Daily Mail published report on resurfaced allegations she cheated on her husband with her communications consultant and married lobbyist
- DailyMail.com reporter and photographer were asked to leave Nikki Haley’s campaign event at a diner in New Hampshire on Friday
- Ban came after the DailyMail.com published a story Friday morning exclusively reporting on allegations she cheated on her husband in 2010
- ‘Daily Mail is not credentialed for any more events. I’m politely asking you to leave,’ Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton said
Dailymail.com was asked to leave Nikki Haley‘s meet-and-greet with voters in New Hampshire on Friday morning and was told it is banned from covering her future campaign events.
The ban came after the DailyMail.com published a story Friday morning exclusively reporting that Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of engaging in two extramarital affairs during her 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial campaign.
The Haley campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment on the story even though DailyMail.com gave them 24 hours to do so.
On Friday morning, a DailyMail.com reporter and photographer were asked to leave Haley’s event at Mary Ann’s Diner in Amherst, N.H., a public restaurant where the former South Carolina governor was talking to voters.
‘Daily Mail is not credentialed for any more events. I’m politely asking you to leave,’ Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton said and pointed to the door.
Ask if this was in effect for the rest of the campaign, Denton answered ‘yes.’
Denton later told an editor at DailyMail.com that the publication was banned for ‘printing lies.’
Ironically, Haley took questions from the press at the event and spoke generically about attacks against her. Donald Trump has ramped up his criticism of her as she has risen in the polls.
‘If people hit me, this is politics. For me it’s not personal,’ Haley said.
To apply to cover an event, a news organization fills out an online form and then gets a confirmation email from the campaign to confirm it has been credentialed for the event. DailyMail.com has not received a confirmation for any Haley events on Friday even though it was credentialed to cover her two events on Thursday.
DailyMail.com has been covering Haley’s campaign since she launched her presidential bid in February 2023. DailyMail.com reporters have been at several at her events, including her official launch and with her on the trail in Iowa and New Hampshire.
On Friday, Dailymail.com reported on allegations of an affair Haley denied having. New witnesses came forward, saying that Haley’s denials of two alleged 2008 affairs are false, and that the supposed trysts were brazen and widely known among South Carolina politicos.
Will Folks, 49, and Larry Marchant, 61, both signed affidavits in 2010 alleging they had a sexual relationship with the then-South Carolina lawmaker, before she went on to become governor.
While the contents of the affidavits were described by major news outlets at the time, this is the first time they have been published outside of Folks’ own document which he published on his blog.
Haley, 51, denied both at the time, saying she was ‘100% faithful’ to the father of her two children and husband of 28 years, Michael Haley – who was deployed in Afghanistan with the National Guard in 2012.
Haley now frequently cites him as a reason for her presidential candidacy.
She has taken on a new, combative tone on the campaign trail as polls show her making a steady climb in first-in-the-nation primary state. Haley’s candidacy that depends on a strong finish in New Hampshire, which would include a close second.
Trump leads Haley by 14 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average of New Hampshire. The polls also show, however, that Haley is on an upward trajectory – in the past two months she has climbed steadily from 20% to 38%.
Trump is going hard after Haley, who served as his ambassador to the United Nations.
‘I don’t know that she’s a Democrat, but she’s very close. She’s far too close for you,’ the former president told voters at a rally in Portsmouth on Wednesday night.
His campaign is also hitting her hard with advertising in the state.
Haley finished a disappointing third in Monday’s Iowa caucuses but polls show she could fare much better in New Hampshire, where she has focused much of her time and attention. Trump won Iowa by 30 points.
This is the story they published this morning