we're going to go caucus for nikki haley. not just to galvanize the republican party, but you bring healing to the country. you can't complain about what happens in the general election if you don't play in the caucuses in iowa and the primary here in new hampshire. and those are the two stops. ron's not even going to come back to new hampshire is our understanding. he's kind of ignoring it. going off to south carolina. kind of a strange strategy. completely given up on the state indicating it's just that two-person race. if you can get it down to two people before super tuesday, clearly that's going to be the opportunity. now it becomes a 50-50 proposition. right? can trump really hold at 47, 46, 47%, is that enough to get him over the hump to win super tuesday states if there's only two people in the race. the math says it isn't but the fact we've even gotten here when no one said we could has defied expectations. >> the haley campaign has launched a new ad in new hampshire. let's take a look. >> the two most disliked polit

nikki haley will be nikki haley. she'll be real. she'll be authentic.icies of president trump were phenomenal. look at what we're facing now. and haley and all the others will put into effect the sound policies that donald trump did. and so-so no, i don't think she'll differentiate herself. i think she'll lay out a division of priorities that the country will like, and it will be just what america needs now. it's going to take a lot to turn this ship around, and i think she is the person to do it. i saw her do it in south carolina, and i think she'll do it for south carolina. >> there is another south carolinian in the race, the junior senator representing south carolina in the u.s. senate, tim scott. what made you decide to go with nikki haley when you have another person who you serve with in the congress running for president? >> well, i mean, i served with tim scott a short time when he came in the house. symptom a great friend of mine, a great guy. i just think nikki haley has what it takes. her personal skills, her retail politics. but i think wha

and i supported nikki haley. and then three months from now, four months from now, when you're ready to go to the convention, she comes out and is his vice president. what will i look like? what will all the people who supported her at my behest look like when she is up on the stage in milwaukee with her hands up like this with donald trump. >> do you think it would be worth it for ambassador haley to rule out ultimately being donald trump's running mate? if it meant she got an endorsement before new hampshire? >> yeah, no, look, i hear this question a lot. i got to tell you, as someone who has been a candidate multiple times, when you're in the race, you're not thinking of anything else. you're not thinking what the administration might look like, what other opportunities you have. you're literally thinking about your message, where your next stop, how you're earning the votes that is 110% all her, or her campaign is remotely even thinking about right now. i can imagine it hasn't even crossed her mind, nor shoul

that option is nikki haley.s hard to walk away today thinking that anything but an actual win of actually beating donald trump in new hampshire could be justified as a win. it's very difficult for her to go and make the case looking at the republican electorate around the rest of the country in other states ahead that somehow she has better prospects elsewhere than here in new hampshire. >> ashley, let me ask you, what's a win for nikki haley? is getting into double digits good enough? could we be wrapping this up and have a presumptive nominee by the end of the night? >> reporter: it depends on who you ask that question to. if you ask nikki haley's campaign, who put out a memo this morning, their argument is that this is a long race, that they are heading next to south carolina, and then that super tuesday they argue is fairly favorable terrain for her. 11 of the 16 states who go to the polls then have open or semi-open primaries. their spin is, don't count her out. a little on the ground reality is that as thi

nikki haley is down to like 40.it just goes to show he has people that are more energized and enthusiastic about getting out there to vote for him. so that bodes well for him. look, overall the most important thing is turning people out to vote. ron desantis has a tremendous ground game. he has been working on this for a long time, knocking on doors, making phone calls, and doing this commit to caucus early. the question is, are those people still with him, and will they deliver. right now i look at ron desantis as having the most to lose if he doesn't come in a very strong second place tomorrow night. >> so margaret, your great grandfather, so often that this comes up. >> iowa's only president. >> herbert hoover. >> so you're involved with the presidential library there. and you know the state well. you know the politics of the state well. i know today you've been talking to a lot of people who say they intend to caucus in that area. what are you watching for? >> i'm looking to see if trump has a strong over 50%, w

