♪ >> to begin "the big weekend show" with the fox news alert. governor ron desantis is out of the presidential race shaking up the political universe. former president trump and nikki haley are about to hold dueling rallies in new hampshire. we are two days out from the first in the nation primary as we began our live coverage from bedford new hampshire, hello i am kayleigh mcenany along with guy benson, molly line and charlie hurt. the big story, governor ron desantis suspended his presidential campaign. >> my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear where we package form of warmed over corporatism that nikki haley represents. the days of putting americans last of kowtowing the large corporations of caving to woke ideology are over.

kayleigh: desantis is back in florida after canceling an event earlier today in manchester, fox business correspondent madison alworth joins us live on the desantis dropout. >> the restaurant next to me was supposed to host governor ron desantis tonight and mark is returned to new hampshire. instead it marks his exit from the 2024 race for president. desantis took to social media technology was dropping out and to throw his support behind president trump. >> if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it but i cannot ask her supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources, we don't have a clear path to victory. >> despite finishing second and iowa, desantis did not gain traction to new hampshire, the most recent polls show the florida governor with only 6%. president trump who had regularly mocked desantis on the campaign trail showed

appreciation for the governors endorsement, telling fox news digital i'm honored to have his endorsement, i look forward to looking together to be joe biden who is the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country. there were some desantis supporters who still showed up to the restaurant this evening, they spoke to us, all of them were disappointed but they also understood why he made the decision to drop out. one supporter telling us he is not sure who he will support now. >> absolutely will not support nikki haley, her behavior this race has been well beneath the republican nominee and donald trump has never been something that is a father of two young children i support in the white house. we're going to have to figure things out going forward i don't know who we will support better to be difficult to stomach to support either one because they don't represent the values in the future of the republican party. >> the decision to drop out did not come out of left field, rumors circulated saturday night that the campaign may be an

engine ending with desantis canceled all three of his planned appearances on network sunday morning shows the campaign tried to squash any talk about the governor pulling out of the race by saying it would return to new hampshire to stump for the primary tuesday, the rumors turned out to be true. ron desantis was once considered the front runner for the 2024 race for president has now dropped out before the very first primary. >> thank you. now we go to martha maccallum who just spoke with president trump before his rally. martha maccallum, you got the first interview after this, what you president trump have to say. >> we did, you can hear the crowd is getting very excited behind me. they are chanting we want trump. we were downstairs speaking of president trump moments ago to get his reaction. his first on camera reaction to governor desantis pulling out of this race, i believe you guys have a piece of that sound. do you want to go to that?

>> he worked really hard it's a tough go he worked hard and his wife is a terrific woman and they both worked very hard and they endorsed me and dropping out he endorsed me. i appreciate that very much. i think we will do very well, we are headed to a very big victory on tuesday just like in iowa and i think maybe now it even gets to be bigger because most of those people are going to go with me i suspect. >> you can hear in his tone, i asked him a couple of times if he had spoken with the governor, there was a lot of acrimony between these two candidates for a very long time, we know that president trump felt that it was very disloyal and a lot about desantis there was a moment when governor desantis was leading in the polls, the beginning of 2023 he was never what a new hampshire, now he was in single digits. he said clearly there is not a path for him. i was very interested to hear that they had not been a conversation, no discussion at

this point about campaigning together. i asked him if there might be a role for desantis potentially and is a administration and he said were not there yet in terms of act discussion, clearly no communication from the take away that the interview that i just did which is interesting. we will see where that goes, president trump acknowledged, i think you can hear that in a moment, how hard this process is, how much families and candidates commit to all of this and i think it was an acknowledgment that he understood if perhaps the statement wasn't that warm and cozy and endorsing from governor desantis, you said in the statement, i said i would endorse the lead candidate and that's what i'm doing. we'll see what happens between these two strong characters and strong candidates, governor desantis of florida and president trump who wants to be president again. a difficult relationship to be

sure and today marks a new chapter. we will see where it goes from there speech we heard the former president intimate that will get the ron desantis support he got ramaswamy endorsement last tuesday now is above 50% leading amateur polls it appears a small single-digit block did indeed go to him, is it your sense on the ground have you seen desantis supporters do you believe that the desantis boat, five or 6% in new hampshire goes to the former president. >> i spoke with voters and i went to a bookstore and spoke with a panel of voters and they were split one very strong desantis supporters that she would never support the former president, the other one said she would desantis dropped out. >> i think there's a lot of surprising new hampshire that happened when it did and i think people felt like it would go through the race and potentially he talked yesterday about building some momentum, there's five weeks between this race and the south carolina race.

