The Iowa Results
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Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses by about 30 points, more than double the previous record set in 1988 by Bob Dole . Donald Trump did to Iowa what the Vikings once did to the Irish coast, only smoldering huts remain .
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What would happen if we held an election the way that Americans used to do it just a few
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years ago? We should try that sometime. Here's how it would work. Everyone would vote on the
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same day in person. You would show up and present an ID just like you do at the airport or the
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liquor store. Then you'd mark your preferences on a piece of paper. You do it manually. There
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would be no electronic voting machines. There would be no drop boxes or absentee ballots.
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The poll workers would probably be people that you recognize from your own zip code. They'd be
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your neighbors. They would not be employees of Mark Zuckerberg from California. As for the names
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on the ballot, you would get to choose those yourself as citizens do in a democracy. Judges
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wouldn't be allowed to tell you who you can vote for and who you can't vote for. You'd get to decide.
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And then once you voted, nobody could order a stop to the vote counting. That would be illegal.
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So you would know the results of the election in just a few hours, and you would feel pretty
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confident that they were pretty real. That's how we used to do it in this country. What would happen
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if we tried it again? Well, as it happens, the state of Iowa did that very thing last night. They had
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their caucuses. That's the first contest in the 2024 presidential cycle. It all felt very retro,
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very non-third world. But the results were interesting. Here they are. Donald Trump won 51%
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of the vote. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida got 21%. Nikki Haley got 19%. In other words, Donald
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Trump won decisively. At this point, it's hard to see how he's not the Republican nominee because he
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didn't just win last night. He triumphed overwhelmingly by a historic margin. Trump won the Iowa caucuses by
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about 30 points. That's more than double the previous record. That was set in 1988 by Bob Dole.
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So last night was not close. It was a shocking blowout. Trump did to Iowa what the Vikings once
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did to the Irish coast. Only smoldering huts remain. Chris Wallace looked like he was going
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to be sick. On the other channels, they cast about looking for an explanation for this unexpected
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calamity. Here was NBC News's quote explanation. This is a state that is overrepresented by white
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Christians that are going to participate in these caucuses, especially tonight. I, today, earlier
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today, reached out to Robert Jones, Robbie Jones, from the Public Religion Research Institute,
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knowing that we were going to talk about Iowa. And this is a hyper-evangelical white state.
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I asked him, what do they get out of supporting Donald Trump? Because he keeps losing, he keeps
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delivering losses and losses and losses. And he said the following. They see themselves as the
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rightful inheritors of this country. And Trump has promised to give it back to them. All the things
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that we think about, about electability, about, you know, what are people gaming out or none of that
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matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours, and that everyone who
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is not a white conservative Christian is a, is a fraudulent American. Oh, the whites. You can see
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Chris Hayes just repeating himself. I just want to keep my job. I just want to keep my job.
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But they're very upset. And at some point, it'll be interesting after all these many years to
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discover why a certain sort of person fears Donald Trump to the point of hysteria. There's an awful lot
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going on there, much more than we publicly acknowledge. But in the meantime, it is enough to know
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who NBC News believes is at fault for yesterday's history-altering calamity in Iowa. It was the
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whites, the Christian whites. You knew that. And if you're being honest, you can see why NBC is so
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upset. At this hour, millions of devout Christian whites are streaming illegally over our borders,
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toting their blonde children and their prayer books. And in the process, they're wrecking our
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schools and hospitals and cities and raising the cost of living and hiking the crime rate.
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We're watching an invasion by the Christian whites. It's scary.
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But it's not just NBC that feels this way. Joe Biden's entire re-election message is based on
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hating these dangerous Christian whites. You heard it unmistakably in his speech last week to a black
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church in Charleston. You should watch the whole thing online if you'd like a preview of every
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Democratic presidential campaign to come for the next generation. It's the Robert Mugabe strategy.
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The real problem, Joe Biden explained, is the whites. They did it.
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Never mind that white people's life expectancy is dropping faster than any other group in America,
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thanks in large part to suicide, and that they will soon be a minority in the country their
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ancestors founded. If anything, these trends aren't accelerating fast enough, says Mugabe Biden.
