Up to 70 or so up gilt. Com today today on inside politics, welcome to the General Election. The two parties choices, whether you like it or not, are joe biden and donald trump. The 2020 rematch is now effectively a done deal after nikki haley made this announcement this morning, the time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. I have done matt. I have no regrets. And although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the things i believe it the question now, where Will Haley Voters go . Both biden and trump are making a play for their support with very different strategies. Im dana bash, lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics First Up today is day one of what will likely be a bidder and girls cooling 244 day General Election in 81 yearold incumbent president versus his seventysevenyearold predecessor. Donald trump was able to secure his spot as the Presumptive Republican nominee for the third time in a row. Just 51 days after the first votes were cast. And now hes one step. But closer to pulling up something that hasnt happened in 130 years, Grover Cleveland was the only president to win nonconsecutive terms. Cnns kylie atwood is in charleston, south carolina, where nikki haley Just Announced that she was suspending her president ial campaign. Kiley, youve been doing amazing reporting on what has been going on behind the scenes. What can you tell us now well, listen, nikki haley said that she has no regrets. Shes full of gratitude. And she said that she is defending her campaign although she feels good about what she was able to do here, its important to note that she has ramped up her criticism of former for President Trump over the course of the final stretch here of this campaign, at one point, calling him, toxic, at another point saying that he wasnt qualified to be president because she wouldnt trust him to protect Us Service Members overseas. So its not altogether surprising that when she came out and announced the end of her campaign today, she also so did not come out and endorse former President Trump today, she left the door open to potentially endorsing him ahead of the General Election in november. But she essentially said the own it is on him to make the case to the voters who have supported her. Listen to what she said it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. And i hope he does that at its best. Politics is about bringing people into your cause not turning them away. And are conservative cause, badly needs more people this is now his time for choosing now nikki haley, only 12 states as part of the primary process, washington, dc and last night vermont, but her campaign has repeatedly pointed out that there is a faction of the electorate that is siding with her in her vision, and she is trying to now play up the leverage that she has on those voters, putting herself into a position of power, even though she is stepping down and ending her candidacy today. And its important to note dana that she very clearly said that even though she is no longer going to be running for president , she is going to continue to use her voice for the issues that she cares about. One of them, she said was they need to stand with us allies calling that just incredibly important, Dana Such A Classic Issue that really does show a deep divide in the trump Republican Party. And the more Traditional Party that nikki haley espouses. Thank you so much. Kylie. And this is the message that the Trump Campaign put out after nikki haleys announcement. It said it was a hardfought race, but now its time for us to unite as a party and defeat Joe Biden Donald trump, the person his own message was, shall we say off message . Cnns Kristen Holmes is in palm beach, florida. Kristin there. I mean, this is sort of rinse and repeat, theres the campaign and then theres the candidate yeah its not surprising what we heard from the former president , particularly as kylie just laid out, he had been tacked by nikki haley. He was on offense and we were told going into this speech that nikki haley was not going to endorse him and i was told by advisers that they believed she was going to go out there and trashing. But before she even got through her speech in which she asked donald trump to earn the votes of republicanshat didnt support him. He posted this on social media. He said, nikki haley got trounced last night and record setting fashion, despite the fact that democrats for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote and vermont and various other republican primaries, much of her money came from radical left democrats, as did many of her voters almost 50 according to the polls. At this point, i hope she stays in the race and fights it out until the end id like to thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me produce by far the most success teslas Super Tuesday in history, and would further like to invite all of the haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our nation. Biden is the enemy. Hes destroying our country. Make America Great again. So he starts by saying that haleys supporters and donors are democrats. Hes also said that anybody who donates to him haley was not somebody who he wanted donate to him and then he ends was saying, if Nikki Support or to haleys supporters want to support him, he welcomes them this was then sent out by the campaign and this is why im pointing this out in a note that said Donald Trumps statement before haleys speech, which indicates to me there might be Something Else coming because this was not sent out before haleys speech. This was sent out in the middle of his speech, and i am told that he was watching this speech, knew it was happening at the time but i think we might see Something Else. Another turn of the wheel here because dana, as we have said, time and time again both biden and trump going into this, i every single vote is going to count a General Election. And that includes those nikki haleys supporters. You have to turn the wheel will probably go about 100 and 80 degrees is my sense of kristen. Thank you so much for that reporting. Theres so much to discuss today and here with me is an allstar panel, cnn and bloombergs nia malika henderson, cnns jeff zeleny and amy walter of the cook political report. I told you all i want you to sort of just kind of open up your brains and fill out the most sort of the biggest takeaway our viewers have been listening to the, to this and well get into some of the nittygritty in a second. But The Big Picture of what this means in the body politic Going Forward. Well now were serious. The rematch really is on starting today and 240 for some odd days until the final election day, the voting comes earlier. But look, i think the biggest sort of thing im struck by as you look at all the maps above the primaries are the coalitions theres work to do