trump and vivek's bumper sticker could be "trump-o-rama." i love it. i'm now change my vp choice. "how about fetterman for trump's vp?" i don't think it would work. i don't know if his wife is a fan, if you know what i mean. "any signs of bigfoot biden? we have not seen any sign of joe biden here." dean hasn't seen it, yang hasn't seen it, but we will let you know if there's a signing. harry from my below new jersey. "you need to rein that boy in." i need to put him on a leash like those canadian reporters want me to do. i need a leash and a whip. johnny is trouble. that's it for us tonight. dvr the show and always remember, i am watters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> sean: tonight we are broadcasting live from bedford, new hampshire. it is the night before the primary, and at this hour we are monitoring what is a huge unity rally in the granite state, featuring three former 2024 hopefuls, senator tim scott, vivek ramaswamy, and governor doug burgum is there, along with the current va to my front runner, donald trump. he could be taking the stage any moment when he steps up to the podium. in the general election, president trump now leads biden more than ever. look at this morning poll, 20204 tracking and meanwhile new hampshire, trump expected to enact big into mass primaries when you look at the real clear politics average. look at this, "the washington post," 16-point lead. according to emerson he's leading by a whopping 27 points. the latest inside advantage, that would be the poll where they nailed it.

look at that, by 22 or more. that was 62, 37. the new fake new cnn poll even has him up by 11, and last week it was 7. that same cnn poll found that dissent's supporters are more likely to back donald trump now that the florida governor has pulled out of this race. and while governor desantis won't be the 2024 nominee, let me just say one thing about him and his campaign. he is without a doubt a leader in our current conservative movement. he's in america first conservative, one of the most successful governors in florida's history, and you might recall in 2018 governor desantis won the state of florida by around 30,000 votes. four years later, he won the election by more than 1.5 million. why? because he did a great job as governor for the people in the free state of florida. he's a fighter, he always puts america first, we saw this

during the covid pandemic, and despite hysteria from the woke mob, he withstood all those attacks. he was one of the first governors in the country to reject lockdowns. he opened schools in august of 2020 and he defended freedom, and the free state of florida is now my new home on top of everything. but it is one of the hottest destinations in the world, and growing at a very rapid pace. of course politics is a blood sport. during this primary, governor desantis was up against someone that is capable of defying all conventional political gravity. that ron desantis is only 45 years old. his future, incredibly bright, and florida lucky to have him as a governor. now we are down to a two-person race between donald trump and nikki haley. we do have to give nikki haley credit. she's the last challenger standing, but she is in a pretty tough spot as of tonight. not only is she losing, according to the real clear politics average, by 18, but

she's almost down by 30 points in her home state of south carolina, according to the latest emerson poll. still the former governor, ambassador, is picking up support from an unlikely group of voters, biden supporters. what's going on here? take a look. >> will you give your support on tuesday? >> i met nikki supported. >> are you open to supporting joe biden? >> i voted for him in the last election. >> sean: i love the live free or die state, i love the people of new hampshire. i don't like the voting system. independents and democrats, they call it an open primary, they register as independents, democrats sometimes do, then they can vote in the republican primary. based on multiple reports, haley has a ton of support from americans who will likely vote for biden regardless of whether nikki haley won in the new hampshire primary. i don't like that system. still, nikki haley has an uphill badly new hampshire and trump is expected win he believed the polls, but the only poll that

really matters will be to mass primary. anything can happen. if, in fact, haley does lose by a pretty big margin, she will have an important decision to make, and that is, does she want to go into her own state and risk losing by a big margin? in a moment we will take you live to that trump rally. first, with reaction, fox news contributor and former speaker of the house newt gingrich. you are very confident after iowa that you feel the primaries over. i would assume that position has not changed. what do you make of the rise in polls post-iowa, and do you agree with me that they're more likely to go to president trump the nikki haley? >> i agree with everything you said about governor desantis, so i think he has a great future, has been extraordinarily good governor, and i hope he will stay active in public life.