.>> you know, nikki haley, nikki haley, nikki haley, do you know they destroyed all the information, all the evidence, everything? they deleted and destroyed all of it, all of it, because of lots of things, like nikki haley is in charge of security. we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guard, whatever they want, they turned it down, they don't want to talk about that. these are very dishonest people.>> i wonder what you make of that. just in general, the campaign he is running right now. >> to some extent his campaign, from what i hear, it is more professional than it was in 2016. they had an operation in iowa. they had an operation in new hampshire. sometimes i get names a little confused, but i see that again, how many times he said nikki haley. you can understand somebody saying anderson cooper and he confused at seven or eight times. that's pretty weird. there are so many things about trump that voters don't know. they don't know that a jury found him guilty of a woman. this is not a good thing. another determination is that he is a business fraud. when we get that to

nikki is only half the victory. to take the people who otherwise left the party and would not vote for donald trump if he's the nominee. >> it could be done. mccain had a victory over jeb bush. that was a long time ago. in terms of the party and how it's different today than in 2016, even can i have than 2020. today the south carolina it's said i don't see eye to eye with any candidate. i've stayed out of it but the time has come to unite behind our nominee. there's only been one contest. but remember, mace was critical. here's what she said on the house floor on january 13th, 2021. >> not only were our lives in danger. if my kids were here, their lives would have been in danger, too. the two most precious people in my life. i will hold him accountable for the events that transpired, the attack on you are on capitol last wednesday. so the message is, our lives were in danger, donald trump is responsible, vote for donald trump. >> making him the most powerful person in the world. and add tom, i'm old enough to rememb

nikki haley. >> i've got to say, too, you have to question trump supporters on their incoherence, willie geist, on how to win an election. this guy lost in '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, and will lose in '24 again if democrats work hard, if they go out and do their jobs, if everybody that's socon certained about democracy and freedom go out and do their jobs. willie, they're going to lose again, but they have a choice. they have a choice. nikki haley, you put nikki haley up against joe biden, i mean, biden doesn't want that. biden's team didn't even want ron desantis because they understood it was something new. there wasn't all the trump baggage and wasn't the trump craziness. >> some skills there. >> there weren't things that were going to scare off -- yeah, i know, desantis made a huge mistake by going way to, like, the red hot on social issues. you had the six weeks and everything else. but before that, they were like, uh-oh, this guy can win the atlanta suburbs. this guy can win the phill

conventional wisdom says nikki haley. but christie was caught on a hot mic right before his announcement saying this about haley. >> she's going to get smoked. and you and i both know it. she is not up to this. >> well, obviously, he said what he said. we don't know who he was saying it to and the full context, but it's pretty clear there. and what is clear is haley needs christie's votes in new hampshire, no matter how you cut it. if you look, anderson, at our new cnn poll from new hampshire, trump at 39 and haley right behind with 32. and christie has 12. so obviously you can't say all the 12 are going to go over to haley, right? it wouldn't be fair. but, you know, you get most of those, and look at that, you don't even need them all to get ahead of trump. omar jimenez was there when christie made that announcement. omar, nobody was expecting this announcement tonight. so why now? >> that's the real question here. and even just less than 24 hours ago, there were comments made on cnn by new hampshire governor chris sunun

>> nikki haley has a more nimble ground operation here. we know that there is that super pack fact by the koch family that has been operating on her behalf here in iowa as well. their goal have been to knock on 250,000 doors of iowans here before the caucus tomorrow. and you also have the desantis super pack that will hit 1 million doors for tomorrow. so even though they both have the super-pac out but nikki haley's super-pac is not quite as resourced as desantis has. but the campaign feels like there is momentum and this is what the have going for them and the more voters that haley meets, the more they come to her side. and particularly heading into new hampshire where they feel she will do incredibly well. >> this is where the desantis event is getting underway shortly and what has been the closing message? >> ron desantis has been all across the state of iowa today going to his supporters and saying, it is time to turn out. they're very confident with him and his team and the enthusiasm with their supporters that it will come through t

in terms of the nikki haley voter, they are looking at where nikki haley voters reside. they see where the vote count is. they see that as an area where there can be overlap. expect ongoing outreach there. one of the challenges for president biden, of course, is trying to move toward the center, which is typical for general elections, and would be a way to try to encourage support from those who have looked seriously at nikki haley. he has challenges on his far left with concerns, protests and questions about the support there. that is a stretch for the president, and it will be a challenge for his campaign. >> ashley parker, let's talk about that. joe biden needs to reach out, he needs to do both at the same time. that's a very hard pivot for him to make. what role does nikki haley have? it seems to me as long as it's donald trump's party, she has to just contort herself into a different person to make change. she said it's his choice to make. that's a very subjective judgment. i could see her saying, well, he reached out to me and now all is forgiven. what does that sa

