nikki haley, the last one standing.and with the results that came in last night in which she only pulled off a victory in the state of utah, losing in 15 other states, this was a clear message send by the republican electorate, that the republican electorate and the united states of america wants donald trump to be their nominee, despite four criminal indictments, despite having been found to have sexually abused e. jean carroll. despite having been found to have repeatedly engaged in financial fraud, they wanted donald trump to be their nominee. and nikki haley we anticipate her making these remarks any moment now and notably per ali vitali our colleague in the room right now, she does not intend to endorse donald trump suggesting that there's a great share of the republican electorate, the independent electorate that wants a different message coming out of this republican nominee. the question here is would that mean potentially supporting joe biden down the road, and does donald trump have any interest in expanding h

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

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where do nikki haley's voters go?nsidering from a couple of different angles because i've been talking about this in the coverage the last couple of days, that is a lot of the haley support, there is a lot of strong evidence in these states, just come from the fact that a lot of the primaries allowed for democrats and republicans to participate. i think one of the big factors in haley's support in some of these states we have seen has been independents and democrats who strongly dislike donald trump and are already willing to vote for joe biden over him and probably did vote for joe biden over him in 2020, just taking what is essentially a free opportunity to vote against trump again in these primaries. so, i think that's a meaningful chunk of the vote that haley has gotten. i'm not sure that's available to trump at all potentially. there is also a big chunk the exit polls have shown haley's voters who say they will ultimately get in line with donald trump. i think that leaves -- there is a group out there, i'm sure,

jeff, let's talk about the haley voters and haley supporters. i mean, this this biden campaign memo that came out at five really talks about how those people represent an opportunity for the president of the united states. where do you think these voters are going to go? well, look, donald trump's going to >> squander the opportunity to actually build bridges with these folks that supported nikki haley. what we've seen show up as an average of about 35% state to state is crossed up through this point in the primaries. there's nikki's work was important in this process. >> shi quan when a the heartburn inside the republican party, that just as consistent folks that have just don't believe they're republicans or conservative, they're like me, but they don't believe that the 2020 election was rigged. they're fiscally conservative. their former republicans had donald trump alienated throughout his last umpteen years of doing exactly what he's done. the democrats who used to be republic that's a, that's a 35% grouping that is really quantifiable hear

unfavorable to nikki haley. so, again, trump, they give out delegates, winner take all, an at large pool for the state wide vote and they do them by congressional district. win the district, get three delegates in the district. and, again, just based on the demographic patterns and the results so far and what texas looks like, no reason to think trump is not going to get a very, very large share of the 161. meaning that just between california and texas, trump could get somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 delegates, maybe more, just from those two states. you add that to his total, look at the magic number, he takes a big jump in that direction. look at oklahoma, you can look at arkansas, you can look at alabama, maybe even tennessee, opportunities for trump to win all of the delegates there as well. and really climb up a few places on this map and haley could make a stand tonight. i look at vermont, i look at virginia, northern virginia, outside washington, d.c., and maybe take a look at minnesota and colorado

that's the opposite of outreach to nikki haley. and nikki haley supporters. so let's go to alayna treene now, any sign over the last few minutes, few hours since the news came out, the nikki haley was suspending her campaign that donald trump, the trump campaign we'll change the tenor of their approach to that. haley support >> well, i was a couple of things i want to note here, john. one is that this was their goal with super tuesday and donald trump wanted to have a decisive enough when across the board and all the super tuesday states to ultimately force her out of the race. and so they're very happy seeing that is exactly what's going to be playing out in the next hour or so. but luck to get to your question and to address some of what kylie brought up is donald trump can trump's campaign understands that they need to do work with moderate voters with independent voters, with the people who went for nikki haley and they saw yesterday on super tuesday that nikki haley did very well with suburban voters, a key voting group that his campaign knows they need

haley got 40% here.state, but it's one of her higher watermarks during this primary campaign. if you add these numbers together, 750,000, three-quarters of a million votes cast in the primary. that's almost the record there in south carolina for one of these primaries. very high turnout there. what was striking is, a few weeks earlier in south carolina, they had a democratic presidential primary turnout that was the opposite. 130,000. that's extremely low. joe biden won it easily, but extremely low turnout. a disparity there of 130,000 on the democratic side, 750,000 on the republican side. when you see that big of a gap and you take the rules of south carolina i was describing that make it an open primary, that big of a turnout gap -- that's more of the evidence that you had a lot of biden voters, interests and democrats saying, biden has this under control. i'm going to the republican primary to vote against trump. >> generally, we did hear from our reporters around the country that they kept on hearin

