Okay, here we are, it is 9 00 p. M. On the west coast, and i am jen psaki, and the midnight shift is the best shift to talk politics here at that time big table to break down everything that happened tonight. Were going to learn more tonight, too, and we do have a lot to talk about, because results from 16 states ask one territory, dont forget that one, just brought us one big step closer to a General Election rematch between President Joe Biden and donald trump, and trump has unsurprisingly won a bunch of states bringing his total degrees to 900, so if we take a look at trump with the numbers, to catch everyone, four indictments, 91 criminal charges, two impeachments and on the democratic side, President Biden has swept every state so far and to jp, and another frontrunner that hit the magic number, those that need to clinch the nomination, but theyre both pretty darn close. Now a major outstanding question coming into tonight we still have, not about trump or biden but about nikki haley and how much longer she plans to stick around in this race . For what its worth, haley is projected to win the state of vermont, her second win after her victory in washington d. C. Over the weekend, but in most of the other primaries tonight, she didnt really do anything to expand her share of the vote in any meaningful way. Just in the last half hour, the Haley Campaign released a statement saying were honored to have received the support of millions of americans across the country today, including in vermont. Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about donald trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Haley is reportedly watching results behind closed doors, and that doesnt paint a thriving campaign, but for now, shes technically still in it. Well bring you any changes or anything we learn from the reporters out there as we have them, and if nikki haley is not long from the case, it showed cracks in the trumps General Election campaign, and well dive into pretty telling exit polls in the next two hours, as well. For donald trump, he spoke tonight. He gave a very low Energy Speech tonight, if its fair to say, lying about his record on the economy and covid and going on a completely fact free rant on immigration, you know, just basically Trump Victory speech sort of stuff. But tonight, were not just following the race for a white house. Theres also a whole lot of action, interesting action, notably in california. Polls in the state highly contested race closed and adam schiff and former baseball player steve garvey will advance to the joins us next General Election and he is a i promise, i could go on. Theres lots more, and i will go on later in the show. Joshstein won the democratic primary in North Carolina, so that sets the stage for North Carolina to be a big state come november. It sets the stable to be a showdown between someone who represents stability and someone that represents extremism, which probably sounds pretty familiar to you. Theres clearly a lot happening from the top to the bottom on the ticket races across the country, and the next two hours, well unpack what we know tonight, what we may still learn and what this all means tomorrow and of course, november of 2024. The panel is going to join me in just a moment. Theyre all here with a lot to stay, and well go to steve at the big board. I want to ask you about the senate race in california, because thats a biggie in the last half hour. You can see overall, the Delegate Numbers changing, 63636 delegates is trump leading by 8e62 and haley barely cracking 15 of the vote and hes already winning handedly, and hell get more delegates and approaching 1100 delegates, and if you hook at the results and fast forward a week when you have georgia, when you have mississippi and washington, and you have a caucus, that is a key word, because trump is getting what he needs tonight to have a real chance to cross the threshold to formal claim the nomination next week, and its by wrapping up massive, massive wins. Look at alabama tonight. Hes going to get all 40 delegates from alabama. We certainly all expected him to win alabama, but a 70point margin, im got sure we were expecting that. Tennessee, haley hasnt even cracked 20 with 20 of the votes still to come in and those to be potentially strong states, look at virginia, losing by a 21 margin. And in North Carolina tonight, shes losing by more than 50 points, all the votes counted in North Carolina, so she does pick up a victory in vermont, vermont a very small state and frankly a demographic outliar in the democratic primary, so what this sets the stage for, what decision will she make in the coming days, whether to stay in this race or not . One thing i think she has to consider is the Talking Point shes been using on the campaign trail. This is based on New Hampshire and North Carolina and 40 a sizable of the electorate that doesnt want donald trump. That is what her rhetoric has been built about. Youre not seeing the 40 here, and just add up all the primaries and caucuses, what share is nikki haley getting, where she is getting collect collectively and in california, shes running turn 23 total so that number may come down, and she may be at half of 40 in the contest and, again, swamped and well under 20 , so it does raise the possible where the voters in the republican