i'm going to take nikki haley's word at it. she believes he's fit to be president.f you believe someone who says those kind of things and is under four criminal indictments is fit to be president you can agree with her. i don't. >> okay. well, nikki haley i want to ask you about how some of your opponents who have stood on that debate stage have talked about her. you did seem to come to nikki haley's defense after the last debate when vivek ramaswamy went straight at her. you said you think he personally has a woman problem. do you think your party has a woman problem? do you think a woman could be the lead on republican ticket? >> sure. i think a woman can be a lead on a republican ticket and i don't think the party has a woman problem. i think vivek has a woman problem. i defended nikki haley at that debate because when someone on the stage like vivek treats someone who is as smart and accomplished as nikki haley is, has been my friend 13 years, says and compares her intellect to that of his 3-year-old son, the way i was raised, margaret, is you stand up and defen

that's not true with nikki haley.e of attack now which is really interesting. guess who is the insurgent. guess who has all the elite political class on his side. every politician is endorsing donald trump. so she's done this before. it's not like the politicians in south carolina love nikki haley because she was this meteor that, you know, just took off and beat all the guys and won and got re-elected. it's not like they all -- there's a lot of -- in case you haven't noticed there's jealousy in politics and a lot of men that wanted nikki haley out of south carolina. she's really got an opportunity now to say hey, aren't you a little uncomfortable that every politician in washington wants donald trump? it's kind of a flip. i watch her. watch her. she'll use that. >> it's a great point and something mike and i heard at her event. she has started to make that point. go ahead, tim scott, go ahead, nancy mace, get up on the stage. looks like we know who the establishment figure is in this race. it's donald trump. >> she d

let me read you what you have said about nikki haley. >> no, no, no.argaret, no, i'm countering, margaret, i'm countering what you say, margaret, i'm countering what you say about other polls showing surges, which they do not.% so if you want to cite them, at least cite them correctly. >> okay. you said nikki haley's not a fundamentally serious candidate when she said, as you just said earlier on our program, that trump is fit to lead. you've said, you wish that she cared more about the truth and things she's said about global trade, for example, you say, shows she doesn't even understand what she's talking about. are you ruling out ever working with nikki haley in the future to defeat donald trump? >> i'm working on defeating donald trump. i'm the only one in the race who is working on defeating donald trump. when she hasn't ruled out being think you can take her as a - serious contender against him. ron desantis and i have both ruled out accepting the vice presidency from donald trump. nikki haley has not. that's why she's not saying strong things ag

a bass nor, as nikki bird brain haley. which is his victory speech last night with a fashion critique. >> when i watched her in a fancy dress, probably wasn't so fancy. what is she doing? we won. she did the same thing last week, but he was much more angry about it than i was. >> former president also trotted attacked accuses before on his mentor, the disgraced attorney broke cohen perfected, baseless innuendo. railing against the people prosecuting who suggests without any evidence at all that nikki haley has something to do have to hide from them. >> these are very dishonest people they're always fighting them just a little note to nikki, she's not gonna win. but if she did, she would be under investigation by those people in 15 minutes. i can tell you five reasons why already. not big reasons, little stuff that she doesn't want to talk about. but she will be under investigation within minutes. >>> so again offered no evidence, par for the course, that's always treats isn't any. it's also how he treats his friend, consid

do you agree with nikki haley?i feel sorry and i love those debates, i have a number of rnc colleagues coming to witness the new hampshire primary, it was giving airtime to a candidacy that i think is dying, that is ron desantis. why medicated is so far behind in the polls, not competing in new hampshire, give time for him to attack you? it is a smart decision to say i only want to debate joe biden for donald trump. it does not make for a great opportunity to get a broader audience, tactically, it was a good decision not to give more airtime to ron desantis as his campaign is faltering. >> you can say it is faltering but he did defeat her in the state of iowa. right? >> he did. but he put almost all of his eggs in that basket, she did not do anything until the end that would have given her a boost but she has put the effort in here and this is a very important state. this state is important for her as the state of iowa was for ron desantis. >> a couple weeks ago, chris christie was in third place but now has droppe

nikki haley is their best alternative. not only of beating donald trump going into the election and beating joe biden. she has, for the last 11 months, showing that she has the ability to be joe biden by a wider margin than any of the other candidates. >> she did come in third and you talk about how her having the ability to compete but i don't think she's even going to compete in nevada so it doesn't make any sense to me. >> that nevada case, the fact that more people are not talking about it, the fact that the state party changed the rules, there's going to be two different kinds of elections. historically, if you had been a primary, trump supporters changed it to a caucus. part of this, she is going to be on the ballot and on the primary but the fact that the state gop which is in donald trump donald trump's pocket is not going to accept whatever happens and that, right? i think that is asterix. going to new hampshire, we've seen of appalling. it is a tight race between nikki haley and trump. we got a week before the el