, 41% of haley voters were independents, and 11% of haley voters were democrats. so we're calling haley voters are actually going to be independents, never trumper republicans and some democrats. so what we're looking at is pieces of the biden 2020 coalition. i mean, in our in our january poll, we found 19% of haley supporters said they voted for joe biden in 2020. so there is overlap there. that's why you see the biden statement as what it is because they understand this may not be a very hard sell. these are people with some affinity for joe biden. perhaps they voted for him in 2020 as an anti-trump measure. and so trying to keep them in the fold obviously, the trump campaign, as nikki haley alluded to in her remarks, will need to court some of this support as well. remember donald trump lost to joe biden in 2020 because he lost independent voters by 13 percentage points to them well, where independent voters in the context of this republican primary there with nikki haley, donald trump's going to need some of those independents back into his fold if he is going

i think between haley voters who are ultimately willing to go to trump and haley voters who i think franklyer the rules of these primaries, they're open primaries, allow independents and democrats, i think there were a lot of biden voters who do not like donald trump, who didn't vote for donald trump in 2020, and won't this fall coming in and voting for haley and vot there, it's very difficult to quantify, but there are some voters out there i'm sure who are for haley, maybe were previously for trump and perhaps there's talk there in his campaign, do you try to get those voters and how do you get those voters. i think it's a smaller number in the overall scheme of things. the other reason i say that, we have polling evidence here, let me call it right up here. over the last few days we've had four national polls coming out showing small leads for donald trump. what's interesting in those polls, you ask republicans in a trump/biden matchup, who are you supporting. in these polls, 91, 6, 92, 5, this is trump's hair with republicans. what did he get among republicans in 2020? 94%. what did he

and if yesterday was super tuesday, today is sort of haley wednesday, nick he haley dropping out of the race very shortly and both candidates, donald trump and joe biden, who are left trying to win over her voters. joe biden, much more explicitly, the biden campaign putting out a memo even before we learned that haley was dropping out specifically targeting haley voters. so everything about to see today and in the next few days seems to be fighting over that urgent political terrain. let's get right to charleston, south carolina. kylie atwood is there. that is where we will hear from nikki haley shortly with this major announcement that doesn't just end her campaign, kiley reshapes the rest of the presidential campaign >> yeah, that's right, john. so we're expecting to hear from nikki haley today. hey, at 10:00 a.m. according to sources, familiar with her plans, she is going to end her presidential campaign today, but as you guys have been talking about those sources say that she does not plan to endorse former president trump, at least not today. what she's going to say is that there n

trump versus nikki haley. if donald trump urges democracy, i mean, for a lot of us, yeah, people who are our voting in the republican primary, who are democrats, not because they're trying to screw anything up, but because they are that passionate about the threat he poses. >> but i think what's remarkable about this moment as both joe biden and donald trump have glaring vulnerabilities and this elections ultimately going to come down to who can close that gap with trump. you see this, you know, let's call it 30%. nikki haley va voters how many of those are not willing to go over to him? and i have to wonder what the number one issue for voters across the board being border security where donald trump outperforms joe biden, two-to-one on it. you're gonna be able to bring some of those republicans home, but to joe biden is to van's point with joe biden, if you argue this democracy message, can you peel off a small number of those who just can't quite bring themselves to pull the lever for donald trump. it's an

