there is no path for nikki haley. i wish nikki the best, she stoodun and said, i will never run against our president and then she ran. so those things, you don't like to see. you like to see people that are truthful. our party has to come together and beat the democrats and they play dirty. we'll beat them and going to be greatest election, maybe more so and i believe november 5 is the most important day in our country's history. november 5 we'll get biden out, election day november 5 is the most important day. get rid of biden and closeup our borders and drill, baby, drill, and have a great economy, i'm doing tax cuts, i gave biggest tax cuts in history. biggest regulation cuts in history, we are greatest economy in the history of our country and we're going to have it again. in spades, going to be bigger and better than ever before. we have to win this election because our country can't take much more of this. >> brian: i sense the door is open a little bit for reconciliation. thank you for starting with us. >> tha

nikki haley represented us so well and our country so well. i love nikki. there's places for nikki. nikki's future's great but mike pence is the person 100%. yeah, we won, we won together. we have tremendous evangelical support. we have tremendous support from every angle. you can't break up a team like that. that's a team that really, and we get along well together. maria: mr. president, a pleasure to talk to you today. thank you so much for the time this morning. we will be watching you in japan with president xi on the heels of an incredibly successful trip a couple of weeks ago to france and to the uk. thank you, mr. president. >> say hello to stuart. and everybody on your show. they're terrific. thank you very much. maria: thank you so much.

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nikki haley is less popular than him even being the former governor. people rarely switch between parties for practical reasons. he has a 50 point lead in south carolina. she is only winning with people consider themselves democrats or independents and 130 up -- 130,000 of them just came out for the democratic primary. there isn't effort and less money involved to turn away people who are not traditional republicans are nikki haley. if you are a democrat in south carolina and you remember nikki haley 10 years ago, whether she was a tea party governor or a conservative icon the party before trump, convincing you to turn around and vote strategically for her to slow down trump has been tough. she's been campaigning harder than trump in the state when making little progress in the polls. host: one of the papers say is one thing that may be working against her she is more competitive against the former president. guest: that's right, there is no good way to attack donald trump and get republicans to keep liking you. whoever has attacked him has seen a coll

they keep talking about nikki, i like nikki. nikki, i don't think she should have done what she did, that fine she did it. even in north carolina, i beat her by number -- >> brian: right, she dropped out. >> they say when is nikki coming back, nikki is in and helping us already. people keep saying -- they don't say when you are bringing this and that, everybody is in and nikki is in and out campaigning and elon musk, look, i watched a rocket ship land four days ago. >> steve: that was stunning. >> you talk about people, this guy is unbelievable. i was on the phone talking to somebody on the phone and half falling asleep and important guy, very boring guy and i'm like this. the television sound is off and i see this massive like 20 story tall thing and i thought it was a space movie or something. this guy is so brilliant, i watch it come down and you can see it is still in good shape but burned to hell, traveling like a piece of fire. it is coming down, i said, that is going to crash. >> steve: this is not good. >> right? i see t

i think nikki, nikki haley will come in 2nd. if i had to guess it'd be nicky healey just because she's had the most exposure. she's tough on the border. she doesn't have the extremities of donald trump. she's more rational and she's child number grades. i have a feeling the outcome is going to be overwhelmingly and support a truck. the polls are wrong. we, we often see these polls and they think that the mainstream media is going to be able to decide who's going to be elected. and i've been through a lot of i will caucus is and there's always a surprise that there's a doubt that donald trump will be the frontrunner. the crucial question is a former south carolina governor and nikki haley can finish ahead of florida governor under dentist effectively. and they just run tonight. this would leave republicans, a choice between trump and hailey, and the race for the nomination open to more surprises than initially predict. so does nikki haley very have what it takes to beat and run desantis and the bottle for number 2? i asked that c

