikki Haley is facing an ultimatum from her donors heading into New Hampshire.
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According to a new report, simply coming in second in the first primary contest of the cycle isn’t going to suffice. Her donors want her to either win New Hampshire outright or “seriously compete,” which one would presume means losing by only single digits.
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley is facing pressure from some of her top fundraisers to either seriously compete with, or outright defeat, Donald Trump in next week’s New Hampshire primary, after finishing third Monday in the Iowa caucus.
“I would still like to see her get somewhere, but the mountain she has to climb is enormous,” Andy Sabin, a New York businessman and Haley fundraiser, told CNBC. “As much as I like Haley, I don’t even know what Trump could do to stop…