and it's 17 delegates go to nikki haley. nikki haley picks up her very first state. she won the washington, dc primary over the weekend and vermont what is the very first state that she is one, nikki haley, again, projected to be the winner of the vermont republican primary. let's look at the votes there. it is, 50 the 0.4% for nikki haley, 33,684 votes. that is 3,215 votes more than donald trump. 45.6% of the vote that's with an estimated 89% of the vote in. but cnn is projecting that nikki haley will be the winner of the vermont primary. now a democratic projection cnn is projecting that joe biden will be the winner of the california democratic party with its huge all of 424 delegates. joe biden, again, the incumbent president will be the winner the california democratic primary. cnn is projecting. let's bring you a key race alert now all right, let's take a look. look at what's going on in utah where the falling just close the votes disclosed and it's too early to call in utah where there are 40 delegates at stake. nikki haley has high hopes for you now we're goin

voted for nikki haley. these are voters that were in virginia after the results were sort of coming in last night. these are exit poll voters. let's let you hear what they had to say. >> their support to make you think she's great. i think she's a sandy candidate. >> if it ends up being a trump versus biden rematch duda, who you'd vote for it? >> yeah. >> hold my nose and vote for biden again. >> i really like her i like her a lot. >> i think she's just got a good record and i think she's got the best chance of winning in november. >> she just seems real and honest and not. boom, boom, boom, boom. >> all right. the question is to you se where do these voters go? >> that is the question. let's listen. a lot of them. we have exit polling showing a lot of them are not going to vote for donald trump. a lot of nikki's voters are not going to vote for donald trump. they might stay home, they might even vote for joe biden, as you heard. and that's a big warning sign, a big problem for donald trump losing 40% of th

and even though haley did not endorse him, trump said he would, quote, like to invite all of the haleyupporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our nation. it's possible trump could reach the 12s needed to officially secure the republican nomination as soon as next week. last night the presumptive republican nominee attacked president biden and called on the g.o.p. to unite. >> we have a great republican party with tremendous talent and we want to have unity and we're going to have unity. and it's going to happen very quickly. >> today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell endorsed trump despite years of animosity. trump personally attacked mcconnell's asian-american wife elaine chao who he called cocoa chow and china loving. mcconnell said trump is practically and morally responsible for the january 6th capitol riot. yet today mcconnell said trump has his vote. >> i said in february of 2021, shortly after the attack on the capitol, that i would support president trump even if he were the nominee of our party and he obviously is going to be the nominee of our party. >

nikki haley has 3. now the reason for this, and i don't want to get too nerdy here but it is to favor the person who is in the lead, so that the party can get voters to coalesce behind a candidate, right? the idea being that you don't have those fractures inside the gop that you saw back in 2016 for example or the democrats saw in 2020. get to it, get to a head to head, democrat versus republican so voters can start to make a choice >> they want the general election to start tonight. which, for all intents and purposes it appears it's going to but this, it's a rematch of 2020 it's not a replay of 2020. what has changed biden's now the incumbent. he has advantages of that and the baggage of that. >> he has the baggage of that. and if you look saying, we don' to see this rematch. so he's dealing with a very frustrated electorate. you have issues like immigration, the economy, still at the forefront but i think the electorate, the frustration that they are expressing is one of the components that makes thi

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that could chang somewhat is not close for haley most places. >> what other states is that haley campellsetts posted just close. we should be seeing results and pretty soon if not already. it is a state states the haley campaign with some banking on. she could have the support from the governor there and she also had new hampshire governor out campaigning with her around new england this past weekend. but massachusetts like some states like maine is a state that could potentially have an electric that be more place like maine you're only having diehard conservatives voting. maine is open to a wide variety of voters. the type of demographics the haley campaign has been leaning on and counting on to come out for them. but as we saw in new hampshire it was ideal voters normally vote democratic or independent who have a moderate independent type streak are not holding ■7to jumper the republin party, they did turn out. they did not get her closer than 11 points. and so will we might see you tonight in massachusetts will probably not be enough to carry the state. >> why is nikki haley not deli

ambassador nikki haley., of course, after last night, it is clear the former president continues to crews like the florida georgia line as for his opponent she had this to say or her campaign did, quote: we're honored to have received the support of millions of americans across the country today including in vermont where nikki became the first republican woman to win two presidential primary contests. unity is not achieved by simply claiming we're united. a little shade there as for president biden, well, he almost managed a clean sweep on super tuesday except for a loss in american samoa, who knew? there is more. because crowds could be crewing. minnesota he lost a fifth of the voters to uncommitted. large muslim population in a state by the way. similar story playing thought north carolina. now, the tar heels state has a massive college student population. the whole gaza thing also giving the democrats fits. it is going to be very interesting b.k. to see how things go. we will keep an eye on it. but for n

