She's definitely looking, though, at how she did in South
Carolina.
And you know, again, there were all these headlines that
were like,
oh, you know, the breaking news.
Donald Trump, a decisive, you know,
consolidating this, consolidating that, trouncing Nikki Haley.
I mean they're looking at this like it's
2016 and this is the first time Donald Trump has
run.
He is the incumbent. He's about to be the three
time incumbent for the Republican Party as far as nominations
go and he lost 40%.
That would freak out any politician I ever served with
if they had been around for,
what, eight years. And we're still losing 40%
of the vote in their own party,
50% in Iowa. Nikki Haley noted that yesterday at a
rally in Michigan,
and pointed out that Donald Trump keeps bleeding support from
a huge amount of Republican supporters.
You look at those first early states,
they can say Donald Trump won.
I give him that,
but he, as a Republican incumbent,
didn't get 40% of the vote of the primary.
And so the issue at hand is
he's not going to get the 40%
if he's going and calling out my supporters and saying
they're barred permanently from MAGA,
he's not going to get the 40%
by calling them names. He's not going to get the
40%
by trying to take over the RNC so that it
pays all his legal fees.
He's not going to get the 40%
if he is not willing to change and do something
that acknowledges the 40%.
And why should the 40%
have to cave to him?
And
why is it 40% Eugene?
In part because he keeps saying asinine things.
I mean, every day he's out there,
he either forgets who the President of the United States
is,
thinks he's running against Barack Obama,
thinks Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House on January
the 6th,
or is Nikki Haley yourself pointed out,
you know, a couple of days ago,
saying black people support me,
they support Trump because I have a mug shot,
They can relate to me.
That's basically what it was.
And again, you look at that
and it's not even the black voters that he's going
to lose because of it.
It's going to be those white swing voters
in the suburbs of Atlanta,
the suburbs of of Philadelphia,
of Detroit. You go on and on and on.
He loses black voters and he loses a lot of
white voters and others voters.
They're like, yeah, I can't deal with this for another
four years.
Yeah, because he's already lost black voters,
right. He's, you know, he might,
he might get a little bit more this year,
may, but maybe because of other things,
other reasons that have nothing to do with really Donald
Trump,
he's not going to win black voters.
It is these white women in the suburbs in the
swing states that
Republicans have been worried about for a very long time
and that over and over again,
they have run from abortion,
does not help them in that case.
Right. Those women are running away from them.
These kinds of things that he's saying also.
Or why the 60% like him,
right? Nikki Haley's right that 40%
should be concerning. He's in this weird quasi incumbent role,
but he is still winning the primary and that is
her problem is that she's trying to go from A
to C without B&B is the primary,
right? C would be the general election.
She would probably do really well in a general election
based on
the groups that she's been able to cobble together.
But Donald Trump continues to win over and over again
because the folks that like Donald Trump like the chaos.
They like the kinds of things that he's saying they
want,
they they have over and over When I talk to
him,
when you go to go to rallies or talk to
people who support Donald Trump,
what they'll tell you is they want to say things
like that.
They want to say whatever's on their mind without anyone
coming back on them.
That's just not how culture or society works.
And when you look at these numbers,
the concern isn't he's going to lose the primary,
it's the general election, right.
His team is looking at that and saying to and
it should be saying to him.
So there are things that we need to fix change
here and fix here in the language because in the
general election there are warning signs over and over and
over again. These Republicans that are saying they're not going
to vote for him in November,
that should be a warning sign.
The amount of people who are looking at that,
at the things that he's saying and saying you know
what,
I'm going to sit out because I'm a Republican.
I can't do this again.
I heard that. I'm a lot in South Carolina when
I was there,
people saying I voted for him in 2016,
I voted for him in 2020,
but I am done. I'm not voting for him and
I'm not voting for Joe Biden.
So that's what Republicans should be concerned about and worried
about.
And the the Trump campaign doesn't seem concerned about that
but they should be.
I like the I like it when when Eugene does
the
the Trump advisors thing and he he very pointedly has
Sir he always starts with Sir
he like he makes sure that he gets that in
there because Trump always likes
he likes that's well how foreign leaders address him also
they always call him Sir
Vaughn I my question for you is this right.
So Michigan primary tomorrow,
Super Tuesday. Not there. After
Donald Trump's going to be the nominee.
Going to have his 12115
delegates are locked up by the middle of March.
We'll see what happens with Nikki Haley.
We can talk about the
the question of the the no labels thing on a
separate track.
But here's the thing Donald Trump has coming up after
Super Tuesday.
He's now got a court order
says he's got to pay a lot of money,
almost half a billion dollars.
Letitia James says. We would like to have that money
now.
Please and thank you. He does not have that cash
on hand.
He's got to figure that out because a month from
now,
when the court order comes due,
if he doesn't pay the bill,
she got walk down to
walk over to Trump Tower or somewhere,
one of the many buildings he still owns in this
town and say
I'm seizing this asset now.
I'm seizing that asset now
as Trump locks up the primary and takes over the
RNC.
As we learned today, Ron is out.
You know, the cash crunch is coming
right after the moment of triumph is the
how am I going to pay this bill?
Talk to me about how what you hear from Trump
people about how they're thinking about that problem and how
it intersects with their politics.
It's a lot of question marks.
March 25th, Circle that date,
Circle that date. Not only is that the beginning of
the hush money payment trial,
but that is also the day that the civil fraud
penalty is due here.
And I know that they are actively looking for a
lender.
This is going to have to be a big lender
to provide Donald Trump that sort of sum of money
and in the form of an appeal bond but also
potentially lender and also potentially A bonkers lender,
right. And also wants to make that loan also potentially
find somebody who the Trump
to Donald Trump is willing to give equity in the
stake of his business.
There is a lot financially on the business and corporate
side of this for Donald Trump that is on the
line.
Forget the politics of this.
And you also have to look at the fact that
you're talking about legal bills.
And there is an RNC resolution that has been put
forward by Mississippi longtime committee man Henry Barber that could
very well be voted on on March 7th and 8th
when the
RNC 168 member body gets together in Houston,
TX March 7th and 8th.
In which they would prevent the RNC from giving any
money,
any of their resources to pay for Donald Trump's legal
bills.
We have already seen over the course of the last
two years more than $80 million
be spent from his allied Super PAC's to go towards
his legal bills.
There is a lot of that he owes already,
a lot that he's going to owe into the future.
And so for Donald Trump,
it's complicated. And his team
is wholly cognizant of that.
And for them, it's easier to pull up and say,
look, we win in South Carolina and the voters are
on side.
And hey, come November, if they win,
you know, they may very well be right.
But in the meanwhile, this is a big nine,
nine months ahead of financial obligations.