#GOP: What explains that Former President Trump ties with President Biden in national polls, while former Governor Nikki Haley leads President Biden by eighteen points? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm John Bachelor, Friends, History Debating Society with That Is Macotter, American Greatness. |
| 0:24.6 | Nicky Haley was twice elected governor of South Carolina. |
| 0:28.6 | She is now a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. And going up against the |
| 0:35.2 | dominant player in the Republican Party former President Trump, she scored 40 |
| 0:41.0 | percent in South Carolina. |
| 0:44.0 | We see from the voting chart that she dominated the major cities, Charleston and Columbia, and the coastal |
| 0:51.9 | regions, where the professionals live. |
| 0:54.7 | She did not have much of a show in the countryside. |
| 1:00.3 | This is something we've seen before and talk about Nicki Haley. |
| 1:04.0 | Next up is Super Tuesday, which is next Tuesday, not this Tuesday, next Tuesday. |
| 1:09.0 | That is, you're a skillful reader of polling. |
| 1:15.0 | Right now, Nicky Haley did 40% against Donald Trump in a landscape that gave him all of the 47 votes for the Republican nomination. |
| 1:26.3 | At the same time, I learned from Edward Luce, |
| 1:29.4 | a columnist at the Financial Times, |
| 1:32.0 | that Mr. Trump is in a tie with Mr. Biden nationally for the |
| 1:38.5 | presidency but that Nicky Haley leads Biden in a one-to-one match up by 18 points. What do we make of all |
| 1:47.6 | these numbers that is? |
| 1:50.3 | Well, John, it just goes to show you that at some point in time the Republicans have |
| 1:58.9 | swapped rational thought for emotional thinking. |
| 2:02.8 | That's kind of where we're at. |
| 2:05.0 | So for the left, it's a twofer. |
| 2:07.0 | The more they damage Donald Trump and the more they persecute him, |
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