we call them nikki haley voters now, they're not all nikki haley voters. and she doesn't own them. they'll do different things. but some said they're going to vote third party. some said they're not going to vote others have to be wooed in her comments or this morning as a time for his choosing, the burden is on him. it's not her burden >> that's very, very good point >> love you. you mentioned in the open, this is the third time donald trump now is the presumptive nominee, but he enters this race and stronger shape than he's ever been his political career. you know, think back where he wasn't 2016. he didn't win a majority in any of those states in the primaries are in the caucuses. the party was deeply divided 2020. he came into that race behind joe biden at this point in 2020, he was trailing by about four or five points today. he's got a party behind him, clearly. yes, i do agree with jeff that those haley voters are going to be important, but there are far fewer of them than there were in 2016. who are really debating this and joe biden is a much weaker candidate than he was i

haley. you're not seeing a ton of outreach toward the voters who haley is speaking to. those voters who you heard haley talking about? energizing her to want to stay in the race >> isaac's point, i mean, i think if you look at one of the questions right now is what does haley du from here, right? she doesn't have the delegate math to go forward, et cetera, >> but if you look >> really closely, what she is doing, est your point, dana, creating some leverage, right? donald trump, the art of the deal is cetera bringing that to the tape. we know that he's he's bleeding support in the suburbs among independents et cetera. he's going to meet the full coalition of the republican party in november. no matter whether she has 15% of that slice, 10% of their slides. when she go to the table at mar-a-lago, i say hey, hey, i may or may not endorse you. what can you give me in return >> and then let's look at the other side of the aisle. the democrats and the new york times had a story today that kind of

but for haley, that's the point. the idea that in her being the nominee, it could take some of the electability guesswork out of the republican party's game in november. of course, as we have said before and we need to say again, you don't get to a general election without getting through a primary and that is the haley campaign difficulty at this juncture. i will also add for you, chris, i just spoke with a haley campaign official in the last few minutes. they're calling themselves today a bunch of happy warriors. they say at least here in the mount pleasant and charleston areas they are listening to music. some of it a little bit on the nose including the drake song started from the bottom. now they are here and we'll see where they go next at this point. >> all right. ali vitali, out on the campaign trail, thank you so much. as she always is. let's go to the big board, nbc national political correspondent steve kornacki is with us. steve, we know nikki haley would like to stay in this race. that said, what is she

haley significantly behind with 53.hough president trump cannot clinch the nomination tonight, it could happen as early as next week, march 12. and you can bet he's going to claim victory tonight. with me here is our powerhouse political team to discuss all of this. analysis, contacts, let's start with you, john dickerson. dominant wins by both of them tonight. what does it say about donald trump? >> it's the first time a major american party in a democracy will nominate somebody who worked so hard to undermine democracy. ever since he lost in the 2020 election going all the way until this last week and when he claimed he won that election which is a lie that disenfranchises 81 million people. this isn't just a nomination of a person. it's a nomination of a set of ideas which we've seen over eight years since donald trump has been on the scene that basically the rule of law democracy, facts are valid only when they work for donald trump. there were hints of that of course in 2016 for the party has now decided that's wha

nikki haley at 43.egates needed to clinch the nomination. no one will get there tonight, even with trump having that massive lead on haley, a lead that is expected, of course, to grow over the course of the night. he will not clinch tonight. now over to the democratic side. the decision desk looking at the democratic presidential contest in maine says it is too early to call on the democratic side in maine. now going on to massachusetts, nbc news projecting that it is too early to call in massachusetts. now on to alabama. nbc news projecting it is to early to call in alabama. i want to oklahoma. nbc news projecting it is too early to call in oklahoma, and on to tennessee. nbc news projecting it is, you guessed it, too early to call in tennessee. looking at the democratic delegate math, which is always hilarious, right now, incumbent democratic president joe biden stands at 422. but look at that close call with uncommitted with 2 delegates on the democratic side. we just got a whole bunch of polls closin

