Hey everyone it is 4 o'clock here in Washington DC I'm

Elissy Menendez in for Nicole Wallace there's a good chance that we may look

back at last night as the beginning of the end of the

Republican presidential primary. The start of a general election campaign is

going to be unlike any other. Yes, the New Hampshire primary was a decisive

win for Donald Trump, the kind of win that squashes any

momentum for his one remaining challenger, Nicki Haley, but buried in last night's results are also

some very hard truths about Americans' views of Donald Trump, of Trumpism, and the state of our democracy.

As the Bulwork put it today, Nicky Haley has now beaten Donald Trump twice in Iowa and New

Hampshire among two groups of voters who in a

saner world would be deciding the Republican presidential nomination. The

first group is Republican primary and caucus voters who acknowledge that

Trump legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election.

The second group, which overlaps with the first, as Republican primary, and caucus voters

who accept that if Trump were to be convicted of a crime he would be unfit to serve as

president. Exit polling from NBC News shows that while the Republican

base may have stuck with Trump, not everyone who voted in last night's primary

lives in the Earth 2 concocted by Trump and his allies.

From NBC News, quote, just 13% of Haley voters said they would be satisfied with Trump's winning the GOP nomination,

while 86% of her voters said he wouldn't be fit to serve

as president should be convicted of a crime. We're talking about voters like this.

I voted for Nicky Haley because I was voting against Donald Trump.

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