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closing in new hampshire. of course, president trump looking to deliver a knockout blow to nikki haley and take full control of the g.o.p. nomination. but haley says no matter what happens tonight, she is in it for the long haul. we're just minutes away from getting the first results. plus my angle on what's at stake in moments. but, first, tonight we have reporters at the trump and haley headquarters. let's go right to alexis mcadams who is standing by at trump watch party. alexis, what are you hearing? >> hey, laura, we were able to check in with the former president today on the ground in new hampshire as he stopped at a polling location and to put it quite simply he is feeling very confident. he thinks he has it in the bag here in new hampshire. he thinks the granite state son board. why? he believes they like his border policies. and that's something that we have been talking to with voters, laura. what do they care about? the border and the economy here. really hitting home on immigration in this state. and, fox has also been talking to voters on the ground who say those are their top issues and that's what is pushing them to

the polls. how confident is president trump, laura? well, he said he is already looking right at vice presidential picks. many of those people could be in the room like vivek ramaswamy who i just saw walk by and other people who could be here in just a short time. to say the mood can is upbeat would be an understatement here. we will have to sees a those votes continue to come in and how things play out here in the granite state, laura. >> laura: alexis, check back with you. thanks so much. next go to nikki haley's headquarters where bryan llenas is on location. bryan, what are you hearing from the haley camp about number that they hope to hit or a threshold that they hope to hit tonight? >> yeah, it's a good question, i have been trying to get them to confirm the reporting out there that they are trying to hit a 47% number with independents. that's not a number we have been able to confirm with the campaign. but the reality is, laura, is that they are looking for strong voter turnout. and it' as they are getting that the secretary of state's office tells me that they are very

confident that there was very strong voter turnout today. it doesn't reach the estimated 322,000 with about 100,000 independent voters. we will see. we will find out shortly. but nikki haley campaign knows that they need those independent voters to swing heavily their way to offset any of the gains that former president trump is going to make among registered republicans in this state. you know, laura, we have been in new hampshire for the last week. and it has been all about retail politics for nikki haley. she has made about 100 stops. they have been at book stores and at restaurants and at schools. her largest one was 1200 inside of a school auditorium. it is a sharp contrast to the types of rallies and politics that trump has been operating here in new hampshire. she has spent more time and money here than anyone. and the tone, laura, has very much turned against the former president. that has been striking. she is particularly been hounding on his age. saying that he is too old and

comparing him to president biden. but it's very fascinating, laura, that is a tight rope to walk here. she is telling people in this state, she has told them that she is not a moderate yet, she says she is the candidate for everyone and also walking the tight rope criticizing the former president inside one of her stops where a senior citizen said hey there are senior citizens in this room when haley was going off on the fact that two 80-year-olds running in this race and america doesn't want it. a lot of things to look at tonight fine line moderate and conservative for the voters here in new hampshire. >> laura: brian, thank you so much. and, now, apropos of this conversation, the last gasp of the never trumpers. that's the focus of tonight's angle. whatever the final tally tonight is in new hampshire, donald j. trump is well on his way to

being the 2024 g.o.p. nominee. this is nothing personal toward former south carolina governor. she has been working hard in the granite state. if she decides to drag this out through south carolina or beyond, trump will still be the nominee. it doesn't matter how many donors or paid flacks tell nikki haley otherwise. this is not her time. now, it's funny to much watt corporate media though because they are so predict being. all she needs to do is out perform in new hampshire, whatever that means. >> haley, on the other hand, hoping to shatter expectations, telling reporters she is in it for the long run. >> nikki haley is making what could be her last stand, betting her hopes on questioning the numbers of undeclared voters and doing better than expected with republicans. >> laura: that's a nice try. guess who sets the expectations? the corporate media. so the press is so desperate to keep the appearance of a horse race, that they had this banner up on msnbc pretty much all day.

i love it. 100 percent for nikki haley. zero percent for trump. okay. of course, it's dixville notch, they had that at the bottom of the screen. >> all six voted for nikki haley. four of the voters were registered republicans the other two undeclared. you see haley out to a quick 6-0 lead courtesy of dixville notch where all six voters have their traditional midnight vote last night. >> dixville notch obviously just after midnight all six votes in a place voted for nikki haley. >> laura: okay. news flash, you need to win in order to alcoholic up delegates. and as someone who spent four years and four winters in new hampshire, i will tell you this if she cannot win a primary in a state like new hampshire, where the independents can vote, where she has the governor on her side, and where social conservatives have little influence, where exactly does she plan to win?

