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How Nikki Haley voters are responding to the GOP convention's unity message

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump says he's planning to deliver a message of unity as he accepts the GOP nomination Thursday night. But will the Republican voters who supported Nikki Haley in the primary be persuaded? We asked Haley voters who took part in focus groups that question. Laura Barrón-López reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Meantime Laura I know that you've been talking to folks who've been tracking

0:03.8

Nicky Haley voters that's of course a coveted block for both the Biden and

0:07.6

Trump campaigns. How have those voters been responding to all of them?

0:11.6

I've said in a lot of focus groups over the

0:14.1

last few days Jeff and those Haley voters moderate Republican voters and

0:19.7

swing voters say that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump has not swayed them.

0:25.3

But they also say that they're not necessarily certain about voting for President Biden.

0:29.5

And I spoke to Craig Snyder, a Republican Pennsylvania political operative who is the director of

0:35.3

Haley voters for Biden PAC and he said that Haley's endorsement of Trump is not swaying the

0:41.7

voters he's talking to and that the Haley voters that he's

0:44.7

working to mobilize are open to Democrats other than Joe Biden. They would be

0:50.0

willing certainly to consider another Democrat but it would

0:55.2

depend on who the individual turns out to be really for these voters they are

1:00.1

looking for someone in the center number one number two they're looking for someone in the center, number one. Number two they're looking for

1:04.8

someone who they see as a stabilizing force, a non-ciotic force. Number three

1:10.0

they're looking for somebody who they see as decent and civil.

1:15.0

Craig Snyder also said though that if President Biden is ultimately the

1:19.6

nominee that he would continue to work to try to make sure that these moderate voters

1:23.7

vote for him.

1:24.7

Laura, what about the selection of J.D. Vance as Mr. Trump's running made?

1:28.4

Has that changed anything for these voters?

1:31.2

It doesn't seem to have. I spoke to Emily Matthews, who runs a

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