innocent until proven guilty. it remains to be seen. but you re confident about your party s chances? yes. thank you all for talking with us. with want to say thank you for joining us. pleasure meeting a all of you. and nikki haley won most of these debates because she split the win this time. but it s donald trump who is going to get most of these people s votes at the caucus five days from now. back to you. gary, thank you very much. and thank everybody for participating. back here with the the panel. it s interesting to hear and see the evolution of those folks over this time. i think that s about where these have ended up. they are all interested. they are flirting, they are dating with these other candidates. but at the end of the day, most of them are caucusing for donald trump. we will see what happens next week. but that has been the sentiment all along. and closing the deal for these
i said i would not do it. not just for trump, for anybody. a second choice for christie supporters, the choice is nikki haley. what would you say to chris christie supporters reach out to them? cis has a more conservative record as governor of new jersey than nikki has in south carolina. saying you re lying does not pass the smell test. she s on video saying all this stuff. literally, she was at a town hall, the governor said the social security is way too low. i never said that. they play it. okay, i did say it. i don t think that was effective. chris, what he was able to do in a blue state, his record was more conservative than nikki haley s. if you look, i have been willing to hold trump accountable. i do it more from the right than focused on some of the things that the media likes to talk
i m not sure there s a piece information that could be trood that make you like him more or less. we were going to say the same thing. in the focus group, it would have been nice to hear from him, but we know what he stands for. the voters are not pining to hear donald trump in the sense they need him to be tested by ron desantis and nikki haley. it would be so much beneficial for them to get batting practice against trump rather than trump to get batting practice against them. it goes back to the point you were making about trump s brand. his brand is i m the rally guy. i m not the retail guy. he s been able to sell that. old school iowa a, you re supposed to go to all 99 counties. donald trump has just reinvented that part of it. you re right. he s brought new people into the party. i think monday night that s going to be a huge test. who shows up. especially if it as cold as they say it s going to be. the one thing donald trump has this time that he didn t have in 2016 is a re
he is the front-runner in this race by a wide margin. do not not think they should ayes or no, if he has the character to be president again? i think it s a knew nuanced question. they re not earning more votes by play collating to an anti-trump crowd. nikki haley is trying to build a pro-haley crowd. and ron desantis is doing the same thing. one-issue strategy. didn t work out. he s a good friend. he ran hard. it didn t work out. the republican base just wants to see how we will galvanize the
they were more focused on each other than their competitor, donald trump, who was holding a rival town hall just a few miles away. they did not put the same fire on him as they did on each other. the two pulling no punches from the beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the other s sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is running. we don t need another mealy mouth politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear to try to get your vote and get into office and do her donors bidding. she said the people of iowa s votes need to be corrected. this is somebody that wrote in her book that hillary clinton inspired her to first run for office. i remember hillary den gr denigrating people as deplorables.