Mark Interviews Political Strategist Ed Rollins
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 710 W-O-R. Well, the Dean himself, Ed Rollins, the great political analyst, he's run some of the most successful presidential campaigns ever. And it's great to have him with us. Ed Rollins, how you doing? Good morning. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Nikki Haley, her home state, South Carolina, looks like she could lose by 30, 40 points. |
| 0:24.1 | Doesn't she have to drop out? |
| 0:26.6 | She can't. |
| 0:27.3 | She can be crushed that estate. |
| 0:29.4 | She has every major player in the state from the governor who was her lieutenant governor, |
| 0:34.4 | replaced her, the two U.S. senators, every member of the congressional delegation, |
| 0:40.4 | one who was her seatmate in her home state. |
| 0:45.2 | So she's going to get badly beaten in her home state. |
| 0:48.0 | And I don't see anything else in the short run that she didn't win. |
| 0:52.3 | So the longer she wants to prolong it, |
| 0:55.5 | she's the candidate of New York millionaires and billionaires |
| 0:58.9 | who all are an alternative to Trump, |
| 1:01.2 | and they're not going to get one. |
| 1:02.6 | And Trump's getting stronger new NBC poll. |
| 1:06.3 | NBC has done 16 polls since Biden versus Trump |
| 1:10.0 | since the process started two years, four years |
| 1:13.6 | ago, five years ago. Trump is up five points now. The biggest lead he's ever had, had the big |
| 1:21.1 | endorsement of the labor unions, and still was going backwards and has the lowest approval ratings |
| 1:25.9 | of any modern day president. Yeah. So what is Nikki Haley doing? Just trying to raise a ton of money so she can keep it and use it in future races? It doesn't, she, there's no future for her. The reality is the longer she stays in this. I mean, it just isn't. I mean, I'm not, I have nothing yet. Nikki Haley, I kind of actually like her as an individual. But she's now, you know, she's now taking shots at Trump. The Trump people, which is the base of the Republican Party today, are not going to come back and say, oh, good run. You came in, you came in second in New Hampshire. We're going to make you the candidate next time. It's not going to happen. |
| 2:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.1 | This is Trump. This is the Trump Biden race. |
| 2:06.1 | Trump has control of this party totally, and will be viewed as a very strong candidate, I think, by the fall. |
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