on both sides in terms of rebuilding their Frame Coalition on the biden side, that is clear as we see the uncommitted votes in minnesota again Last Night Joining Michigan last week and other places. Thats just one slice of the coalition he has to rebuild. But he has to do the same with a progressives, young voters, latino voters, black voters, others, but donald trump also has to rebuild his coalition, the republican coalition. I talked to so many voters out there this year who voted for him once or twice some may do it a third time. Others simply dont know. So i think that is what well have our eye on Going Forward for the next eight months. What about those people who dont know . We call them nikki haley voters now, theyre not all nikki haley voters. And she doesnt own them. Theyll do different things. But some said theyre going to vote third party. Some said theyre not going to vote others have to be wooed in her comments or this morning as a time for his choosing, the burden is on him. Its not her burden thats very, very good point love you. You mentioned in the open, this is the third time donald trump now is the presumptive nominee, but he enters this race and stronger shape than hes ever been his political career. You know, think back where he wasnt 2016. He didnt win a majority in any of those states in the primaries are in the caucuses. The party was deeply divided 2020. He came into that race behind joe biden at this point in 2020, he was trailing by about four or five points today. Hes got a party behind him, clearly. Yes, i do agree with jeff that those haley voters are going to be important, but there are far fewer of them than there were in 2016. Who are really debating this and joe biden is a much weaker candidate than he was in 2020. So this race starts in a very different place than the remal it did in 2020. The rematch looks very good. At this point. I think voters are really ready for this reality, right . It had been sort of hodeidah they got to be ready, right point. Yeah. They dont have a choice. This is what this is what has been presented over the last couple of months as the likelihood. So this is whats going to happen. They have seen these candidates. I mean, i was telling me in the greenroom it feels like weve been covering this certainly Donald Trumps since 2015. So this is going to be one of the most expensive, the most expensive our president ial campaign that weve ever seen and i think one big question is, are we in the middle of a great resorting of the parties this great realignment where more downscale sort of War Working Class Voters are more likely to vote republican and thats across demographics and then assorting to the democratic side of more upscale voters, suburban white voters, College Educated voters, and those are sort of, i think the nikki haley voters and well see what happens with that. But this is going to be a Down And Dirty erase so much money is going to be flooded. These a handful of states, these swing states. And well see if, if, if donald trump can flip them or if biden know people minus column one of the factors one of the many factors, but maybe most important factors that donald trump is facing this time around, but he wasnt in The Other Two races is criminal charges. And court case after court case that hes facing. And it was striking in the exit polls that we saw last night. These are questions that were asked nick he haleys voters specifically about whether or not theyre satisfied they would be satisfied is trump. Trump is the nominee, only 19 said yes, believed trump is fit to serve in if convicted. 17 . Now that might look like a pretty low percentage but if you think about what that could mean in lets just take North Carolina and virginia, particularly virginia for example. Well, i think North Carolina is probably the better example if those people dont show up for donald trump joe biden could win a state like North Carolina. Sure, he could. I think a couple of caveats in there. Could he be convicted . I mean, we have no idea if any of these court cases are ever going kept. Get to that point. If i was a betting person as an Old Courthouse reporter, i would say no. I mean, that seems to be where its going. But you mentioned wildcards, boy, i cannot think of a president ial race with more wildcards from the Third Party Candidates to the individual health and sort of stature of both candidates to all of the criminal cases. So were going to reset have to take our breath and see how this shapes out. But i do think its an important opening here for the Biden Campaign and theyre going to try and seize upon it. I mean, they have a lot of vulnerabilities, but their biggest task above all, of course, is to try and make this not about joe biden, but to make it about donald trump, about his negative and theres a lot that helps him them in that respect. But again, the criminal charges has helped donald trump consolidate the republican base. Unlike weve ever seen in his two other races, right . As his point, its a very different frame in a General Election, right . Is consolidating the base and then theres getting people who dont like that and other things about donald trump, which is why the Biden Campaign. I mean, they had basically their finger on the send button a minute. She started to to speak. This is a statement donald trump made it clear he doesnt want nikki haley supporters. I want to be clear. There is a place for them in my campaign. I know that democrats and republicans and independents disagree on many issues. Susan hold strong convictions. Thats a good thing. Thats what america stands for. And then he went on to say this is what makes me love america. Both biden the end you know, nia put her finger on it talking about the sort of realignment of the coalitions. But it doesnt take a big realignment. It literally takes like 5,000 voters in a handful of states kind of realignment. And so every single one of these voters who fits into that category in wisconsin and pennsylvania and arizona matters a lot in a lot more than what well see maybe at the, at the national level. Look, this has been Donald Trumps challenge as a candidate and its still looks even as i said, hes coming in and better shape than ever. Thats his continued challenge, which is his hard ceiling even in the Swing State Polls where hes ahead, he is getting basically the exact same percent of the vote he got in 2020 or he gotten 2016 he has never been interested in expanding his coalition. But again, if youre going to win, what this time around, they say theyre trying African American votes. Yeah, thats right. It wont be the haley voters, right a different type photo and i think the heart of Donald Trumps a problem is the way he treats nikki haley reminds these haley voters of why they dont like donald trump. 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