i think it was a little bit surprising but when you look at the writing on the wall with these polls and no doubt what donors were talking about with governor desantis in the polling numbers he thought it was time to leave. we will see if it becomes a unified moment for these two men who have quite a bit history. i think you will see some desantis votes go to trump they were in the same lane in many ways along the way. but there is some desantis boat that does not want to see the former president elected again. we will see how it shakes out. i mentioned nikki haley excited obviously to see desantis drop out, she is a one-on-one race that she wanted with the former president, she has been jabbing his age quite a bit, i asked him about that and he talked about the cognitive test and believing the criticism is off the mark, that is getting spicy the back-and-forth in the final days between haley and president

trump as well, we'll see what happens now that is a one-on-one race. >> martha maccallum, thank you very much. kayleigh: turning to you, i want to pull up the numbers this is what i was saying to martha, real clear politics average before desantis dropped out, you see trump at 50.3% and he's there because of a poll of the college pull, all of which came after ramaswamy, five digits appeared to go to trump which could get majority support with the desantis tailwind. guy: i think i saw a clip earlier in the day with nikki haley announcing to her supporters at an event that desantis got out of the race and they cheered. i said be careful what you are cheering because there is a good chance that a lot may be most of those desantis supporters in the state and other states down the line might flip over to trump. the likelihood being a little higher than going over to nikki haley in terms of the values that they embody and the type of

campaign that they have run, desantis was trying to run over a lot of the maga crowd and obviously at this point he was not successful and had to get on the race, it does feel that this is yet another huge moment of consolidation behind the former president and what was shaping up according to the polling to be perhaps a significant win for trump on tuesday night could become a real blowout. this thing could be over soon. kayleigh: the nikki haley campaign, i imagine the argument will be something like this is a state with 40% that is independent. we believe they will show up in the choices crystallized into the person race. south carolina, the numbers may look great for president trump but super tuesday 12 of 16 states have independent voting i imagine that would be the encounter. >> voters in new hampshire like to tell their own story to be the ones that set things are going to not listen to the polls and not be so reactionary to the polls. the most recent unh pulled it

just struck right before desantis left the race found that 62% of likely new hampshire voters who selected desantis had trump as their number two choice. we will see if that comes to play. when it comes to new hampshire voters they love the comeback story there famous for comeback stories most notably bill clinton in 1992, that was the second place finish the comeback kid story. the question is if nikki haley can bring it close as some of the polling the unh poll had shown a little bit tighter numbers at the 19 spread but an 11 spread. she can bring it close, did she get a story coming out of this in second place. kayleigh: you talk about comeback kids, john mccain in 2000 meaning george w. bush, that is absolutely correct. i heard governor desantis on friday with her colleague neil cavuto my radar went up, here's what he had to say, take a listen. >> would you support him if it looks like he's a party nominee? >> i signed the pledge i'm never 70 takes his ball and goes home,

that's just how i am i don't take any of this stuff personally, it's not about me it's about a larger effort and a movement. >> less than 48 hours later we have a trump endorsement. >> i guess the writing was somewhat on the walls after iowa that was a tremendous victory for trump and iowa in a massive disappointment for ron desantis, obviously. he banked everything on that and failed. but i think in terms of his speech and his comments today, his announcement today, more than his endorsement of donald trump, the fact that his realization that this is trump to lose at this point, i think it is a very clarifying statement. in the other thing obviously, he took a wire brush to nikki haley in the statement. and i think obviously there are going to be some of desantis

