south carolina is a different animal. nikki haley has seen a bit of that when she was running for governor in 2010, they had pictures of her father with a turbine on, they talked about her religion, saying she had multiple affairs with all these different men. it was as nasty as you could imagine. they called her everything but a child of god. >> and she still won. >> correct. going through that again with the backing of the former president and plus the entire republican party save for three united states congressmen and governor who have endorsed her and jeff dun duncan who i don'tw if that is enough, but this is not just next tuesday, it is four weeks of pummelling that she has to go through and only thing that she will lose is money in her campaign. >> and the blow is not getting endorsement of tim scott. but listen to what trump said. >> this is hard to -- >> listen to this, folks. >> did you ever think that she actually appointed you, tim? and think of it, appointed and you are the senator of her state. and she endorsed me. you

a two-person race between donald trump and nikki haley. k at what to watch tonight, nbc news political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, great to see you. we were just talking with shaq a moment ago about the undeclared voters how significant are they and what can we expect tonight? >> extremely significant, significant in a way they aren't just about in any other state. in 2016, in new hampshire, 4 in 10 republican voters was an independent. so, typically, the rules bend, if you win independents, you win the primary. we've seen nikki haley lead with independents in the polling but trailed trump badly too. with republicans, trump has built what is like a massive lead in the polling. so what we're looking for tonight. let's call up the map here. haley out to a six courtesy lead in dixville notch where all six voters had their vote. that's not typically a harbinger of what's to come in the state. but there are six votes on the board for nikki haley. where are we looking tonight? where are we getting clues? one thing to keep in mind, new en

globalist, he had a whole banner calling haley a globalist at a recent rally. he has this way of being able to define candidates. he did that with desantis, now his target is straight on haley. and this is going to be an uphill climb for her and this is the area that she really needs to get a hold of here. >> proof once again that trump talks and his followers listen. thank you for that. let's go to shaq, you're at a busy polling station in laconia. how is turnout? what are you hearing? >> reporter: it looks good so far. it has been busy through the morning. we're now in the afternoon and that afternoon rush and you continue to see voters lined up through the hallway here, sometimes even getting outside the front door. when i talked to voters as they're heading out, after they cast their ballot, it is striking to me how many people made that decision last minute. one gentleman told me he made the decision not to look on facebook and decided which party primary he was going to participate in. others looked at different things this morning on t

they believe nikki haley will continue. we know aness. it's frustrating for republicans. on ward to south carolina. no matter what people say it was a big night for donald trump. >> senator smith has been wiving the issues that propelleded the former president to victory. >> as far as the top issues for voters. the top issue is immigration for voters on the ground. this was a bigger issue in new hampshire than in iowa. this looked like 41% on the ground. 42% of voters said this is a top issue for them. of those voters, donald trump wins. this is a winning issue for him. 73% of voters who said that was the top issue cast their ballot for donald trump. on the economy the second biggest issue in new hampshire. trump still wins on this issue for people concerned about the future of their family's economic health. by a smaller margin over nikki haley. the others. foreign policy and abortion they are in the single digits. taking a look at fossile fuels. the former president talked about it in his speech and said drill, baby drill. we asked

it is a tight race between nikki haley and trump. we got a week before the election and guess who else thinks it is a two person race? donald trump with all the time, energy, effort, and money. he is putting in lies in criticizing nikki haley. a sign that their cane recognizes she is a threat. we need more people to come out to vote. less than 10% of identified republicans voted last night in iowa. yes, donald trump won. about 7% of that. if we want to see a change, someone who's going to be able to ensure we take control of healthcare costs or aging parents, ourselves, our kids to be ready for war in the middle east and europe. potentially with china. we need more people to vote in these primary so we can get an option that we like in november. >> do you think governor nikki haley needs to be more aggressive for white voters should not vote for donald trump. in the last week or so, it seems like she has been more focused on running against governor ron desantis than on the guy who is the clear front runner and had a historic victory

a win? >> no one ever expected nikki haley to win any of these early states. no polls have said she's going to win. her team has never said, we've never said she's definitely going to win. >> you think a second place finish is a win for her? >> of course. there were 14 candidates in this race. for me, it's about getting rough the first three states with a one on one. it's happening sooner than later -- >> the win of the field? >> that's a huge win. that's exactly what america was asking. >> so ron desantis is a nonfactor is what you're saying? >> completely, yes. >> unaffiliated voters are the largest share of voters in new hampshire. how does this impact nikki haley's chances? >> the morevoters, whether they're republican or undeclared, the more voters that turn out, the more it doesn't favor the incumbent, which is donald trump. he's effectively the incumbent. the higher voter turnout we can get, the better chance we can get those are the voters that are new voters, more likely to be new voters, who say, we want change. we want something different. and new ha

