It is legal because of the fine print in almost all fund raising requests. It might not be easy to locate, but somewhere on their web page where you make your donation is legalese describing how money given to them MAY BE used. So while they are giving to something named “Trump Campaign” the fine print might say that 100% will go somewhere else. Sadly, that's always been the problem with nonprofits. The Police Benevolent Fund famously did this. 95% of all donations went somewhere other than to the families of fallen officers. So if you gave $1000 dollars believing you were helping the fallen officers' families, what you actually did was give $50 to those families while helping to pay for the summer home of the PBF’s executives.

Not that it would matter to them, but is that legal?

Well, she doesn't strike me as being in denial about who will be the Republican nominee. She's not staying in this primary race to win and it's hardly pathetic to see her standing up to Trump and keeping that discussion alive right up to the end. Who knows what sort of impact she is having or will have when it comes to actual votes in the Biden versus Trump contest.

What would be pathetic to watch would be Trump with no opposition, whatsoever, on his steady march to the nomination.

I, for one, hope to see Nicci Haley stay in until the bitter end - as an irritant to Trump and as a wake-up call to Team Biden.

Alrighty then, Imma have approximately 25 of my eggs fertilized, give my "people" names, have them issued social security numbers, include my "dependents" on my federal income tax return and never pay federal taxes again... but not before I move to Birmingham, Alabama. Roll tide!

^^^^^ How to put an end to that bullshit ^^^^^

In other news:

* A grain of sand is a pearl.
* Pencil "lead" is a diamond.
* The oak tree in my backyard is a "resolute desk," although obviously a reproduction. :)

The 'calculus' of Gov Haley really depends more on the continued flow of contributions. There have been many articles about the Koch brothers and others who are betting Haley. If the $$$ continue to roll in after SC, there's little reason for her to drop out, especially since she seems to have *finally* written off the 'Trump base voter'.
IMO Haley already has her eye on 2028. She is triangulating her future:
* hopeful that another Trump loss - and we can expect a 4th cycle of'down ballot' damage - will convince the GOP 'establishment' to move on from Trump, once and for all; and,
* convinced that in 4 years, Trump will, if still alive, be too old and incoherent to run again.

“Tonight Donald Trump will come face to face with the horrific reality he created: speaking in a state that has banned abortion entirely with no exceptions for rape or incest,” Kevin Munoz, spokesperson for Biden’s campaign, said in a statement.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/22/biden-ties-trump-tight-to-the-alabama-courts-ivf-ruling-00142741

Well, yes, that's obvious. But then, so was "Bengazi!". And yet it served its purpose in undermining Hillary with a large minority of American voters.

The GOP learned the lesson that repeating a lie often enough will make some people believe it.

We can't rewrite history, but one has to wonder how things might be different had Obama being more outraged at "Bengazi!" and more vocally defended Hillary.

Well, that is only true when not discussing abortion.

I like the challenge to those who claim “life begins at conception” that goes:

“You stumble across a doctor's office that is engulfed in flames. A nurse runs out carrying a child and says that there might be more still in there. You rush in, knowing that you only have seconds before the roof will come raining down. You find a toddler sitting next to a large cooler containing 1000 frozen embryos. You cannot carry both…it’s either the cooler full of embryos or the toddler. Who do you save?”