desantis found himself we are the primary voters are and haley found herself outside. that was probably her best answer of tonight. it was crisp, it was consistent for her. but then, desantis landed this punch on her that was basically, you can take the count of the out of that you and put your can t take that u.n. at both accounted. and they obviously plan for that. but a critical moment for him to try to take something she s been using as a strength and make it a weakness. for this republican party, that may very well work even though this is donald trump s u.n. ambassador. that the irony of it. all those policies nikki haley s talking about, those donald trump are s policies. and it could very well be a weakness for her. that gets into the defining question for the next two weeks, likely to be answered in the next two weeks. iowa, monday and new hampshire, later in the month. the roots of trumpism getting deeper, stronger, in that republican party or can the nikki haley s pull i
plus, big, beautiful, fbi building in the heart of the swamp, and in washington d.c., you want to explain why he didn t build the wall, and why he added 7.8 trillion dollars to the debt. every candidate needs to earn your vote. nobody is entitled to your vote. he does his speech, and then he leaves. i ve shown up to all 99 counties, because it s important. your servant of the people, you re not a ruler over the people. i think to say it, it s the kind of candidate he is, not yet a national candidate, had to come, here and work it. the average iowa republican caucus goer knows donald trump. they know him, they knew him in 16, he didn t win here, but they knew him. they knew him as president, they knew him in 20, no i m right right now, and they re going to 99 counties and i m not sure if there s a piece of information that could be introduced about him that make him less and less like that.
candidate, too. you need the product, not just the deliverance of the product and, the operation to bring voters. it all has to work together. it s a long part of this campaign. the bigger point is, he was fishing in trump s pond, and that was when you are working for the candidates, do you call them the product? it s curious. only on the fact when i m on national television. we re taking a quick break to fact check what we saw tonight at this debates, and perspective from jeff zeleny who s been on the campaign trail nonstop, be right back.
poll, after poll, after poll. it shows that trump would at least be within the margin of error, a nail-biter, for sure, but some of these candidates, like nikki, we ll win by double digits. that s fundamental. that means you get stuff done. again, you can talk about those issues as much as you want, but it s not what the american public is looking at. maybe what the media has talked about, but not what american voters are looking at right now. it could be in the general election, and that s what governor desantis says articulated. governor sununu, thank you. back to the panel now. alyssa, governor sununu had inched closer in previous interviews, saying he would vote for trump if he was the republican nominee, and obviously, he is endorsing governor haley, and out here supporting her, but, basically, point blank said, yes, he would vote for donald trump, even if he was a convicted felon. i won t criticize my favorite governor, kristen who knew. listen, reading the tea leaves here,
this, i don t know, cage match with each other. that you almost just didn t even notice there was a trump of it. all which is critically important in iowa, for his lighting. i don t know. at the end of, it i thought to myself, who once the debate? it s really unclear. because there was so much back and forth that you almost got lost in it. it was hard to say the forest for the trees, frankly, between these two. but on nikki haley s part, she really needs to solidify where she is. i don t think that. she seemed flustered, frustrated, she said on multiple occasions that desantis was demeaning her, which seemed to imply she was taking it really personally. i don t think that really helped her tonight. two sets of tactics, that each candidate differently. there was not a lot of direct confrontation with trump. but haley, with christie out of the race, did go father. trump lost, biden won. she said it clearly. that s running against most