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her to loathing her. trump will transform his attitude toward her from benign disdain to angry contempt. she will be exposed by republican voters for how little support she actually has. in short, when he new hampshire ends her career in the trump republican party. cheney now, the staff writer at the atlantic and author of for your servitude, don trump's washington the price of submission. mark, you have been writing amazing analysis at the haley campaign, which we are gonna get to momentarily but i do wonder what you think about this moment for nikki haley and whether it is the best of time or might actually be the worst of times? >> well, i usually agree very much with jonathan v. last. he's brilliant. i don't agree with this take at all. if she wants to be president xi needs new hampshire. she needs to do well they are preferably wind so that she can have a chance in south
its then nikki haley. you know, i think kari lake's problem is she's never been elected. at least, statewide, anywhere, including in arizona, obviously. so, she would have a long way to go. i also think she has worked extremely hard to sort of check the sycophancy box that would be the number one require for someone to be his running mate. >> let's go to that atlantic article now, with analysis of nikki haley's campaign. there is new iowa polling, and it shows for the first time, with a pretty clear lead over desantis, but despite he least pledged to tell hard truth, you're right, mark, when it comes to speaking the hardest truth of all, about trump, haley's words fall feebly short. here's some of what she said at this week's debate, where trump was, of course, notably absent. >> i think he was the right president at the right time. i agree with a lot of his policies, but his way is not my way. i don't have vengeance. i don't have vendettas. i don't take things personally. for me, it's very much about no
state officials to overturn the election results. these statements contradicting trump's moves in the months after the election when he insisted the election was a long way from over, and filed lawsuits contesting the results as a candidate, and not at the outgoing president. joining me now is atlantic staff writer and msnbc political contributor, mark leibovich. i was going to have you on, mark. so, this appears to be some kind of new maneuver by trump, because he's now saying, i wasn't a candide ymore after the 2020 election, and in challenging the results, i was doing my job as president to ensure elections are fair. so, what do you make about this? about-face? >> well, it is a pivot, i guess. it's a subtle pivot, but it means nothing, certainly, in the legal context, i don't think. i can't imagine a judge being swayed by that. it's also kind of, you know, defies credulity when you have someone who's basically been
those indictments against him. but he did nothing to cause. it, so she, at some point, especially if she does well in iowa and really well in new hampshire, and even beats him going into south carolina, she is going to have to take off the gloves to a degree, a lot more than she has to this point. >> okay, mark leibovich, will be havoc you back a lot us this plays out. thank you so much. next, how abortion might drive turnout in monday's big contest. contest. looks right. right now in washington, nooo... nooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty absorbs spills like a sponge. and is 2x more absorbent so you can use less. bounty, the quicker picker upper.
about donald trump saying this economy is a disaster, about unemployment, about gdp growth, about unemployment ticking down, all the things that have come -- excuse me, inflation ticking down. you go and listen to that. if you were being honest with yourself, watching that town hall, how you could believe anything he was saying. because almost everything he said unchallenged was a lie last night, and people have to ask themselves if that is somebody they want to vote for. we'll find out in four days if they do. >> it's a media question about this, too, mark. the media question is, is this fox news now? fox news was going to be, like, pushing back against him, the murdochs, we've heard they don't like donald trump. suddenly, he's allowed to lie. he is given a town hall meeting, a format where he is allowed to lie the entire time. they're not pushing him back. here is a guy this past week, this past week, who said he hoped people lost their retirement savings, their
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