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I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. A big looming question in the presidential race is this.

Will Republican and independent voters who backed Nicky Haley in the GOP primaries support

Donald Trump and the numbers he needs to prevail?

This week new data suggested that the answer to this may be no. The Bullwork reports that a new

poll taken by a Democratic-leaning firm finds that a surprisingly large

percentage of voters who backed Haley say they will defect to Kamala Harris, and a New York Times

National Poll finds her making new inroads among GOP voters. How real is all this?

Today we're talking to the Bullworks Mark Caputo, one of the reporters

who broke the news of the first survey. He's well sourced among Republicans and he's going

to tell us what's really going on with them on this question. Great to have you back on Mark.

Fless your happy Greg I appreciate you.

Mark you and the Bulwerks Sam Stein reported that a new poll from the Demleaning

firm Blueprint found that Trump is supported by just

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