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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room tonight. The 2024 race for the white houses at a high stakes pivot point. After months of anticipation that president the biden and donald trump would face off again. Nikki haleys exit and Super Tuesday have effectively sealed the deal. Our correspondents are covering every three angle of this unprecedented moment in american politics first, lets get to cnns kristen holmes. Shes in Florida Covering FormerPresident Trump. Kristen, what is trump . Now . Saying after a haleys announcement all of you didnt even wait until after haleys announcement for firing off on social media, he posted while she was speaking well, she was calling on donald trump to bring republicans into the fold to earn the voters that had supported her overhead. He lashed out at haley saying this, nikki haley got trounced last night and record setting fashion despite the fact that democrats, for reasons, ill node are allowed to vote in vermont and various other republican primaries. Much of her money came radical left democrats added many of our votes, almost 50 according to the polls at this point, i hope she stays in the race and fights it out. Until the add that he went on to say that vicky haleys supporters should join donald trump and that movement, again, after saying that they were radical left democrats, of course, theres also comes after donald trump lets ago tweeted that anyone who gave information or stephen gave money to nikki haley, any donors would not be welcomed into trumps orbit, which is hard to believe given that they are very welcoming right now to donors and two people writing checks. But all of this said there are specific people within Trumps Campaign advisers that im talking to who say that they know they need some of these nikki haley supporters now, some of them democrats, some of them were never trumpers, people who were never going to vote for donald trump. But there is a faction of these nikki haley supporters who were republicans, who were just looking for an alternative, but will ultimately back the republican nominee, or likely back the republican nominee. That is who they are focused on the campaign, reaching out, trying to come up with solutions to that. While donald trump himself is taking his message in another direction, but it is clearly a pivot to the general election. We saw numerous republicans coming out to back down trump and donald trump saying that he needed to debate President Joe Biden as well. Keep in mind, donald trump did not participate in one single primary debate, essentially saying that he didnt have do because he was leading by such a wide margin. And we have heard from bidens camp essentially saying this wasnt the time to talk about it. But Donald Trumps team, as we have reported before, likud party, the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell of just endorsed trump despite a years long history of friction between them. Lets go to our chief congressional corresponding amount of raja these Up On Capitol Hill mono tell us about this major endorsement and how it actually came about well, Mitch Mcconnell has indicated for some time that he would ultimately endorse the republican now many, but he has a tortured passed with donald trump. He had not spoken since December 2020 in the aftermath of the Electoral College certification of joe bidens victory, Mitch Mcconnell declared joe biden in the winter. They have not spoken since that point. The form of the then president was angry at him that mcconnell did would acquit him in his second Impeachment Trial after january 6, but then blamed him on the floor of the senate, said, trump was mortally impractically responsible for the attacks that day ultimately trumped and bashed mcconnell and his wife repeatedly, sometimes in racist terms, to his wife, elaine chao, a taiwanese immigrants so today i had a chance to ask mcconnell how you reconciles his past with his support of his partys nominee recommend how do you reconcile your trump endorsement with the fact that you call them practically in morally responsible for january 6, and the fact that he insulted you and your wife repeatedly . Dashboard is a 25th, 2021 . Shortly after the attack on the capital . I was asked a similar question and i said, i would support the nominee for president even if it were the former frozen and he obviously is going to be the nominee of our party then just to look back the wolf at what he said on the senate floor in the aftermath of january sex President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking events of a day. If the president was the party is not money. Would you support them . Their nominee for the party . Absolutely so this represents wolf, really the republican establishment falling behind in line behind their parties now, may despite their concerns about the past, despite everything they have said in the past, weve seen not just Mitch Mcconnell, but all of his top deputies on his leadership team, Senate Republicans in particular, top Senate Republicans, were slow to embrace donald trump, unlike their counterparts in the house that have fallen in lockstep behind trump. But now that he is on his way to getting the nomination, things have changed as you can see, from Mitch Mcconnells announcement there. But wolf, they still have not spoken despite that announcement that came today. Interesting, very interesting indeed, manu raju, Up On Capitol Hill. Thank you very much. Not a President Biden and his emerging political strategy, as is rematch with donald trump is now set and a state of the Union Addresses tomorrow cnn, senior White House Correspondent mj lee is on the story for us mj. How is the president seizing and all these developments on the republican side just ahead of his critical speech to congress well, wolf, with just one Last Man Standing in the republican contest, this really is the official beginning of the general election for the joe Biden Campaign. That means that everything that the campaign does Going Forward increasingly. So its going to be with an eye towards november and really broadening out job bidens base and coalition Going Forward. Now, even before nikki haley officially dropped out of the president ial race this morning, we know that the Biden Campaign officials and that team have been watching those supporters. These are the folks that they see as sort of the gettable voters. The folks who they say are turned off sort of permanently by donald trump and the statement that we saw from President Biden earlier today after nikki haley dropped out, we saw him explicitly making that outreach to precisely those voters. He said in that statement, donald trump made it clear that he doesnt want nikki haley supporters. I want to be clear that there is a place for that in my campaign. So wolf, i think just looking ahead to the rest of the week for the Biden Campaign and the biden white house, there really is no separating out Super Tuesday last night, and the state of the union remarks that are coming up on thursday, i think the very themes that are animating the general election argument for President Biden. Those are the themes that we very much expect to see woven throughout his speech