the resignation of nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations that takes effect at the end of this year. she was in the west wing to talk about it with the president. the two of them spoke about suck sess and the reasons for the resignation. >> she's done a fantastic and together we solved a lot of problems and we are in the process of solving a lot of problems. we are happy for you in one way, but hate to lose you. hopefully you will come back at some point. maybe a different capacity. you can have your pick. >> there is no personal reasons. it's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside. i have given everything i've got these last eight years and i do think that sometimes it's good to rotate in other people who can put that same energy and power into it. >> let's go to the chief kor respondent. how much of a surprise was this announcement for members of the trump administration? what about the timing of this? awkward a month before the mid-terms. >> that's right. usually

if nikki haley comes in third place in the ramaswamy territory, then i don't know if nikki haley makesto south carolina. if ron desantis comes into third place he has to skip new hampshire and go right back to tallahassee. >> and overlooking the lackadaisical attitude. there would be a concern with the trump operation and the desantis operation and they have ri big team on the ground. with the operation, they're pros and they're knocking and dragging folks. the couch, baccari likes to say, the desantis team has the governor's operation. >> desantis people have been knocking on a lot of doors for a long time. >> they have the governor's time and the governor's boom and complacency will be an issue and on team desantis and the better than expected turnout and on the haley campaign probably a little worse and on trump, the enthusiasm will be bolstered by also people calling and their neighbors calling, do you need a ride? i'll take you in my suv and there will be a lot of that tomorrow. >> to your point, in the poll said most would vote for nikki hail over donald trump so these are want n

nikki haley, nikki haley, nikki haley, nikki haley is in charge of security. we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guard, whatever they want. they turned it down. >> he was confused. he was confused, the zacharias moussoui -- confused, the zachas moussoui - the same way he said joe biden would start world war ii 2. >> we would be in world war ii very quickly if we are going to be relying on this man. >> clearly, donald trump is not the same man from 2016. >> when i came, everyone thought bush was going to win. supposedly, he was a military person, great. he got us into the middle east. we came up with a new word for -- a new couple words for "corn." viktor orban, hungary, very powerful. he fronts on both russia and ukraine. >> they were funding hezbollah and hamas. >> when he gets off the teleprompter, there's a lot of mistakes, stream of consciousness stuff. >> we're going to play strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to de-bank you from your, you know, your political beliefs. what they do, they want to de-bank you, and we're

that's a problem for nikki haley.you keep coming in and doing impressive second-place fin finishes, you just going to lose longer than you do if he was big in one state. but the other thing i think is kind of interesting, she goes into south carolina, where, as you pointed out, she's trailing terribly behind trump. trump has managed to beat two sitting governors in their own home states. he beat the sitting governor kim reynolds in iowa with her preferred candidate in ron desantis, and now he's beaten chris sununu keep in hampshire with his preferred candidate. obviously the republican voters are not looking for an alternative. they want donald trump. that's why he continues to win. i don't see a pathway for her to turn it around from here. >> sean: kellyanne come let's go to that 30.2% number. if you are nikki haley's campaign manager and you've got to regroup after tonight, you lost iowa and you lost new hampshire, i would think that's a pretty favorable environment for her to do well with independent voters, crosso

so no, nikki wants to work with us. and also, to keep it going, she wants to work -- i guess she said today a few times, she wants to work on the 2020 election with us. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> yeah, i think there were. i think there were. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> yeah, i'm not going to say who i mean. i'm just telling you, you had forces saying things that were evil, that were bad people. and he is a very, very fine man. and what was said about him should never have been said. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> i know many. i know fellow americans that are evil. i know -- are you saying we shouldn't say that a fellow american is evil? i've known some fellow americans that are pretty evil. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> well, i like the low interest rate. the fed is doing what they think is necessary. i don't like what they're doing, because we have inflation and we have a lot of good things happening. so i will say this. we're normalizing money. and that's good. but i think we don't have to go as fast. i want to be

