Nikki Haley braces for primary defeat in her home state

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Just two days until the South Carolina Republican primary, Donald Trump remains well ahead of Nikki Haley, who’s vowed to remain in the race for the GOP nomination. Meanwhile, the Alabama Supreme Court’s controversial ruling that frozen embryos are considered children is quickly becoming a political issue, and threatens GOP efforts to win over voters in November. Plus House Republicans turn their attention to the annual CPAC conference, even as a government shutdown could be just weeks away. Peter Baker, Carol Lee, Joyce Vance, Tom Winter, Zooey Zephyr, Mike Murphy, Robert Gibbs, and Simon Shuster break it down.

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0:00.0	Tonight the countdown to South Carolina's primary it's a pivotal moment for
0:05.7	Nicki Haley's campaign plus reproductive rights taking center stage after a
0:10.2	controversial court ruling and with the clock ticking on a government shutdown,
0:14.6	House Republicans flock to CPAC,
0:16.8	how their messaging could impact negotiations.
0:20.0	Then President Biden announces new sanctions on Russia,
0:23.2	while the war in Ukraine reaches its two-year mark
0:26.5	as 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night. Good evening once again I'm Stephanie Rule we are now 257 days away from the election and this Saturday
0:44.4	Republicans down in South Carolina will cast their vote in the state's
0:47.9	presidential primary. It is Nicky Haley's home state but Donald Trump is up big time in the polls.
0:54.3	Haley has pledged to stay in the race past Saturday's contest no matter what happens.
0:59.2	heading into this pivotal primary, reproductive rights are also front and center once
1:04.1	again that is because of the decision from Alabama Supreme Court declaring that
1:08.7	frozen embryos are children this has now put IVF treatment in doubt in the state, living
1:15.0	doctors and families scrambling. Today President Biden blasted the
1:18.8	decision and said is a direct result of the Supreme Court rolling back Roe versus Wade almost two years ago,
1:25.4	his campaign put the blame squarely on Donald Trump for his three Supreme Court justices.
1:31.2	My colleague Dasha Burns has a look at how the Alabama's
1:34.3	court ruling has now changed the political conversation.
1:37.3	Tonight the fallout from the Alabama Supreme Court decision extending it to politics with some
1:43.9	Republicans attempting to walk a fine line on reproductive rights. On Wednesday
1:48.5	Nicky Haley asked about the Alabama decision by NBC News's Ali Vitali.
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