President and not facing a ramifications politically. As a medium effect, short term effect and a long term effect the immediate is hell raise a lot of money. In intensive of support from his core base. In the short term we will see that it benefits him most likely within the republican primary put up as he is being indicted more and more often which is a bizarre thing to say, what weve seen is it reinforces trumps Court Message that the government is rigged against him, theres a two tiered System Ofjustice and so forth. All of which i think is false but it reinforces that political argument from trauma. In the long term is of youre an independent voter, somebody who voted for donald trump and 2016 but then voted forjoe biden in 2020 for the especially important in states like arizona and georgia, we see more scepticism about donald trump coming back. Benefits him in the short term, long term still very real problems with this. Thats on the political fight, much less whats happening in
In the primary calendar that in previous cycles has given us a clear indication of which candidates will win their parties president ial nomination. But this year, there is far less suspense. Both parties have already steered us to who their nominees will be, as biden and trump cruised through the early voting states. The republican president ial candidate nikki haley is still in the race, for now, but the expectations are low. These are the states voting today. The us territory of american samoa, also staging a democratic caucus, tuesday is also the last day for democrats in iowa to mail in their primary ballots. Almost a third of the delegates will be up for grabs on Super Tuesday. On the republican side of the ledger, the winning candidate needs 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination. A clean sweep today would put donald trump within touching distance of the nomination. And if the polling is right, then the 2024 election will be the contest 70 of the country didnt want. Biden ver
media headwind is strong for some. it s lonely and odds are, you won t win it. any group with less than 50 members, is hard to join. most of us don t have the desire to run for president, and even if we did have the desire, we still wouldn t. i offer those caveats, there is a sdfrns in critiquing and evaluating. evaluating how someone performs as a candidate. that is a fair critique, but we should be mindful how difficult running for the highest office is, especially in a challenging time for our country and in a very toxic political environment. governor ron desantis started his campaign with momentum, with energy, with excitement and campaigning numbers have been impressive, yet he s not taken off like some believed he would. will he regain his footing, will someone else surplant him as the challenger. or president trump on glide path to renomination. here with the latest on the state of the primary is politico reporter olivia beavers. olivia, thank you for joining us tonig
media headwind is strong for some, it is lonely and odds are you will not win, any group with less than 50 members is hard to join. most of us don t have the desire to run for president and even if we did have the desire we still when it. i offer the caveats because there is a difference between critiquing and criticizing. part of evaluating how someone would perform as president is evaluating how the someone performs as a candidate that is a fair critique but we should be mindful of how difficult running for the highest office is especially in a challenging time or a country in a very toxic political environment, governor ron desantis started his campaign with momentum, energy and excitement and his fundraising numbers have been impressive and yet he is not taking off like some believed he would. will he regain his footing will someone else supplant him as the closest challenger or as former president trump on a glide path to renomination. here with the latest on the state o
the vote to come in. we expect donald trump to be the winner. we are standing by to hear donald trump speak about his victory. we heard from nikki haley a short while ago. here is a little bit of what she said. the other day, donald trump accused me of not providing security at the capitol on january 6. i have long called for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75. trump claims he would do better than me in one of those tests. maybe he would. maybe he wouldn t. but if he thinks that, them he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me. tough words from nikki haley. let s go to kristin holmes. i don t suppose there s any second guessing about trump s campaign strategy to avoid all debates or interviews with anybody that might ask a tough question much the gauntlet has been thrown down by governor haley this evening. reporter: it has. i have no reason to believe that donald trump is going to take her up on that offer. i asked about this n