they don't believe that nikki haley is the best option. meanwhile, nikki haley as she campaigns, she said this is now a two-person race that she's been looking for, that she's been framing this election since the iowa caucuses. she sat in her words, may the best woman when. she's going, on moving forward with the campaign, she has more support here in new hampshire, and more polling -- it's down to two candidates, donald trump and nikki haley. now that it's down to two candidates, we'll be talking to people who know the situation well and the ramifications of this they're even more difficult for her to even to get any rationale on why she's in the race, when it clearly looks as though ron desantis and the republicans want trump. whether we go through the motions or not, does this not look like this is trump biden rematch? i don't see, one of the voters reactions so far? >> that question you have there, that's the sentiment that nikki haley is working up against, you look at the national polls, it looks like we are headed in for a donald tr

nikki works hard. we have a chance. there's joe biden, nikki haley and donald trump. one of those three will be president. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >>> i want to bring in three cnn political commentacommentators. he will be optimistic. what do you make of her chance snz. >> she has the most political tal ept of 14 candidates who are running in the gop primary, including donald trump. this is a woman who is a two-term governor, former u.n. ambassador. the problem is the rnc put their finger on the scale before any candidate was declared, in favor of donald trump. even if she comes in striking distance, donald trump will get her delegates. it's hard. nikki haley is a fund-raising juggernaut. she can sustain herself through south carolina. this is donald trump's republican party. she could spend $100 million on the airwaves in south carolina and it will marginally move the needle against donald trump. it's a different animal than when she got into politics. >> does she know -- does she have a better idea how how to beat donald trump than she d

nikki haley -- nikki haley -- nikki haley -- do you know they destroyed all the information, all the evidence, everything? deleted and destroyed all of it. all of it, because of lots of things like nikki haley is in charge of security. we offered her 10,000 people. >> martha: your reaction to that? >> well, i -- i have been on the campaign trail, and i know when you're going around the clock, it's possible to, you know, to make -- i don't use words that don't fit in sentences, but i would say, you know, having been with the president last week in iowa and in new hampshire and watching him go for 20 hours a day, i know that he's got -- he's got the strength. he's got the experience to lead, and i think if we're going to have the gaffe tape, run that this morning on joe biden, there wouldn't be enough time on this show. so i think it's a -- again, this is the choice that america's going to have, and right now focusing on the policy, the policies and the economy, energy, national security. the world was safer and more prosperous under president trump, and right now the appeasement of jo

>> this is a key question for nikki haley. this is what's happened in the past.ou typically have republicans about three quarters of the electorate, that back in 2000, a smaller share, a lot more independents that year, what we're seeing so far in the preliminary exit polls is that actually this looks a lot like 2016, the number of independents in our exit polls, around 21% to 22%, landing similar, that's not what nikki haley needed. she needed to drive up independent and even democratic voters. we know that republican voters are picking trump overwhelmingly. the argument she was making to these independents, to look the general election, it doesn't look to have changed the makeup of the electorate, whit. >> rick, thank you so much, let's bring in avery harper joining us at the desk. mary alice parks, and avery, you're looking at exit poll data. >> i find it interesting when we look at the preliminary data we're getting in, when asked about when voters made their vote about when they were going to figure out who they were going to vote for we found the vast major

nikki haley trails by double digits. her only chance for an upset is if republican voters stay home and undeclared voters more likely to support her turn out in droves. the other big difference this year is that no democratic delegates for president will be chosen because the white house pressed for south carolina, a more diverse state, to go first. but biden supporters are running a write-in campaign for the president. >>> we start in new hampshire with garrett haake, shaquille brewster, and mike memoli. garrett, first to you. the party is quickly consolidating around donald trump, but he could be faced with choosing between testifying in a new york courtroom or campaigning in new hampshire on the day of the voting. and now another south carolina endorsement for trump, another slap against haley, the state's former governor comes from a congresswoman. talk to us about all of that. >> reporter: andrea, all the political dominos keep falling in donald trump's direction this week, even if some of the legal ones continue to

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nikki haley deliver jobs, lower taxes, tough immigration laws. same old biden and trump or new leadership? >> that's the basic pitch to republican voters, one that she repeated yesterday in her concession speech. >> most americans do not want a the first party to retire it's . 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins. >> despite governor haley projecting confidence the republican party continues to coalesce around the former president with more officials falling in line to endorse them and the head of the republican national committee suggesting that her time is up. >> i think she has run a great campaign, but there is a message coming out from the voters which is clear. we need to unite around the eventual nominee and we need to make sure we beat joe biden. if she came in second i don't see the path. >> now as the campaign plots a path forward them to figure out what worked and what did not in new hampshire. where did she do well and where did she underperform? >> let's take a look. like donald trump or not you have to give him h

