Steve Hilton: “This was a stunning victory for him…”
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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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