there was the newsletter for tomorrow where i point out this is going to be the longest general election in american history. i think it is something like 287 days from wednesday until election day. donald trump will be the republican nominee. ambassador haley, if she's wise, she will find a graceful way as governor desantis did to get out of the race. if she is unwise, she will go to south carolina and she will be decisively defeated in her home state, and that will shrink her. right now you have to have great respect for her courage, her determination, her energy, her articulation. she is about as high as she's ever going to get, and i think, if tomorrow night ends as suggested, and i think matt is right, it's going to be trump

somewhere between 15-30 points ahead of her. well, two primaries in a row against the man who totally dominates the party nationally. the objective reality is it is over, and i think, if that's what happens tomorrow night, i hope governor haley will decide that she's done her best, just as governor desantis did come of that, in fact, this is now donald trump's party and we need to unify to defeat joe biden. >> sean: i think what we are seeing emerge is a bench, because let's say donald trump is the nominee and he wins the general election, in four years they will be a real open primary and i would not at all be surprised to see people like governor desantis, people like nikki haley, wanting to jump in then, as well. at that point they've got to calculate those 4-year interim periods of time. we now see the biggest number donald trump is leading over joe biden. we also see the lowest poll numbers he's ever had, 33%.

you see that he's losing a big part of his base, african americans, hispanic americans, women, young people. a big part of what we usually look at as the base of the democratic party. if that continues, how could he possibly come back? >> sean: the objective reality is, at a performance level, this is a disastrous administration. biden's illegal immigrants alone would sink a normal candidate, and it's just going to get worse, not better. chicago announced yesterday they have no extra space. new york got so desperate, they kicked out american school children for the night and brought an illegal immigrants because it was so cold. every time people turned around, the illegal immigration policy of biden, which is a deliberate policy to open the border and have the maximum number of people and to u.s. illegally, that's blowing up on the

democrats everywhere. second, the country is not at all convinced by the woke left-wing radicalism. simple example, 6% of americans are willing to buy and electric vehicle. the biden administration wants to make that 100%. well, you can't, in a free society, coerced 94% of the country into doing something they don't want to do. so i think on both policy grounds and performance grounds biden will get worse and worse, weaker and weaker. democrats will become more and more terrified. and i think this will be a bigger blowout than reagan over carter. i think this is one of the amazing moments in american history, and trump will have over 280 days to crisscross the country, strengthen the republican party, and campaign among groups who normally never see a republican. meaning, you have the time now

to design a true general election strategy of trying to unify the whole country. and if you watch him tone, he is very correctly move toward a unifying, bring us together, solve problems, six the big cities. not something republicans normally talk about. so i am encouraged that this could be a remarkable general election. >> sean: but he does have, potentially, as many as four trials facing him. what impact do you see that potentially having? >> it just pisses people off. we were doing some grocery shopping, and a woman came up to may, african american, works at the store, and she said, "i'm not quite sure i am for trump but they don't night i hate what they're doing to him. i think it's really unfair and it really bothers me." and i think that's almost every american. if they had picked one site and gone after him on one ground, that might have made sense. but when you see them coming at

him from every single angle, and of course now with the problems fani willis has in havana, it begins to almost be like theater of the absurd. >> sean: you're talking about the fulton county d.a. they have a lot of delays, seemingly, in the d.c. case, as well. i don't think alvin bragg has even decided he's charging trump within new york, the first set of charges. god only knows how that's going to work out. and -- >> people -- i was just going to say, when people realize that the district of columbia voted 95% for biden, that the current judge is a radical left-winger, that the current prosecutor is so out of the rules that the supreme court actually admonished him for having broken the rules and trying to get another republican politician years ago, they're just going to

say this whole thing is rigged. and i don't care what they try to do to trump -- when it is rigged, the country will rally to the individual against the establishment, and all they are doing -- i think they got trump the nomination at least a month earlier. i really thought he would get it by the time we got to super tuesday. i never dreamed he would get it by the end of the new hampshire primary, which was really the last great stand of the nontrump republicans. and it tells you that what has happened is the radical corrupt biden judicial department, the justice department, has in fact so alienated people that, given the choice, whatever trump's weaknesses may sometimes be, he is the person standing and representing all of us who need protection from an out of control left-wing government. and i think that gives him a strength that we have probably

not seen in modern times. >> sean: wow. coming from you, a great historian, that's an amazing comment. newt gingrich, great to have you as always. thank you. tonight, the crisis at our southern border is a top issue for american voters, and now after lying to her face, the board is secure, the border is closed, for three plus years, pretending that border was actually secure, joe biden is trying a new tactic. we have it on tape. take a look. >> sean: all of the sudden, according to joe, the border hasn't been secured for a decade since he was vice president. but it's just not his fault. he wants you to believe there's nothing he can do. by the way, there's plenty he can do. he doesn't need congress. he inherited secure borders and yet he wants you to forget about all those executive orders that