supporters who are never trumper's and who do not want to support trump. by and large, in terms of issues, i know that desantis campaign tried to insert some issues and to put some daylight and between the two of them there is very little almost no real daylight certainly no daylight on issues that are suppressing the people between trump and for that reason and the majority do wind up going to trump. kayleigh: looking at south carolina, the trump the majority support 52%, haley to enter 22%, of course her home state. desantis has double-digit support. you can see a universe where trump aggregates something like 60% in haley's home state. mo.guy: can she get a result new hampshire? that puts win and her sales where she can go home work for a month and try to write her own comeback story on her own turf

that's of the campaign is rooting for. i think were reading ahead to what comes next. i want to linger for a moment on this huge outcome today which is ron desantis getting out of the race before new hampshire even voted obviously is a huge disappointment relative to expectations, i think his high expectations were rooted in reality look back late 22, really 23 had a viable chance of becoming the nominee. after the new york indictment came down from alvin bragg in new york city, you started to see the polling average pull away from donald trump, people rallied around trump because they view that particular as illegitimate partisan, i'm not sure any campaign even a flawless campaign can overcome that dynamic. let's be honest this was not a flawless campaign for desantis team. and i think it's been a fabulous governor. i think that he could be a terrific president. even the rollout of his campaign, very online, it kinda

became a microcosm of some of the issues that he suffered from. they had a weird media strategy that didn't work out well, here we are, down to a two person race. kayleigh: the postmortems will be written in guy benson wrote his own for the desantis campaign. great analysis. tune into "fox & friends" tomorrow, lawrence jones catches up with former president donald trump and steve ducey gets to hang out with nikki haley. that is in the 6:00 a.m. hour. then ron desantis will be on a 30:00 a.m., all eyes on that. coming up on this jampacked big we can show, nikki haley plays identity politics on the campaign trail. >> all of the fellows are out except for this one and this comes down to what do you want? kayleigh: biden tries to sell another fantasy to the american people. a diner becomes a must stop for presidential hopefuls looking to make a splash on the ballot.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. molly: welcome back to "the big weekend show". and then they were to, nikki haley and former president donald trump, trade bars before the new hampshire primary became a two-person race. >> i heard trump say i was against election integrity. i passed voter id before he knew what a republican was. back in 2012. >> all that you need to know about nikki haley, every globalist, liberal, biden supporter, and never trumper is on her side. >> when he was president, he is good at breaking things. but he also proved he does not know how to fix them. >> perhaps worst of all, nikki haley is backed by the deep state and the military-industrial complex because they know she is a globalist and really a globalist fool who they can easily

manipulate. molly: a pull of the granite state shows former president donald trump's lead widening to double digits, he has 50% of the vote to haley's 39%. similar findings of a pull of the states gop voters with more than half preferring trump over his competitors, how will desantis dropout affect those numbers? we go to alexis mcadams. she is live in manchester. alexis ? >> how quickly things change and politics. earlier this week we sat down with governor ron desantis here in new hampshire, he told me one-on-one on the super packed but i'm not giving up on the granite state, i'm in this for the long haul. now he dropped out of the race and is endorsed former president donald trump. i also asked him are you looking to 2028 to run for president and he laughed it off. >> are you looking for an offramp, people are saying because you're pulling is lower here in 2028, what is your answer to that.

>> that is so far away. i'm focus on 2024. we gotta get our act together as a party. i think i will result really should be alarm bells for the party because the turnout was so anemic. >> take a live look on your screen inside of the trump rally happening inside of new hampshire right now. rochester new hampshire. watch. >> we want to thank the fire department. we have a lot of people out there. that is like a poll, i just want to say a very special hello to new hampshire is a very important place for me, you remember 2016 we had to come in here and when it and we want to buy 21 points and the rest was history, we went up and down the east coast through the midwest,

we went through and it was a beautiful thing to see, even if you look at 2020 we did better in 2020 than 2016. i think right now we have the highest level of enthusiasm that anybody has ever seen, ever before. the reason, the reason they are so bad, they are destroying our country, we have the worst president in the history of our country and he is destroying, he is destroying our country, i just told a very early and interviewer who might be right there, lawrence, come here for a second. get over here. he gave me a killer interview. [cheering] i just said the happiest person with biden's jimmy carter, jimmy

