56 posts from Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Steve your final thoughts on this because it really does look bad. I would just ask Kelly, but really Nikki Haley, okay, tell us the state that you win, right? Where? Point to a single place where you have the best chance was New Hampshire and she lost. What's the path? I mean that's the whole thing is what is the path? It is over. Whatever anyone wants to say, whatever she wants to say, it is over. Donald Trump is going to be the nominee and I just don't understand why Nikki Haley can't follow the in the footsteps of those candidates who clearly are all about winning the election and uniting against Joe Biden, Vivek and Tim Scott, even Ron DeSantis. So I don't know why she can't get that point because for the sake of the country, she goes on about how important it is to the sake of the country. Yes, exactly. So let's get together and beat Joe Biden. And if I'm in the media and I'm in the room at the time.

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relaxed, it was classic Trump. The angriest person on a stage tonight was Nikki Haley. But of course the media, because they're all in for Nikki Haley, kind of made out that she made some brilliant speech and it was Trump that was angry, completely ridiculous. And actually if you look at the difference between them, she went first. As you and I were just discussing Trace, when she started, I was watching it with friends, we looked at it and thought, wow, she's gonna concede. Because this is, you know, the way she started off, that was the direction it went. And then suddenly she took this turn into attacking Trump. It was a massive mistake. Trump then came and had to respond to that. I thought actually if you look at the totality of his speech, it was entertaining and pretty gracious and the usual Trump that we get. And it looked to me like the sign of a very, very confident President Trump.

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you. Let's bring in our election night power panel Fox News contributor Steve Hilton, political analyst and class action attorney Kelly Hyman and former White House deputy strategic communications director Roman Dharavi. Thank you all for coming on. So Steve Hilton has been ready. He's got it. He's ready for this. So he wants the first question. Let me just play some sound for you. Here's Nikki Haley tonight. Watch and we'll get Steve's reaction. At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us running and we were at two percent in the polls. Well, I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy. And now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump. Like Alexis Meadam said, Steve, she says her campaign believes she has money and momentum to keep going. You don't think that way. No, let's just review the night. I want to use the word stunning trace in relation to both candidates. So Donald Trump, this was a stunning victory for him. This was the state that is of all the Republican primary stage, the worst in the whole country for Donald Trump. And he wins a majority. He wins over 50 percent and looks like a double digit victory over Nikki Haley. That is a stunning result. Then you look at Nikki Haley and it's not so much the result. I mean, by the way, as Alexis said, this is exactly what she and the never Trump Republican establishment dreamed of. The two horse race in a state that favors Nikki Haley and is the worst for Donald Trump. And she's defeated by double digits. But the worst thing was that speech. Nikki Haley speech, stunningly bad judgment. Let's just think about the situation she's in. She wants to go to South Carolina, a state where she's miles behind Donald Trump. Currently 20 30 40 points behind Donald Trump. She needs to persuade Republicans who currently support Trump to switch to her. So what does she do in that speech tonight? Attack Donald Trump more aggressively than she's ever done before. It is stunningly bad judgment. It makes me think actually she knows she's going to lose. She's not interested in even trying to win votes. She's got something else going on. Maybe she's her head's been turned by all the media adulation she's got in the last couple of days. It's impossible to understand what she's trying to do with that speech tonight.