he signed making it easier to cross the border illegally. for all the aiding and abetting he's been involved in with the illegal immigrants, and all the money that has been spent by the federal government, by states, to pay for housing and health care and education, et cetera, for people that didn't respect our laws, borders, or sovereignty. he also wants you to ignore his battle with the state of texas while the lone star state attempts to fortify and secure their borders, do the job the federal government has failed to do. the biden administration actually sued texas, took them all the way to the supreme court to stop the state from actually doing their job, and today, mission accomplished for joe biden. a 5-4 decision, the u.s. supreme court ruled that the federal government can cut down razor wire and other barriers to free up the illegal entry for now. here to respond, texas senator ted cruz. you are a constitutional scholar. i'm shocked at the chief justice, at amy coney barrett, and then

going along with the liberal minority here. the federal government has been aiding and abetting lawbreaking. joe biden has not upheld his oath to our constitution to enforce the laws of our land. what else does texas have available to them if they won't do the job? they've got to do it themselves. >> that's exactly right, and this decision makes me angry and even more angry. listening to him flat light, and he knows he is lying. maybe he doesn't know he is lying, but anyone rational aware of the world around them would know he's lying. he said the border hadn't been secure for ten years, and just give me the money. you know what to? when joe biden became president three years ago he inherited the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years. we've made incredible progress securing the border, and joe biden deliberately, systematically dismantled it. if you look at the numbers, we went from the lowest rate in 45 years to come right now, today, the highest rate of illegal

immigration in history, ever. 9.6 million illegal immigrants have come in under joe biden, and here's the thing to understand. he's not unhappy about that, he doesn't want to solve it, he doesn't want to prevent it. he wants more. it was a deliberate decision, and when he asked for more money, it's not more money to build a wall, it's not more money to secure the border. he wants more money to process illegal immigrants faster, to move even more of them into every city in america. he wants to take that 9.6 million and make it 20 million, 30 million, 40 million. it is an invasion, and texas is bearing the brunt, that every community in america is paying the price. >> sean: you went the longest in terms of any one candidate back in 2016 against donald trump. i believe it ended after indiana. you had won wisconsin, if my memory serves me properly. he went further than anybody. you see what's happening here, you see these latest poll

numbers out of new hampshire. i would be shocked to believe that all of these polls that have trump up by 18, 19, 20-plus points are going to be that far off. maybe he will enact by five points come but it still would be a big victory for him. what happens after that? will nikki haley risk going into her home state where she's down 30 points and losing her home state? >> i think this race is over. last week on your show i endorse donald trump, and the reason i endorse donald trump is i think he's won the primary. the result and ilo are overwhelming. i stayed out of it to let the voters speak. you look at what happened in iowa, he won over 51% of the vote, he won 98 out of 99 counties. that is overwhelming. that is a powerful outcome. going to new hampshire, haley is close to trump to new hampshire. it's possible haley will be close. it's even possible that she wins in new hampshire, particularly because new hampshire allows

independents to vote in the primary. so about a third of the state are independents. they can show up tomorrow and on that day they can decide, do i want to vote democrat or republican? "the boston globe" this weekend wrote an editorial urging every independent, don't vote in the democratic primary, vote in the republican primary to beat donald trump. they said, "we don't like nikki haley but we hate donald trump." so there's a chance nikki haley wins tomorrow, that whether she does or not frankly doesn't matter. after that, it goes to south carolina. i think nikki haley will stick around, and she's going to lose her home state by double digits. after that, super tuesday, where she is down by huge margins everywhere. i think this race is over, and so i hope we see the republican party come together, unified to beat joe biden, because the results of this administration have frankly been a train wreck and a disaster for the country. >> sean: we are going to get to the president. he's now taking the stage. very quickly, how do you explain

what i call this trump phenomenon that he defies all conventional political gravity? the old rules of politics obviously don't apply to him. if he's arrested, after all that he's been through, people now see this as a persecution, not prosecution. >> yes. >> sean: had they just overreached for the last seven years and this is the result of it? >> listen, number one, trump has an enormous backbone. he has guts. he stands up and fights. number two, he broke the democrat party, he broke the media. they hate him. i enjoyed the conversation between you and newt gingrich, and he was right. had they been one case, maybe it would have gone somewhere. but this was so obviously a persecution that people are tired of seeing the government weaponized. that's a big part of why trump is winning this primary decisively. >> sean: senator ted cruz, we appreciate it. any thought that in four years you might jump back in yourself?