when it does close, it is going to be a good bellwether. haley probably needs to be winning nashua to have a chance state wide. if she's losing it by a wide margin, that doesn't portend well for her at all. concord, third largest city, the state capital this is one that haley doesn't just have to win, she has to win it by a big margin to have a chance. i think look at her -- if she can hit 60% in concord, you say, whoa, maybe something is happening here. if she's not getting that, if she's even losing concord, very, very bad sign for her campaign. couple other towns to keep in mind tonight, the towns in new hampshire, state with a million and a quarter people. some of these towns actually you would think in other states not a huge part of the mix, but take a look at a place like londonderry, south of manchester, this is a place that is pretty much a bellwether tonight. goff's town, bellwether, haley needs to win, needs to wins there, needs to win londonderry. milford, a lot of towns like this, decent sized towns, if she is competitive in those, t

haley. host: and tell us why. caller: got a mute that television. susan in iowa, republican. there -- caller: hi there, i plan to vote for nikki haley. ever since the january 6 insurrection i cannot support that man anymore. everyone keeps telling about what kind of went up a is and all the corruption, just remember, people. if you look back on the real truth of this donald trump is the one who caused his own problems, so donald trump has to blame himself. i am so tired of hearing this image that he is a godlike go back to church and repent to god because it is only one guy and not donald trump. host: we believe it there. our campaign 2024 coverage continues tomorrow from new hampshire. go to our website c-span.org and also followou maformer president donald trump in keene, new hampshire. [applause] all i can say is welcome home ron. maga movement where you have always belonged and where we will welcome you and be honored to kill you among our religion as we go forward unified this republican party for unity. [applause] i mean, you guys know i am a florida man, right? this is

haley. they are trying to cobble together a coalition. we'll see. porters will tell you he's standing on principle and the only one being forthright in condemning donald trump as the potential leader of the republican party. so we'll see. for nikki haley to make this competitive in new hampshire, according to all the polling, the other candidates are going to have to get out. their support is going to have to flow to haley. it's an open question whether all that support would. >> as you said, chris christie is, despite what we saw today, that one defection from his campaign to nikki haley in response to sununu, he's saving i'm not going anywhere. he's spending money in new hampshire, a fair amount. he released a new ad over the weekend, which we debuted on cnn. let's play a little bit of it. >> the country i choose, the one with love in our hearts for every american. our deferences are a strength, not a weakness. donald trump, he will sell the soul of this country. i'm not perfect. i made mistakes. but i will always tell you the truth. new hampshire,

tim scott is only a senator because of nikki haley. esident trump run a primary challenge against her? what do you make of that? >> i think endorsements and money follows who is having momentum, who is having success. i don't have any inside info on senator scott's endorsement, per se, but you need to show strength and momentum if you're going to get that endorsements and get that money. if you are up, say, 20 points in new hampshire, or if you are up in iowa and the first couple states, you're going to get a lot of the endorsements. i think, in a lot of respects, the folks hanging back right now are waiting. they might want to see somebody like nikki haley emerge, or another person emerged as the nominee, but there's no incentives until nikki starts winning some of these contests. at the end of the day, it is like the wrestler rick flair used to say. if you want to be the man, you got to beat the man. to get some of these endorsements and money flowing, nikki will have to beat trump somewhere. new hampshire was supposed to be a golden

meanwhile, haley tried to strike back. her campaign released a nearly 2-minute video showing various clips of trump praising haley for her work in his administration. let's remember trump hired haley to be his u.n. ambassador. haley also responded on twitter "x" calling trump confused. she blamed him for republicans losing the house, senate, and, yes, the white house in the 2020 election. meanwhile, several new hampshire republicans are telling nbc news they're disappointed that nikki haley at least so far is not fighting harder in that state. gop insiders say that haley's light schedule in new hampshire could do any chance she might have had to beat trump on tuesday. her campaign appears to be banking on a less is more strategy with her schedule light on campaign stops this week in a state where candidates typically pack their day's events, also a small state you can cover a lot of ground. what's more haley has also stopped taking questions from voters at her campaign stops. she hasn't held a q&a since january 6th, shortly after the incident whe

if bedford moves towards nikki haley, that will be a sign that what they were looking for in the haley starting to happen. the oh thing to keep an eye on. you'll remember this is now more and more turning into a democratic state. joe biden winning handedly in 2020. where democrats strongholds are, where you see the blue, that's where biden won. that's also where suburban voters are and voter who is are undeclared but might want to vote for nikki haley. that's where they will need to rack up a big vote. that's the final point. when you look at the voter registration, there are undeclared voters in this state. that means they are not democrat or republican. they can walk in with their ballots and decide which way they want to go. they need this number to break in a huge way. donald trump's dominance in this number is very clear. if that breaks towards nikki haley, there's a possibility of a real race. >> we'll be watching that undeclared number very closely. excellent report. thank you very much. >>> still ahead, the oscar nominations are now in. the movies and the actors vying for that