>> as much as y'all like to sit there and say trump is going to have this, the truth is you are not acknowledging that 70% of americans don't want a trump-biden rematch. trump has lied on tv and spent millions saying i want to cut social security which i never said. >> i saw that ad yesterday. >> yeah, but you guys haven't talked about it. >> brian: you keep say coronate, law, not tell the truth what you say on the couch. i'm wondering why you think i'm the enemy. >> look at the media. political class all coalescing saying needs to get out. >> laura: of course. i understand it has to be disappointing to learn that in most republican voter strongholds they don't agree with you on some key issues. g.o.p. about 8 and a half years to convince the voters that trump was wrong about china, wrong about immigration, wrong about foreign affairs, wrong about the deep state. but despite their best efforts, people like mcconnell, romney, christie and mike pence, they

couldn't convince the voters to turn away from the america first or populist agenda. in fact, if anything, the less support trump got from the so-called moderates, the more voters views solidified in his favor so why has this happened? why don't the voters trust the g.o.p. leadership? and the so-called mainstream? it's not hard. the senate minority leader right now is working with chuck schumer to squeeze out more money for ukraine and essentially keep the border open, calling it a big border deal. even though poll after poll shows the g.o.p. voters do not want either. no wonder they don't trust the party leadership. you can't blame them. >> the biden administration literally suing right now somehow biden could be trusted to enforce any new laws? it makes zero sense and the voters know. this now, haley isn't asking for

my opinion and she at this network, but it's kind of obvious. if you are a republican w who is seen as standing defiantly against your own voters on key issues, you are probably not going to be too popular. republicans want a candidate who reflects their views and, of course they also want to win? my vote this morning instead of voting for haley i voted for donald trump this morning. >> voted this morning why? >> i think the primary is over. i think that, you know, mr. trump is going to be our next candidate. >> laura: well, smart guy. even politico yesterday called haley's new hampshire bid the last stand of the never trump everies. and the g.o.p. chair in new hampshire, jennifer horn, just flat out said it's all over. now, never trumpers do see new hampshire as a make or break moment. right? we know that. but, as i said, wishing it were

different doesn't make it different so now what's at stake? why is this happening? well, we know tonight that you are going to hear a lot of chatter about continuing to go. continuing to keep this going on. but, in the end, we're seeing why donald trump ultimately won this. he won this because he won the heart and soul of the republican voters. that's on issue after issue after indictment after indictment doesn't matter what nikki haley says or decide to stay in. she will either be part of the solution for restoring prosperity and peace to the united states on or about or she will be part of the problem. i hope it's the former. and that's the angle. joining us now from the hoover institution is victor davis hanson. victor, it was striking that even politico called this the

last stand of the never trumpers, having spent a lot of time in new hampshire, four very lock winters and four years there, this is kind of tailor made for nikki haley style politics. >> yeah, it is. i don't know quite what the strategy is. it's got to be one of three things. either she is going to get a lot of media exposure and pose as a vice president candidate possibly to trump and say that she'll win more independents to the trump cause than she will lose maga people who won't vote for her or maybe she feels that she has got to be inert candidate and be there if donald trump by some weird circumstance with his legal exposures and she is there as the backup or tag along candidate. or if she really believes is she is going to come within 10 points and then be a viable candidate. it's kind of a catch-22, laura, to be such shy has so welcomed

in people antithetical people republican party it's lamb suicide mission. because even if she were to win in some weird circumstance, she would have the same effect that romney and mccain had as you remember in 2008 and 2012 or 8 to 10 million people did she was even viable. bringing in independents and all this money that is on the left, really, it's kind of a counter productive, i think. it's not viable. so i don't know what her strategy is. i guess we'll find out when we find out how close came if she is not within 10 points i don't see any of those three strategies working. >> laura: nikki haley is deciding to do what a lot of sort of moderate republicans do campaign trail lean in on the gender card.