we are iowa " nikki/lam: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. more controversy on the campaign trail after donald trump was featured in a terrorism recuriting video. the caucuses are just a month away.... abc's mary bruce shows how this new scandal is impacting more than just his campaign. nats "?woman shouting at hrc?" in new hampshire today, hillary clinton standing up to a heckler. nats "you are very rude and i'm not ever going to call on you." as she comes under attack from donald trump. (biloxi, ms - saturday night) sot - donald trump / (r) presidential candidate "they created isis. hillary clinton created isis with obama." the billionaire turned republican frontrunner spent his weekend firing shots at clinton - at a rally in mississippi? on twitter.. and on t-v. (cbs face the nation) sot - donald trump / (r) presidential candidate "i have more respect for women by far than hillary clinton has." however, trump also terror group al shabaab: the al qaeda affiliate using a clip of trump in one of its recruitment messages. sot - "donald j. trum

nikki haley did not handle. you have to have the support of the president when you're doing his kind of job. when you say something that disagree with him, is going to get rid of you. you cannot run the state department this way, because you have to know what you're doing, and nikki haley, she can say nice things about something, but if you don't have that experience and you don't have people who have the experience for 30 years at the state department, how she's going to run the state department when the president will say one thing and while she goes out there, she going to say something else. host: this is the headline from inside the "new york times," "i'm president and they're not," donald trump attacks, bringing crowd to its feet. he spoke last night at the kennedy center, making his quick trip back from his weekend hotel and resort in new jersey, and traveling to washington am he's back in new jersey this morning, taking i'm at the media, while also praising the veterans dating back to world war ii, inclu

now they're spending money on nikki haley, the attack ads against nikki haley that shows she is emerginga final and most formidable challenger trundle trauma we were showing that ad from the supporting nikki haley our guest is with us and will take calls. this is karen in virginia, independent line starting it off. you were on with our guest. good morning. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. my concern is with how divided america is right now. whomever is chosen to be our next president i'm concerned with our position globally with all that's going on around the world and our position in the global market. so i'm just wondering where the candidates how are they going to bring america back to its position how we were so strong and dominant prior to write after world war ii and where we are now as far as our global position. >> guest: that's a great question. you are seeing in the american electorate writ large amylase, since the what remove themselves from the world. he saw this, trump moved us and wanted to get out of nato and still feels that and to this day despite the war going on i

he was sort of overshadowing nikki haley. also overshadowed john bolton, and the president loves him because pompeo is so tough on iran. so that voice, that viewpoint, is going to grow stronger. >> okay. >> no question. we have richard roth at the u.n. of course, ambassador haley's home base for a couple years now. speak about moderating influences. also confidence building influence that nikki haley gave to u.s. allies. >> look, she presented a very good look politically or otherwise for the united states at the u.n. and when she guided president trump around the u.n. two weeks ago at the special general assembly, it was like presenting him with look at where you are. they scheduled extra meetings almost as if to say to president trump, the u.n. is not so bad. there's a meeting we're going to do on drugs you care about and the opioid epidemic and a meeting on iran, but we're not going to call it about iran. we're going to broaden it out. also in the streets of new york and elsewhere, nikki haley was one of the few people in

nikki haley is in charge of security. we offered her 10,000 people -- soldiers, national guard, whatever they want. they turned it down. there's a man viktor orban. he's probably like one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world, and he's the leader of -- right, he's the leader of

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ambassador, nikki haley.then vivek ramaswamy came in fourth and dropped out of the race. >> and asa hutchison just announced he was dropping out of the race. 100,000 iowans turned out, much lower than in 2016. >> so it's now off to new hampshire. great place. we won it last time, and we won it both times, and we love it. the people are great. >> we thank you for your effort and we thank you for your support. you helped us get a ticket punched out at the hawkeye state. >> our campaign is the last hope of stopping the biden/trump nightmare. >> and steve kornacki at the big board, and ali vitali in manchester, new hampshire, and darsha burns with the desantis campaign in greenville, south carolina. steve, what stuck out you last night? 98 out of 99 counties went for trump. >> yeah, trump nearly did the 99 for 99 sweep. one county where nikki haley finished above him, and it was by one single vote in johnson county. this is where the university of iowa is, and iowa city. in the general election this would be the