carter and his administration was brilliant by comparison, before we begin i would like to take time to congratulate ron desantis and of course a really terrific person, we got to know his wife casey for running a great campaign for president. he ran a really great campaign. it's not easy they think it's easy doing the stuff, it is not easy. as you know he left the campaign trail today 3:00 a.m. and so doing he is very gracious and he endorsed me. i appreciate that. i appreciate that and i also look forward to working with ron and everybody else to defeat cricket joe biden we have to get about. he has put our country at great peril, i just want to thank ron

and congratulate him on doing a very good job, it's a tough situation. it is a tough thing to do. i am thrilled to be here in the home of the first in the nation primary, do you know why your first in the nation i kept either unlike biden, i kept to their. first in the nation, that is right. molly: we were there watching former president trump heading off a rally and rochester new hampshire, we are less than 48 hours before the voters go to the polls in the state. rather kind remarks about ron desantis as desantis exits the race. >> i would call that a conciliatory tone, he called desantis and his wife terrific people, he said they reintegrate campaign over at desantis headquarters and he was saying it was not easy, this is hard to do, he was given a tip of the cap a prop and he said earlier in the day i saw desantis nickname is retired and knowing

donald trump, i would guess that there is probably some gloating happy behind-the-scenes but for public consumption, i think trump recognizes in order to be joe biden it is not the layup that some conservatives think it'll be, to be joe biden there will need to be unity on the right and it starts with treating potential allies as a dropout, the way that we actually just heard from trump which is a little out of character for him strategically it makes sense. molly: what do you think he wants desantis five or 6% potentially for the taking. >> he does and i think he will get back, that was a conciliatory tone and it reminds me of his victory speech in iowa where he praised his opponents and rivals that is the tone he will need for the next nine months if he wants to prevail against joe biden. i think he gets a desantis voter and the primary and the general. the desantis voter tends to be a traditional conservative person of faith and that naturally translates to donald trump. where i think his challenges, here and going forward to a

general election is winning over nikki haley voter and winning over the establishment voter and the independent which is why i think vice presidential pick is so important you must pick someone who helps to bring in the block so the conservatives in the base is going to come home show up rain or shine you need independent and the suburban women you need the tone. >> they are the people watching new hampshire, you pointed out several times with a strong voting block for new hampshire and they depended voters about 40% undeclared, they can vote in the republican primary, we will see what they ultimately do, your thoughts as we watched a rather nice tone for desantis and what do you think we will hear about nikki haley in the coming day that is left. >> a lot of the desantis voters the reason they were supporting desantis they did not think donald trump would win or could win or was going to get arrested and put in jail so they were banking ron desantis. if it winds up being trump and

he goes the distance i think a lot of the desantis voters will not only go to trump, they'll be delighted they will be happy to, they were banking on something bad happening. but it is kind of interesting, for months we've been talking about how nasty his cotton between desantis and trump and a lot of people say they could never patch things up, this is politics, they can patch anything up, i absolutely and i agree with you i think the vice presidential pick is good to be important this time. nothing is out of bounds nothing is out of the question although i do think he was a little bit sherman desk and eliminating nikki haley from the running as vice president the other day, i never quite heard. kayleigh: he said likely not. >> but there were other things that he said around that the major think this one, you might not be able to put humpty dumpty back together.