>> i've got a race this year. i'm running for reelection in texas. chuck schumer has made me his number one target in the country. so please come to make a contribution. the democrats are going to spend a hundred million dollars trying to beat me. so i need your help, and i will give you my word i'm going to stand and fight alongside donald trump to turn this country around and bring us back from the mess joe biden has given us. >> sean: we really appreciate being with us, senator ted cruz. this is a unity rally that is going on in new hampshire. it looks like trump is going up to the podium. let's see. he's with senator tim scott. >> thank you very much, this is a crowded place. >> sean: and vivek ramaswamy and governor burgum. >> i just visited the overflow room, but this is crowded and outside to have a lot of people. but that is like a poll, like taking a poll.

so thank you very much, and hello, new hampshire. we are really going to rock in new hampshire and have a little fun tonight. [applause] this is the last speech, and it's a little sad, that we'll be back a lot because we are going to get your energy prices down. they are going to get the energy down by it, i would say, a solid 50% within one year, i promise. tomorrow is the day that each and every one of you is going to cast the most important vote of your entire life. this is a very, very important vote. when you step into that voting booth, you are going to be signaling that we want crooked joe biden, the worst president in history of our country -- we've got to get him out. the radical left lunatics, the entire sick political establishment, and our nation's capital. we are going to do things and do things right. they are going to bring our

country back. with your vote, you're going to put crooked joe and his protectors on notice that we are coming in november, that we are coming to take over the beautiful, beautiful white house, and run the country the way it is supposed to be run. [applause] the corrupt washington swamp has done everything in its power to take away your voice, and i believe that new hampshire will be the place on earth for that period of time where we will speak the loudest of any other place. we just got back from a beautiful, beautiful state, iowa, and the expectations were good, and we exceeded them by a lot. we set records. it is actually a record in the history of the state. that was a record for what we were doing. and everybody was a little bit surprised, that we are going to win by a lot, but we won by record stuff. nobody has done better and we are going to do that here. i believe we are going to do that here. you do have to do one thing, you

have to get the democrats to stop voting in the republican primary. what's that all about? you know what that is? that's a weak governor. a leaked governor would allow that. democrats are not supposed to be voting in republican primaries. do we agree? [crowd reacts] but get out and vote, and i've spent a lot of time in iowa saying this. they had very big pulls just like we did now. we just got some in that are fantastic polls. but get out of bed and just get to vote. grab your neighbor, grabbed everybody. you've got to go out, because we have to win by big margins. the reason we have to do that, very simple. you know what the reason is in november. we have to send a signal that we are not playing games. this country has gone to hell. this country has gone to hell. we have people pouring in our borders. nobody's ever seen anything like it. nobody knows where they're from. unvented, unchecked. it's a terrible thing happening to our country, and you have to get out in the breeze, even if

you think we are going to win big, and i think we are. but you're going to have to show it, and we want to have that so, come november, we will be in a position where people -- and we have to stop the cheating. we are going to stop the cheating. [applause] the one way you know you win is when you swamp them. not drain the swamp, build up the swamp, in this case. tomorrow we are going to win new hampshire and then we are going to defeat crooked joe biden, and we are going to make america great again. [cheers and applause] >> [crowd chanting "trump"] >> thank you very much. if you need information or anything, nh.donaldjtrump.com. thank you very much. thank you very much. so, every day -- thank you very

much. that was handled very quickly. by the way, that was handled in record time, i think. thank you. good job. good job back there. thank you very much. every day, the republican party is becoming more and more unified. thank you very much. it was a good job. boy, that was quick. that took about nine seconds. [cheers and applause] thank you. [crowd chanting "trump"] every day, the republican party is becoming more and more unified, and you see what happened? we had a very good competitor, ron, as you know. ron desantis. he fought hard and he thought well, and i we have one left. we started off with it -- really, if you add some

democrats into it, we started off with 13 and now we are down to two people, and i think one person will be gone probably tomorrow. and the everyone will be gone in november. but now is the time for the republican party to come together. we have to unified. that's why i am delighted to be joined today by a number of outstanding leaders, big leaders, powerful leaders, greatly respected leaders, and they are also unbelievable competitors, and we are all on the same team, 100% focused on biden and beating him in november. i just want to introduce to you, for just a few seconds, a few people that have been incredible on the campaign trail. they've been really good and they will have a lot to do with what's happening in the country over the next four years. i'm sure long beyond that. vivek, please come here. vivek ramaswamy. [cheers and applause]