nikki haley has a little more momentum. if she can finish in second place and translate that into an outright when against strong, that would set up a super tuesday in south carolina. host: as you talk about new hampshire as a corrective against iowa, how does that play against iowa. guest: iowa is still sensitive that they lost the democratic caucus. nikki haley is certainly playing for new hampshire. the electorate is more moderate and tailor-made for nikki haley. if there is a state that donald trump is the weakest in its new hampshire. host: here an ad for a super pac's supporting donald trump against nikki halley. [video clip] >> nikki haley even opposed trump's wall and pushed for amnesty. we don't need to call them criminals because they are not. host: they are probably seeing plenty of those as but what is the messaging there? guest: that is a hard-hitting message against nikki haley. border security is submerging the top issue for republican voters. even democratic mayors so worried about immigrants impacting their

nikki haley up 45.7%.r the latest poll that came out today thought that the former president would get 60% of support in the republican primary to nikki haley's 30 8%. obviously she performed better than the polls this evening. i want to get your reaction to that as well. alex in seattle, good evening to you. >> the democrats are in a crisis state, for many reasons. young voters, particularly minority voters, the democratic party did not give them a valid choice. it is choices where we can see, we can actually analyze these policies. it is starting to become the mockery. the whole democratic processes a mockery. whether joe biden wins or donald trump, these are the candidates. in the victim of democracy, when this is the candidate we present to the world. this is all that we have to offer? so i have significant concerns of the whole democratic process. in that is another conversation. i think the democratic party is -- that is to say they can run on abortion, on equity, that is not going to work this time.

nikki haley as an example. can tell you and reporting my profile of her, spoke with dozens of people who had been friends, confidence, allies of her over the years. most of those people are no longer even in contact with nikki haley. they feel estranged from her in part because they feel as though she lied to them. and she effectively conned them into believing that she had a set of principles that were ironclad and came from a deep place of conviction, and she jettisoned them at the first opportunity to gain some sort of entree into the world of donald trump. that's the story of so many republicans in the trump era. frankly, it's a bit heartbreaking at a certain level. when you talk with some of these people on the other side, when you talk to people who have sort of sustained this damage to their family relationships, to their professional careers and their reputations and integrity, when you talk to them on the other side of it, what they will tell you time and time again is it was not worth it. i think obvi

you know, nikki haley, nikki haley, you know -- do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything? deleted it 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.

his former primary rival, nikki haley. haley once unsparing in her criticism. >> many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace trump privately dread him. they know what a disaster he's been and will continue to be for our party. >> i want to thank ambassador nikki haley. >> reporter: but haley has since endorsed trump, and tonight, she's been invited to address the convention. as trump works to build support, this week, he also reached out to independent candidate robert kennedy jr., asking for his endorsement. a member of kennedy's team recording video of the call. and then kennedy's son posting it on social media. >> i would love you to do something, and i think it would be so good for you, and so big for you. and we're going to win. >> reporter: trump playing into kennedy's embrace of misinformation about vaccines by repeating inaccurate and debunked information himself. >> when you feed a baby, bobby, a vaccination that is, like, 38 different vaccines and it looks like it's meant for a horse, not a, you know, a

i saw nikki haley on the stump. she hasn't given the unaffiliated voters a reason to turn out for her. she's been unwilling to take on donald trump. she's been unwilling to say anything that a potential maga voter might find offensive. in politics, sometimes you are judged by your friends. sometimes you have to make the right enemies. she's not done what she needed to do. >> yes, you are a former party official. but you are a new hampshire voter here. you have a certain thirst that hasn't been quenched. >> that's right. i saw her thursday night. i was looking for her to take the case against donald trump. she had this very timid rightly or wrongly chaos follows him, like donald trump has no responsibility for some of his actions. she's not been willing to take him on this week. i think i have seen john mccain in new hampshire win this primarily twice by appealing to independent voters. she needed to give them something this week to motivate them to turn out on her behalf. i'm not sure she did enough of that. >> the