the better choice for a better america, nikki haley. >> look at that. and biden next to each other, i haven't seen anything like that. maybe she feels freed up to make that contrast more aggressively. >> i think there is a very strong anti-trump sentiment here. we saw governor sununu endorse haley. he's been a voice against trump. so i'm not sure that's persuasive. they already know that's the line up that we're going to see, so i i don't just see a playing that stroongly here. we'll see. >> but there's a reason they are putting it up. how do you see it? >> there's also you think about abortion here. this is a state where the abortion issue is going to play differently than in iowa. donald trump has been on the campaign trail taking credit for having overturned roe v. wade. that could hurt him here. haley is starting to snack on the age issue. this is a state that voted for trump in the past. we had the governor say he would endors him and support him he has endorsed hah lee now. >> it seemed even in the event that donald trump is convicted, which really

that's not a good showing for nikki haley right there. polk county, it's a really bad score for haley, finishing behind, she used to be in second place here, ideally, her campaign would have wanted to win that, maybe even having a fantastic night, having a win in polk county. like underperformance for her here in these suburban areas. and the problem was, the bottom just fell out for her in rural areas. there is more than 20 counties in the state where she finished in single digits tonight. there are only four counties where ron desantis is gonna finish in single digits. >> really did not show the expansion of a coalition for nikki haley tonight in iowa. steve kornacki, i know these are long nights for you, thank you, again, for sticking up with all of us. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent dasha burns, who was at governor ron desantis's headquarters in west des moines, iowa. dasha, tell us what's happening on the ground right now and how does the team feel? >> reporter: well, look, as the party is winding down here, no doubt, the

>> nikki haley. >> why? >> it's a vote against trump. ld be better to have her against biden in the elections and it would be trump and her. >> >> when you undeclared you voted for nikki haley. if it was nikki haley geps joe biden in a general election who are you voting for? >> joe biden. >> reporter: what is the issue you care most about in this election? >> that's a good question. i guess the economy. i don't think that trump would have done a good job with the economy as biden would have. >> kevin kelly, it's great to meet you. thank you for sticking around in this chilly evening. really appreciate it. one of the many undeclared voters voted tonight and went back to that table to reundeclare so that can have that -- they can maintain that status next time around. guys? >> all right, kate baldwin, thanks so much. let's go to dana bash now in manchester, new hampshire, and you have a panel there to talk about that. that right there is exactly what republicans warn against, but one of the things that happens in new hampshire's crazy prim

that is a trump state. nikki haley without momentum really tough, tough minus a win here, near impossible. super tuesday, yes. there's a lot of states to the south and a lot of them are trump states. >> you end up with self fulfilling prophecies. you need this. that is why all eyes are on tonight. we will be back with john in a few moments. let's go live to virginia. as i mentioned, this is day one for president biden and vice president harris choosing tonight to kickoff their campaign together. they believe this to be the unofficial start of the election. we have some new reporting next. plus we go back love to new hampshire to hear from the voters about who they are backing in tonight's crucial contest. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yup, $1000. so switch to business internet from

support, a lot of democrats voting for haley. also thinking about is trump taking a lot of lumps from haley, chris christie. his message was so powerful the other day, anti-trump message. the messages people are hearing may not prevent donald trump from becoming the republican nominee, but they could hurt him in the general election. joe biden is doing great versus donald trump in new hampshire. i think that may be because new hampshire have heard a lot of anti-trump messaging. i'm looking more about how does the next eight weeks shape the general election. >> at an event in iowa, let's listen to what desantis had to say about nikki haley as part of his final pitch to the voters. >> the fact of the matter is, i'm the only one that could possibly compete with donald trump in a republican primary. she cannot win conservative or core voters, republicans. she's wining support from the other party which is fine in a general. >> marc, do you agree with that assessment? >> not entirely. the reality is our party has not left donald trump.