not for the dei victimology. when push comes to shove they are into the victimology. uses phrases like fellas a number of times as a political ploy against g.o.p. rivals, victor. but i fought to remove the confederate flag when i was governor of south carolina are we still talking about the confederate flag? who is even talking about that. she feels like she needs to kind of prove her establishment credentials over and over again. i don't think that helps her ultimately. >> no, i don't think so. i think the republican party is on record that your superficial appearance is incidental not essential to who you are. we all treat people on the basis of our character, content of our character. so you can't have it both ways. you cannot be kind of dr. je'kel and mr. hyde and say i grew up in an area where i was subject to racial discrimination. the south was a racist country growing up and treated kind of badly and first woman this and.

this i can understand her logic. what she is doing is playing right into the identity politics. that's one of the fundamentals of the republican party that dei is an abomination and you don't touch it. it's kryptonite. we got to get rid of it. it's destroying the country. you can't dip your toe in that water and think it's going to win you independent votes or democrats that will cross over. it's a toxic ideology. i think everybody knows that people will bolt if she runs on that. they won't vote for that. >> laura: victor, you see other republicans who have challenged trump in the past. even disagreed on key issues. but they kind of stay within a space that is considered acceptable by most g.o.p. voters. think of someone like rand paul. he went really hard against trump, right, in 2016. but then he figured out a way to be part of the solution and the conversation. that's smart. others did the same thing. but, there is just no path

backwards if you keep going down this road. questioning trump's mental competence and age? really? >> it's not going to work because for whatever people say, this is not the republican party of romney or bush or mccain. this is a populist movement. and it's against the by coastal elites and subsidized very poor. it's the upper metal class facial rather than free trade. et cetera, et cetera. when you try to bring in people that don't believe that agenda, even though that's what the majority now believes and it's been successful as we saw from 2017 to '21, i don't understand, we have been there, done that it didn't work. and it hurts the republicans. you don't want a bunch of billionaires saying this is our romney candidate or this is our mccain candidate. i don't know what other -- i

guess she feels there is no other alternative for her. it's not good. it's not good for the future of the trump candidacy. at some point she needs to either do well in new hampshire, her idealistic primary. it's a perfect primary for her. if she can't do that, then i think she should face reality. i know it's early in the primary. unless she is running for vice president as i said or a backup in case something happens legally to trump, i don't see the pathway at all for her, other than just trying to restructure the republican party that is never going to go back to what it was? >> laura: even some of the big donors today with cavuto were saying, you know, there is not a huge sign in new hampshire for her, then time to wrap it up. we will see how much they are going to open their pocketbooks after tonight. victor, thank you. all right, the first results from new hampshire are just now starting to come in. and ahead, a surprising issue at the top of voters' minds that could actually swing tonight's

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>> laura: results from new hampshire are coming in. looks like we just have 4% of the results so far. you are going to see the numbers come up at the bottom of the screen. they will be updating and sandra

smith has exclusive new information from our very cool fox news analysis of what voters are thinking in new hampshire tonight. sandra, do tell. >> sandra: hey, laura, good see you. brand new information for viewers right now. fox news viewer analysis survey. it has been in touch with more than 1800 republican voters there in new hampshire. and so far here are some of our top findings. when it comes to the top issues for voters on the ground there, it is a very similar story to iowa. if not the economy, it was immigration. number one for voters on the ground there. 42%, it stops tops the list as the most important issue for them facing the country today. fewer, 31% feel the economy is the number one problem. all the other issues, including foreign policy and abortion, look at that, they fall in the single digits. so, why all in this worry about immigration? we also asked voters about that as well. when it comes to immigrants in the u.s. 69% of new hampshire republicans