nikki haley's home turf is trump country. since she left the office of the governor there, it's become redder, more conservative, and trump has prout out so many more voters that weren't even engaged when nikki haley was in office. as soon as i spent time there, i was like, my goodness, she's going to have a very, very hard time in south carolina. it's a look of the calendar. the fact that it is so soon and next on the docket here, it's her home state, and the numbers there are just -- that's not her base. >> not at all. it's more like the iowa electric than the new hampshire electorate. nikki haley, let's say she doesn't do well in high pressure or she makes it farther. at some point you do think she endorses donald trump or does she with hold that? >> i would think she does. look, here's the interesting thing. the numbers just aren't there for her. i think as ali alluded to, do you go to your home state of south carolina and lose that? northeast posh tishians don't do that. mar marco rubio did that. he emted up dropping out

nikki haley site is surrounded by snow, the same spot as september, nikki haley was a longshot, perhaps the only shot to stop adele. she has his attention. >> she does. i think there is a very real opportunity for nikki haley to squeak out a percentage point on top of trump and would that shake the rafters. >> a no-brainer. >> who really can be divided. who lost to have less time, trump did. >> the possibility is obvious but so are the challenges. she says she would pardon trump, a problem for some independence, he said is discussed with both parties makes it a likely third-party voter, but he could still help nikki haley tuesday, he took a break to be clear he won't. >> you are not a trump fanfare? >> fair. >> if you keep up the sidelines you could help nikki haley. >> i could. >> you don't see it as worth it, why? >> i don't feel like i trust her enough yet to be able to give her by vote.>> reporter: trumps resilience experiences critics, many repeat his lies and his crew tactics but it is not that simple. >> who won the 2020 election. >> bided. >> voted for bill clinton twice but is

certainly, not nikki haley. so she shouldn't even be worried about appeasing someone who wants to relitigate the civil war. those are not nikki haley voters. nikki haley was in new hampshire running to try to win new hampshire, not alabama, not mississippi, new hampshire. her core constituency are not trump voters. she needs to win independents in new hampshire and non-trump center right voters in new hampshire. that should be her top priority. and what does she need to do for that to happen? she needs to get chris christie to drop out of the race. i think it is much less likely today that chris christie will drop out of the race than it was two or three days ago. so i think this was a big deal. again, with the caveat that news cycles move quickly. as john was saying, this reenforces a negative stereotype about nikki haley not being ready for prime time. and it speaks not just to her bad political strategy. it speaks a little bit to character as well. >> susan, we heard from chris christie that nikki haley looks

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nikki haley come to him and say hey, you lost, you go first.day, i do think the party comes together. because of that, you know, threat to the country. not because of the inside politics here between these candidates. >> bret: what issue do you thik drives most voters? do you think immigration still. >> if you look at most issues it has to be immigration, crime, it's also a values issue. the wokeness that is changing the country. everything -- you know, it's not just about men playing women's sports, disdissolving every boundary that people -- trump voters think exist in the country. those things are big. >> bret: that effects independence as well. we see those i want numbers independent numbersgoing upside. >> this is a country trump voters sphere and in decline they want strength and not weakness. a lot of voters see weakness, what that's produced the last four years. >> one thing alex is not mentioning which is i think the ace in the hole for biden which is using the choice issue as a means of rallying suburban women, moderates and making a

i mean, nikki haley just turned 52.tacks against trump on this issue. on the other hand, both men have a history of making kind of flummoxing misstatements. >> susan page, phil rucker, the day after, and it's on to south carolina and on after that. thank you all very much. and that does it for this post-election edition of "andrea mitchell reports," new hampshire behind us. we now go forward. follow us on social media @mitchellreports and you can rewatch the best parts of our show anytime on youtube. just go to msnbc.com/andrea. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. ♪♪ >>> good afternoon, i'm chris jansing reporting live from msnbc headquarters

that would not work on nikki haley or ron desantis. it would work on donald trump, arguably. >> let's talk about messaging. a good pivot to the conversation i just had with former congressman richmond, advisor to joe biden, he gave a response to charlamagne the god and why he regrets endorsing joe biden , he largely agreed with charlamagne in terms of his criticisms with messaging of what president biden has done for black voters. were you surprised by that? >> you don't live or die by one pole. there seems to be some traction that people are saying, particularly in the black community and with young voters , the message and what joe biden has done for them, they don't feel the impact. it is not because the administration has not done things to the black community for young folks, but they do need to get out there. cedric richmond, i agree with charlamagne and congressman richmond , they have to tell people what joe biden has done for them. that is not going to be enough. i think that is what charlamagne was getting at , you have to te