capacity because of an event and something you said was seen like nancy pelosi and you referred to nikki haley. >> the press never reports the crowd they never report the crowd on january 6, nikki haley, did you know they destroyed all of the information and all of the evidence in everything, they deleted and destroyed all of it because of lots of things. nikki haley is in charge of security, we offered her 10000 people, soldiers, national guard, whatever they want, they turned it down, they don't want to talk about that. these are very dishonest people. >> she said are you mentally fit, how do you respond to that. >> i did a cognitive test recently and i aced it when i refer often times i say purposely about obama and i interchanged with biden because i believe obama has a lot to do with what's happening in destroying our country and all interchange oral imitate biden walking into a wall or not being able to find his way in the fake news will go out and say he had a hard time when i'm doing an invitation and everybody understands it. i don't think she can pass the test that i pass i pas

nikki should be our next president. >> once you hear nikki haley, you are in with nikki haley.are all fired up because she takes a vision for americans, americans, who have all fallen in love. here is the difference with nikki haley. she does what she says. you saw her, she has a plan. whether it is the economy, whether it is abortion, whether it is our borders, whether it is our kid's education. we are driving her to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. women. >> where are you going to be tomorrow night? >> i will be at my precinct speaking for nikki, handing out stickers, and trying to encourage others to caucus for nikki. >> one last one. tell me your name. >> susan. west demoing, iowa. >> how many times have you heard nikki haley speak? >> three. >> which one did you get the most out of and which was the most impactful? >> i like tonight. they were very similar. of course she has the same message, but tonight she threw in a few little extras that i really appreciated. >> what was different tonight? trying to think. oh, i loved having congress have the■ same health care that our vetera

now theat money is on nikki haly to attack ads are against nikki haley.ows they are emerging as the most formidable challenger. >> both supported nikki haley but our gases with us we will take some calls. cara in virginia, independent one starting off. you are almost sarcastic. good morning. >> good morning, thank you for taking my calls. my concern is how divided america is right now. whomever is chosen to be our next president opposition globally with all its gone on her around the world and our position in the global market. i just wondering where the candidate, how will they bring america back to its position prior to world war iier and whee we are now with global position brickwork that's a great question. they went to remove themselves in the world but was also the trump movement would trump was wanted to get out of nato. despite the war going on in ukrainein, on the campaign trail the democratic party has always had a pretty hefty string of isolationism. at the very least a awareness of wars the hawkish tendency in american politics. but when you t

but i'm a pessimist, so i'm sorry i'm not as enthusiastic about nikki haley as nikki haley is. >> mikeesident biden's campaign was essentially dead until south carolina, so the calls for her to get out now seem premature. >> if i were to respond to that -- >> i didn't know who you are asking. >> i didn't know, either. but i wouldn't say it's premature at all. considering the fact that it's a two-person race. we are talking about joe biden and his multiple candidates in that particular primary. so, given the fact that so many other candidates have dropped out of the race, i think this is clear that this is a two-person race and the second person, nikki haley, has lost each race. i know a lot of her donors, some have said even on our network yesterday that, if haley didn't outright win this primary contest, that they were going to stop supporting her and they would put their dollars behind donald trump. i think you will see a coalescing of donors around donald trump. there are people who may not like his personality and some of the things he said, but he let his policy, and therefore the

donald trump or nikki haley?k when you take a couple of steps back, todd, talking about hispanic demographic in south carolina, they hispanics make 57% of south carolina's population. 28% and nevada. so i think nevada gives us a little bit of a holes where the hispanic vote will lie with the republican party. it is important to know republicans talking about hispanic vote, they usually similar to the puerto rican vote. a very critical voting block. more than 67% of the hispanic voting block within the hispanic demographic is mexican to send puritan mexican-americans that live around the border. you are talking about brownsville, eagle pass, mcallen, tucson, arizona, and every single one of those cities went republican this midterm election. you are talking to counties in south texas under democratic control for over 120 years. because of this border crisis, two districts flipped republican. as we get out of south carolina and go to swing states like nevada, ohio might think it will be the hispanic vote that will