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There are too many white people. It's their fault. So Democrats in the media have been saying
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species of this for years, as you know, and they say it both because apparently it works politically
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and because they sincerely believe it. And there's no sign they plan to stop any time
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in our lifetimes. But for now, they have a more pressing problem on their hands. That's how to
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stop Donald Trump and his white Christian campaign. And that's a tough one, and it's made tougher by
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last night's results. Thankfully, they have a plan, and the plan is Nikki Haley. Now, Haley frankly
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underperformed last night. They told us she was surging in Iowa. She was not surging. Nobody really likes
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her. She came in third by a thin margin, and that denies the media the chance to declare her the one
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true alternative to Donald Trump. But don't expect them to give up on Nikki Haley. A Nikki Haley
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presidency is a lot like a war with Iran. It's a terrible idea. No normal person wants it. But
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because a small, well-funded group of extremely enthusiastic activists are determined to have it
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anyway, we are perpetually on the verge of getting it. The next skirmish in this ongoing battle is going to
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take place a week from today in New Hampshire. And hard as it is to believe, Nikki Haley could do
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pretty well there. She could even win the New Hampshire primary. Potentially. How's that
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possible, you ask? Well, it's taken a lot of coordinated effort, and above all, an awful lot
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of money. Judging from available disclosures, Nikki Haley's team is burning through about $3 million a
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week in New Hampshire. By contrast, Ron DeSantis seems to be spending zero there. Now, much of Haley's
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money comes not from Republicans or conservatives, but from committed Democratic partisans.
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Anti-civilization activist Reid Hoffman, for example, is a major Haley supporter.
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Reid Hoffman is the founder of LinkedIn. He's a friend of Jeffrey Epstein's. He was a visitor to Peto
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Island, in fact. He's also the guy who funded E. Gene Carroll's sexual assault case against Donald Trump.
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Reid Hoffman is a Democratic mega-donor. In 2020, he gave a million dollars to David Brock's
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American Bridge PAC. That's a group designed to physically harass Republican candidates.
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Hoffman's money has also helped to prop up the authoritarian governor of California,
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Gavin Newsom, as well as many others on approximately the same team.
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So you know exactly who he is. What's interesting is, this cycle, Reid Hoffman
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is all in on Nikki Haley. His cash is paid for one of the most shameless propaganda operations in memory.
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So the very same people who told you four years ago that Joe Biden was a jovial,
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moderate grandfather is trying to return America to normal.
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Those same people are now trying to sell Nikki Haley as a conservative woman of principle.
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And one of the most enthusiastic peddlers of this absurdity
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is the neoliberal governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu.
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He's been stumping for Nikki Haley in multiple states.
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Now, you may not know much about Chris Sununu. He gets relatively little attention outside of New England.
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But his charmlessness makes him a terrible TV guest, so they don't put him on very often.
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But there's probably no Republican officeholder in the country who hates Republicans more than Chris Sununu does.
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At one point a few years ago, he complained that there were just too many whites in New Hampshire.
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Sununu has far more in common with Joe Biden than he does with the residents of, say, Coas County.
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Listen to Chris Sununu explain how Nikki Haley is the natural leader of conservative Republicans
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because she's got her bony finger directly on their pulse.
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When you put all that package together of experience, the fact that she is the wife of a combat veteran,
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the fact that she's a mom, the fact that she brings some humanity to a lot of these very tough issues,
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and most importantly, again, it's not a big government solution out of Washington that were promised.
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She looks at every issue through the eyes of the voters, through the electorate.
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Because the thing about Nikki Haley is she's just totally real.
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She's America's most authentic person who somehow wound up in this phony business of politics,
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But Nikki Haley knows what Republican voters care about because she feels it deeply in her soul.
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Nikki Haley is not a bloodthirsty, power-mad feminist robot
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who takes millions in cash payoffs from the people who make weapons of mass destruction
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Okay, Chris Sununu, you seem like an honest guy.
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But will voters in New Hampshire, Republican voters, believe Chris Sununu?
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Haley's approval numbers among self-described conservatives remain remarkably high.
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Well, because she's been endlessly promoted on the news outlets they watch and read.
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But those outlets are not telling them the truth.
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Nikki Haley is a committed neoliberal, just like her creepy little friend, Chris Sununu.
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For example, how many Republican primary voters support the wave of illegal immigration
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Illegal aliens are not criminals, she once explained to her friends at the Aspen Institute.
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Reid Hoffman agrees with that, and that may explain why he sent her so much money.
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Did Republican primary voters support the rioting and looting and killing that enveloped
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this country after George Floyd died three and a half years ago?
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They didn't seem to support it, but Nikki Haley did support it.
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Nikki Haley wrote that on Twitter as the fires were burning.
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Nikki Haley wanted the rest of us to suffer because some armed robber died of a drug OD
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after passing a counterfeit bill at a convenience store in Minneapolis.