>> we love you, man. >> i love you back. it's good to be back here. we will speak the truth and get this done. we are in the middle of a war in this country. it's not between black and white, or even between most democrats and republicans. it is between those of us who love this country and a fringe minority who hates the united states of america and what we stand for. between the permanent state and the everyday citizen. right now we need a commander in chief who will lead us to victory in this war. that is this man standing right here. if you want to seal the border, the votes trump. if you want to restore law and order in this country, the trump. if you want to defeat the deep state, vote trump. if you want to fight inflation, vote trump. if you want to revive national pride in this country, though it trump.

if you want to revise our national identity in this country, the trump. if you want to make america great again, vote trump. that's how we are going to win this in a landslide in november. like reagan delivered in 1980, that's what we are going to deliver, and donald trump is going to deliver this november. reunite this country. you guys, do your part. come out on tuesday night. and this primary right here, to defeat joe biden november, and our best days as a nation are still yet ahead of us. vote trump, and that's how we do this. god bless you and your families and our united states. vote trump. [crowd chanting "trump"] >> thank you very much. vivek, we love him. [applause] he is a dynamo. one of the most respected governors, in the country, a brilliant guy, made a lot of money and then he said, let me

run for office. we know about that. and he is from north dakota and done really an incredible job, and he's a friend of mine, he's become a friend of mine and a really good one. doug burgum. [applause] >> when i became governor, it was the same night that donald trump was elected back in november of '16, in the world changed, because i've had an opportunity to serve under joe biden as president and donald trump. when donald trump was president, our nation was safe and our nation was prosperous. joe biden, his weakness has led to war. his weakness and his appeasement has led to our adversaries like iran and russia making hundreds of billions of dollars selling oil to china. economy, energy, national security, those are all three tied together. there's one candidate in this race who understands how to make

our nation more secure, more prosperous. it's the person who did it when he was president before. that's donald j. trump. [applause] biden has been a disaster on the economy, he's been a disaster on energy, and he's been a disaster on national security, including the border. under donald j. trump, our cities were safer, our country was safer, and we were absolutely economically better off than we are now. joe biden's energy policies are empowering our dictators, and hurting our economy. they are raising the prices of what you pay for gas in your car, food on your table, and energy to heat your homes. we need donald trump. america needs donald trump. the reason why we do is because he is the individual that knows how to solve these problems. he knows how to keep america safe. he knows how to make us more prosperous. i want to tell you, i've got and ask for all of you new hampshire. i've met a lot of you campaigning around the state, but the ask is this. tomorrow you got to get out and

bring your friends, bring everybody in vote, because the eyes of the world on new hampshire tomorrow. they're going to be looking at how you vote. we end this primary tomorrow with fantastic win, and it's not just america. it's every foreign dictator, every terrorist group rethinking their plans when they know we've got a strong and experienced president who will stand up to them and bring america -- and make america great again. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, doug. that was good. hey, they did a very good job, didn't they? you going to be seeing a lot of them come and we have another one. everybody knows him and today was the biggest story out there. he's engaged to be married. we never thought this was going to happen. what's going on? a very fine person, a man we worked so closely with, he was in the senate. he's been there now a long time and one of the most respected

people in all of washington. senator tim scott, south carolina. [applause] >> all right, all right, all right! [applause] if you want four more years of donald trump, let me hear you scream! [cheers and applause] if you want the race to be over, tomorrow, let me hear you scream! [cheers and applause] how many of y'all want four more years of low inflation on underdonald trump? [cheers and applause] how many of you want four more years of low crime and high law and order under donald j. trump? [cheers and applause] how many of y'all want me to stop talking so you can hear from your next president,

donald j. trump? [cheers and applause] four more years! [crowd chanting "four more years" close] >> thank you. >> sean: joining us now, president trump speaking tonight at a unity rally here in new hampshire. we will get back in a few minutes. joining us now on the set, fox news contributor charlie hurt. the coast of two it shows, "the five" and ""america's newsroom,"" and i will be a guest of hers. what do you make of where we are now? >> it's interesting, because we were here in this very place in 2016 and 2020. in 2016 there were still eight candidates left and it was that they new hampshire debate where you had what was called the