>> nikki haley. >> can i ask why?she has the best chance of going against joe biden. >> what made you switch your support? >> looking for youth. >> any attributes specific to haley that you really like about her or things you dislike after having voted for trump in the past? >> i'm just not sure -- i think it's time for a change. military you have to retire at 65. surgeons don't operate at that age. i think it's time for a younger generation. >> what immediate you change your mind away from trump to haley? >> trump brings a lot of chaos. i think i'm just kind of tired of it. >> so you can see there both of these voters different reasons for switching their support from donald trump. one was about age being a concern. the other saying that trump brings chaos. i think those interviews, it's interesting. it highlights just what new hampshire is like. it's a very different state. there's a lot of independent voters here. people are changing their minds. past trump supporters are not necessarily trump supporters today. so

the nikki haley donors are not biden people. maybe on the french but for the most part i do not think they are folks willing to give to biden. >> from my reporting, some of the biggest donors nikki haley has could bring grudgingly vote for biden and would admit it but they are not writing a check. they subscribe to this hope that nikki haley represents a george bush era of republican and they are desperate to keep the light on thinking it is not the party of trump. >> so the nikki haley voters which are people we have seen in some of the great reporting our colleagues have done across the board, in these title ground states and on super tuesday, those folks that said i am not willing to vote for trump but i could potentially cast a ballot for biden i do not know yet. the thing biden can do is work to earn their votes and campaign. i want to be clear, i do not think there should be a overcorrection for the nikki haley voters in expensive base democratic voters, the biden coalition in 2020, i was a senior advisor on that campaign,

he doesn't like nikki haley.nstead of saying, using that as a pivot point to say, thank you, new hampshire. can't wait to come back here and win your votes in the fall. >> hhaley saying that if she's in such great shape, why is he so angry? >> it's been a core part of the haley campaign message i want to get your take on something she mentioned after the results cape out. she conceded that she lost new hampshire and she lobbed an attack at bind and trump. part of her argument is like it's time for the next generation of leadership. here's what she she had to say earlier. >> i've long called for mental competence. trump said he would do better than me. maybe he would. maybe he would. but if he think that is, then -- thinks that, then she should have no problem standing in a debate stage with meful most americans do not want a rematch between bind and trump. the first party to retire its 80 year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election. >> kevin, we know this has been a concern amount democrat

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 it's very hard to predict, especially today what nikki is going to do. if she's a good republican, then that would be a smart idea and probably showing up back in a cabinet position, maybe. but i don't think at this stage, the rip is there too, too much, and i, if she was any hope of being and twice way she is gonna have to play nice. but the same time she's got a lot of mega donors that would be very upset with her for caving in in find to the pressure like so many others that stephanie who's thank you so much host of the 360 . it was a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you. thank you for having me or your printer, missile strike on sunday needs destruction. it's past the attack, claimed the lives of at least 27 civilians. and when did many more r t for respondents div sweeney reports from the c. on sunday, this marketplace was busy with the local was doing that daily shopping. it was a bright, sunny day, much like today. around 10 am. the hustle and bustle gave way to cairo's, as you cried, new miss all strike killed. 27 people for them died here

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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

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we are iowa" nikki: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. glad you're with us tonight. nikki: a massive winter storm out east has left about a 100 students from iowa stranded on the pennyslvania turnpike... buses full of high school students were on their way home from washington d.c when they got stuck middle of the snowstorm... they've been on the bus for 20 hours and counting now. we know about 25 are students from dowling catholic... they had traveled to washington d.c. with the iowa right for life group for the march for life demonstration in we spoke to a dowling science teacher who is with the students now... she says the buses had actually refueled right before they got accident on the students have warm with no problems. and earlier something you seen before... outside of the stranded buses of snow, six priests it was incrediable. went to mass today in the snow, in a foot of snow. " nikki/ots: they are not the only ones being affected by this massive storm. theres already thousands of car crashes due to the snow with several deaths.

