Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
Campaign has plenty of volunteers and paid staff working the phones and knocking on doors. The people on that end of things with the Super Pac Tell Me they probably feel a little bit better than they might have a right to based on the polling theyre looking at. The campaign at times looks as though its worried it is going to end up finishing third. The Haley Campaign, look, it may not turn out as well as they want, but the Haley Campaign looks legitimately bbuoyed, confident, and feeling theyll head into New Hampshire where the polling shows theyre within striking distance of donald trump. The Haley Team is cognisant of managing expectations, though. I interviewed Nikki Haley Yesterday at a final event. When i asked her, do you think you can finish second . What is a strong finish, heres what she told me. We wont know what strong is until we see the numbers. Choose your own adventure here
Skip and try to go to south carolina, that will tell us a lot. Bill we were talking to Nikki Haley yesterday. Here is how she frames what she needs to do in iowa and where she started from. You know, bill, i remember when there were a dozen candidates and i was 2 in the polls and all this was still being said. Every single month we have moved up. Every single Month Weve defied everything that the political pundits have said. I walk by faith, not by sight. Im telling you, every step of the way were moving because were connecting with people, because were talking about the issues they care about. Bill one thing im trying to figure out. If you finish fourth or fifth you drop out until 2020 until Joe Biden said not so fast. Fourth in iowa and five in North Carolina and finish one in south
Were looking at a batch of folks that werent even involved in the process when Donald Trump first ran against Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in 2016. Right. When he did not win the iowa caucuses. Allie, you spoke to Nikki Haley yesterday. What can you tell us about her expectations and her message to iowa caucusgoers. We have a sense of what the Trump Coalition will look like. It seems that coalition is remaining strong. If you look at all the polls, it reenforces the theme that this is trumps race to lose in iowa. Thats the assumption of the other candidates as well. Its fascinating when you look at the way Nikki Haley is trying to make a run at it. Shes going to focus on the urban and the suburban areas. Places where senator Marco Rubio did well. Those are a lot of the same places that Nikki Haley is going to try to be making inroads,
Largely college educated, higher income in those areas. Part of her building that coalition requires her pulling in independents and democrats. Thats certainly the strategy in new hampshire. Our new Des Moines register nbc News Poll bears out thats clearly something playing out on the ground here in iowa as well. One of the questions i asked Nikki Haley Yesterday was can you win the republican nomination with the input of independents and democrats to get you there. This is what she told me. Republicans have lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president. Thats nothing to be proud of. We should want to win the majority of americans. Thats why you need a new generational Conservative Leader to go in. Were bringing those people in, thats exactly what we should be doing. Reporter haley there making basically a big tent argument. Certainly when you look at a general election, that is exactly the kind of coalition that you want to build. I look back to 2020, for example, when