molly: that makes you wonder if you already have somebody else in mind that his thinking of. >> there is a short list for sure i think the scuttlebutt he is leaning towards a woman i think that makes sense. can i say something about the term establishment people are framing nikki haley is the establishment person who is left in the race, maybe if you look at who is endorsing donald trump, it's the entire party at this point i saw the campaign committee and the congressional leadership is behind him so trump is now the establishment i'm not saying as a majority if you like the way that he's changing the establishment that is one thing but in some ways she's the old guard but no longer the establishment because establishment of today's republican party is now lock stock and barrel behind donald trump. >> agreeing with you but i think it's important to note that is the republican party that he is remain in very much remade in his image. molly: challenging in her own state he also has his big-name

republicans backing and here we are a month away. charlie: is like a home fest the south carolina home francis bacon yet henry mcmaster the governor of south carolina, tim scott, all campaigning for donald trump. >> lindsey graham, trump is lining them up. >> i think president joe biden is skipping the granite state primary but supporters are trying to drum up but the effort may not go as far as the polling suggest. young voters in new hampshire would be angry if he won reelection, lucas tomlinson is live in rehobeth beach delaware at the beach. >> it's not exactly a lot of enthusiasm that were feeling at the beach, president biden went to mass yesterday and we did not see a large crowd since the president has been here and his enthusiasm with the young people

has plummeted and president biden is on the ballot new hampshire might be do to finish the fifth place in 2020 when he finished behind those in ahead of tom steyer but i digress let's read this out, young people 29% are angry with the president 21% dissatisfied, 36% satisfied and only 6% are enthusiastic, biden has the lowest approval rate in modern history for any president running for reelection dating back to the first national polls at the end of world war ii, his vice president is less popular. >> i spent a lot of time with president biden be in the oval office in the situation room and other places, he is extraordinarily month, he has the ability to see around the corner in terms of what might be the challenges we face as a nation or globally. >> biden's deputy campaign manager claims economy is a plus

for the president. >> i'm sure it's not good for them to talk about an economy that is booming with job creation and inflation going to and it's easier to talk about the age of those things. >> here is john kirby. >> one of the things that president biden has done very ably in the last three years the short alliance of partnerships and proof that american leadership on the world stage stands for something and can achieve results. >> president biden went out for breakfast in rehobeth beach and he ignored reporters questions including mine which was did he want people to write his name on the ballot new hampshire on tuesday? it's been untrue. charlie: we appreciate it. molly what appears to be a lack of enthusiasm among democrats especially among young voters. molly: it is problematic particularly for the democrats, they have always touted the

youth vote as a big part of the contingency, something they have bragged about said they want to get young people to the polls, the latest unh polling shows 23% of those it dirty 5 - 49 and 6% of those 18 - 34 would be enthusiastic that speaks about the enthusiasm gap, 29% of the 18 - 34 said they would be angry if i were the nominee. pretty problematic from 7% not so long ago, a big, big challenge. charlie: listen to the democrats. and they're talking about how much enthusiasm there is for joe biden it always amazes me, the willingness of politicians to destroy their own credibility by saying things like anybody can look around and say that is not true. kayleigh: that's why they said that people like kamala harris, the vice president on the view this week and if you looked, i believe she got some media training, if i'm a political

operative i'm going check, check, check on her appearance because she brought up student loans over and over again she's asked about january 6 and she pivots back to abortion, she was very much on message, she talked about israel and gaza bring back aggressive and young people were i would estimate the democrat among young people, they know how to utilize tiktok before the midterm elections, they brought on tiktok users to d.c. and met with obama and president biden had a universe of tens of millions of voters that they reached just like that. charlie: were short on time but i think it support to talk about this a writing campaign for joe biden because democrats killed the primary in new hampshire, this is so on point, they are now going to have a fake election on tuesday in which voters will not be heard. >> they rigged the system for joe biden because he is so weak not just among voters broadly but young people in particular, the pull 50% seem to be angry or dissatisfied, young voters if he's the nominee, very quickly on kamala harris, the vice president saying joe biden can see around the corner, really,

inflation, the border, afghanistan, name one thing were an absolute nonsense. charlie: he is seeing things not just the things that matter to people, that was a joke. kayleigh: i like to i laughed inside. charlie: live from new hampshire, the new york times claims that nikki haley is bringing the heat, does she have a problem with women voters, does this resonate with republicans, that is next. >> all the fellas are out except for this one and this comes down to what do you want ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪. guy: welcome back to "the big weekend show" a little chilly in new hampshire, thank you for being with us, nikki haley turning up the heat as she stumps for about before the new hampshire primary that includes what you might call identity politics as she flashes the gender card after desantis suspends his campaign, watch this. >> there are 14 people in this race, there were a lot of fellas, all the fellas are out except for this one and this

