Steve Schmidt now. He is the founder of Warning Substack Newsletter. Steve, I'll let you take it from there.

That's a lot to fact check in a short period of time. Well, it sure is. It is a fire hose of deceptive

nonsense and incoherence that ended before you cut away with smears about Mickey Haley suggesting

that she will be investigated over who knows what.

But this is the flavor and the character of Donald Trump's campaign.

And tonight, Donald Trump is the de facto nominee of the party.

The simple fact of the matter is that Nikki Haley was beaten decisively tonight.

Unfortunately for her on the schedule, South Carolina is next, her home state, where she served as governor for eight years.

Standing behind Trump is the senator from South Carolina, defeated presidential candidate,

Tim Scott, who is running against his home state governor. And so you have a situation where she's going to go into the

wall with no place to go after South Carolina. So the race is over. And on the Democratic side,

Joe Biden is a de facto nominee tonight as well. And so the race is set and the dynamic is

clear. You have a presidential contest that 80% of the country doesn't want, yet here it is.

Steve, we were talking earlier with our political correspondent Joe St. George, who was saying,

you know, if Trump wins tonight, as he's expected to, which he did, then he's going to have

to change his tone and create some unity and bring back some of those Republicans in that he

has lost.

But we just heard him repeat the big lie multiple times.

And we heard his tone very much changed from what we heard in Iowa.

When you were talking about how he has moments where he sounds, you know, he has a magnanimous

tone. So what are we looking at going forward? Do you think that we'll see him change again and try to

bring in some of those Republicans? Or is this what we're going to hear from here on out?

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