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-Whoa! -USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA. -Well, I want to thank everybody. This is a fantastic state. This is a great, great state. You know, we won New Hampshire three times now. Three, three. We win it every time. We win the primary, we win the generals. We've won it, and it's a very, very special place to me. It's very important. If you remember, in 2016, we came here, and we needed that winner. We won by 21 points, and it was great. And today, I have to tell you, it was very interesting, because I said, "Wow, what a great victory." But then somebody ran up to the stage, all dressed up nicely, when it was at 7. But now I just walked up, and it's at 14. But she ran up when it was 7. And, you know, we have to do what's good for our party. And she was up, and I said, "Wow, she's doing, like, a speech like she won." She didn't win. She lost. And, you know, last week, we had a little bit of a problem. And if you remember, Ron was very upset because she ran up, and she pretended she won Iowa. And I looked around, I said, "Didn't she come in third?" Yeah, she came in third. And then I looked at the polls. She was talking about most winnability, who's going to win, and I had one put up. I don't know if you see it, but I have one put up. We've won almost every single poll in the last three months against Crooked Joe Biden. Almost every poll. And she doesn't win those polls. And she doesn't win those. This is not your typical victory speech, but let's not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. She had a very bad night. And you have the now very unpopular governor of this state. This guy, he's got to be on something. I've never seen anybody with energy. He's like Hopscotch. And, you know, I'm watching this guy, and two weeks ago, he said, "We're going to win. We're going to win in a landslide. We're going to win about three days ago." So I said, "Well, we want to do well." That's a big difference. But I walked out just now. We're 14 points up. And I don't know what it's going to be. But when she was up here, it was like six or seven. And, you know, with like 7 percent of the vote counted. Now, let me just tell you, we had an unbelievable week last week in Iowa. We set a record. It was the best in the history of the caucus, in the history. And I remember I sort of had the same feeling. I'm up and I'm watching. And I said, "She's taking a victory lap." And we beat her so badly. She was -- But Ron beat her also. You know, Ron came in second, and he left. She came in third, and she's still hanging around. The other thing, she only got 25 percent of the Republican votes. I don't know if you saw that. Tremendous numbers of independents came out, because in this state -- because you have a governor that doesn't, frankly, know what the hell he's doing -- in this state, in the Republican primary, they accept Democrats to vote. In fact, I think they had 4,000 Democrats before October 6th. They already voted. Now, they're already voting because they want to make me look as bad as possible. Because if you remember, we won in 2016. And if you really remember, if you want to play it straight, we also won in 2020 by more. And we did much better in 2020 than we did in 2016. But as they said, we lost by a whisker, just by a whisker. No, no, no. But we can't let that happen. You know, you have to have people that speak up. I said, "I can go up, and I can say to everybody, 'Oh, thank you for the victory. It's wonderful.'" It's what -- or I can go up and say, "Who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and, like, claimed a victory?" She did very poorly, actually. She had to win. The governor said, "She's going to win. She's going to win. She's going to win." Then she -- she failed badly. Now, I have here -- if he promises to do it in a minute or less, but the only person more angry than -- let's say me, but I don't get too angry. I get even. The only person -- because he was there, and he did fantastically well, by the way, and then he endorsed me. And we don't have to talk about Tim Scott, who, by the way, just got engaged, we have to tell you. And that's more important than all of this stuff. But a man that got to know her very well is Vivek. I said, "Vivek." I said, "Vivek." Go up and say a few words about it. He has to do it in one minute or less, and then we're going to just say, "We had one hell of a night tonight." And one other thing, before Vivek comes -- do you see that, Paul? We're going to put it up. We have beaten Biden. You could almost say, "Who can't? Who the hell can't?" The man can't put two sentences together. He can't find the stairs off a stage. Who can't? But Vivek, one minute or less. Go do it, Vivek. What we saw tonight is America first defeating America last. That's what we saw tonight. If you want America last, you can go to Joe Biden. You got another candidate still, apparently, in the Republican primary. Cut your Social Security to fork over more money to Ukraine so some kleptocrat can buy a bigger house. Go to Nikki Haley. But you know who delivered a double-digit victory tonight? It is a double-digit victory as of right now. Is this man Donald J. Trump, the leader of America first? And that means something. Now, USA and Donald Trump, America first. Now, I got 30 seconds left. I want to make this point here, okay? We got to say this right. What we see right now with her continuing in this race is the ugly underbelly of American politics, where the mega-donors are trying to do one thing when we, the people, say another. And it's up to us, to we, the people, to at long last say, "Hell no." We, the people, create a government that is accountable to us. And we, the people, have said tonight, we want, again, as we did in Iowa, Donald J. Trump. And so you want to actually speak truth. That's the truth tonight. And the only thing they're rooting for is an ugly thing that we don't want to see happen. That's what these people are rooting for, is playing to say long enough. So the Reed Hoffman's and the ugly Democratic George Soros juniors, who are funding the lawsuits against Trump, can prop up their puppet. We say no to that vision. I say the general election begins tonight. And this man will win it in a landslide. God bless you, Donald J. Trump. Vote Trump, USA. (audience applauds) Very