side who are initially casting ballots for haley in the subsequent states have looked at this and say, all right, its time to get on board with donald trump. These results certainly suggest it, and is there a benefit that haley received from crossover voters, independents in New Hampshire and independent and democrats in South Carolina, who were really enthused in those states to come into the Republican Party where the rules allowed it and vote for donald trump. In virginia, on paper had more potential for haley than South Carolina and even in a very, very friendly state demographically, minnesota looked like a friendly state and hasnt cracked 30 of the vote and the most friendly state was colorado, the group shes done the best with, she gets a third of the vote in colorado, so there really has been a dropoff in the demographics that haley was appealing to in what theyre delivering for her in the subsequent states. Does she want to be in this race a week from now based on these results collecting 15, 20 of the vote as donald trump potentially crosses the 1215 delegate threshold and becomes the nominee . Coming out tonight, she cant be pointing anymore to a 40 of the republican primary vote not going to trump. That number comes way, way down tonight. At a certain point, steve, the data and the numbers, which youre an expert, make it clear for nikki haley the reality. Before you go, talk about the California Senate race. Garvey didnt really campaign that much, and that a very generous thing im saying. It seems he surged in the recent weeks, so how did this all happen . What does this tell us if anything about the jill kelley General Election. The republicans that turned up checked out steve garveys name and in a four way hotly contested open primary, if you can car roll just the republican vote, it going to be more than enough to get you into the top two, so thats how garvey gets this position. Certainly you can talk about the assist he received from adam schiff, to expose garveys name. And we suspected that schiff had a really good chance of locking down one of the top two spots. The polling wasnt indicating quite this. Better than 21 margin here over katie porter and schiff is second and barbara lee, from the bay area, shes at seven percent so more of the democratic Vote Coalesced behind schiff seemingly in the final days of this campaign, and theres a much, much clearer divide these top two, and and the rest of the field, but in terms of the General Election, an incredibly deep blue state. Nobody thinks joe biden will carry california by a wide margin in november and split Ticket Voting between Senate Candidates and president ial candidates has almost completely disappeared in the trump era. When trump emerged in 2016, Susan Collins won in maine in 2020, otherwise, they both go into forms, certainly the expectation that california adds, 37 for schiff, 52 democratic, 7 for lee. So the 29 for garvey when you combine the democratic votes suddenly it falls behind pretty quickly. Feels like a little bit of a climb with steve garvey even with baseball and some good hair. Thank you, steve, as always. Joining me now is former Chief Spokesperson for Kamala Harris and cohost of the weekend Simone Townsend and former Communications Director and forecommunication director for jeb bush and former democratic senator from missouri, claire mccaskall. I dont know if this is patrolling or smart. Donald trump gave a speech, low energy, tired donald trump, but this is probably the biggest speech of the year, so im got sure why he didnt have a coke beforehand. He said unity will happen quickly. He didnt have nothing nice to say about nikki haley, and in this statement from a spokesperson, unity is not achieved by simply claiming were united. Shes in for for now. Claire, tell me, lets start with haley and trump here, because there were also some numbers here that made it clear that trump hasnt made it in his party to, so what was your tpofpb republican . I get tired of the uncommitted voters and biden has a problem in his party. Listen, i think its fine if people want to say im committed in this primary process, but if you look at that time numbers today, donald trump failed to get a 70 point margin except in one state, and that was alabama. Joe biden got more than a 70 point margin in every single state except two. 80 of the vote, 85 of the vote, 88 of the vote. Our party is pretty united, it really is. And another time well talk about party threats, which is another thing, but they have a war going on in the party and nikki haley knows it. Donald trump owns the party ask will be the nominee, but there are people in fact, i might know a guy sitting next to me that used to say he was a republican, and he now realizes hes not a donald trump republican, and theres a bunch of the folks out there that joe biden can get. Tim miller, great to see you. I know this is your prime time. One of the questions weve all been asking ourselves, what does nikki haley want . What is her goal here . Okay, well, thats a psychological question, and im not a therapist. Well, give us a strategic answer. Whats the conversation shes having with her closest advisors . The question is what does she want to do with her life is really the question, because shes not going to win the primary. I appreciate theres a war going on but