Nikki Haley Puts Kamala Harris Challenge PAC on Notice: 'Cease and Desist'

Former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is demanding that a group claiming to represent her former voters who now support Kamala Harris stop using her name. Haley says she and Harris are "total opposites" and any attempt to link her to Harris's agenda is "deceptive and wrong."

Former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is demanding that a group claiming to represent her former voters who now support Kamala Harris stop using her name. Haley says she and Harris are "total opposites" and any attempt to link her to Harris's agenda is "deceptive and wrong."

The group, which says it's a coalition of former Haley voters, pledged their support for Harris soon after Biden endorsed his vice president. The group changed the name of its page on X and on its website, and also spotlighted that it has no affiliation with Haley or her aligned political committees.

Nikki Haley Puts Kamala Harris Challenge PAC on Notice: 'Cease and Desist'

But a letter from a law firm representing Haley's presidential campaign, shared with Fox News, demanded that the group "cease and desist from any unlawful use of Ambassador Haley’s name in your political action committee name, and from any use of her name, image or likeness that implies her support for the election of Kamala Harris as President of the United States."

The letter warns that if the group fundraises under the name "Haley Voters for Harris" or a similar name, the Haley campaign will alert investigative authorities, including the Justice Department and the FBI.

Nikki Haley Puts Kamala Harris Challenge PAC on Notice: 'Cease and Desist'

Haley's comments were directed toward a political action committee (PAC) that was previously known as "Haley Voters for Biden." The group started featuring Harris' name on Sunday, after President Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president to succeed him as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.

Haley launched her own White House bid in February of last year, becoming the first major Republican candidate to challenge former President Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. She was the last rival to Trump left standing before she dropped out of the race in early March. Even after ending her campaign, Haley continued to grab up to 20% of the vote in some of the ensuing Republican presidential primaries.

Nikki Haley Puts Kamala Harris Challenge PAC on Notice: 'Cease and Desist'

Haley was a very vocal critic of the former president during their heated primary race. But in late May, in her first public comments since announcing the end of her 2024 campaign, Haley said she would vote for Trump. And in a speech last week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she formally endorsed Trump.

Less than 36 hours after Biden's blockbuster news, Harris announced that she had locked up the nomination. As much of the Democratic Party – including governors, senators and House members as well as party leaders – quickly coalesced behind Harris following Biden's blockbuster news, state delegations to the convention started huddling the past two days and announced their support for the vice president.

Last week, before Biden ended his bid, Haley reiterated her criticism of Harris when it comes to the crisis at the nation's southern border. In her address at the GOP convention, Haley emphasized that the vice president "had one job... and that was to fix the border. Now imagine her in charge of the entire country."