feel immigrants are hurting the country. 28% think that they do more to help. next up, we also asked that question about u.s. involvement in other countries. and what the appetite is for more or less involvement. as you can see here, 52% of g.o.p. voters want the country to take a less active role while 30% think our involvement around the world should stay as it is. there is little appetite as you can see for increasing our efforts around the world. that number is at 16%. now, closer to home, when it comes to family finances, something everybody cares about, our financial situation. on the money front, just 12% say that they feel like they are getting ahead in today's economy. most, nearly 6 in 10 say they are merely holding steady. unfortunately, 28% say they are falling behind on paying their bills and saving money. which leads understandably to

our next finding. on g.o.p. voters and change. this is also a really telling response from voters on the ground there. 54% say they want substantial change in how the country is run. plus another 29% say they want complete and total upheaval. laura, i remember we looked at this with you with iowa. you put that together, you suddenly have 83% of voters in new hampshire who say they want at least substantial change in how the country is run today. and that is a really interesting take away from what we have seen so far. >> laura: wow, well, sandra, 9 idea that immigration in new hampshire is the number one issue. >> sandra: top issue. >> laura: is staggering. that tells you how far this issue has moved into the interior part of the country. sandra, fascinating. thank you so much. >> sandra: thank you. >> laura: we haven't seen the text of the so-called bipartisan

senate border bill. senators we have been talking to have no idea what is in it either. it's obvious whatever does come out it's only going to make the crisis at the border worse. kamala harris is now admitting that it's all about amnesty and we should just be focusing on equity. >> the solution includes putting resources at the border. to do what we can to process people effectively and putting in place laws that actually allow for a meaningful boston to citizenship. dreamers have been treated very badly. the negotiations that are happening right now, i hope, are going to be directed at solutions generally focus cussed on fixes all the problems including equities. >> laura: pete joins us from the new hampshire bar and grill. i know that place, pete. are patrons at the goat worried about the border? >> pete: it seems to be issue number one, laura. you are exactly right.

republican bar here the goat in manchester. when you talk to folks that has been a number one because of the three years of the absolute abdication on our southern border which they believe is clearly intentional. and that's why we have seen it at top the list. i think, laura, that bodes very well for donald trump who as you pointed out made this a signature issue when he first ran in 2015 and 2016. the rest of the party has been playing catch up all the way until now. so if that holds, could be a good night for donald trump. real quick, we are here with the new hampshire republican party. just had a chance to talk to the chairman. they are getting unofficial results in right now. just took a look at his phone. one ward in manchester, 1200 votes trump. 800 nikki haley. they said that was a center right district. another ward had 600 trump, 300 nikki haley. again, unofficial. that was more center left. so, said roughly two to go on exit polls internally on the

party. those are notoriously tough to read, laura. it's going to be an interesting night. will it be a big win or a thin win i think that's the margin we are looking at. while everybody should be watching the channel i'm fixated on this screen right now with the percentages where they move. while you are watching the channel tune in to fox nation we are having a watch party behind the scenes ben domenech. director of the national institute of politics. kilmeade might stop by. jimmy failla. we will watch along with you. we will be watching you. we will be watching fox and having a conversation on fox nation poll it up on ipad or iphone as well. >> laura: what a lot of fun. pete, thank you so much. the first polls have closed in new hampshire. of the results are beginning to come in. check in now with the surrogates from the trump and haley campaign. so buckle up. that's next. ♪