murder suicide of marco rubio, between trump and chris christie. just think of how much history is behind those eight years, very tumultuous, to get to a point where you are in a two-person race. nikki haley has set all along that's what she wanted. and she did help window the field. she's here for tomorrow, and the polls are not great for her, and i don't know if she got to the two-person race too late, but donald trump is they are bringing in doug burgum and vivek ramaswamy and tim scott, all previous opponents of his in this primary, all screaming "four more years." >> sean: and tim scott is from south carolina, which is next, nevada and south carolina. what do you make of this, charlie? >> certainly nikki haley got what she wanted. >> be careful what you want. >> exactly. now she'll get her one on i still think -- you know, i am a little cautious, just because, when you are looking at 40% of

the voting population here who is independent, and they have the choice tomorrow of going in and writing in joe biden's name or playing in the republican primary and trying to hurt trump and help nikki haley, i think it is too soon to say for certain. but if donald trump wins by 40 points or by two points, it's the difference between a slow death or a fast death. the trajectory is not going to change. >> sean: the number of people that switched, i think the secretary of state's office said about 4,000, and that ended in october. however you, have this large number of independents who could vote in the primary or not vote it all, and there have been efforts, organized efforts, to get people to vote for nikki haley and extend out what they think will be -- will force donald trump to spend more

money, extend the primary as long as possible, therefore that benefits them in the long run. >> is an interesting strategy. i don't think it'll really work and nikki haley has redacted that saying she's not trying to do that. if people want to vote, shall never turn them away, that's what she says. but this 40% independent here in new hampshire -- not the data yet, but in the country, did you see the recent gallup poll? 43% of the country says they are independent. so both parties -- >> sean: that the largest number ever. >> right, so both parties are shrinking. i'm really interested going forward, let's say president trump slows the nomination. how do you go back to an obama-trump-biden voter and say give me another shot? that will be interesting messaging and you will need to get some of those people if he's going to win the general. >> sean: james carville said -- and i pay attention when he speaks, i've had a number of debates with him over the years. fun guide.

crazy, but fun, but smart also. >> very. >> sean: one of the things he said, the third-party independent run this year is going to get a hell of a lot of votes. >> i think he's right but i don't think that will hurt donald trump. i think that hurts joe biden. >> sean: if it's no labels, if it's rfk. >> even if it is a never-trumper-type person who wants to run and think they'll be a spoiler for donald trump. i don't think it'll work. >> sean: what about joe manchin and tulsi gabbard? >> i think it all hurts joe biden. any alternatives -- as you know, sean, donald trump's supporters are not wavering, and the one thing that was absolutely declared in iowa and is true in all of these holes, the question for me, have republicans grown exhausted and do they want to move on? they don't want to move on. they want to stay and fight and they want to fight with this guy. to me, ron desantis' decision

to get out in his comments were interesting. that was the most interesting part, his analysis, "i did my best. people want to stick with the guy that brought them this far and they want to fight." i think it's true. >> there was a headline by philip klein that said desantis was like peloton in a post-covid world. you don't actually need you right now, we are pretty good with what we had before. >> sean: that's a pretty good analogy. who will be the people for years from now, when we hear, god willing, again, for years from now? >> i thought it was interesting that, behind the scenes, what desantis was saying and what is people were saying is, as he went around meeting voters, he said, you're our guy in 2028. if trump weren't running, we would be with you. >> sean: you don't disagree? he's a young leading conservatives america first voice in the country. >> 100%, and an extremely

competent executive. but he's a great campaigner. can he become a great campaigner or is that instinctual? >> sean: that's an interesting question. i was not that critical of his campaign as others have been. i will tell you i learned a lot about him the night he debated newsom. >> i bet. >> sean: because he came prepared and nothing fazed him. gavin came in with every preprepared line ready to fire out every bullet he had in his political gun. >> he's brilliant running as an incumbent, as we saw in 2022. yet accomplishment is to run on and people loved him. he beat charlie chris by over 20 points in the swing state of florida, which is no longer a swing state. so to me the question is if he ends up running in 2028 distorted as an incumbent, and the only way i see that is if donald trump decides to pick him as vice president, and i know everything seems kind of acrimonious right now, but i don't think it's out of the

