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be on the republicans, what does the biden campaign need to be doing now? >> i mean, right now, the biden campaign is counting on president biden using the platform of the white house as well as of air force one to go to those swing states, to go to south carolina. he's traveling there. to go to the states including iowa, new hampshire. the biden campaign has also been having a presence at all of the primary gop debates, and they've had their surrogates including some key governors including governor pritzker in illinois, governor newsom in california, to also kind of carry the message about the dangers of another trump presidency. and you see president biden himself saying that, as well. >> sara, sophia. thank you so much. we don't have enough time. i've got more questions. but we will be talking to you throughout the next few days. and just five days before the
look, trump was the right person at the right time, and now we need someone else. and you see that in the ads that she's been putting out, she's been saying we need a new generation of republican leaders, and that would be her. and you know, that's a strategy that is a very fine line between both differentiating herself from trump but also not turning off those trump voters in iowa where trump does very well with evangelicals. she is trying to peel off some of those voters, as well, as well as the moderate suburban voters that she's counting on and those counties that she's been campaigning in. >> sophia, i want to quickly turn to what we're hearing from the biden campaign or from former president obama who has expressed to some of those around biden high-level folks in the campaign that he's worried about president biden's re-election chances. what does a campaign need do as we're going into the caucuses where all the focus is going to
>> all right. let's listen to something that nikki haley has to say about the frontrunner and why she doesn't attack donald trump and on the other end, sophia, i'll get your comments. here's what she said -- >> for those that want me to hit trump more, i just am not going to do it. i told you that i'm not going to do it. [ applause ] if he lies about me, i'll call him out on it. if he's done something wrong, whether it's the economy or how he talks about dictators and those things, i'll call him out on every one of those issues. but i just think politics is personal enough, and i think let's focus on the issues in getting america back on track. >> is that going to work? because they just started in the last debate really, really going after donald trump. and you hear her saying i'm not going to do it, and the crowd clapped. what do you think? >> yeah, i think for her that's been working, that's a strategy where you see her saying, hey,
faces challenges that are political any substantive challenges when it comes to the border, they already are reminding voters of the hard line policies that donald trump pushed hard in his administration. they say that as a country that voters do not want that and they're eager to make that contrast if and when they are the two general candidates. sophia, voters are shopping around and the nine-term representative from iowa who has a history of racist rhetoric, he endorsed vivek ramaswamy for president in his home state and when pressed about his endorsement here's what ramaswamy said. actually we don't have it. in the past when he was asked about this issue of race, he has sort of -- he has sort of implied that the issue of whit supremacy, this premise of white supremacy is a farce, i believe, is his word. let me ask sophia, how many
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for the associated press sung minh kim and sophia with axios. sophia, let me start with you. ic nikki haley with the $21 million haul and new people and donors. what does that signal to you? >> it means she has even more of a runway and she can do things like really focus her in-person time in new hampshire and continue to advertise in iowa as she has been, and so that gives her even more momentum, but also expectation with the voters as well as people across the state in iowa and new hampshire and nationally, and so, you know, it says she continues to be someone to watch, someone to make the case that she's the best alternative to former president trump. >> sung min, i'm not sure if you heard eva's report, voters were asking her about china monetary approximately see and real issues and does that suggest