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>> mr. president. >> mr. president staying super tuesday is she a threat to you. >> no. no. i don't care if she stays in. let her do whatever she wants. it doesn't matter. >> nikki haley wanted it to be a two-person race, right? she got that. do you think it goes in her favor at all. >> i think it hurts her, actually. >> laura: donald trump very gracious and sounds pretty confident as results start coming in from new hampshire. the former president is looking ahead doesn't seem to be holding any grudges as we head toward a likely 2020 rematch against president biden. now, south carolina congressman ralph norman is backing nikki haley and he joins me now. congressman, i keep hearing that if nikki haley out performs expectations that it will be a sign she sudden stay in for the long haul. could you explain that for us tonight? >> first of all, laura, we had

iowa and this is the second primary. caucus in iowa and now the primary. are we avoiding the other 48 states? nikki haley is started out dead last out of 13. she is now one of two that's left i really take issue -- and i love your show. but i heard your monologue for you to say that she is part of the establishment. for you to say that she is never trumper and she is not part of the solution, part of the problem. that's not for the media to say, laura. let the voters decide. >> laura: first of all, ralph, first of all, you know, i appreciate you. and back at you. i have great respect for you. this is nothing personal about nikki haley. in pretty much everywhere national survey, way beyond new hampshire, a state that i know very well because i lived there years ago but i lived there. if you can't win big in new hampshire when you are nikki haley with all the billionaire's money you got and all the money

you are pouring in, if you can't win in a state, then where are you going to win? and that, my point to nikki haley is you should be part of the future of the party there is no reason she shouldn't be. she is prolonging the obvious when clearly the nation wants a substantial change and the substantial change is a guy, it looks like, and maybe you are right. maybe there will be this magical surge for nikki haley. it seems to be that the people would like a matchup from the guy who is getting hounded by the deep state and the guy who actually took us through peace and prosperity against joe biden and his globalist handlers. and, look, the numbers are what the numbers are. i mean, you guys can get mad. i get it. it's not fun to lose. it's not fun to put in all this time and money. i get it explain where she is going to win big if she doesn't win thinking about new hampshire? >> let's see how she does in new hampshire. let's see where she goes from

here. i can tell you the -- for all the news media and the pundits just to say that basically what you said, that just fires her up. look, in every poll, nikki haley beats joe biden by a substantial amount. donald trump is very close. but not to the margin that nikki haley is. and, second, let me ask you, this laura, if nikki haley was everything y'all are saying and donald trump is, she is a globalist and all that, he endorsed her to lead the america on the united nations as ambassador. was he wrong? no. donald trump. >> laura: he endorsed a lot of people that ended up, you know, obviously highly critical of him and they have parted ways. again, nothing personal. but just because he endorsed -- people endorse people all the time and then they part ways. sometimes they get back together. but that doesn't -- i mean, you have been around this game a long time. you know how it goes. >> laura, he didn't endorse her. he picked her.

she represented the united states. look, i don't take it personal either. that's why, you know, everybody -- it's interesting the people that endorse mr. trump. if you look back when he ran in '16, jeb bush had seven huge endorsements, marco rubio had six. how many did donald trump have? he had the lt. governor of south carolina who is now governor. so, it's not hot endorsements is. it's the person. nikki haley is the only candidate that has risen and let's see how it plays out. let the people decide. >> laura: of course the people are going to decide. it's certainly not decided, congressman, by the fact that there is national polls that show that nikki haley will win by larger margin. the republican primary is what it is. i mean, she spent more money than anyone in iowa, right? and she came in third. she couldn't even beat ron desantis who was obviously really having struggles at that point. i get it and i get the fact that all these billionaires, you know, are lining up and have big fundraisers nothing wrong with that they should have their say as well.

i mean, at some point, if you can't win in a state like new hampshire, the voters are sending you a message and, again, we will see. there could be an amazing surge and it will be fascinating and probably really really interesting to watch. final word, congressman. >> can i say one other thing, laura? i watched joe biden in north carolina. he can't count to one. i'm not sure he is going to be the candidate in this race. so a lot of things could change. polls go up and down. and i look forward to seeing how new hampshire is and we'll see how it works. we'll live to fight another day. >> laura: congressman, do you think that donald trump is too old to be the nominee? because that was -- nikki haley was indicating that in various appearances. >> well, look, if airline pilots have an age limit of 65, are you at your top of your game at 80? i would question that vs. somebody who is 52. secondly, he is only going to get 36 months in office.

