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Primary. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Voting is underway now in South Carolina unless all the polls are wrong, donald trump will score a big victory over nikki haley and move one step closer to securing the gop nomination. This despite facing four criminal indictments and personal financial peril on friday in new york state, judge finalized a 355 million judgment against trump and triggered a countdown for when trump must put up cash or post bond to cover that amount. Plus the roughly 100 million in interest that he was ordered to pay. Thats a huge sum No Matter What trumps net worth might be. And it doesnt include the combined the 88 million that he owes e. Jean carroll after twice losing civil trials to her. You would think the combination of potential jail and financial collapse for the republican candid ....
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains p ....
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. on friday the u.s. conducted major retaliatory airstrikes on iraq and syria, the start of what the u.s. military says likely will be larger attacks on iranian-backed militias. airstrikes hit more than 85 targets according to u.s. central command including command and control operation centers, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles and unmanned aerial vehicle storage. the move came in response to a drone strike by iran-backed militants on a u.s. military outpost in jordan on sunday. that killed three u.s. service members and wounded more than 40 others. the strikes began only about an hour after president biden attended the dignified transfer of their remains at dover air force base in delaware. officials say the timing was coincidental but symbolic of the gravity of his decision. iraqi officials say at least 16 people were killed in the strikes and condemn the attacks as, quote, a flagrant violation of iraqi sovereigty. a ch ....
are the people most opposed to donald trump actually aiding his election? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. tuesday is the new hampshire primary. the gop race in the sggranite state thought to be a two person affair. if trump b the first nonincumbent republican to win both iowa and new hampshire, he will be the de facto nominee of his party, but new hampshire could prove more hospitable for haley. high school home to more libertarians and independents. so haley is all in. and so too are many institutional forces which see time running out to stop trump. but are some of those efforts backfiring? mark halperin in his newsletter regularly chronicles this phenomenon which he calls the sad irony of those members of the media and the democratic party who most worry about a trump second term acting in ways that actually make it more likely he will win. here is an example. monday msnbc had the kind of all night extensive coverage of the iowa caucus that we ve come to expe ....
his party, but new hampshire could prove more hospitable for haley. is it home to more libertarians and independents. so haley is all in. and so too are many institutional forces which see time running out to stop trump. but are some of those efforts backfiring? mark halperin in his newsletter regularly chronicles this phenomenon which he calls the sad irony of those members of the media and the democratic party who most worry about a trump second term acting in ways that actually make it more likely he will win. here is an example. monday msnbc had the kind of all night extensive coverage of the iowa caucus that we ve come to expect of cable outlets. but when it came time for trump to make his acceptance speech, the network didn t air it. instead, rachel maddow said this at this point in the evening the projected winner of the iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech. we will keep an eye on it as it happens. we ll let you know if there is any news m ....