Melissa murray and Andrew Weissmann get the last word. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight the rematch for the white house with Nikki Haley Out of the race, the battle to win over her supporters and her donors begins. And the focus on the economy. It is a key issue for voters and one that the five Biden Administration is still delivering on. And looking ahead to the state of the Union Address. The white house sees this as a major moment. What we can expect as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Good evening, once again. Get ready for this. We are now 244 days until the election. Now that Super Tuesday is history, President Joe Biden and donald trump are set, almost officially, for the rematch after nikki haley dropped out of the race early this morning. Even though the Presumptive Republican nominee got rid of his rivals, his primary victories reveal Warning Signs for november. The Wall Street Journal noted he underperformed his polling in most states. The New York Times said that it masked problems with suburban and independence as well as republicans who voted for biden the last time around. Nikki haley donors and voters are up for grabs skrip we have more on that. It is now up to donald trump and beyond it to those who did not support him. Reporter President Biden urging haley supporters to join him in opposing mr. Trump as saying there is a lot we will not agree on. I hope and believe we can find common ground. Mr. Trump inviting supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our nation while boasting that she got trounced last night. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. Reporter the former president hearing 14 of 15 states securing landslide victorys from maine to minnesota to california with nikki haley only winning vermont allowing truck to focus on President Biden. Despite the big defeats, she did attract more than a quarter of the vote many primaries. There is no way i want trump in office. Someone else who does not want to see him in office is liz cheney. She posted this earlier today. The gop has chosen. They will nominate a man who attempted to overturn an election and seize power. We have eight months to save our republic and in short donald trump is never anywhere near the oval office again. Trump is facing federal charges related to that attempt to overturn the election. The trial is on hold until the Supreme Court deals with his claim for immunity from prosecution. It was scheduled for april 22nd and now scheduled for the 25th. I know already this is a great panel. Senior political correspondent, cohost of the new morning show, and the former Chief Spokesperson for the Vice President and a writer and editor for Project Democracy and former senior staffer to ted cruz. All right. First of all, i want to say that she has been on the air all day long. This is all i can muster up. I want to start with what the Biden Campaign culture said earlier today about nikki haley voters. They are in high demand. What we would say to the nikki haley voters is there is room for you over here to that third of the Republican Party is not sure they want to vote donald trump or they dont want to support donald trump that we have a big tent and they are welcome here. That is the right message. Beyond that, what does the Biden Campaign have to do . Donors will argue that President Biden has become so progressive or he might not be so progressive that he has armed himself with super progressives. Im not saying he should make changes, but if he wants those voters, what does he need to do . Let me pull my sleeves up for this. I feel as though perhaps there are nikki haley voters and there are nikki haley donors. And i think people are gripping those together. You were separating them and i think we should for this conversation. Her donors are not joe biden people. Maybe some on the very fringe, but for the most part i dont think they are willing to give to joe biden. From my reporting some of the biggest donors nikki haley has could begrudgingly vote for joe biden and admit they are voting for joe biden but theyre not writing a big check. They subscribe to the hope that nikki haley represents this george bush era republican and they are desperate to keep that thinking it is not the party of trump. Nikki haley voters, which are these people we have seen in some of the great reporting that our nbc news colleagues have done across the board in these Battleground States and on Super Tuesday, those folks have said im not going to vote for donald trump, i could potentially cast about joe biden. The thing that joe biden can do is work to earn their votes is to campaign. I do not think that there should be an overcorrection for the haley voters and the Biden Coalition in 2020, i was a Senior Advisor on that campaign. That coalition we put together in 2020 was based democratic voters was moderate republicans , i would argue, and independent voters. We rolled out at the 2020 convention. Joe biden will not get reelected and there are not enough haley voters to account for. You have to campaign and keep your entire coalition together but not over correct. I think we will hear that at the State Of The Union on thursday talking about theyre going to lean into healthcare, which nbc news reporting suggests from the white house and lean into talking about, im interested to see who is in the box with dr. Jill biden. Joe bidens message has been come over, theres room for you. Donald trumps message was to attack nikki haley. You spent last night at mara lago at the after party. How do you think, besides the immediate attack on her, how do you think there will you play this . I mean, theyre coming off competent to the press. They think they are republicans at the end of the day they will vote top to bottom republican and in a few months they will forget about this. I think that these primary voters came out to send a message. They were voting in a primary and they were doing it in protest to trump in the way you have people that are uncommitted. What is the message. The messages we dont like this vision of the gop, but i dont know that they are all going to go with donald trump. If you look at the polling it says, like, more than 50 say they will vote for him even though they voted for nikki haley and 12 still do not know what they are doing. This is all anecdotal and we still do not know for a fact, but more than half of them are saying they are still republicans and are more likely to vote for trump then joe biden and 12 still dont know what they are going do. This is also just a small margin. Not a lot of people go out to vote in primaries. Amanda, state after state, donald trump is underperforming. Either the polling is broken or