[applause] >> nikki, nikki, nikki, nikki. gov.fore you as the daughter of immigrants, as the proud wife of a combat veteran, and as the mom of two amazing children. i have served as governor of the great state of south carolina. and as america's ambassador to the united nations. above all else, i am a grateful american citizen who knows our best days are yet to come if we unite and fight to save our country. [applause] i have devoted my life to this fight and i am just getting started. above all else, i am a grateful american citizen who knows that our best days are to come, if we unite and fight to save our country. i have devoted my life to this fight, and im just getting started. for a strong america, for a proud america, i am running for president of the u.s. >> nikki, nikki, nikki, nikki. [applause] gov. haley: when i look to the future, i see america strong once more. we will build an economy that works for all, just like we did. in america, i see that every child gets a world-class education because every parent gets to pic

we are iowa" nikki: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. tonight, some good news from the iowa state patrol. the number of deadly crashes dropped again in 20-15. they're down, nearly twenty percent since 20-10, and the lowest since world war two. nikki: local five's jacob peklo joins us now with more in tonight's big story. jacob? jacob if it wasn't for a deadly crash on new year's eve, the state of iowa would have had its lowest fatality total since 19-44. just a decade ago, there were 450 deadly crashes. in 20-15, it was 3- 17. patrollers say a number of factors have patrollers say a number of factors have brought the numbers down, but they say there are still several things drivers can do to improve. natural sound of car shifting into gear the first weekend of the year for iowa state trooper michael clyde has been a busy one. natural sound of light radar now, that the holidays roadways for trooper michael clyde, iowa state patrol: "when people see cops they tend to slow down a lot more. so, speed is one of the biggest factors in crashes.

expand, never nikki. what are the biggest barriers to your support. >> you know there has always been different wings from party, i come from liberty wing, this is a part of party that believes in the constitution and foreign policy should be approved by congress, we should try to not be eig t eager to be in war, nikki haley hails more from wing of party mccain, and mcconnell, dick cheney wing, where deficits down matter, we'll be the world's sugar daddy and policemen of the world, there is over in a war that these people didn't want to be involved in or want to pay for. this is opposite of what donald trump was he said, payment. . -- people in nato arey from loaders, this is oop sit -- preloaders, this isa op set approach, and nikki haley said, reneed too register people on internet. so, there is a lot of reasons i'm never nikki, but biggest she would be reckless with the foreign policy and more likely to get us involved in a war. larry: interesting point. potential for censorship on the internet. you ar

nikki realizes it. i think she's helped made it a much better position, if you want to know the truth. i think it's become maybe a more glamorous position than it was two years ago. i wonder why, but it is. i mean, she's made it a glamorous position. she's made it a more important, more importantly, a more important position. so we have -- i can almost say many people that want to do it, and they're very good people. i'll be talking also to nikki about that and to the general about that and to my staff. but we have many people that are very, very much interested in doing it. >> you saw secretary pompeo, are you frustrated by the lack of announcements? >> not only am i not frustrated, i think it's incredible what's happening. you're talking about north korea. it's amazing how the media -- who are you with? >> with france. >> it's amazing the media says for 80 years they couldn't do a thing, and what are we, in three months of negotiation, it's ridiculous. as i said about 1,000 times, you have no rockets