they would beat biden if it was ranked now but haley has a slight advantage -- >> haley is at a percentaget is significantly higher. if it does 46-50 reverses 47-49, there is less of a gap with trump than there is with haley. but your point is good. if you are trying to convince the voters who may be on the fence, it is a big risk taking on trump, and you look at the polling that says trump is ahead , not talking about ceilings but is he ahead of biden in the swing states? yes. is he ahead in national polls? yes or it is tied. it is not like he is losing. amna: we have lisa with us in iowa. she has been at they ron desantis caucus watch party. i would love for you to weigh in. i believe she is doing live reporting at the moment. or maybe she can hear us? geoff: can you hear us, lisa? amna: are you able to hear us? geoff: we are told the associated press has called second-place for ron desantis. who wants to take that jump all? -- jump ball? >> i was right. i was right but that doesn't do him any good because like we were saying before, i'm repeating amy walter, he put all of his eggs in th

here's a little bit of nikki haley. w you what i mean. >> just a little note to nikki, she's not going to 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. >> reporter: jose, i don't know what he's talking about and i don't think trump's campaign necessarily knows what he's talking about there. they want to make haley's life miserable in the next month. they've made that very clear. they want to attack her on her record as a south carolina governor and they want to isolate her based on republicans are only with donald trump. and rinos, republicans in name only, supporting her. that's sort of the planned message. and anybody to basically destroy him coming into conflict we'll see happens over the next few weeks. >> jim, i believe it was new hampshire governor sununu who pointed out this is basically a race for two days. and look how much nikki haley closed the gap on donald trump. e

you can't you -- >> i'm a never trump republican. 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 s

i will say that nikki haley -- i'm a little too old. nikki haley has really sharpened her attacks on the former president over the last several days and is pushing the argument that he overspent, didn't get the job done at the border. he didn't stop fentanyl from coming across the border, and if you want somebody that is going to get the things done that he says he's going to get done, what are you going to give another chance to somebody who couldn't get it done the first time? then he's lumping biden and trump together as if to say these are two 80-year-old men, and if you don't want one, why do you want the other? the attacks have been sharp. they've been concerted. it's something we haven't not seen from here over the many months, even though at times she would criticize donald trump on policy, but this is now a full-blown attack. we'll see if it gets her any where. >> yeah. it will tell us exactly how strong he is with the republican base. it doesn't tell us how he's going to be as a general election candidate. governor, there's a n

he has been a good governor and we wish him well. >> the haley campaign just said in a statement from haley yourself it reads like this, ron desantis has been a good governor and i wish him well so far only one state has devoted half of its vote went to donald trump and hap did not we are not a country of coronations, voters deserve a say whether be good down the road of trump and biden again or we go down a new conservative eroded. this idea of new generation is something she has been pushing heavily here in new hampshire she just turned 52 years old yesterday. she talks about trump's age at 77 and the president's age at 81 she has been telling voters about this over and over again appear to think she's also been talking about we question dirk here about an hour ago about this and that is the poll numbers that show she does very well with undeclared or independent voters but does not do wellin new hampshire and otherwise of the republican voters we asked her about this and this is what she told me. >> what i am saying is we need to be a country where we are bringing people in not pus

cnn town hall just a few hours ago. haleywered questions on a range of topics and said her goal next week is to do better than she did in iowa's caucuses where she was placed third. she dismissed racist dog whistles used against her by leading republican candidate donald trump. the former president promoted a post that falsely stated that haley wasn't eligible to be president because her parents were not u.s. citizens at the time of her birth. haley was born in south carolina, making her a natural born american citizen and she followed up on her previous statements that america is not a racist country. >> i mean, think about what you a are' -- first of all, i will tell you when you look at, you know, the declaration of independence, it was that, you know, men are created equal, with unalienable rights, right? that was what we all knew. but what i look at it as is i was a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town. we had plenty of racism that we had to deal with, but my parents never said we lived in a racist country and i

haley. her campaign calling it a great start to the day. ite donald trump clearing the rest of the gop field after his iowa caucus landslide and haley still trailing him by double digits in new hampshire. undeclared voters are today's wild card. this is still anyone's race to win. >> i could envision a double digit trump win ends the primary. if nikki haley wins, then buckle up. it's going to be a good one. >> a final tracking poll shows mr. trump steadily increasing his lead to 22 points. if that proves accurate, the former president could become the party's presumptive nominee tonight, something that never happened this early in an election cycle when the candidate is not a sitting president. nikki haley is vowing to stay in the race through south carolina next month. although, right now, trump is dominating the polling there as well. we start on the ground in new hampshire with nbc's vaughn hillyard and shaquille brewster and with us is ashley parker. vaughn, starting with you, donald trump could become the first republican to ever carry

vote for nikki haley was a vote against trump. sten to this. >> what do you like about nikki haley? >> several things. one thing, she's not donald trump. >> was that most important to you? >> yes. the guy has no conscience. >> is there something that nikki haley said along the way that you realized, this was the one? >> she really wasn't the one. >> who was the one? >> i liked chris christie. i liked chris christie because of the way he told it. when he backed out, she was the lesser of the two evils. >> the conversations with voters were so fascinating throughout. is that any way to win a primary, matthew? or said another way, is this equally a problem for donald trump in a general? >> listen, you spent a long day here in nashua. welcome to the political hangover. we know the results, what happened last night. we are trying to figure out what happened. yes, this is not a way to win a primary, to try to be either a moderate darling or independent candidate. you need base voters. donald trump has them, has them locked up. a great ni

