Former President Trump and Nikki Haley facing off in the
Palmetto State with just four days until the South Carolina
primary.
Haley scheduled a state of the race today at noon.
We found out about it last night.
What is she going to say?
We're not sure, as a new poll shows her more
than 30 points.
She is more than 30 points behind Donald Trump in
her home state.
Trump, meanwhile, also in South Carolina,
head of an exclusive town hall with Laura Ingraham here
on Fox tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern Time.
Laura Ingraham joins us now live from South Carolina with
a preview.
Hey, Laura. Hey, Laura. Hey,
guys.
I've been excited about this all morning because I know
you can break this down.
There seems to be a disconnect,
Lord, between the donor class and what Republican primary voters
actually want.
Can you lay it out for us?
Yeah. Well, I think there's a lot on the line
obviously in this election.
And one of the issues is obviously China,
what our relationship going forward is going to be with
China,
whether Trump's going to slap more tariffs on on electric
vehicle component parts,
you know, that kind of nitty gritty stuff.
And that's trillions of dollars for China.
When trillions of dollars are on the line for,
you know, corporate interests here in the United States and
global interests abroad,
there's going to be a lot of money pouring into
both Joe Biden and Republican candidates who seem more hospitable
to those old ideas.
And that was, that's why Nikki Haley has gotten so
much support from those big corporate interests,
the Koch brothers and so forth.
But Biden just took in $42 million
because he's done such a great job for the,
you know, average person out there,
Laura, what's going to happen today with her speech at
noon?
Do you think she'll stay in the race?
And what's her plan if she does?
And she does? And then what if the polls are
right?
What happens after this?
Well, it's, it's hard to see what they're thinking over
there in the Haley campaign.
I mean everyone got mad because after
after Iowa when she performed so poorly there and then
New Hampshire,
which was a really hospitable state for her with all
those independent voters that she didn't,
you know, she couldn't get the job done.
So she really, in my view,
it's just as a political analyst for a moment that
was the time for her to drop out and and
really reach out to President Trump and say what can
I do to help, We need to save this country.
She decided to stay in because she got a huge
influx of cash and now she's 30 points down about
in her home state and New Suffolk poll shows it's
it's it's impossible for her to win on Saturday.
This is not going to happen.
She knows that she probably has a lot of consultants
who are making a lot of money by telling her
there's a path if we do this or that,
but there is no path.
So right now she's really helping Joe Biden
and not helping herself, certainly if she wants to be
have any future in the Republican Party.
So will she drop out today?
It's hard to see that given her some of her
recent comments.
But the time to have dropped out was about,
you know, really a month ago.
So Lord, we, we've seen Democrats suddenly become so critical
of Joe Biden.
Nate Silver, saying that Democrats need to be the doling
room.
There's no path for them.
I'm I'm curious, do you think that Joe Biden,
is he going to be on the ballot or do
you think the Democrats eventually
replace them?
I think it's hard for them to do that
from the beginning. I've said this is the guy they
chose in 2020
because he kind of was a throwback to the yesteryear
of the more moderate Democrat Party.
At least that was his his appearance.
But obviously he became captured by the far left and
did all the things to the country that you all
cover every morning,
from the migrant crisis to the inflation spiral
in all the rest. But right now,
are they going to pull some convention super delegate,
a move against Biden? It's hard to see that happening.
I've known, I've known Biden for decades in Washington on
and off,
and he's one of the most stubborn individuals in American
politics.
The idea he's going to voluntarily step aside,
I just do not see
Lawrence brought up Nate Silver.
You know him. He's the the famed pollster for
5:38 and he said he's not going to be he.
He thinks he's heading for a defeat talking about Joe
Biden because of his age and his declining job performance.
He also writes this. It is a reason for Democrats
to be the adults in the room and acknowledge that
someone who can't sit through a Super Bowl interview isn't
someone the public can trust to have the physical and
mental stamina to handle an International Crisis,
terrorist attack or some other unforeseen threat when he'll be
in his mid 80s.
What's your reaction to that and what Joe Biden is
trying to do with the UN Security Council Council trying
to have this temporary ceasefire?
Yeah, he's caught between a rock and a hard place
with the vote in Michigan.
You're seeing the uprising. The pro Palestinian,
pro Hamas segment of the voting public in Michigan rising
up against Democrats.
Rasheeda slave saying that everyone vote for essentially other not
Joe Biden to send a message.
It's hard to think that that's not motivating at least
partly what's going on at the UN today where they're
they're trying to split hairs and say we don't we're
not going to call for an immediate ceasefire,
but we're going to call for a ceasefire as soon
as practicable.
So that's the language that they're using today at the
UN.
We we got more than 100 hostages still being held.
Hamas is a pretty easy path here.
Release the hostages and they're not doing that.
And so Israel supposed to just,
you know, throw up his hands and say,
OK, we're going home Now
I I I think again Biden's trying to play to
his,
his far left base and still try to be
somewhat, I think hospitable to the notion that we Israel
is our solid ally in the Middle East.
It's it's hard to do that.
I'm going to ask Trump about that tonight at the
town hall,
and I'm going to be curious if he goes into
much details because there's some political peril for both of
the candidates on that question.
And it's a tough one,
for sure. Laura, I got,
I got to ask before we leave,
how are you going to keep control of the former
president,
as someone has done an interview with him before?
A couple times. It's tough.
It's tough to keep him on task.
Yeah. Well, I always tell the former president,
I've known you for 25 years,
so your your your tricks don't work with me.
Stay on point. Stay on point.
We're going to have a lot of fun.
Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun.
Have you ever been to Green though?
Have you been to Greenville before?
It's so beautiful. I only one time before,
but it is a gorgeous town.
The whole Spartanburg Greenville area is exploding and amazing place.
Yeah, good people there. Good luck tonight,
Laura watching. Thanks, Laura. Thanks for waking up early to
talk about.
Thanks, guys. All right. Thank you so much.