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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

What is Nikki Haley Doing in South Carolina? With Eva McKend

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is leading in the polls for South Carolina GOP primary, by a lot. But it’s also Nikki Haley’s home state and she refuses to go quietly, ramping up her attacks on Trump even as most of her fellow Republicans call on her to drop out. Eva McKend is national political correspondent for CNN and she checks in with a view from the ground. What did you think of this episode? Send us your feedback and assignments. Leave a message at (202) 854-8802 or email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tell us where you are, where you're reporting from this week.

0:04.3

I am on a balcony at my hotel right now in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

0:09.9

Oh, Myrtle Beach.

0:11.8

The sun is glistening on the ocean.

0:15.2

Okay.

0:16.0

Listen, I survived negative 20 in Iowa, so I really deserve this.

0:20.5

Ha, ha, ha. I survived negative 20 in Iowa, so I really deserve this.

0:31.3

As we're recording this episode, Nikki Haley says the GOP race isn't over yet.

0:36.5

Despite every Republican on every other political Sunday talk show, saying that it is.

0:40.6

She's got all the resources in the world, but the reality is this race, this primary,

0:43.1

ended the night of Iowa on January 15th.

0:49.1

That's David Poliansky, who was deputy campaign manager for Ron DeSantis on CNN's State of the Union.

0:54.1

But Haley has another theory of the case that Trump and his supporters should not, cannot,

0:55.2

ignore the voters who keep eyeing the alternative.

0:58.4

Here she is on Meet the Press.

1:00.1

He was totally unhinged, went on a rampage election night, talking about revenge.

1:05.8

Then the next day he goes and says, anybody who supports me is not going to be allowed to

1:10.6

be part of MAGA.

1:12.4

Well, that means those people that voted for me in Iowa and New Hampshire and those people

1:16.2

who've donated to me, really?

1:17.5

You're going to go and say they're not in your club.

1:19.8

So what's the view on the ground, say from South Carolina, Haley's home territory, where

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