a different map to nikki haley. she wants to appeal to independents and moderates. 99 counties in iowa. joe biden won six of them. these are the counties where nikki haley might have the most fertile ground. they include poke county, and dorrie county where iowa state university is and other college towns here. this is what to look for, wolf, as the night goes on. >> we'll be looking together with you. you'll be busy. >>> still to come, following all of the final pitches by republican candidates in this first big event of the republican race for the white house. ron desantis' showing in iowa potentially could be a turning point in this campaign. his deputy campaign manager will join us. that's coming up next. >>> it's not just iowa. dangerously cold temperatures are stretching across much of the eastern and central u.s. several cold records being broken today. who should be on high alert? we'll update you. >>> more breaking news into cnn this hour. two attacks in central israel. at least one 1 person killed, 1 more

that's a level, honestly, that haley's probably going to need to get. he's going to probably have to get around what john mccain did back in 2000, which is sort of a modern record on the republican side there. and again, look at the share of the electorate. 42% in '16, 45% in '12, 37% in 2008. the share of the republican electorate that identifies as independent, so again, all the polls have haley down in this. we've seen late surprises in new hampshire before, the demographics, the ideology in new hampshire on the republican side makes this a -- if she can't win new hampshire, it is hard to find a state on the map, including her home state of south carolina where she could win, and if she's going to again, she's got to drive up a massive number with independents tomorrow, and she can't be losing by 54 points among republican voters. >> vaughn hillyard, ali vitali, dasha burns, and steve kornacki, thank you so very much. >>> up next, breaking developments in trump's e. jean carroll's defamation trial, more on why today's proceedings have been canceled. >

i think new hampshire's going to be a real battle between haley and trump. >> yeah, you make a fair point. haley maybe within striking distance of trump here in new hampshire. but she's far behind according to the polls in her home state of south carolina right now. which is next after new hampshire. so how is this not just a one-person race against trump? >> well, i think with all due respect to the other candidate, i think it's sort of the end of the road for them. i mean, look. she's still in second place in south carolina and i think if she comes out with a good showing or first place or very close second place in new hampshire, then that gives her the momentum, the excitement, the attention that carries her back to her home state of south carolina where i think maybe she can see some improvement and maybe change the dynamic. >> haley's appeal has mostly been with what we call more moderate voters, but trump's base, the majority, clearly the majority of the republican primary contest right now is very concerned with evangelical. so how does haley overcome that? >> well, certainly that

ron desantis edged out nikki haley for a distant second place. now, trump swept 98 of the 99 counties in iowa, all except for one where haley is currently leading by a single

when you have a large voter turnout it benefits nikki haley. t. >> harris: thank you for that. when pressed on haley continuing to bring up trump's age, here is what he had to say >> i think i'm a lot sharper than her. i would sit down and take an aptitude test against her. she won't come close to winning. >> this is the guy blaming nikki haley for january 6th. he is off the teleprompter. this is not donald trump of 2016. if he is off the teleprompter he can't keep a cogent thought. i worked with him closely. he is not the same guy. >> harris: he didn't have a prompter last night. >> he is nearly 80 years old. >> harris: 77. >> nearly 80. we'll do math later. >> this is not 2016 anymore. you don't need a couple 80 ears old. will we worry about the next ten to 20 years for america. the difference haley. >> there were a lot of young people and me standing with these high school seniors who had just learned how to canvas yesterday and they were out canvassing for nikki haley. the crowd was young last night. but many of these people were from out of

i said what's a win for nikki haley tonight. rs inside and out as a pollster, what is an actual win for nikki haley tonight, and an actual -- i can survive this for ron desantis number? >> i would say she has to be a fair distance apart from ron desantis. i would say at least maybe five points ahead of him for it to be a really big strong statement. ultimate, i think some of this is really academic. i'm also not going to give you -- >> the "des moines register" poll said haley is on shaky ground. >> right. part of that is because her supporters are less enthusiastic, and she depends on the sorts of democrats and independents who you might not see this big of a number in republican primary. i think what she needs is to prove she has life in her as we head to new hampshire. it's odd, for donald trump, he's probably going to win, but what would a loss look like even though he's going to win chblt . -- win. academics will say, donald trump won by double digits is this over, right, and they have to be able to make the message clear, t