and on nikki haley. she's defined, she says she'll stay on in the race. but if she called when in her own home state, then why is she carrying on? so that's definitely have a good luck when you can't carry your own space. the numbers, mathematically, speaking of the republican republican candid need, a 1215 delegates to become the cabinet. those delegates get voted, officially registered at the national convention later this summer. and so far, as i mentioned, only a handful of states about it. technically speaking, there's been only a handful of delegates, which is proportional to state populations or voting populations. they've been a part of a handful of them handed out to these various candidates. donald trump, of course, in the lead, with a bit over a 100 delegates entity halley with a dozen or 22 dozen delegates. so mathematically, there's no reason that nikki haley can't stay in the race and she has the money, the donations to be able to stay in the race and keep running. but as i said, that momentum issue just the amount of attention she's getting

host: why themer president versus your former governor, nikki haley? not vote for hero only one up there to vote for her. host: why not? caller: she took that rebel flag down on top of that. no, i would not vote for her. like i said, donald trump is the best president we have ever had.

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so what could be nikki haley's last stand, potentially, it could be nikki haley's last stand in her battle to be donald trump. we shall see. the exit poll numbers are now coming in, just as cnn showing it. 47% of voters were not declared as democrats or republicans. 49% were registered republicans. kristin comeau do these numbers tell you? >> that may be, if these numbers hold -- and i am the world's biggest skeptic of early polls, but if they hold, this could be interesting for two. these are the kinds of numbers that you need to see in order for her to have a shot. when i see these numbers, whether it is the ideological makeup or the partisan makeup, it's a lot of the ingredients she needs. the worst news for her is the 49% split that donald trump one with in 2020. >> we see that 63% of voters today identified as very or somewhat conservative. 37% consider themselves moderate. what do you make of that as a democrat? >> well, the other number that i find interesting is still of that electorate. 15% still think that donald trump won that election . so where is that 47%? i'm some gets in at

i think nikki haley's going to do what's best for nikki haley and preserving her options. and the republican party. and in her political future, let me bring you shermichael singleton and get his reaction as well just yesterday. sure. michael trump was tearing into nikki haley calling her crazy and a very angry person. listen to this >> she's gone crazy. >> and i've >> never seen anything like that. she holds up a piece of paper which is false, tells a lot of false things. she is, she's gone haywire. she had as it lost too many elections, i guess and she's getting nowhere. she's actually going down. her numbers are going down, so she's a very angry person. so we'll see if she straightens out. maybe she will >> what do you think what's your reaction to all of that shermichael? >> i mean, look, wolf, i think that the former president would be smart why strategically speaking, to lessen the negative rhetoric against a two-term governor, former un ambassador, who served in his cabinet position. >> one >> of the good things that i think occurred with nikki haley staying in this

let's talk about nikki haley and donald trump. what would a, when in new hampshire mean for each of the as well, it really depends on whether we're talking about donald trump or nikki haley. now donald trump, if he gets another decisive victory here after the decisive victory that he already got in iowa, then that would mean a very short primary race. and basically a nomination with his name written all over it. now for nikki haley, a when he or at least a narrowing of trumps lead over her into the single digits that could determine her ability to stay in the contest. it would get her more media coverage. it would get her more donor money and she needs those things in order to be able to go head to head with trump in her home stage of south carolina, which is which of course is something that she wants now worth noting. new hampshire is a tiny state that only has 22 delegates in the republican primary process. that is less than one percent of the delegates that eventually go onto the republican convention to vote for the not many

nikki haley is 80%. that's good enough for me. and i'm just ready to move forward and move on from the name calling. it's like we are hearing such similar things, but then just flip it in reverse who answers that. >> with the opposite conclusions. >> one thing we have also been hearing, both of them accusing the other of being the political establishment or having the backing and endorsement of the political elite. that was a strong message last night. we also heard her reenforce that this morning when she stopped by a the polling place in hampton. listen to this. >> i think it's not the party uniting around president trump. it's the political elite that are uniting around president trump. and the political elite have never been with me my entire career because i have always fought the political elite. it's why i want them to have term limits. it's why i think i call them out on wasteful spending whether it's a republican or democrat. it you can't give americans a budget on time, you shouldn't get paid. i fight the political class