we do have to give nikki haley credit.he 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

how is nikki haley feeling tonight? in with my colleague bryan llenas who has been following her campaign, hey, brian. brine>> nikki haley says regards of the results she is not going anywhere. she is staying in this race even if her former boss thinks she should drop out. >> i don't do what he tells me to do. i have never done what he tells me to do. [laughter] look, strong. i have always said we will know strong when the numbers come in. it's not like a certain number. >> we are going to go and fight until the very last poll closes and then we are headed to my sweet state of south carolina and we are going to make the case there as well. >> tonight the haley campaign said it's feeling ground. no campaign has covered more ground in new hampshire with more than 100 campaign stops or spent more money with $30 million in ads. haley says it's time for a new generation of republican leadership. arguing trump and president biden are too old and too distracted by investigations. now, haley's campaign is betting on high voter

the best is nikki haley. go nikki! >> one of the best times he's ever said that. jake sellers asked about trump's political action committee paying $50 million. picking up the tab for his legal bills. listen to that exchange. >> it is unconscionable to me that a candidate would spend $50 million in legal fees. it explains why he's not doing many rallies. he doesn't have the money to do it. it explains why he doesn't want to get on a debate stage. he doesn't want to talk about why he's doing it. it explains why he had a temper tantrum the election night in new hampshire. he wants me out of the race and he wants to be the presumptive nominee so all that cash starts going to him and he doesn't have to spend anymore. >> unconscionable temper tantrum. they weren't around a month ago. >> i love this nikki haley and taking a different approach, i think it is better for the country. i think hearing a credible conservative. he's using his donors to pay his legal bills. that is literally it. >> do voters care? >> i'm not sure they do. the florida legislature, some republica

you know, nikki haley -- nikki haley -- nikki haley -- they destroyed all the information, all of the evidence, everything. deleted and destroyed all of it. all tv. because of lots of things, like nikki haley is in charge of the security. we offered her 10,000 people. soldiers. national guard. whatever they wanted. they turned it down. they don't want to talk about that. these are very dishonest people. >> i am wondering what you make of the -- i mean, not only what he said, but in general the campaign he is running right now. >> well, to some extent he is actually -- his campaign, from what i hear, is actually more professional than it was in 2016. they have an operation in iowa. they have an operation in new hampshire. look, i am older than president trump and sometimes i get names a little confused. i am startled by i see that again, how many sometimes he said nikki haley. you understand somebody saying, you know, confusing anderson cooper and wolf blitzer one time. but if you confused it seven or eight times, that is pretty weird. anderson, there are so many things about trump tha

there is a one word answer to that question, and nikki haley knows that one word and nikki haley refused to use that word and instead gave an answer that was a lie from start to finish. nikki haley believes that the trump lesson is the way to win republican votes is to lie. last night's question revealed nikki haley, like donald trump, believe she can rely on the inadequacy of republican voters education to get away with lying to them. donald trump does it every day about every subject. one example, how many times have you heard donald trump say that china paid the tariffs that donald trump imposed on chinese goods? then trump says that in every speech and every republican listening to that always clap for that line. it is a lie. every time he says it. and he gets away with it because the republican audience that believes it does not have enough education to know that tariffs imposed by the united states are paid exclusively and entirely by the people of the united states. i could rattle off right now a long list of policy lies that donald trump tells just like that because he believes h

foreseeable future is nikki haley. doesn't have a great chance against donald trump, but she comes out of here with enough momentum and enough funds, enough dollars on hand that she can win. say what you want ab the new hampshire primary and how it is different from the rest of the republican electorate. it's true. but if you're going to beat donald trump, you have to beat him somewhere first. nikki haley has a chance to do that in new hampshire. i think that's the ultimate story here. again, what's after that is tomorrow's problem. right now, you have a new hampshire race coming up, and nikki haley is the only person in the republican party right now who has a chance to win a race against donald trump. even though she finished in a disappointing fashion last night, she can make the argument, and i think it's right. >> right. you spent a lot of time in iowa, john, of course this past weekend, but you've been to iowa an awful lot the past 20 years. i'm curious, what was your takeaway this weekend on donald trump and his

