And very nice glasses. Ill be back later today with kate bolduan, 04 00 p. M. Eastern for special coverage of Super Tuesday Inside Politics with dana bash, start right now on inside politics, its a tuesday to remember americans in more than a dozen states across the country are casting their ballots. This super tuesday, the decisions could end the primaries ease and then all but hand the republican nomination to donald trump, or a Third Straight election plus, is this nikki haleys last stand . Hes on the verge of mathematical elimination. So whats her next move and more importantly, where well her supporters land. And four years ago on super tuesday joe biden pulled off a staggering political comeback. This time, hes an incumbent president preparing for a rematch with monumental consequences, will look at Morning Sirens for both men with eight months to go until the General Election. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics first up is the biggest primary day of 2024 it could end with the General Election matchup that most americans say they dont want 865 republican delegates are up for grabs in 15 states across all time zones, right now. Donald trump has 276 delegates. The magic number to look for is 1215, which means as of tonight, the former president could be on the cusp of having the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. Cnn has full Team Coverage on this crucial de Kristen Holmes is in palm beach, florida where donald trump is hosting an Election Party and kylie at work, kylie atwood rather is in charleston, South Carolina where nikki haley is spending the day. Kristen, i want to start with you. What are you hearing from your sources inside the trump camp . Did trumps team feels very confident going into today, they believe that while they know hes not going to be the nominee after tonight, that hes going to get enough wins. He could possibly be the nominee by next week. And by that, i mean, cross that delegate threshold and that was really on full display when donald trump did an interview with fox this morning take a lesson i want everybody to come together. Were going to have a unified party because our real opponent happens to be named biden. Theres no path for her to win it. Whether you she likes tearing that or not theres no path for her to win no matter what so what i want to focus on as him saying theres a unified party because this has really been part of the annoyance on trumps team that haley hasnt dropped out. They understand that there are some people who are just never going to back donald trump, even republicans who are never going to back donald trump, but they do believe at that there is a section of republicans, of conservative voters who are still looking for an alternative. So havent gotten behind the former president. They want those people to come behind him before they pivot into this General Election because they know that no matter what happens, its going to be an incredibly tight election between a rematch between President Joe Biden and donald trump they are going to need all the support, every single vote that they can possibly get. So what theyre focused on right now is how to get those people who are maybe still looking at haley to come behind donald trump as they start looking ahead to november. Yeah, were gonna look at some of those numbers in a minute. I dont know whos going to win tonight, but you, kristin and kylie were about to get two are tied for the best live Chat Locations of the day. That is for sure, kristen, thank you kylie, lets show them what were talking about. You are in charleston, South Carolina. Nikki haley is at home there and South Carolina, she does not have any events planned tonight. I was talking to her on the show on friday okay asking which super tuesday states who is going to be on. She said she would be back home. What does that tell us well, listen, the fact that she wants to be here in her home state is telling she wants to be with those close to her this is not a state that is voting today. Lets just remind folks, South Carolina already had its primary a few weeks ago and when nikki haleys asked about the longevity of her campaign beyond the super tuesday, she often says that shes not thinking that far ahead her Campaign Last scheduled rally was last night in texas. Of course, they could schedule more, but there arent any more on the calendar as of now, and she was asked earlier this morning on fox if she will draw it out, if she doesnt have a successful showing tonight didnt commit one way or another, but twothird protective of her supporters, listen to what she said i dont know why everybody so adamant that they have to follow trumps lead to get me out of this race. All of these people deserve devotes 16 states want to have their voices heard. They dont want to be ignored, they dont want to be just said that thats nothing. Theyre actually quite something and they want Something Different in our country and i respect them tremendously for that now, back in january around the time of the New Hampshire primary, nikki haleys campaign pointed to super tuesday presenting Fertile Ground for them because 611 of the 16 states and territories voting today have open or semiopen primaries. But when nikki haley was asked if shes relying on democrats and independents to boost her today. She said no, she pointed to the fact that only 5 of her supporters here in South Carolina where democrat, so she has certainly not ive been trying to speak specifically to democrats and independents though we know that moderates have really boosted her along the way here. And another thing to watch dana is that over the weekend haley indicated that she no longer feels bound by the commitment she made last summer to support the eventual republican nominee. She said that the rnc now, is it different rnc than it was when she made that pledge and she gave another reason today for not feeling that bound to that pledge, saying that trump never signed the pledge. And so therefore, she doesnt have to necessarily uphold that pledge. She says it will be her decision as to issue will support that eventual nominee or not. But right now, her and her team are really focused on what happens in all these states on super tuesday. Yeah. And she clearly feels that she has some leverage when it comes to where her son orders. I may go and you could see that in the way that she is answering or answering those questions differently than she has in the past. Thank you so much, kylie, from beautiful charleston. Appreciate that. I wanted to talk about all of this with my great panel on the super tuesday, the washington posts isaac arnsdorf, Margaret Talev of axios, bloombergs mario parker i dont know. Margaret, we were coming on air. She said, does it feel like super tuesday . Im going to actually now after listening to them, im gonna go with yes. Okay but it was what youre looking for today more well, i mean, look, we all know where the numbers are going, even if donald trump doesnt hit those numbers tonight, hes on a path, it seems are reversible. A few things im watching for obviously are in virginia, those results are going to be important. Theyre going to tell us quite a bit about how college educated, suburban, exurban voters and around metro areas feel about the fall lines in this race and whether they can stomach another trump term or whether they really want an alternative. So that will give us some clue at carolinas similar yes. North carolina is interesting for so many reasons. This is democrats hoped it would be the most battleground