i know it's a four year term but it's politics the last year. 36 months to turn the damage that this administration has done, i don't buy it. we need 8 years and she will enact so many of what president trump was right on, which the border, you keep mentioning that she is going to start deporting illegal aliens the minute she is sworn in. and many other things to get this economy right. >> laura: well, we will see if the voters of new hampshire and beyond think that nikki haley is stronger on the border than donald trump and, sir, you know, you could be very well right and i could be wrong. i don't think so. it's great to have you on. all right. joe biden may have skipped his own party's primary contest. but, a new report says that the president and his campaign's inner circle are watching tonight. watching these results coming out of new hampshire very closely. because they are saying it's going to give them a much needed jolt of energy with voters and donors who don't want to see trump back in the white house. joining me now live from the ground in the granite state is caroline leavitt national press

secretary for the trump campaign. caroline, i don't know if you heard congressman nor man, who is a surrogate for nikki haley but he rejects idea that nikki haley is a globalist which is a criticism nikki haley compared to donald trump. and you say? >> >> well that, is the truth. nikki haley is an open border globalist, who is bought and paid for not just by the republican establishment but also by democrat donors that are fueling her campaign. her campaign is run by democrat staffers here on the ground in new hampshire. they have made a very vocal and concerted effort to have democrat voters infiltrate today's primary. and with all due respect to the congressman, laura, he couldn't answer your question about what nikki haley's pathway to victory is. that's because she has never had a practical pathway to the nomination, never has, never will. we are 100 percent confident that president trump will have a big victory here in new hampshire tonight just as he did in the great state of iowa.

don't forget, laura historic defeat over hillary clinton in 2016 voters have a long and deep connection with president trump and our campaign is fueled not by democrat operatives and donors but by grass roots patriots across new hampshire and across this country who believe in president trump love this country and state and want to make america great again. >> laura: we will see what happens by the end of this hour. we will see where we are and karoline, thank you so much. bill hemmer is at the big board with the latest results coming out of the granite state. don't go away. ♪

>> families of immigrants that are terrified tonight. >> this was a white lash. this was a white lash against a changing country. >> that's a pretty extraordinary thing to say if you have a son in the marine corps and that you don't trust the commander-in-chief. the people in the military defend the constitution. >> we never knew this would befall us. this has never happened before to our country. this is history. god bless america. >> laura: oh, man, that still makes me laugh from 2016. election night. but not much has changed for the

liberal media. that was the meltdown of almost 8 years ago. but, let's fast-forward 8 years or so. and the talking heads are worried about what will happen again if trump starts winning again. >> you have got to question the trump supporters about their incoherence thousand win an election. >> what he is offering what he both sort of inherently offers and now more and more explicitly offers which is if you pick me, that will be the end of politics. and you won't have to deal with politics anymore. going to act like a dictator. >> you have a team of weirdoes and wackoes who thought this thing through. you thought that last ride was bumpy, this is going to be insane. >> laura: ha. chris bedford common sense society joins me now. chris, they were d dumbfounded y the populist spirit in the united states.

people say enough middle class wages aren't going up. the border is open. we want america first. they were dumbfounded. people actually wanted to have a country. and now almost 8 years later, apparently they haven't learned anything. >> they haven't learned a darn thing because they haven't tried to. i was initially surprised 8 years ago when i went to new hampshire where i was at exactly for this night. talking to different working people staying in between donald trump who was considered a kind of a conservative republican and bernie sanders, left wing of the democratic party. that didn't seem to make sense until you realized there is so much pressure building in the united states amongst people who felt like neither the g.o.p. and nor the democratic party was listening to them. the uniparty was going on as normal. there was a lot of pressure building. i don't think any of that pressure has released. in those couple of years, you would hope the people who do this for a living would try to figure out where the anger is coming from. where that resentment is coming from. where the populist surge is coming from. why are people upset.