comes down to what do you want? do want more of the same or do you want something new, do you want to go back to a country where they decide who is a good person, who is a bad person, who is the right person who's the wrong person. guy: the fellas, one standing still with her, the lady and she's deployed this argument that feminine side is a weapon against some of the gop rivals in the past like right here. >> i wear heels not for a fashion statement, for ammunition. guy: haley seals not winning over some female voters, political underscoring her troubles connecting certain female republicans. kayleigh let's start with you on this one. is there a female problem that nikki haley has come i'm not really offended by her referring to the fellas, she does have a point of differentiation for herself, she is the one lady on the stage and she's the last of

the person standing. kayleigh: i agree with you, i have no problem with her using a point, let's give nikki haley credit where credit is due, she is in our party, the republican party, the woman who has gotten for this, she wanted county and iowa, stood up to president trump he blew it out of the water, she has had the most successful campaign of any female that has tried to run we had carly, michelle bachmann, nikki haley has done something that struck a cord, not enough to overcome president trump, and particularly the pull that signals to me that she has trouble here new hampshire and the suffolk poll when you dig down 93% of trump voters say their voting for trump, they're not voting for him because of nikki haley whereas nikki haley voters only 52% say their voting for her. there is a big emanation of people voted against trump i would rather be the candidate with people showing up voting for me. guy: there is a soundbite from earlier in the day, sunday burning features on the newschannel, couple of posters

discussing these dynamics, let's watch. >> i don't think she can break 35 right now. all of the numbers that we have seen it everything that we have done give her a cat. >> what about the mark the journal writes she is having a south carolina problem, that is her home state. >> she is, i think that's a trump firewall, that is her biggest problem right now, would you look at the overall party, 23 states have independence, most republican primary voters are in the suburbs which is really her strength and 49% are women. if she really needs to get momentum out of new hampshire and get within 20 in south carolina and have a campaign and if neither of these things happen, donald trump be the nominee come next week. >> with all due respect if you're talking about being within 20 in her home state as a

goal, charlie, that is tough sliding ahead. it seems like maybe the state, is tailor-made for her to make a splash in the rest of the narrative. >> if she still does an impressive second place, you cannot win by losing repeatedly at some point you have to start winning. >> especially in a two-person race. >> martha is exactly right she said a minute ago, nikki haley has gotten what she was asking for but i think the whole thing about i am women hear me rural is a colossal of republican voters. they take identity politics and really don't like the stuff. i get it some of it is joking and funny in whatever, it doesn't really matter. but she was wearing a sweater the other day said she who dares wins, she really does try to play it up as much as she can. but the part where it got gross was back in iowa she was talking about abortion and she said the

fellas, talking about the fellas don't know how to talk about abortion, fellas shouldn't talk about abortion, what are you talking about, men aren't supposed to talk but this vitally important issue to the republican base? isaac is a terrible misread and by the way, the people who are enthusiastic about her and i agree, she accomplished a lot, most of that is people that just don't like trump. guy: how much is leaning into i'm the one women of the race a smart play versus overplaying the card a little bit of both from charlie it sounds like. molly: i think it's fair to plate up a a little bit there's youngers young women that want to see a successful female candidate so there is a contestant that wants to acknowledge and she's come this far down this wall, i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing you meant to the political headline, it's republican women are not feeling nikki haley but at the same time republican men she has been doing well over 70% of haley supporters are men.

we will see how that turns out with the republican party on the abortion issue has been losing some voters that it shifted towards independent, we will see how those numbers shake out as we get closer to potentially a general election but she has to get there first. charlie: talking about that in the smart way is important and she did that in the first debate, something to keep in mind as we move forward. coming up next a granite state diner becomes the center of the political world during election cycles. we will talk about that straight ahead on "the big weekend show", we are live in new hampshire. ♪