haley has been personal.'s called him unfit, not just to be president but, essentially, you know, to run a council meeting. she just pointed out that he mixes up who she is and speaker pelosi. she'd be a laughingstock on the world stage, a place where she cares what people think of her. what's she going to do? >> reporter: look, she would say it's not personal. and when we asked her before, do you wish you had gone after the former president and former boss sooner in the race, she said, no, then i would have been with chris christie. for haley, i think it doesn't track with the reality of the republican world that we all live in, she said this is not an anti-trump campaign for her but the reality is if you're the only candidate whose name is not donald trump you are innately the nontrump or anti-trump candidate. that doesn't mean that haley didn't vote for him twice as she often says. i do think it's difficult to come back in the fold and say in the same breath when she drops out of this race, if that happens

i don't think he's going to be able to corral nikki haley supporters. and independent voters back >> now we turn our attention to the likely general election matchup of trump versus biden aaron. and of course, a president biden going to have huge opportunity tonight with his state or tomorrow night with his state of the union address where his likely to have one of the biggest audiences he's going to get between now and election day in november. and of course, he's got to rile up his base. but the question is can he persuade any of these persuadables, aaron, that is going to be the question for him. and for trump going forward. >> all right. thank you so much. jessica. and let's go now to ron brownstein, the senior editor for the atlantic. alyssa farah griffin, former trump white house communications director, and the former democratic congressman, max rose. so ron, this crucial question because it really everything could matter and then you layer in those third parties, where do haley supporters go? >> well, look, the republican primaries taught us two

haley voters over juju. >> alex, thank you.he candidates are the same this time around, but the issues have changed. voters making their voices heard and their concerns known at the polls. >> trump is the best president, pretty much a never trumper. >> it's looking like a 2020 rematch. but four years later, the issues driving voters to the polls are different. >> body autonomy is very, very important to me. >> i'm getting tired of paying $4 $3 for a milk. >> among trump supporters, we spoke to many mentioned the border, the open border and the criminal aliens pouring across it. >> i'm all for people being let into our country legally, but not illegally. >> but biden supporters seem to be split over the most pressing issues facing the nation. >> abortion is something i really care about and access to people making their own health care decisions. >> i'm concerned about the threat that donald trump poses to the decency and morals of this country. >> voters also say the war in gaza could pose trouble for biden. >> i really don't l

nikki haley disputed that.him. would not agree with that. what do you think? >> look, i look one step beyond the party, neil. i see an opportunity to unite the country as a whole. one of the messages that trump has delivered that i really like, success will be our vengeance. that success itself is unifying. if you travel across this country from rural communities to the inner cities to suburban communities, black to white and even democrat or republican, most americans agree that we need a secure southern border. most americans agree that we don't want prices to continually rise while wages have remained flat. those are unifying issues that not only unites the republican? are there fissures? sure. the deeper question is how do we unite all americans around the basic values and issues that 80% of this country agrees on. there's an opportunity to win in a landslide like 1980 with reagan. that's what donald trump can deliver if we get this right between now and november. >> neil: do you get a sense that donald tru

i think nikki haley, i promise you this. you're going to see nikki haley and president trump shake hands and come together in this party. because again, the key is about beating biden. >> now, d. c. is seen as one of the best chances for a u. n. ambassador, foreigner u. n. bassett or nikki haley, to pick up a win. we are expecting the results to come in any moment now. but here's the reason why there was that sense that she could possibly win here in d. c.. it's an urban area with a lot of college educated voters. and that is a demographic that's shown a lot of support for haley, and has come up consistently for her. now all eyes will turn to super tuesday, regardless of what the results here are tonight, in the says she plans to stick in this race. so now, we're just waiting to see how she did here in washington. >> all right. nbc's brie jackson in washington, d. c., thank you, brie. with us now -- former gop communications director and former republican congressman joe walsh, who is now host of white flag with joe walsh. i