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Nothing in this country has been the same since.
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Then you've got to wonder if normal people, if Republicans, for example, still want to
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spend billions more to the corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine.
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At one time, a lot of Republicans did want to send more money to Ukraine.
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But at this point, now that we have the evidence of what the results are, they probably have
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By the time the Ukraine catastrophe reaches its depressing and inevitable conclusion,
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the United States, its taxpayers, will likely be on the hook for half a trillion dollars
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So it's fair to ask, what did they get in return for all that money?
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Well, we got an entire generation of dead Ukrainians.
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And above all, we got a much weaker and much poorer America.
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We got pointless suffering and death and destruction.
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But it wasn't enough death and destruction for Nikki Haley.
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For reasons that surely have nothing to do with her deep financial ties to the weapons
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industry, Nikki Haley demands that we keep the slaughter going in Ukraine and send billions
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more, more than Congress has appropriated, even if we have to cut current programs to pay
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Nikki Haley didn't just think that or dream it.
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So how is that the reasonable, much less conservative position on foreign policy?
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Nor is establishing a vaccine registry for Americans a conservative idea.
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Nikki Haley tried to do that, too, as a member of the South Carolina legislature.
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And maybe most ominously, Nikki Haley buys into the anti-human, anti-science precepts behind
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Haley has said repeatedly that she accepts the terms of the so-called climate debate, as
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devised by the forces currently trying to destroy the West.
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Haley has declared climate change a, quote, national security issue.
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That's a position that further politicizes the U.S. military, something we very much don't
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Haley has suggested she'd be willing to accept more waves of so-called climate refugees from
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the world's poorest, most backward countries.
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The idea there is we displace these people from their ancestral homes in Africa and the
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Middle East by our selfish use of air conditioning and Chevy Tahoes.
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Therefore, we have a moral obligation to import them here, along with their extended families,
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and immediately give them free housing and health care for generations, because it's only
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Needless to say, most Republican primary voters don't think that's reasonable at all.
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They think it's crazy and destructive, because it is.
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Not that they'll have a chance to complain about any of this if Nikki Haley ever became president.
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As she explained recently, people should not be allowed to express their opinions on the
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internet without first registering with the government.
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That's not exactly the constitutional position on free speech.
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That's the North Korean position on free speech.
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You wonder how many Republican voters could ever fall for something like that.
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Some of them probably will, the ones who haven't bothered to learn the details.
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In New Hampshire, it's not going to take a lot of those.
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New Hampshire has an open primary system, and that means that non-Republicans get to help
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Next week, estimates suggest that 40%, maybe more, of all primary voters in the Republican
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Yeah, I'm still undecided on who I'm voting for.
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I'm a Democrat, but I think Biden's too old to be in office, and I watched the Republican
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debate, and I think Haley, I definitely don't agree with a lot of her platform, but I think
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she has a lot of momentum behind her, and I think she's much more capable than both Trump
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Wow, you mentioned that you're a Democrat, said Joe Biden's a little bit too old.
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If it came down to Nikki Hurley versus Joe Biden, which way would you lean on?
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I definitely agree a lot more with Biden's platform, but I think Haley's more capable
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She'll be embarrassed by that tape at some point.
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But she went on in that video to explain that the issues that she cares most about in the
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And if Nikki Haley wins the primary next week, it will be because of people like the woman
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Now, if Nikki Haley wins or even does very well in New Hampshire, it'll be a big story,
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New Hampshire is just one small, heavily wooded state out of 50.
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Will Republicans in other states back Nikki Haley, too?
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Well, they're not going to vote for her voluntarily.
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Haley can only become the Republican nominee if Republican primary voters have no one else
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Ron DeSantis drops out after losing a few contests in a row.
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He simply runs out of money and has to head back to Florida.
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And at that point, liberal donors swing as a block behind Nikki Haley, giving her bottomless
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And then critically, Donald Trump goes to jail.
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And at that point, bam, Nikki Haley wins the Republican nomination by default.
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Joe Biden is going to have a very hard time getting reelected, much less serving another
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Yet the party cannot replace him because that would leave Kamala Harris, who is even
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Because Harris is a member of the new master race, she cannot be booted off a presidential
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She must be shown maximum respect at all times, no matter what she says or does.
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And so that means the Democratic Party is stuck with two fatally unpopular candidates.
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It's their doing, of course, but it's a massive problem.
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So their only option at this point is to run a Republican who has the same views as Joe
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And that is exactly what they're doing right now, no matter what they tell you.