its a pretty lopsided one. And she got defeated handedly and that is except for vermont, and shes got coming back in 2028. Im 90 sure she knows that, that this is not her party skpr going to be her party next type, so what she does now you mean if it goes away, its not the person that challenged trump. So shes not making a political decision. Shes trying to decide do, i want to be the leader of this kind of rum faction of a traditional, whatever you want top calm it, compassionate Republican Party do, i want to do that . Do i want to run against donald trump, or run third party, those are her options . Do you want to go on boards and not be in politics. Do i want to go back on Sullivans Island and just hang out . Its not a strategic question. The strategy is over. She got wiped out tonight, and good on her. I hope she stays in and keeps taking the fight to trump and doesnt endorse him and gal nice galvanizing them. A lot of the big money people are with her, its whether they two to him. He needs money. Hes got money problems, and theres a lot of comes professionals going on here. So you both advised president ial candidates, including president ial candidates that didnt necessarily win, weve all been there. Weve all been there. Ive been there really the loss handedly. I got nothing on me in losing handedly. This is a night as tim said where it is psychological. Its hard to drop out of a president ial race, what do those conversations look like, and you get to the point like nikki haley that its time to drop out because the numbers arent there, we all know that. What are you advising her . Give a speech tomorrow, wait two weeks, keep fighting . I dont know about you, but for me, it was very telling that it was a spokesperson that put out this statement and not nikki haley. It was very telling that they had no plans to be seen tonight, and she has nothing on her schedule for the foreseeable future, so for me, the conversations are they were waiting to have the real conversations after Super Tuesday, and the next couple of days, that is where the conversations will happen, and if shes smart and decides to drop out, she picks a Sunday Show Stage to do it where she will actually get eyeballs for all of the things shes saying and at least control the narrative for one morning. There was one more sentence in that statement sorry, i okay, she says, this is not the unity our party needs for success, addressing those voters concerns will make Republican Party and america better. So is that a ransom, so is he thinking, im going to say the party needs to do something or ask for something, but that seems to suggest the beginning of an Exit Strategy . It seems like it. But you know, on the personal point, its hard to end a president ial campaign, because the private jet goes away and all the staff go away, and theres not tv cameras following you listen, and all of a sudden, you have to figure out the bills that have piled up and the laundry you need to do and the kids go to school, and that all goes away, and thats a very difficult thing to walk away from, especially she has the future that tim laid out, that is certainly not a future you can map out of the in a conventional way. Can i say one thing about nikki haley, you can only demand things if you have leverage, and i hear i thought it was a good strategy to coming up with the 40 . They themselves probably knew it was A Shot In The Dark to hit 40 tonight, but you know what, you live on your Talking Points until you got to change them. Thats all shes got is Talking Points ask conviction. Theres a percentage that didnt support trump. It holds in some regard, but where are your delegates . What is your actual leverage . The leverage that shes talking about right now is theoretical, wrapped up in these percentages that you have to get on the big board to point out to people. You need something tangible to point to, so if thats a ransom note its not clear. I heard you make a point how she basically said she doesnt want trump to be president , and sometimes she says maybe shes open to it i dont know. If you were to wave a magic wand, what could nikki haley do, endorse joe biden or something short of that, i mean, what could she do that would be useful in this race . That would be useful, but i dont think shes going to do that. It all depends if nikki haley is worried about her legacy politically, because she has to political future. Her political life is over unless she decides to change parties and runs in a state where a democratic can get elected for something. I dont think she has a future in the Republican Party. Does she want to make money . I tell you what, if she endorses trump, then really i dont think she has much credibility left, because then, what does she really stand for nothing, absolutely frickin nothing. We have to take a break. Hold this thought. Well come back to it. Claire mccaskel, thank you for sticking around. Colin allred is taking on senator ted cruz in november. Fun well come right back after a quick break. Back after quick break. Limu emu doug bell ringing customize and save with libberty bibberty. Liberty bushumal. Libtreally blubatoo. Mark that one. That was nice i think youre supposed to stand over there. Oh am i . Thank you. So, a couple more . Well just. Well rip. 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