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appear most of them come behind the counter and serve coffee to the customers customers really enjoy and look them directly in the eyes and asked them the questions, the media is usually around to broadcast the answers to the rest of the country. we do a really good job in new hampshire abetting the candidate. >> she's talking about a new hampshire tradition, retail politicking how important is that is that perhaps part of the reason why nikki haley has gotten as far as she has. >> i think it certainly to think about this today as ron desantis gets out of the race because that was his achilles' heel is not particularly good at the gladhanding that say something like donald trump is very good at. >> is a little tougher for president trump to get in and out of diners any other high-profile. >> this is a very small diner i

have been hearing it psychotic and politics and the owner was asked what is it like when trump comes with the various other candidates, when trump comes as a massive massive crowd, she also prays nikki haley since she's very good at interacting with voters and she loved him scott you get a real feel for the candidates in a setting like this. molly: is that what are the challenges we have a state like this a two-person race and they have barely more than 24 hours to get out there do this retail handshaking. >> for now but they have been doing it for months, i think there is some value to having the early states go first every time because the voters are practice that it and it's like hazing for these candidates, you're going to get quartered in the diner and a good asking my questions with the cameras rolling and let's see how you perform, there is value in that. >> it can be tough in the town halls where we seen a few moments over the course of this race were particularly nikki haley got dinged at a town hall. >> after really want it if you could run for president or any public office but especially for president and you have to

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kayleigh: welcome back to "the big weekend show" time for the big four predictions for the new hampshire primary. i will go first, bold prediction, i think this headline could be written, trump gardeners bigger vote percentage than the incumbent president joe biden as a writing campaign but i don't think there's a reporter that will write that headline. charlie: how amazing will the be if all of the drama on tuesday is on the democratic side of things and not on the republican side of things. as you point out the media will completely bury that. i do think it looks like trump is looking at a good night but the great thing about it, the great thing about a one-day

election, we have no idea until people go out there and vote and when they finish voting we will all know, if he does when i think is primate under probably pretty much over i don't know the argument for nikki haley after that. kayleigh: the secretary of state in new hampshire predict in high turnout it could pretend an increase in independence, your prediction. >> i think the people of new hampshire will tell their own story, they always do and always told a unique story that not cared about what iowa has done and they set their own path, the great opportunity to tell amazing story whether to come back story for nikki haley or a big victory story for donald trump but they're going to tell that story and as you mentioned on the democratic side an interesting right in the story as well, very unique. molly: it might not come to a quick conclusion, things are old-style in new hampshire they may have to take a look at the signatures, the right ends to the big headline. guy: the boston globe and suffolk have a tracking of the numbers have been getting better

for donald trump with each passing day, yet desantis dropping out, a lot of his support probably goes to trump, it seems like folks are closing ranks for better or for worse, i think trump will win big on tuesday night. but if nikki haley can win over independence in a big way in this state get enough of the republicans who want to turn the page on trump, this is a state that theoretically could be tailor-made for her to do well, she needs that to happen to have a real story moving forward that makes sense for you can sort of say there is a path. kayleigh: we focused a lot on republicans abiding is not on the ballot he did not put his name on the ballot there is a writing campaign. it reminds me if you go back to lyndon b. johnson, writing campaign, he got high 40s and as it turns out he ended up withdrawing from the race, there is something to be said about momentum on the democrat side the incumbent president doesn't do it. >> let's not forget that joe biden canceled the new hampshire

primary because he did not like what the voters did last time, that is who you're dealing with. kayleigh: i think it could be a huge political miscalculation having new hampshire as a le leader. molly: there are expectations there big headline visibly exceed expectations. >> this often surprises the new hampshire. kayleigh: there is new hampshire loves to surprise. coming up tomorrow morning on "fox & friends" lawrence jones catches up with the former president donald trump and steve ducey has an interview with nikki haley, "fox & friends" is live in new hampshire from 6 - 9:00 a.m. and then on tuesday night, the big night on fox nation, pete hegseth alive watch party from the goat bar and grill in manchester, new hampshire, it'll be streaming live on fox nation, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern time, that is all the time that we have. molly: we will see you next weekend, "life, liberty & levin" starting right now. ♪