question. if donald trump decides that ron desantis -- >> sean: and he would be anointing him his successor, because, before he came on the air, as dana rightly pointed o out, the day after election day, whoever that vice president is, they are probably going to have their eye on that desk that donald trump has with the red button that is not the nuclear weapons button, but for diet coke. >> they better have a better political operation then kamala harris. >> sean: well said, that's true. i'll see you on your show tomorrow. charlie, good to see you. up next, our own sara carter speaking with voters right here in new hampshire ahead of tomorrow's big primary. we'll show you what they said as "hannity" continues. we are >> in the first primary state and the union, new hampshire. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> sean: we are live in new hampshire ahead of tomorrow's first-in-the hyphenation primary, and earlier tonight our very own sara carter hit the streets right here in the granite state to talk with local voters about what they are expecting, who they are supporting, and the issues that matter most to them. >> i think it all comes down to the independent voters. >> i think it'll be a tight race between trump and nikki haley. a very tight race between them. both of them have good campaigns going and everything, but i think trump is going to get it. >> i think there's going to be a trump victory. >> i just really want a woman to be president. i feel like it's about time. it's been so long. i feel like women can really fix the country. >> nikki haley will stay in the

race as long as there are folks that will fund her. so if the millions come in to keep her alive, she will stay in as long as she wants. but we maga voters are not going back to politicians. we are going to stick with donald trump. >> what are some of the issues you think are going to be the biggest that will swing this vote? >> the border is first and foremost. that needs to be addressed, whoever is in office. >> i just think, for my future, it is so expensive now, even just gas. everything is so expensive. >> i'm concerned about rising prices of food and gas and all those things that hit the middle class. sean: sara joins us now with more. i know it's cold out there, sara. thanks for working so hard. generally speaking, did you get consensus where people are leaning? >> you know, look, i see a ton of support, sean, definitely a ton of president trump. i'm also seeing a lot of voters,

those independents, those undecided voters that are saying, "we haven't made our decision yet," or, "these are the policy issues we are most concerned about." of course new hampshire voters are concerned about the border, very concerned about the economy. the economy is one of the biggest issues i think that i spoken to people about today, and i think they will lean that way. as both trump and nikki haley make their final pitches, i think one thing is common among all voters. this is really a vote right now against president biden, and that is something that i think stuck out very strongly. people here feel abandoned. they feel abandoned by the democrats, abandoned by president biden, and we see that a lot with the independent voters as well as those undecided voters that everyone's talking about. we will have to wait until tomorrow to know what's going to happen, but i think the people have spoken and the people will speak tomorrow, sean.

>> sean: they certainly will. they always get the last word, and rightly so. joining us now, the cohost of the hit show,'s p24, jessica tarlov, kayleigh mcenany. there's one thing that just irritates me, i don't like this open primary. they have a lot of registered independents. about 4,000 democrats that reregistered as independent so they could vote in the republican primary, some to wreak havoc on the primary, i would argue. i don't like that part. that's a big number. will that have a big effect tomorrow? >> i don't think the people who reregistered -- they had to do that back in october. it wasn't -- i thought it was the 23rd. but it was a while ago. it wasn't a last-minute, "we are going to give you $10 if you --" >> sean: but there are groups pushing very hard for this. >> but that always happens, people want folks to meddle in the system if they can. letting people remain an independent is interesting. in new york, for instance, where

i vote, and a lot of people are frustrated they have to register the party to have an impact at all. >> sean: and when i lived in new york -- i'm no longer a resident -- >> i've heard. do you like florida? >> sean: i've read a couple articles about that, but i was able to register as a conservative in new york. but, often, the republican was also on the conservative ticket. >> i just mean, if there is a high number of people who identify as an independent, it's frustrating to be pushed into a bucket. so it is more reflective you getting to make a choice that aligns with your policy preferences if you can stay an independent and vote in the democratic primary. >> sean: i don't like it because -- >> because it hurts republicans? >> sean: it could work the other way around, too. it lends itself to meddle, and republicans ought to decide who the republican nominee is, and a sentence. not democrats having the option to flip to vote in the republican primary just to wreak havoc and then vote for biden in

the end. >> that may be a factor, and people who are democrats who want to vote in the republican primary by being independents and going back and changing their voter affiliation, that is something they are only doing as a short-term benefit. if you are a republican candidate trying to make your way through this process based on those kinds of votes, that is not sustainable thing. that's like eating white bread instead of eating chicken and having some protein get on the road. we'll see if it plays out tomorrow. i'm looking democrats tomorrow. they were going to throw new hampshire under the bus, moved to south carolina. and i have this panic going on. >> sean: they did so iowa and new hampshire under the bus. >> and they panic that maybe he looks so weak at this point to maintain stamina, or lack of, during the election against donald trump of all people, that may add to the argument that he is incapable of doing so and that democrats have to do