nikki haley is looking for an upset.rump's name will be included on every republican ballot, 24 hours after the supreme court handed him a victory saying no state can bar him from the ballot because of his actions on january 6th. we begin with our national correspondent, steve kornacki, at the big board, and vaughn hillyard covering the trump campaign, and ali vitali joining us from the road covering the haley campaign. >> the big picture to keep in mind, yellow, you see the republicans, and 1215 is the magic number to win the nomination. the big thing to keep in mind are the rules in the states, they are designed to determine a winner. demographically there are a lot of suburbs, big sprawling suburbs in california. nikki haley has done well in big, sprawling suburbs. you may say this could be a reasonable target for haley, but the rules in california, it's a closed primary, independents and democrats can't vote, and haley, that's the back of her support, it has come from independents and democrats so far. the rules also

so at least to my next question, do any of you think that nikki haley nikki haley still has a shot? but you're still go to write her in if the election were held today, both of you feel that way and you feel that way also? you, dr. who would you vote for? >> i would vote for trump. >> would vote for trump. so let my people who are voting for donald trump raise your hand again for a second. i'll start with you because you said you're voting for trump. why why do you think of vote for donald trump? >> i would vote for him just his strong stance and american patriotism. it's got the backbone that american needs desperately so he has my vote and do not think joe biden is a patriot? >> not certain. >> not certain. okay. what about you? why are you going to vote for donald trump? >> i think he's the man for the country right now. i don't like him personally, but i know that you don't like what personal his personality i can see past that towards like policy. so i think his policy is for economic growth. i'm concerned about border security and economic independence question we've been aski

and he realizes what nikki haley said today, nikki haley said i'm a conservative republican. if you're a conservative republican, you have a binary choice. and about as far as you get from a conservative republican as president joe biden. and mitch mcconnell today recognized he had that choice. he did the right thing. i think nikki haley makes that choice. it's a choice made easier if he reaches out. >> bill: here's the latest e-mail. it was a hard fought race but now it's time for us to unite as a party and defeat joe biden. >> dana: that sounds a little more correct. >> bill: that's the one that i was supposed to read. >> dana: i want to bring in matt and felipe on something that we asked jason about earlier. this was about the fact that immigration is now the number one issue in the country and followed closely by the economy. and that's for a lot of reasons, right, because people are seeing things with their eyes and ears and experiencing things in their communities. we talked a lot about deplorables back in 2016. felipe, listen to msnbc last night on immigration. get you

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,

nikki haley plans to drop out in one hour. she will leave the republican presidential race leaving that field for one man standing and that's donald j. trump. her remarks are set for one hour, 10:00 a.m. eastern time out of south carolina. we'll have them live. that's the headline of the moment. coming off the big night from last night, so good morning. couple of hours of sleep, back at it. i'm bill hemmer in new york. >> dana: i got 5 1/2. i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." glad to be with you this morning. big news day. we'll have nikki haley at 10:00. right now, let's talk about donald trump. banner day for him because georgia's state senate is investigating the actions of fulton county district attorney fani willis and her romance with trump special prosecutor nathan wade. we are monitoring that. we are also awaiting word from trump on haley's decision. but last night, trump was fired up and in his element putting his victory in historical terms. >> they call it super tuesday for a reason. this is a big one. an

so, we had haley and viv vex and ron. she doesn't get to sharpen her message until the underbush was year out, and she did it. she was fudging her positions at the beginning. she got stronger on those, and as she got stronger on trump. she almost, you know, became a never-trumper. it's going to be interesting to see, does she tiptoe back like so many have? look how many times mitch mcconnell has gone to the brink, then come back into the fold. >> yep. >> what will she do? i hope she withstands the pressure. it would be a wonderful thing if she were the one, if it was a woman that did it. >> thank you both so much. it's a packed show, and we're moving, because james carville is our guest, next. stay with us. s carville is our guest, next stay with us seat. the seat is leather. alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? what? i don't do that. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was about the size of my new motorcycl

we received a response from biden on nikki haley suspending her campaign. >> nikki haley was going to speak the truth about donald trump, donald trump made clear he didn't want nikki haley supporters but i do. both of them might need to court a percentage of the vote she did get. stuart: waiting for something in response to donald trump. we got haley, biden, looking for trump. lauren: trump's statement will be important. it will show, he hasn't attacked her recently. there's an olive branch extended by her concession. how does he pick up on it and can they unite? stuart: he has got to unite with her if she wants a political future. we will see what trump has got to say. donald trump says the world will respect america again when he is reelected. watch this. >> we are not respected. are country is known as a joke, it's a joke. the leaders i speak to, other leaders can't believe what happened to us. three years ago we were the most respected country anywhere in the world by far. when i had the debate with hillary clinton, she said look at that personality, he's going to cause wars. i sa