but there has been no not just on the left but the right. i was going through national review's top articles today and they're complaining the voters aren't always right. they are wrong all the time. it's an absolute meltdown over there just like you see on msnbc. >> laura: i remember the never trump entire issue that national review put out. the collector's edition. the purple one. we noticed in the fox voter analysis, which is fascinating, 1800 new hampshire primary voters it tracks what we have been seeing other polling outfits over the last year or so, people want less foreign intervention. they want more border enforcement, and they want to be back on the trail of peace and prosperity. it's not really changed. but this has been the case for years and years and years, has it not, chris bedford? >> it has. but the noise was so much between 2016 and 2020 the

distractions were so common and flipouts so insane it was easy to lose track just why donald trump had brought so much more hatred down on him than mitt romney or george w. bush or other people really had. you look back in retrospect with the noise behind you and say what did he do? until covid the economy was doing great. the united states was actually the first president in many presidents who had law firmed the united states in any kind of wars abroad. the border was actually -- he proved that d.c. was lying. you could actually secure the border it wasn't an impossible thing to do. he pushed back against elite class. i think it was because he was the first republican to not just be controlled opposition. now, he certainly had his failings. and they were on display. hopefully his team may have learned from some of those. what america needs is no more controlled opposition. that's what the left hates. >> laura: okay. the results are coming in. we will get to an update in just a minute. i want to play something from on msnbc, they are trying to grapple with the idea whether

they should cover trump at all. chris haze going back and forth on this. kind of unsatisfying attack line put cards on the speech. in the speech kay to the particular fairly or unfairly. the unfair stuff she says are the politically minded cases that he is defending in court some of them she points out manhattan, for example. that's pretty unsatisfying answer, too. >> laura: well, of course, you know, msnbc host want nikki haley to attack donald trump more. but that serves their purposes because they want to help biden but, of course, it leaves nikki haley and john kasich and jeff flake and liz cheney land, does it not? >> >> it does. a lot of these folks, they are able to justify completely breaking from their jobs to be informers states men job report the news. they justify all kinds of things they think of themselves as some

kind of historic soldiers in little fantasy book. fighting the nazis of normandy. when it actually comes down, we have seen since 2020, these are the people who call for churches to shut down and priests to be arrested. these are the people who separate you from your children and your wives and your parents in the hospital. these are the people who try to keep your children out of school so they think of themselves as part of the resistance and donald trump and all of his supporters are something evil. they use that to break down every sort of ethical guideline there is. at the end of the day, they are cowards. >> laura: just for the record, chris hayes, wasn't a soundbite, it was a quote. he said the feedback i get from viewers is why are you covering trump so much? because he is the most singular threat to the american constitutional order since the american civil war. that's my answer to that question which is, i think, absolutely true. so, they are going to be in a pickle here, right? because what are they not going to cover him at all but then they are like well he is a big threat to democracy. there is never going to be

another election. is he a dictator. they are caught between a rock and hard place. chris, i had to get that. thank you so much. the last polling stations are just about to close in new hampshire. bill hemmer joins us now at the board with some early results. bill? >> bill: hey, laura, good evening to you. just taking a glance at this now. too early to call. as you mentioned some communities are still open about 20 towns throughout new hampshire, some large, some medium, some small about close at 8:00. maybe we will see when we get to make a call. here's where we are right now. just about 8:00 east coast time donald trump has about just under a 10-pint lead at 9.6. raw vote total there is more than 5,000 votes. we scan the map here at 17% of the estimated vote in. you move down here to hillsborough county, laura, this is right along the border with the commonwealth of massachusetts. it's the largest, most populated county in the state. one out of 10, 30% of the state population here. donald trump with an 11 point

edge there in hillsborough county. his campaign is going to like that a lot. we are looking at some of the individual towns right now. trying to find out where nikki haley right now is showing some strength. the capital city of concord in merrimack county. there are some numbers coming back favorable to her in that town. concord is the third largest city in the state of new hampshire. if i could just pop out here for a moment and just trying to gauge these numbers kind of flip right now, laura. sometimes they change quickly without noticing. we will keep track of that there is another race happening tonight, right? 22 delegates on the line, the republican race. there are zero delegates on the line in the democratic race. but, here's what is happening right now and this is how we are tabulating this. we have had our voter analysis team out in new hampshire for search days trying to figure out what the strength is for joe biden. he is not on the ballot. but there are 21 democrats who are on the ballot. if you support joe biden, and you are a democrat or undeclared