the big move, nikki haley at number two.g second place at 20% followed by desantis and vivek ramaswamy. today donald trump held a rally in iowa where he reacted to the rankings. >> somebody points, i don't have the same vast wealth. >> in the meantime ron desantis and nikki haley finding out for second place for weeks. they been attacking each other incessantly. what desantis says haley is too liberal. haley says desantis is dragging in the polls and can't be biden head-to-head. desantis points out he's got more endorsement that south carolina haley is punching back. >> we have 74 endorsements from current former state legislatures, she's got 14. i have way more than donald trump as well so she was governor for six years get most of the with me because they see me as representing values. >> let me tell you why that is, that's because i push the legislature instead of was felt that they had to start showing their votes on the record so taxpayers could see it. i created transparency so no, elected officials and the statehouse

>> i think in that moment, nikki haley went on the attack. she defended herself from an attack, and then counter attacked and had all the receipts to show it. in that moment, she won the point. >> what it does also show is the country has moved in the last ten years on china. we have had a total paradigm shift in foreign policy as a country. biden's policy on china doesn't look anything like his predecessor president obama's policy on china. the nuances of where all the individual candidates are may not stand out to the voters but what stood out in that moment is ron desantis had a cheap hit on nikki haley and she came back at him with something quite substantial. >> yeah, i think that's right, and i think tying it to fentanyl is fascinating. we saw all the candidates on stage digging into a substantiative way an issue hurting a lot of folks, and that's about bringing foreign policy home, and that's an important thing to do. this was a foreign policy debate. that's where the world is right now, and that placed nikki haley's strengths overall.

you just heard from the folks who attended the nikki haley rally. the news of the day that ron desantis suspended his campaign and any of the candidate messages read -- resonating with you. those are the lines on your screen. >> what i haveeen noticing is all of the republican challengers, a lot of these u.s., the reason nikki haley's ratings went up is because she denied slavery and she recently come over here and a lot of the rights they have they had because of us black people who came out and died for those rights and they came over here from russia or germany like trump they are german, they weren't jews, they were nazis. he hthey are deplorable's. a lot of people don't want to because it is very few white people on tv who support the democratic party. they have taken affirmative action rights, women's rights they are not for freedom they are for fascism. thank you. >> ok. ryan? >> i was surprised when ron desantis dropped out but i am an independent who voted for trump three times. 2016 primary, general, and 2020. that nikki haley in my opinio

it says about nikki that 50% of the republicans would be lost to nikki, only to nikki, not even ron desanctimonious. it's a bad thing for us. he has a system where democrats are allowed to vote in the republican primary? new hampshire is an incredible place. i love the people. we won new hampshire last time. it was fantastic what we did. we have great spirit, great everything, that you need a system, a governor that's going to get it changed, not just talking about it. he's been talking about it for four years, never got it done. so democrats are allowed to vote, and they're going to vote for her because they don't want to run against me. they want to run against her. it's a very simple system. we are leading by it in every poll. michigan just came out, leading by 11. georgia just came out, leading by 13 points. we are leading everywhere now, and she's not. she has one obsolete poll she uses that's about two months old where she was leading biden. well, she's not leading biden anymore. the problem is the democrats want her to run desperately, so they have a lot of democrats signing up in new hampsh

why why nikki haley?because my conscience won't allow me to vote for him. >> what has led you to vote for hailie? -- the attributes that drew you to her? >> she is not trump. >>> a key factor in today's primaries, independents. we are looking at how they could impact tonight's race between italy and the former president. primary voters don't need to register to vote in new hampshire. we will go to cnn's phil mattingly at the wall. nikki haley's campaign has been investing heavily in new hampshire. how would you be able to pull off this upset? >> she spent more than double what donald trump suspended his campaign, the ally groups around him over the course of the last several months, making very clear this is the moment for nikki haley and her team if they want to really challenge donald trump in the primary ahead. i was listening with fascination to your conversation with jack heath. his key points i think are so critical. i want to explain why. here is where we stand now. there were votes after midnight