here is what haley is missing. if you're essentially coalescing this coalition saying donald trump is unfit, well losing to donald trump doesn't make him more fit for office. how does nikki haley turn around and all of a sudden say i called him unstable, unhinged, questioned his competency and his age, but now i'm going to support him? she plaebl will because she does that. >> she left the door open to this on "meet the press" this weekend. >> a lot of voters will go to joe biden. but the moment for nikki haley, adam kinzinger, and others is not to say simply i'm voting for donald trump but to say i'm voting for joe biden. that's how you deliver the country forward. i doubt nikki haley will ever do that. >> molly, you happen to personally know the man who won -- he's a jp, so i like him, the american sumowa, so that's an interesting detail about you. we've been talking a lot about nikki haley, about exit polls, what's good for joe biden or not. what was your big take away tonight? >> two things. jen paw mary was ta

>> i think biden's more dangerous. >> nikki haley thoughts -- nikki haley thinks that president biden is more dangerous for this country than donald trump. donald trump, thetr man with 91 felony counts to his name who has said he will be a dictator on day one, who intends to round up tens of thousands of people into camps, the man who wants to essentially destroy the geopolitical order, but joe biden is more dangerous. at every juncture where she might have said otherwise, given every opportunity nikki haley has madepo clear she is a republican, she ishe a conservative before she isan anything else. is it any wonder that she is offering her supporters to donald trump? there was never any other possibility, not really. and so what we are witnessing here is the final capitulation. the men and women who have been credited however questionably with being resistant to trumpism are finally showing their hand. mitchg mcconnell formally endorsed donald trump for president. there was a moment right after january 6th mcconnell said explicitly donald trump is practically and morally responsible

here's nikki haley >> russia said once they take ukraine poland, and the baltics are next. those are nato countries. and that puts america at war. this is about preventing war. it has always been about preventing war has made no bones about the fact that he wants to destroy america and trump is going to side with him over our allies who stood with us after 911 don't take the side of someone who has gone in and invaded a country and half 1 million people have died or been wounded because of putin >> consistent, strong, and she never wavered on that. meantime, as for trump, he is on a very different end of this spectrum. say that he would let putin invade nato countries in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. >> look, they're >> like going to pay. we're not going to protect. okay >> and it's not just comments like that. it's the trump has time and time gone out of his way to speak glowingly of vladimir putin he's taking over the country for $2 sanctions. i'd say that's pretty sparse. this is genius >> putin >> declares a big portion of the ukraine o

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wall street journal, nikki haley will be making remarks at 10:00 a.m. and we expect those that she will drop out, the journal says she will not immediately endorse trout, your reaction. >> we will have to see what nikki haley says, we will hope she will endorse president trump considering voters in states across the country have made their choice very clear they want president trump to lead the great nation again. it's beyond time for nikki haley to get out of the race and to unify around the president. he's been saying this for weeks and months and we encouraged her to do t just that to hear to the will of the republican voters and will continue to focus our fight on having all americans join our campaign, rational logical american if there asked are you better off today than you were four years ago the answer is unequivocally no. when we see what happened at the wide open southern border in the lagging economy and hard-working families are being left behind and we see what's happening overseas with the chaos of the bloodshed in our adversaries not det

they need these haley supporters. they want these haley's supporters. obviously though this is not the messaging to get those haley supporters or to earn those republican voters. so how they come together with donald trump's messaging? that is going to be what we wait to say. >> kristen holmes live for us in west palm beach, florida. thanks so much, kristen let's break this all down with cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger, and cnn political director david chalian. thanks both for being with us. glory of the question now becomes where do those haley voters go? >> well as poor haley voters out in the wilderness, where are they going to go? it's not clear where they're going to go. you heard that biden is saying, you know, come to my side, the weather's great and trump's sort of not doing that although he does need the haley voters. and we saw that last night because he needs he needs to broaden his base. he needs more moderates. he needs he needs those people and the exit polls showed very strongly in north carolina, for example, that 81% of thos