independent, and you show up at the polling station today, you have to physically write in joe biden's name. we believe among the votes tabulated so far that joe biden is just shy of 60% whether compared with the other 21 candidates, including dean phillips and marianne williamson, some of the better known there here's the process, laura. when you write in a name, and you submit that ballot it's considered unprocessed. in each community, in each county, once that name is confirmed, it's moved to the processed section. as of right now, we have just -- just flipped again here, 13,262 processed ballots for joe biden. that's the way we are tabulating this tonight. get back to you in a second. flip it back to the republican side. just where we were. 17%, too early to call. a difference of about 9.4 percentage points between donald trump and nikki haley. couple minutes away they will

all be closed, laura. back to you. >> laura: bill, thank you so much. we are moments away from the last polls in new hampshire closing at 8:00 p.m. eastern. katy pavlich. byron york are here. both are fox news contributors. byron, we don't know where this will end up tonight but your take on this idea that no matter what happens tonight, this is a long battle ahead for nikki haley and she is in it to win it. to win it. >> well, nikki haley spent the whole day saying that, because she was asked how long she would stay in the race, but candidates always say that. a lot of it does depend on the result tonight, not whether donald trump wins because nikki haley has not been claiming lately she's going to win. she only claimed she would do better than she did in iowa where she lost by 32 points, kind of a low bar there. but if she does come in a place where we all think it's kind of

close, like a single digit result, then she probably will have some support among her donors to keep going. >> laura: by all indications, katie, the voters of new hampshire are not rejecting the bride and economy and the board of policy, foreign policy. what they billed as the first campaign event of 2024 today. watch this. >> i asked the people in virginia, are you ready to make your voice heard? [cheers and applause] do we trust women? [cheers and applause] do we believe in reproductive freedom? >> don't mess with the women in america unless you want to get the benefit. i'm not quite sure what that means, but it's going to be

abortion and democracy is ending if you don't vote for joe biden. >> joe biden also give a shout out to be said is the real governor, terry mcauliffe, who of course lost to republican governor glenn youngkin, who is currently the governor of the great state of virginia. it's clear the democrats are going to run on abortion. they've been successful in in a number of ballot initiatives. and the issues that are coming to the top of pulling our immigration, illegal immigration in particular, and the economy. and they are seeing now that the opera open border policies are kicking kids out of the schools and requiring them to have their taxes increase as a result of their -- donald trump has been campaigning very hard on the issue of illegal immigration. it's what brought him into the white house the first time, so

voters tend to gravitate toward him on those issues, republican voters in particular, they see it as their top issues going into the primary process. >> laura: byron, we are also seeing the fact that voters in new hampshire are kind of set up with this interventionist foreign policy. from the fox voter analysis, more conservative on that, tougher on the border, let's keep it close at home. does that surprise you given your coverage? >> not at all. actually, if you follow haley around on the trail, which i did for the last couple of days, she was pushing back very strong at the accusation you hear on the net and other places that she is a warmonger and a neocon and that sort of stuff. and she mentions her husband is a career military currently deployed right now. and that she would never ever -- the last thing she would ever do is start a war or

promote a war. trump has pushed that about her, but clearly what you see and the reason haley is saying that is a lot of people do oppose what they now call forever wars. >> laura: they trust trump on those issues, at least for now. that's it for us tonight. we are just seconds away from the last polls closing in new hampshire. jesse watters has the latest results at 8:00 p.m. >> jesse: hey, laura. thank you. we are just moments away from the final polls closing in the great state of new hampshire. most of the republicans in the state are voting and the nation's first primary, 22 delegates up for grabs. former president donald trump and nikki haley are facing off all week long, hoping to enact tonight and move along and secure the republican nomination so they can take on president joe biden in november. fox news' continuing coverage from the new hampshire primary starts now. we have a fox news alert.