coming up on thursday, and obviously incredible important because this is the last time that hell have that setting to address folks before he faces voters again in november wolf, youll have a huge audience around the country on television to be sure. Thanks very much. Mj haley at the white house. Lets break all of this down with our political experts in jamie gangel trump slammed haley as we all know, a while also trying to extend a sum somewhat of an olive branch to her supporters. Right now, but her campaign exposed some potential setbacks and Serious Problems that trump has right now absolutely. Yes. Donald trump has his base. We have known that the whole time and now he is the presumptive nominee, but now we asked to think about the general election and the people who voted for nikki haley and some of the other republican candidates he needs them because his one political strategist said to me, this comes down to four words. Get out the vote in those battleground states. So he needs women, he needs independence, he needed to bourbons. Is he going to get the die hard . Never trumpers . Probably not. But those people in the middle, he needs to get them. Was interesting, gloria, because haley said its up to trump to earn the votes of her supporters. How does he go about doing that, including her vote by by not coming out and criticizing nikki haley at every every moment you know, the exit polls last night were really interesting. There was one in North Carolina in which 81 of haley supporters that their votes for trump were not automatic, that, that they wouldnt necessarily go to trump. And he has to earn her vote as well. I mean, she had a lot of things to say about them during the campaign, largely on foreign policy. And so these, these folks are not necessarily going to go to donald trump. Theyre also not necessarily going to go to joe biden there in the wilderness right now and theres a phrase some pollsters are using called doubling haters. People who hate both of these candidates and dont know what to do. And i think a lot of the haley supporters fit into that category right now. We dont im maria cardona. I thought it was interesting that shortly after haley delivered her speech today, dropping out of the race donald trump immediately called for debates with biden, even though he had duct all those debates with the republican candidates leading up to now, what do you make of that . I think that just signifies that he is ready even though he hasnt gotten the nomination officially, he is ready to call this a general election and its off to the races. And thats fine. Because tomorrow night for joe biden, state of the union speech, thats going to be essentially his very first general election speech as well. And i think in that speech, youre going to see joe biden do a couple of things. Hes going to lay out his accomplishments, but hes going to be very personal about it in terms of everything that he has done to boost the economy on a macro level, but also on a very much micro level, which is what people havent really felt yet, right here. He is going to really lay that out. And then hes also going to talk about remind people the body and the mine have a way of forgetting trauma. We suffered trauma under four years of donald trump. And so it doesnt surprise me. A lot of people maybe have fuzzy memory about that the Biden Campaign. And i think starting tomorrow night without necessarily mentioning donald trump joe biden, the president is going to remind people exactly what is at stake that this is a more dangerous, a more feral, a more retribution obsessed donald trump, this time around, than what we have ever seen. And joe biden is the only one who has been before. The only one who can beat him again, well see how he does it tomorrow night. And officials speech before a joint meeting of the house and the senate. So youve got to be a little careful in and not get too much politics in there, not too much blasting of trump. Scott jennings on This Mcconnell Endorsement this is what the connell told politicos Jonathan Martin about trumps behavior that day. Let me put it up on the screen. Ill read it. He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally totally discredited himself you know, Mitch Mcconnell very well. How does he go from that stinging criticism to endorsing trump for the office . He says that trump disgraced. Well, number one, he is, as he said, his Press Conference today, he said he was always going to support the partys nominee and hes had that position since way back in 2021. And number two as punditry there. Like a lot of republicans turned out to be false. I mean the fact is a lot of people after january 6, donald trump was going to be left for dead politically by both parties and most americans, and that just hasnt turned out to be the case. As we saw last night, the Republican Party has coalesced around him. Hes got the republican institutional leadership now with mcconnell and others. I mean, hes got a pretty unified party. These polls are talking about with republicans who supported nikki haley. I dont actually think these people are republicans in the traditional sense anymore. I dont think a lot of voted for trump before. I dont think they intend to vote for him now. And i think i think frankly, when you look at going from mcconnells endorsement today to all the votes that hes gotten in these primaries, you could make a strong argument that his party is far more unified behind him then bidens is behind him. Interesting, you know, its interesting. Jamie as you well know, because youve been covering this for quite awhile, liz cheney is again bucking her fellow republicans, writing this on social media. Let me, let me quote her. We have eight months to save our republic and ensure donald trump is never anywhere near the oval office. Again, what are you learning about what shes planning . This is game on for liz cheney. Now, the trump is really the presumptive nominee. Hell probably clinch the delegates next week. She has announced today, again, really what she has said she will do, and that is xi has vowed to do whatever it takes to keep him from being reelected. I expect this means she will be calling out trump. Very actively. I think she may be traveling to battleground states. And i also would not be surprised to see cheney campaigning for derek there are cracks, especially for the house and senate because she thinks it is critical for democrats to control the congress. We are in an upside down world. She endorsed biden. I, she has not said whether or not she will endorse him yet, but she has said very specifically, she will do what . But ever it takes to keep trump from wedding is historic, exciting time to talk to those haley voters that his job, those cochlea undecided voters who may be the lean democrat or, you know, middle of the road. Liz cheney can be quite exactly right. Make the same arguments that nikki haley has made. Yeah. Everybody standby. We have a lot more to discuss coming up. Also, a Russian Missile strike in southern ukraine kills five people. Our next guest was traveling with ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his convoy was almost hit by that russian strike stay with us. 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