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, but he says he likes nikki haley. the governor's wife, abby cox, has endorsed nikki haley, also, lieutenant governor deidre henderson has endorsed nikki haley's so that does play into the dynamic here. and you've got the mitt romney factor here in utah, the retiring us senator, former presidential candidate, still a popular figure here in utah, clearly kind of an anti-trump person. he's been very critical of the former president for years and will mitt romney's fluence play a part here in utah? now the advantage that donald trump has here is that this is a caucus run by the party and the caucus is run by the parties tend to kind of draw the more conservative committed voters. that's going to favor donald trump here. is that going to be enough to carry him over the top here in utah in the caucuses. we're going to find out later tonight. here's sample of the ballot that they can be casting here. this is a very simple, you got ryan binkley here at the top, then nikki haley and donald trump. that's what voters are going t

so when nikki haley dropped out this morning, the big question was, who is she going to endorse? you might think this would be the moment with the last person standing between trump and complete takeover of the gop, that she wouldn't just capitulate to donald trump and therefore render the entire point of her candidacy moved, maybe she would endorse joe biden but could she, wouldn't she, suggest that her supporters didn't have to vote for donald trump, that there were other alternatives that the haley people might put country over party in times like these? as it turns out, that's not what nikki haley did. >> in all likelihood, donald trump will be the republican nominee when our party convention meets in july. i congratulate him, and i wish him well. it's up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. and i hope he does that. at its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. and our conservative cause, badly needs more people. this is now his time for choosing. >> nikki haley offered up her

nikki haley or donald trump. and there is at least one vote not for haley, not for trump.ut for lawrence jones here in allen, texas. >> lawrence: not a chance. real quickly, texas is a huge state. so allen is about 8-hour drive from the border. i'm curious, do they feel victorious because of greg abbott's busing operation and finally making the president come to the border or are they just as outraged with the drive bye bye joe biden? >> will: okay, so, lawrence, just a minute ago, i was talking to jason and jason and philip. one of the jasons told me look, when i see what is happening with the busing programs, the flights to chicago, new york, in a way i laugh at chicago because we have been doing this here for decades. >> lawrence: for years. >> will: i was just talking to bryce. bryce was talking to me a lot about infrastructure. i would love to ask you a question that lawrence jones was just asking me, you know, greg abbott has been doing a lot to try to bring attention to the border, to try to close the border, he is in a fight that is going to the supreme court. what

republicans than it does nikki haley.it was conducted in a hotel there is that diploma divide, not trump's bread and butter. if you look at the other district, south carolina's first is very highly educated in the one county in iowa was to the home of the university of iowa. virginia is phonghern virginia r nikki haley. host: any comments or questions for kurk bado you can do thaon the line five party for republicans (202) 748-8001, for democrats (202) 748-8000, for independents (202) 748-8002. can nikki haley stay in the race if she does not do it today? guest: she has been fundraising while in the past few weeks and she vowed to stay in the race until super tuesday but no promises aer that. it would not be surprising when the dust settles tonight and if she does not do well in those in the next few days she could conclude her campaign. host: you mentioned congressional races song and ask you about california specifically. guest: california and new york are the front line for the bottle of the house. we will look at cali

to that point a lot of haley's support comes from voters to stick it.th carolina in california, a sizable number said simone, jen, and tim are back with me. let's talk about this, we were just talking about during the break, there are some opportunities for the biden team, let's start with that acceptable number. it is kind of -- >> it stuck out to me when i look at those numbers, what did you think? >> that was the one thing, i wrote wrote it down in my own handwriting. there's this whole thing in the- - times pull over the weekend that everybody freaked out about and it said that trump was getting 93% of his vote, right? and only in-- and for biden only 83% of his 2020 voters said they would vote for him, but then we see in these actual -- when you are actually voting trump is not getting 20-40% of the vote in the republican primary and then you have republicans saying people in the republican primary voting saying that they will not necessarily back the nominee. that tells me there are a lot of independence in their that are open to voting for biden