by the way, it's nimarata nikki. nikki is also her name. one has to be clear about that sort of thing. he's questioned whether she's eligible. of course she was born in the united states. and then he said things like this about her on stage. >> now they're pushing -- you know who that is nikki haley. she's not tough enough to deal with these people. i will tell you she's not tough enough. >> as someone who worked in the trump administration, so you've got context on this, matthew. are you surprised by the language trump is using to attack haley who served in his administration, that this is obviously gender to say the least? >> no, it's not surprising. this is the m.o. of the former president. it's silly, sophomoric, somewhat stupid. it might resonate with some in his base, but right now nikki haley is inside right now with one of the biggest crowds she has. and this state is full of independent voters including very strong independent women. so nikki haley is making her case out there right now as kiley said, there are three nights left. i

nikki haley has, i don't know. she's really been someone who people are voting for as much as they are using her as the vessel to express their discussed with donald trump. i think it's going to be an incredible challenge for her to people to pull that off. not likely to happen. >> foreign, if independents don't show up and show out for nikki haley tomorrow, what does that say for the anecdotal, no labels movement out there. no labels likes to argue, there's a huge appetite in this country for a third lane, a third voice. many seeing this nikki haley in new hampshire with independents to represent that. >> right. even the independents, that middle lane isn't all on the same page here. you know? i think a liz cheney wing of the party that is very separate and nikki haley wing of the party. all of us here -- >> you know what -- barn,, vanita trump you. we are getting results. emma, can you hear me? >> reporter: i can hear you. the votes are being counted. we have four for nikki haley so far. two more to go. standby.

nikki haley will hold a rally there tonight. donald trump is also expected to head to new hampshire after spending the day in court in new york. let's bring in former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he finished sixth in the iowa republican caucuses. governor, i want to start with the fact that the democratic national committee put out a snarky statement about you suspending your campaign, saying this news comes as a shock to those of us who thought he already dropped out. a number of democrats said you were telling the truth about donald trump and standing up for democracy. i understand that president biden's chief of staff called you to apologize. >> well, that's correct. of course, i didn't pay much attention to what the dnc said, but it's actually gratifying to see a bipartisan rebuffing of this snarky tweet, as you say, or comment. to me, it just doesn't reflect the best of america whenever you have ridicule or sarcasm that is leading the path. so i'm grateful for jeff reaching out to me today. he took his time away and he

nikki haley is playing her cards very, very well.he's going to -- she has managed her time in this administration as well as anybody has. and she's going to get out right now. but i would look forward to her being a potential candidate if trump doesn't run again or in 2024 or if lindsey graham perhaps gives up his seat. she would be a contender for that seat as well. >> ron clan, as someone who's gone through so many nominations of these justices and never seen anything like this, what becomes the moving spirit here? does it motivate democrats? anger the grievance? or the rallying that the president has been doing every day on the trail and again at the white house last night? does that motivate the republican base? who turns out? >> well, look, i think there has been some rallying over the republican base over the past couple of days around justice kavanaugh and the campaign to get him confirmed. the fundamental rule in politics are unhappy people vote. and justice kavanaugh got confirmed. that means the people who didn't want him t

give us the mood in the room and what nikki haley had to say. reporter: on this chilly new hampshire night supporters have not waited around. she spoke a short time ago. the room has emptied. speaking to supporters, some told me they were disappointed she did not win. haley when she spoke congratulated donald trump and said she's not done yet. >> you have all heard the chatter among the political class. they are falling all over themselves saying this race is over. >> it's not over! [cheers and applause] >> i have news for all of them. new hampshire is first in the nation. it is not the last in the nation. i am a fighter. and i am scrappy. and now we are the last one standing next to donald trump. reporter: haley also said there are dozens of states left. the next state is south carolina. she must do well there. there are questions about how much money remains. how long can she keep going? tonight she was projecting the idea she will stay in this well past south carolina. as for her supporters talking about the margin, we have been saying all ni

nikki haley reaction to this endorsement and the timing. >> reporter: this news broke while nikki haley was at the campaign event, one of six campaign events in new hampshire today. she did not really respond to initial questions from reporters saying, we will see if it happens. an hour later, her campaign coming out with a statement on her behalf responding to senator scott's endorsement. her quote was, interesting trump lining up with all the washington insiders when he claimed he wanted to drain the swamp. the fellows will do what the fellows are going to do. i'm told she did not know the endorsement was coming at the time it is coming. just a few days away from the new hampshire primary where she is trying to gain traction in the state where her campaign feels she can do well. this is not something welcomed by her campaign but they are trying not to talk too much about it because they want to focus on getting out the vote in new hampshire. >> gop top three out in new hampshire, how are they sharpening attacks on one another as we get closer to the actual voting with the primary ther