Well, folks, last night was the New Hampshire primary, and as expected, Donald Trump blew away the field. This, of course, was not a giant shock. The polling just before this particular primary had Donald Trump up 20 plus points in many of the polls. Donald Trump actually went and visited a bunch of the sites, big crowds there, and he was very Trumpy. Here's what it sounded like. You have a big crowd here. Are you pretty confident here? I'm very confident. I mean, this is it. Look, this is, we just stopped here. We stopped at a polling site. We picked it at random. We may stop at one more. And nobody knew we would tell me. This is pretty amazing. Mr. President, she's staying in through Super Tuesday. Is she a threat to you? No, no. And I don't care if she stays and let her do whatever she wants. It doesn't matter. I can just say that there's never been a movement like this. Make America great again. In the history of our country, I just stopped here, and I figured I'd see three or four people and maybe walk inside. you see a crowd like this and this is this is

organic so he wins the primaries are over they're over after iowa i'm not sure what else there is to say

about that it does raise the question of just why nicky haley failed to resonate as sort of the

anti-trump candidate now part of it is that there just isn't an anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party sufficient to actually overcome the pro-Trump wing of the Republican Party. When Donald Trump became the nominee in 2016, everybody came home, and then everybody came home again in 2020, and everybody's coming home again in 2024. That is not a giant shock.

That is, in fact, the way politics works. And so people who are looking at his results in, say,

New Hampshire in 2016 and saying he was going to replicate his 35% in New Hampshire in 2024, are ignoring the fact that in the intervening period, he became the president of the United States

and then ran an entire another election cycle and now is running yet a third election cycle. But the outsized animus for Nikki Haley that you see on some parts of the right. And I do think it's outsized. Part of that is because if you oppose Trump, there's a part of the base that just is angry at you for having opposed Trump. And a lot of it has to do with that. I mean,

Nikki Haley, again, was his UN ambassador. She was somebody who worked for him. She's somebody who's

praised his presidency. And so the idea that she's a wild anti-Trump force, I think, is wrong.

But what Nikki Haley does have is an affect problem that is out of, I would say, pattern with the modern Republican Party.

The Republican Party at this point is, in fact, a party that is angry.

And I think justifiably angry on a number of scores.

One of the things the Republican Party is angry about, the base particularly, they're very

angry about hearing about racial divisions.

They've been lectured since 2008,

since Barack Obama ran for president in 2007. They've been lectured that America was coming close to racial unity, only to have that ripped away from them and to watch as everybody

sort of retreated back into tribalistic corners. And this is how you end up with critical race theory and DEI and equity throughout the Biden administration.

So when they hear from members of the Republican Party about how America is a place that was

replete with discrimination even 20 years ago or 30 years ago, they tend to think, I'm not sure

that the person who's saying that is the person

that I want fighting this fight today. Not that people are lying about their experiences of 20 or 30

years ago, but to point out that your experience of 20 or 30 years ago, does that make you the

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