i want to a nikki haley event yesterday, packed house. i met a man, mark, he had been trump all the way in 2016 and 2020. he said now trump is too di divisive and he was now for nikki haley. after the event, he was visibly emotional about what he heard. he admitted he's a bit of a cryer. he said that, for him, she was so grounded. she was so authentic. that's what he really saw. if that is what is connecting with folks, what does that mean in iowa? >> it means she has momentum. people love a band wagon. they looked at that iowa poll that came out from the "des moines register" and they see she has some momentum. the other thing is that her story, her personal story, she talks about growing up in a small town. that sells well in iowa. >> talked about her husband. >> talked about her husband being deployed. the personal anecdotes she tells connects with the audience. then she talks about solutions and that resonates with people. >> is it clear to you what a second place victory looks like for ron desantis after everything he's put in here? >

i think he's - again, | like nikki haley says - a lot like nikki haley says — a lot of chaos _ like nikkis with the court cases and. i— of chaos with the court cases and, i think he's getting to the — and, i think he's getting to the point that he's getting too old. , , . the point that he's getting too old. , ., ., , ., old. he says that he wants to rotect old. he says that he wants to protect peeple _ old. he says that he wants to protect people that _ old. he says that he wants to protect people that are - old. he says that he wants to protect people that are in - old. he says that he wants to j protect people that are in the military, not send them on all these sort of foreign jaunts. she's more of an internationalist. is that something you like? i like it. i don't something you like? i like it. i don't think— something you like? i like it. i don't think she's _ something you like? i like it. i don't think she's out - something you like? i like it. i don't think she's out for - something you like? i like it. | i don't think she's out for war - she — idon't think she's out for war - sh

a political loser. he wouldn't commit to it. haleyin front of an anti abortion group telling those voters and all voters that she thought there was not going to be a federal abortion ban at all. desantis'calculation that he could not just be a replacement for trump, who is continuing his agenda, but further to the right of trump. and appeal to evangelicals who love trump, but didn't get a hunted percent of what they wanted. maybe only 90%. it was a terrible calculation delivered by candidate with some basic campaign skills. skills that nikki haley has. you see him in new hampshire. you see the limits of which republican voters were amenable to that. >> is that, james, why nikki haley can't lean on this electability argument? because that was desantis's argument. but nobody liked him as a person. she's a lot more popular. >> that's true. i would say that the deflating moment in his primary was moment donald trump was first charged by helping break. you can see how ron desantis presented himself as both the winner to your point. second,

there is a world where it gets better. right now, neither nikki haley nor joe biden look strong enough to stop this runaway train. that's why people are concerned. >> thank you very much. it is only january. we have to do this a lot more over the next ten months. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. >>> president biden looking ahead to november with a message and new merchandise. he faces a primary challenger, dean phillips. he came back. he joins us next. not just any whiteboard... ...katie porter's whiteboard is one way she's: [news anchor] ...often seen grilling top executives of banks, big pharma, even top administration officials. katie porter. never taken corporate pac money - never will. leading the fight to ban congressional stock trading. and the only democrat who opposed wasteful “earmarks” that fund politicians' pet projects. katie porter. focused on your challenges - from lowering housing costs to fighting climate change. shake up the senate - with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. you may know adam schiff

it won't be a huge number of votes. but haleyhose. that will help her cause. the city of lebanon in the south, expecting her to do very, very well there. we're also still waiting on durham college town university, new hampshire. for that matter, we're waiting on places where haley can run up numbers and she needs to run up numbers because the problem for haley, we started to see this earlier tonight, and i can tell you it has only continue, and it is a continuation of what we saw in iowa. when you get away from these population centers, when you get away from some of these suburban areas, places with higher concentrations of college degrees, places with higher median incomes, she is significantly, significantly underperforming. what we thought she needed to do to be in the game statewide. again, you add that together right now, and it is adding up to a 13 point trump lead. and i don't think it's all impossible from this vantage point. i mean, we will see. but if you look at these numbers, it's not impossible trump's gonna still w

polls in south carolina show trump with a massive lead over nikki haley, who was the governor in that state. looking back to 2020, joe biden, then vice president joe biden had lost iowa, had a poor showing in new hampshire and had his sights set on south carolina. we are only in january. trump has a massive and all polls against haley and has been leading the gop primary field. nikki haley may be looking to the biden strategy and say, i can turn things around, if she gets a great showing in her home state. nikki haley maybe thought she was not going to win by as much margin in new hampshire as she did. i think we'll see what happens in south carolina next month. we have a few weeks and a lot of campaigning to do. president trump says nikki haley is wasting her time and he has to waste money fighting against her instead of biden. >> todd: if you lose in your state by 30, your political career could be done. president biden had something to celebrate, i guess. >> brooke: he won as a white-in candidate, dean phillips grabbed 20% of the vote. biden setting his sights on former fight with

