It’s debate night and things are getting spicy. Team DeSantis is tracking mistakes made by former President Donald Trump. The Trump Accident Tracker updates every day. It remains at zero days that Trump has completed error-free.

On Tuesday night, Trump participated in a town hall with Sean Hannity on FNC in Davenport, Iowa. The in-person audience was “massive” according to Hannity, who sounds more and more like his friend Trump each day. For the Trump Accident Tracker, Team DeSantis points to a mix-up Trump delivered during the town hall. As Trump was criticizing his primary opponents, he focused mostly on DeSantis, as he does, but he did slam Nikki Haley a bit. At one point, Trump incorrectly said that the DeSantis campaign is funded by Democrats. Trump confused DeSantis and Haley.

Some big-donor Democrats are lining up to support Haley to defeat Trump. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, for example, is encouraging Democrats to support Haley. “Even liberal Democrats” should support her against Donald Trump, Dimon said.

“Even if you’re a very liberal Democrat, I urge you, help Nikki Haley, too,” Jamie Dimon, the chief of JPMorgan Chase, said at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit, a conference of global business leaders, addressing Wall Street executives in the room who might donate to candidates. “Get a choice on the Republican side that might be better than Trump.”

Mr. Dimon had called Ms. Haley late last month to praise her campaign, but his comments on Wednesday were a far more public endorsement. He did not take the position that the nominee should be anyone but Mr. Trump, adding: “He might be the president. I have to deal with that, too.”

Haley is getting a lift from a super PAC, Independents Moving the Needle, that will initially focus on New Hampshire. Voters are more moderate there than in many other states. Voters who are not registered with a party can participate in the Republican or Democrat primary race. From there the plan is for them to turn to South Carolina and some Super Tuesday states with open primaries.

And, there is Reid Hoffman. He’s very liberal and one of the Democrat Party’s biggest donors. He contributed to a pro-Haley super PAC. Huffman, by the way, is linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Reid Hoffman, one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, contributed $250,000 to a pro-Nikki Haley super PAC, The New York Times reported.

Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn, has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and liberal-aligned groups in recent years. Hoffman’s quarter-million dollar donation went to the SFA Fund Inc., a pro-Haley committee that has emerged as one of the biggest spenders in the 2024 Republican primary, shelling out more than $33 million to boost Haley, according to the NYT.

Wealthy Democrats and super PACs for Independents aren’t flocking to DeSantis to create chaos in the GOP primary race. They are going to help Nikki Haley. Why would that be? Is it because they think she has the strongest chance to knock off Trump or is it because she is a more moderate Establishment Republican candidate? Maybe both, I think.

Semafor reports that some staff with AFP Action are leaving and going to other campaigns since the Koch organization went all-in for Haley.

The departures follow public complaints from some staffers who believe the organization should support Donald Trump or candidates closer to his political vision.

“I know a few people have left,” said Chris Maidment, whose role with AFP in New Hampshire ended after he criticized the endorsement publicly on social media. “I know several, who are still there, are unhappy.”

Haley critics inside AFP responded by saying they’d warned they might leave if the candidate got the group’s endorsement, NBC News reported. They objected in part to her support for funding Ukraine’s military defense, her proposal for verifying the identities of social media accounts, and her support for business tax incentives in South Carolina.

The defection warning has come to fruition: Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super PAC, recently hired two former AFP Action grassroots directors for its Iowa political team. The two staffers, who served on AFP Action’s Iowa team, resigned after disagreeing with the Haley endorsement, Semafor was told.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is also fielding resumes from AFP Action staffers.

AFP Action responded.

“This is a primary season, and with a grassroots organization as large as AFP Action, it’s entirely expected to see some individuals move to different campaigns or pursue other opportunities. But AFP Action has also heard from a number of people excited about our endorsement and interested in ways they can join our team and help the effort — including people who work on behalf of the same campaigns pushing this narrative,” an AFP Action official told Semafor.

The fourth RNC debate will be held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama tonight. There will be four Republican candidates on stage. This is the debate where it is expected that DeSantis and Haley will go after one another. Or, at least, it should be. They are the two candidates that are most likely to slow the Trump train to the nomination during primary and caucus season. It begins in six short weeks.

DeSantis is well-positioned in Iowa. He needs to win in Iowa or come in a very close second to Trump to keep the momentum he has going now. He did very well in the debate against Gavin Newsom. He is the only candidate to complete the Full Grassley in Iowa, visiting all 99 counties. His ground game in Iowa is reported to be strong.

The DeSantis campaign just released its third ad in Iowa today.

I’ll be watching the debate. I’ll probably be live-tweeting, as I usually do. You can join me @penguinponders, if you are on X. Don’t forget the popcorn.