nice, wasn't that nice? So, this was a great evening, and I want to thank everybody in the audience, and I want to thank the people that are standing behind me. You know, I think we called it right, immigration's a big deal, a big deal, a very big deal. We have millions and millions of people flowing into our country illegally. We have no idea who the hell they are. They come from prisons, and they come from mental institutions, and it's just killing our country. And I'm talking about millions and millions and millions. They are drug dealers, they're everybody. And they come in just like walking right through. There's nobody to check, and there's nobody to vet. And we have a man with us tonight, Tom Homan, who is central casting, he's central casting. And I'd like you to say a few words about the border, and who's gonna solve that problem, and how quick are we gonna do it, Tom? Go ahead, please. (audience applauds) - Look, I worked for six presidents down around Reagan, and every president ever worked for, did something to secure the border. But no one did more than President Trump. The most secure border in my lifetime. (audience applauds) The most secure border we've ever seen. And Donald Trump's gonna do it again. We're gonna lock the border down, and we're gonna protect Americans. 'Cause what's happening at the border right now, record number Americans have died from fentanyl poisoning, record number migrants have died, a record number women and children with sex traffic, a record number known suspected terrorists across the border. There's one man who's proven he can secure the border, and he's standing to my left, Donald J. Trump, he's gonna do it again. (audience applauds) - Thank you very much, Tom. So, this is an evening that I will not forget, because it's the third time. But more importantly, I think it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be the most important time. We won both, it was, I think they said, somebody said you rarely, if you win both, they've never had a loser, let me put it that way. When you win Iowa, and you win New Hampshire, they've never had a loss, there's never been. So, we're not gonna be the first, I can tell you. And I just do wanna reiterate the polls. We're way up on everybody, we're way up on Biden, and over the last couple of months if you check, and you have to remember, in 2016 they were saying, "Oh, what does he know about elections? "He's not gonna win, he can't win, he can't." Well, we won. And we've got millions, and you can check this, and I hope the cameras don't turn off, 'cause I hate this, but we got millions and millions of more votes the second time, right Mr. Congressman? Millions and millions of more votes. But we had COVID, and they used COVID to cheat, and they did a lot of other things too. We're not gonna let that happen, and that's still, and that's still going along. We don't forget, you can never forget history, because if you forget, you never recover from it, and you repeat, you repeat, and we're not gonna repeat. We're gonna have the greatest election success. We're gonna turn our country around. And if you take a look throughout the history of our country, if you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of this, not great country right now, it's a country in decline, it's a troubled country, it's a failing country, frankly. But if you took the 10 worst presidents and put 'em together, the 10 worst, absolutely 10 worst, you used to say five, remember I said I used to say five, then I said, wait a minute, we can add another five. They would not have done the damage that Crooked Joe Biden has done to our wonderful country. They would not have done the damage. There's never been anything like it. And you say, are they stupid people? I don't think so, because nobody can cheat that well if they're stupid. Do they hate our country? They must hate our country. Because there's no other reason that they can be doing the things they do. Take a look. The taxes, they want to raise your taxes times four. They want to let the Trump tax cuts, the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country, they want them to expire. Your taxes are gonna go through the roof. You take a look at regulations. They're throwing regulations. You can't breathe. You can't even breathe with what they're doing. You take a look at our border. So bad, there's never been a border like this in the world. Four years ago, we had the safest, best border in the United States. I built hundreds of miles of border wall. And they would say, oh, he didn't build hundreds of miles. Because if there's a board laying on the ground, they say that's a renovation. They call it a renovation. If there's two nails laying from 50 years ago, they say, oh, that was a renovation. These are very dishonest people. And you're always fighting them. And 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. And I could tell you five reasons why already. Not big reasons. A little stuff that she doesn't want to talk about. But she will be under investigation within minutes. And so would Ron have been. But he decided to get out. He decided to get out. Now Vivek, I don't think would be at all because he's perfect. Right? And Tim Scott, I know, would never. That's no chance. Hey, Tim, do you want to say something? Come on. Come on. I want him to say something. New Hampshire. The president said a double digit win in New Hampshire. And you delivered a double digit win for President Trump. But I'm going to invite you to my home stage starting tomorrow, where this election is over. It is time for the Republican Party to coalesce around our nominee and the next president of the United States, Donald Trump. Let's get that party started tonight. What a good guy. What a good man he is. But just remember, I did hear Nikki say, and now it's off to South Carolina. Well, I love South Carolina. I love it. But you know, she forgot one thing. She forgot one thing. Next week, it's Nevada. Next week, it's Nevada. It's not South Carolina. We love South Carolina. But next week, it's Nevada. And I'm pleased to announce we just won Nevada. 100% because all of them, they looked at it, and they took polls. And I was polling at 95% to 4% or 5%. And they decided not to play in Nevada. So we just won Nevada. We have a man.

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