this could be a pivotal race. nikki haley is making a big push to try to gain the momentum from iowa. what is she saying and doing today? >> well, she's out and about at a flurry of events, no pun intended. and she's getting ready to you know make up as much ground and find as much support as she can in these final few days here and as you mentioned, yeah. very critical primary coming up in a few days that could really set the tone for what we see the rest of the primary schedule. her campaign has tempered expectations a little bit saying that even a strong second place finish would be acceptable for them. that said, it's hard to imagine given the amount of ground and the lead that former president trump has built after his landslide victory in iowa, that that would set them up in a good way. now, what we have heard from her so far today is that she has been on the offense against former president trump, in particular criticizing something he said last night at a rally where he appeared to confuse nancy pelosi with nikki hale

>> i lost faith in him a long time before that. >> jackie? >> that is exactly who nikki haley needs to come out for her. that voter, voters who maybe voted for trump and then voted for biden. those voters who really wanted to vote for a republican again, but they are not going to vote for trump. those persuadable voters are exactly who she needs. whether they are undecided voters or republicans who are just, as she says, over the drama. it's the same voters that desantis targeted frankly and chris christie in a lot of ways. he was much more aggressive about criticizing trump than haley and desantis, but that's the same pool of convincible voters that any challenger to the former president is going to need to poll to defeat him in a state like new hampshire. >> and jeff, the issues that are driving the voters here. we saw in our poll that was released yesterday morning. not a surprise from what we've seen this entire election season on the gop side. immigration is number one. i want you to listen to jamie lowall. i met him at a haley event. he was there to try to figure out if

jon: now it's a two-person race, it is donald trump in nikki haley. he appears to be well ahead of her and virtually all of the polls. does she have a chance? >> she is tapping into independence, she is tapping into disaffected republicans, some democrats who have changed their party in october, there is a different poll of voters in new hampshire, yes, as you heard ron desantis in the campaign trail. 50% of iowa, that's only 110,000 voters wanted someone else besides former president trump. that said the former president is in the poll position here in new hampshire. just to go back in our town hall asking governor desantis about his weight forward, it's kind of telling a couple of weeks ago, his answer considering where we are tonight. take a listen. >> governor you traveled all 99 counties and talk to a lot of folks is not just one pull is a whole lot of polls that show you net connect with governor haley and trailing former president trump by more than 30 points here in iowa. is your message getting through? >> absolutely. first of all just to boil

but trump will not spent the money unless he clearly sees a threat. >> haley is selling herself as a younger alternate. then she goes to south carolina, her home state. >> and desantis calls her the establishment candidate, right? he's like, oh, okay, she's the establishment. you don't want it anymore. >> it's a reminder, wolf, if you're going to slow him, prove he's vulnerable, you have iowa and new hampshire, so we're three weeks and a month ago knowing is this going to go on? >> trump heads to iowa tomorrow. it's clear by all the polls the front-runner right now. do you see any possibility that could change? >> let me look into my crystal ball. look, i think it's very unlikely that trump will not win iowa. -- that he will win. he's trying to get above 50%. the question is how close do the other candidates come to him in iowa. are they ten points behind? 30 points? that is going to make a difference. there's no doubt about it that nikki haley wants a springboard to new hampshire where she's doing well. if she can come in in even second place in iowa or close third, then they'll con

haley. let's take a look at the boat. e in, donald trump still maintaining is healthy lead with 54.4% of the vote, 107,073 votes. he is about 21,500 votes ahead of nikki haley who is in second place with 43.5% of the vote. trump addressed supporters after his victory was declared and he slammed governor haley, insisting she has no chance of winning the nomination and he also turned his fire on the man he is expecting to face up against in november, president joe biden. >> if you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of this not great country right now , it is a country in decline, it is a troubled country, it is a failing country, frankly. but if you took the 10 worst presidents and put them together , the 10 worst the absolute 10 worst i used to say five, remember? i would say five and then i said wait a minute we can add another five, they would not of done the damage that crooked joe biden has done to our wonderful country. >> governor haley is insisting the fight for the nomination is far from over despite the co

so there's certainly is a chance that this could help. haley. you know, move up a little quicker. y really has to overperform with those independent voters. um, you know, this is a state that voted for president trump in 2016, voted for mitt romney in 2012, voted for john mccain in 2008. um, a state that is known to show us some surprises. iss so we're going to have to watch and see if this has any impact for nikki haley. but as you said, this is something that she's been wanting. she's been saying since coming out third in iowa that she wanted a two person race and how she has it. the big question is, is she able to actually build on this and form a coalition of supporters? um, you know, obviously what we saw in iowa 56,000 people in the state voted for trump. um that's not that many. and that's what some of nikki haley supporters are trying to say, like chris sununu of new hampshire. they're saying, look, a huge percentage of the republican electorate does not like former president donald trump. and so we got to give her a chance. but we are also are seeing a lot of pressure from