he has lost his mojo. I think he is living voters every day. But i want to rewind the tape on the conversation. In terms of how joe biden appeals to these voters, they are the majority makers in swing states. Its a unique coalition of never trumper republicans, moderates in the suburbs. This is an amazing coalition and it is something im super interested in because that is the that is the organization. We are cross partisan. I used to work for ted cruz and i worked with staffers who work for Elizabeth Warren and those who worked for susan b. Anthony prolife. The way we see together as an organization is a model for this. We do it not by saying, okay, we are all on joe bidens team and lets put on a blue shirt. We stay focused on big values. When the Obama Campaign said, how can we get people in our tent, i think thats the wrong approach. I think were you just say, listen, were going to disagree on some things, but im to create a space and keep a country where it is safe to disagree and we can resolve our differences in a clear and peaceful way and we will have a peaceful transfer of power. You should not have to check all your priors at the door. You dont have to a democrat in the selection when it is a democracy versus authoritarianism. And is Chris Christie going to come and speak at the dnc . I dont think its necessary and i think its counterproductive. Can i say one point about that . It speaks to that particular piece of the coalition. I think everyone will come out and vote and say i mean, what you are saying, amanda, joe biden said that today. He put out a statement and he basically said, look you dont have to give me 50 , but can we agree on democracy and do that. That message was for those haley voters. When it comes to based democratic voters there has been focused on things like junk fees and that goes directly to the heart of what people deal with every single day. When people ask, the economy is doing well, but why do voters say i dont know about the economy. Because they deal with things like creating crazy credit card fees and junk fees and now what you are saying the white house do is turn toward, look, weve done what we can on our own, but we are going to be on the edges, but we need to speak to the heart of the issues you are dealing with have to do with corporations and we will do what we can. That is more of a progressive argument, but it is something that will speak to these folks that have yet to say, i need to feel it. Any topic. Lets talk about immigration. Is clearly a flashpoint partially because republicans are pushing it so hard because they have to deal with the fact that the economy is significantly stronger than they want people to believe. Elon musk posted on social media that joe biden committed treason by secretly flying 320,000 Illegal Immigrants from Latin America to the u. S. He claimed they were importing voters. This is not true. There are no secret flights bringing in migrants. Tara palmeri, this is extraordinary because this is some of the most ridiculous things that the Biden Administration is being hit with. Until now the Biden Administration barely changed any policies that trump had in place. And now that they have tightened things up, republicans blocked it, and theyve gotten so strict that far left progressives are not that happy with the president. Lets talk about the difficult position he is in when you factor in local news and the panic and getting people fired up and worked out. Its basically like crime. And often they are coupled together. Thats how the republicans were able to take back the house through new york and california in 2022 a small wave and not a big one. And now you have hundred thousand migrants in new york and chicago and they are being shipped from texas from ron desantis and greg abbott and it has become an issue in these blue cities. It is an issue they will deal with. Republicans know and thats why they tanked that bill. Its hard to explain, i think, that there were real attempts to close off the border, but because of political cynicism and donald trump told his party to not vote for a bill to seal off the border, you just have to repeat it over and over again because it is counter to images of people crossing over the border. Its very hard to counter image with sound, but that is going to be the challenge of the Democratic Party to explain how hard they tried, and i think joe biden will this off the progressive base and they are already mad about gaza. He has a lot to deal with, but if you wants to win over haley voters, he has to do with immigration. Lets talk about elon musk. We know he met with donald trump. Trump needs cash right now. There is talk about elon musk backing him and he said im not going to find him but he didnt say he wasnt going to get to super pacs. What is your take on this . Donald trump needs a lot of money. Hes in a very vulnerable position right now and there are scores of super wealthy people who could easily pay his bills and maybe own him if you were in the white house. I dont know. Elon musk gave him twitter. But kidding aside i think it is sort of an inkind donation in a way he has adopted trumps language. People need to pay specific attention to the words treason and inpatient and how they are applied to the immigration debate. Invoking this language has been a steady, steady, repeated chorus for well over two years. What the alliance of trump and heritage and all these people that want to staff the next administration they want to use these words to justify warlike measures to detain thousands of people, millions of people in camps at the border and to conduct sweeps across the country and launching war against cartels in mexico. If you look at the language that trump is using what he wants to go with to war, what is that even mean because there are cartels that have operations within the u. S. Does it mean a war inside the u. S. . A big play book was put out on this. You can find it and it goes into specifically how that kind of language is being used to set up this kind of action. People need people like elon musk who have huge platforms to use it so easily in their everyday language, that screams that theres a huge problem had. Before we go, mitch mcconnell, who knows exactly the threat that donald trump is has now endorsed them. Trump is moving he just endorsed his daughterinlaw to be cochair of the rnc. Are the roadblocks that will stand in his way . No. And the rnc will vote on friday to install a new chair and cochair and i believe they will be his people. So those who have been waiting with baited breath for the legalists to take him out or nikki haley to search from behind, i encourage you to vote. 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