tyler jones, democratic strategist joins us now. tyler, what does this signal?signal to you? >> well, it tells me the state of the republican party is not getting any better, like you said. it's getting much worse. the american people sent the republican party a message in 2012. the message was chill out. moderate a little bit. come back to the middle. you're getting a little bit too extreme for us. but instead of listening to that message, they doubled down on the extremism and the rhetoric. in these days the base of the republican party nationally but especially in south carolina, if you're not certifiable, then you're not welcome in the republican party. >> so you got to be whacky to be a republican in south carolina. there's three paerts down there. what has happened to nikki haley? she got big crowds in 2010. they fizzled as of late, haven't they? >> if this is the way she throws a rally, you can kind of imagine how she runs a state. that rally was an unmitigated disaster. and it's just because nikki haley is very unpopular in south carolina. her approval r