of trumps states im not sure. Its tracking that way, but the governors race is going to be very interesting, especially if the current Lieutenant Governor becomes the republican nominee for governor. So well be watching that contests. And then of course, in the California Senate race, i think thats the other race will be watching on the democratic side. Thats a fascinating one for sure. Isaac, you are on the Campaign Trail with donald trump a lot exclusively, maybe so i want to ask about some of the things that kristen was touching on about how the Trump Campaign is looking, not just at what the results tonight tell them, but also kind of big picture, assuming that he is the nominee, how he gets some of the nikki haley voters back the New York Times poll over the weekend told us a lot of interesting things about the National Snapshot right now. One of them, everyone focused on biden and what it said about biden. But theres a lot in here about donald trump as Well Question is whether or not republican primary voters, how they feel about Donald Trumping the nominee 48 enthusiastic, 32 satisfied, but 18 are either dissatisfied or angry. If you look at that and against that backdrop listen to what donald trump said about people who arent quote, unquote maga. He said it over the weekend in virginia im lucky that im able to explain it to the public because if you werent able to explain it the public wouldnt know. They believe what they see so i dont want to win this way. Look, i want to win based on my policies are better. Were going to cut taxes, were going to get Interest Rates down they say always tried to demine. Well, maga really represents 48 of the republican, but now it represents 96 than maybe 100 . Were getting rid of the romneys the world. We want to get romneys and those out the ram is of the world still exist. And theyre going to be put in a position of having to choose from three choices. Trump, biden. I mean, i guess there are others, if they live in a state where theres an independent on the ballot or stay home what are you hearing from people in the trump camp about statements like that from their candidate . Well, and thats really the argument that nikki haley is making. It this is that she is representing a significant constituency here. Thats not going to go away, but hes not exactly according them with those statements. Well, hes you know, if you look back to New Hampshire when he was all about it was supposed to be his night and he was so mad about what haley did that it was all about her versus michigan when he came out, he didnt mention haley at all and theyve been trying to look ahead to the general focus on biden, just ignore haley maker, grow away and but youre not seeing a ton of short of maybe letting off the attacks on haley. Youre not seeing a ton of outreach toward the voters who haley is speaking to. Those voters who you heard haley talking about . Energizing her to want to stay in the race isaacs point, i mean, i think if you look at one of the questions right now is what does haley du from here, right . She doesnt have the Delegate Math to go forward, et cetera, but if you look really closely, what she is doing, est your point, dana, creating some leverage, right . Donald trump, the art of the deal is cetera bringing that to the tape. We know that hes hes bleeding support in the suburbs among independents et cetera. Hes going to meet the full coalition of the Republican Party in november. No matter whether she has 15 of that slice, 10 of their slides. When she go to the table at maralago, i say hey, hey, i may or may not endorse you. What can you give me in return and then lets look at the other side of the aisle. The democrats and the New York Times had a story today that kind of encapsulates some of the frustration by the president and his team the headline is do americans have a collective amnesia about donald trump, the frenetic pace of the trump years met Many Americans made trump news and obsessive habit or tune it out completely. The ratatattat volume can coincide it with the continued rise of solid algorithmdriven siloed, excuse me, algorithm driven social media and shrinking attention spans. That environment created a kind of numbness that not even 91 Felony Counts or norma Civil Penalties for defamation and fraud can break through. If the biden camp is frustrated about not being able to get their economic message through point b, option b, or bullet point b, is the fact that they just cant believe that americans dont have the same type of angstrom row, donald trump that they had in 2020. Whats important to remember in 2020, election was held in the backdrop of pandemic. The most impactful racial reckoning in the country, about 50, 60 years as well and they just cant seem to stir that anx against donald trump. Theres this sappy of view among the electorate and we see that borne out in polls as well, where theyre not hitting donald trump for presiding over covid instead, theyre remembering those low gas prices that were attributed and it to the lord. And during thats the amnesia that theyre talking about. And margaret, the other obvious difference just like to be completely captain obvious here is that joe biden has been president for four years and they see him through that lens and they see him through his approval numbers have gone down as some incumbents tend to deal with when there are tough times. And so thats hes the opponent to donald trump, not just the former Vice President whos been in private citizen for four for years. Thats it. I think you can look at the lessons of 2016 and say that one of the mistakes that the democrats made was spending too much energy talking about why it shouldnt be trump, but not enough energy articulating the case for yourself. You dont want to repeat that mistake. On the other hand, you dont have a race where voters are essentially seeing President Biden and former President Donald Trump as two incumbents running against each other, which is like a weird thing to say, but thats what it is. Its a race against you in comments and trumps advantage is not that people loved his chaos or his legal stuff, or the way he treats people are his personal. All these things its that they were their memory goes back to a time, either precovid or early covid, where they felt were many rank and file voters felt like they had more money in their pocket of the end of the day and that against the current specter of inflation, you can talk about how the stock markets doing and unemployment rate. But the bottom line is, the prices of goods every day or in people lets heads. Yeah. And joe biden has not figured out the psychology of how to message that and how to how to tell people, look, you need to compare apples and oranges, or youre not going to get what you think youre going to get like he has not figured out how to make that case and youve got two candidates very weakened by their own problems. Grasping onto the weaknesses of the other to have very well said, well, hes got eight months to figure it out up. Next, weve talked about nikki haley. Well, she went anywhere tonight. Were going to take you out west to one of her best opportunities and look at the road ahead for trumps last challenger standing anderson cooper, 360 tomorrow at eight on cnn. We had to take our old gas heating. That was a huge project. I was so overwhelmed. So i started contacting people angie, to work with people that knew what they were doing. It was a game changer. Get started today at angie. Com. 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