a lot can happen. >> haley has now said that being trump's vp is, quote, off the table. i just want to be precise does that mean she will not join a potential ticket with trump under any circumstances? >> well, that's my understanding. that's how i read it. yeah. >> that's how i read it as well. governor sununu, thanks for joining us. we'll continue this conversation down the road. >> thank you, buddy. be great. >> thank you. let's get more on the race with our political experts. and jeff zeleny, you're here with me right now. let's talk a bit what's going on. you heard governor sununu trying to play it all down, but how big of a blow to nikki haley would tim scott's endorsement originally given she appointed scott 11 years ago. >> since then there's been very little love lost between the two of them. that was clear during their campaign last fall. i'm thinking back to the debate at the reagan library in september. those two went after each other in an intense personal way. there's absolutely no friendship there. there's very little professional relationship there. i'm no

that's partly why nikki haley has some gasps of life left.>> trump has a sizable lead over nikki haley. ron desantis has a relatively small share. >> far more ron desantis voters have gone to him. the other thing that is a real challenge for nikki haley is the types of desantis voters that are likely to go to trump are the most diehard and fired up, the most likely to dissipate. just like in iowa, one of the reasons donald trump over performed is his coalition was the diehards, the people that will turn out to go to the caucus. we don't have a once in a decade snowstorm happening in new hampshire tomorrow, i don't believe. it's still a problem that her coalition is less enthusiastic.>> if you talk to people on the ground in iowa, despite these addictions, there are no signs, there's not a lot, you are a politician, you know when things are jammed up, and that's not the feel on the ground there. if it's just the diehards who come out, those diehards are more trump than nikki haley. >> people have had trump signs up in south carolina since 2016, they literally have not taken them down. f

haley is. she does have that advantage. this could be aond place with nikki haley. we're expecting a lot of votes to start coming in in the next few minutes. we're going to take a quick break and come back and talk about that battle for second place and what else we're seeing roll in with iowa results. stay with us. iowa results. stay with us ♪hey♪ ♪ ♪are you ready for me♪ ♪are you ready♪ ♪are you ready♪ ♪ upbeat music ♪ asthma. it can make you miss out on those epic hikes with friends. step back out there, with fasenra. fasenra is an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma that is taken once every 8 weeks. fasenra helps prevent asthma attacks. most patients did not have an attack in the first year. fasenra is proven to help you breathe better so you can get back to doing day-to-day activities. and fasenra helps lower the use of oral steroids. fasenra is not for sudden breathing problems or other eosinophilic conditions. allergic reactions may occur. don't stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor. tell your doctor if y

panelist erned towards nikki haley. a panelist likened it to _ towards nikki haley. kki haley. a panelist likened it to rocky. he said - towards nikki haley. a panelist i likened it to rocky. he said nikki haley was playing the role of sylvester stallone, trying to wind up sylvester stallone, trying to wind up cassius clay until that point that he just snaps and goes after and she thinks that is the last tactic in her drawer, and that could be damaging in the general election? i think she has two tactics and i think doug is right, we saw some of that last night. he started to snap, and again calling her bird—brain todayis and again calling her bird—brain today is kind of a snap, so let's see how further he goes down that route if she stays in a race. nikki haley's team is thinking, he has all these court cases against him, 91 challenges against him, if he is convicted on any of those and there enough republicans who have said both in iowa and new hampshire, we won't support donald trump or vote for him if he is convicted on any one of those 91 charges then perhaps by

just this morning, despite trump's win in new hampshire, and the rnc chair saying she does not see a haleyath forward. >>> a plane crashes and explodes near the ukrainian/russian border, we've got conflicting reports this morning about what or who was actually on board. sarah is away, i'm john berman with kate bolduan, this is "cnn news central." ♪ >>> this morning, nikki haley, she's headed to south carolina, as she's very clearly banking on her home state to give her a much-needed boost. it's also clear that donald trump wants her to bow out yesterday, and here's the statement from the head of the republican national committee. >> i'm looking at the math and the path going forward. and i don't see it for nikki haley. i think she's run a great campaign. but i do think there is a message that's coming out from the voters, which is very clear, we need to unite around our eventual nominee which is going to be donald trump. >> but nikki haley, she's already on the air this morning in south carolina with a multi-million dollar ad buy slamming donald trump, and slamming president biden. >> bide