something about it. so the fact they have to write him in tomorrow instead of just waving it off and saying he is strong enough to go without new hampshire, i think that's a bigger story. >> sean: i think that was a big mistake on their part. >> a huge mistake on their part. he came in, what was it, fifth place in new hampshire? so he said we will move south carolina up, it's more friendly to me politically. he is an incumbent president and they have a lot of power within the party, and the dnc is really at his will. but you could see a headline tomorrow -- i don't think there is a reporter willing to write this headline, but you could see a headline tomorrow, "joe biden gets less then a percentage of the vote within his party then donald trump and his party, who is not an incumbent." there's universe where donald trump could get 60% of the vote and donald trump could look more like lyndon b. johnson, a right-in candidate is at 47 percent, eugene mccarthy just behind him, and he ended up pulling out. >> sean: i'll start with you, kayleigh. let's say that donald trump, these polls that we have now been seeing for the last week, showing trump up 17, 18, 19, 20

points. if they hold tomorrow, if you are nikki haley, you got an important decision to make. because now we are talking about going into your home state and you are already down 30 in the polls. not a margin that is easily made up. and i think she has been a great campaign, i thought ron desantis ran an effective campaign, more ways than he got credit for. all 99 counties, for example. if you leave new hampshire and you don't win new hampshire or iowa and you are going to go to your home state, do you stay in or do you think four years from now i'll try again? >> it is not within single digits, i don't see why you stay in. at "the new york times," they wrote, if she doesn't prevail in new hampshire, the only state that look even somewhat friendly to her begin to be vermont and the district of columbia. so you've got two options there, both of which are going to be drowned out by the fact that trump is going to dominate in south carolina, in nevada, on super tuesday. so i don't see a path unless she

thinks she needs to be a credible number two or that there some other motive involved. if he gets majority support, you're going to lose your home state. >> sean: katie? >> you can't say she hasn't put in the work and done what she wanted to do on the campaign trail. she's had a really rough week. she came in third in iowa. you have some of her big donors saying they were going to see you through south carolina and now they will see what happens in new hampshire. you have tim scott, put into place in his senate seat by nikki haley when she was the governor coming out and endorsing president donald trump, being with him tonight in hampshire, in this primary where she's hoping to gain some last-minute momentum to keep her campaign afloat. and nikki haley came out for nancy mace in a very tough reelection against a maga trim candidate, and nancy mace endorsed donald trump. so it's not just a matter of money but also a matter of support and where the party is unifying. she will have to decide what she's going to do. i understand it's very difficult

to say -- and walk away, especially from a presidential campaign, but the numbers don't look good right now. >> sean: if we look at a rematch, joe biden versus donald trump, joe biden is a cognitive mess. you agree? >> no. [laughs] >> sean: you don't agree with that? >> no. i don't. >> sean: not at all? >> i certainly think that he has slowed down from 2020. >> sean: just slow down a little? >> you want to talk cognitive decline, i brought my own montage. >> sean: nikki haley was mixed up with nancy pelosi one time, a guy who can speak for five hours straight without making a mistake. >> rambling is not speaking for five hours straight, including things like, "look what happens when i put magnets in water." >> sean: you seem like jake tapper. >> i sound like real jessica tarlov. it's not a small thing. if joe biden had confused nikki haley and nancy pelosi, they haven't come in the first letter of their names and that they are both women.

>> sean: he has not had an incident-free speech or appearance -- >> he did, actually. his january 6th speech. >> sean: somebody had to escort him stage left or stage right because he has no clue. >> they don't want him to speak to reporters. they keep him on a very shortly shortleash for a reason. >> if you guys think people are sitting at home and watching donald trump talk about joe biden getting us into world war ii, or "i need an i.d. to buy a loaf of bread," and -- actually, this is intentional, i'm trying to throw you off the sand. the man is bragging about passing a test that you have to pass when you have brain damage. >> sean: i find this amazing. joe biden has been a cognitive mess and almost every night i play tapes on this show, and there's three mistakes donald trump -- >> fair and balanced! >> sean: the guy that aced the real cognitive test. go ahead. >> the bottom line is the assessment of the american people. you look at any poll, cisco,

abc, nbc, it doesn't matter. two-thirds don't believe joe biden is mentally fit to be president. there's a reason why. apparently his press team takes a tally every time his age is mentioned because he knows it's a huge problem for him. >> sean: his whole staff, the world knows. the only one who doesn't know, jessica. i'm going to send tapes to your house. >> i am every day on "the five," and you can play montage all you want. how embarrassing for trump -- >> sean: more "hannity" as we continue live from new hampshire. stay with us.

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