race today. ben carson is doing great because it is apparently kosher to say things like that and still be in the top tier of republican candidates this year. ben carson is still in. scott walker is the one who had to drop out. joining us now is beth phooey, senior editor for msnbc.com, and who is becoming our someone who just quit the race correspondent. and nichole wallace, senior member of the bush white house and the john mccain presidential campaign. it s great to have you all here. i never talk to two people at once but in this case it s perfect. beth, i need to ask you because you are our someone when just quit correspondent, isn t it weird that it s scott walker? oh, no. no? he was dead man walker for the last two and a half weeks. certainly since the aft debate when he made no impression and when the latest cnn poll came out showing him having less than 1% it was over. tied with jim gilmore, george pataki, bobby jindal, rick santorum. in iowa he s ahead of guys like ra
gone. scott walker poofed. scott walker being out of the race. i maintain tells us very little about who is likely to be the republican nominee for president of the united states of america. it is likely to have zero effect on the top-tier contenders. because he had less than 1/2 of one percentage point support in nationwide polls. the more pressing question it raises is who s likely to be the next candidate at the bottom of the list to drop out? because in that latest cnn national poll with that devastatingly low result of support for scott walker he is tied at that devastatingly low level of support with four other candidates. he s tied in the cnn poll below 1%, at the very bottom of measurable support, he s tied with george pataki and lindsey graham and bobby jindal and jim gilmore. how long are those guys going to stay in the race? in the latest iowa poll, the ppp iowa poll that is just out today, scott walker was polling at 5%. which is a disaster for somebody who s whole presiden
that decommissioned battleship, it was held in southern california. that s where the uss iowa has been turned into a museum. well, we can now report that on the night of that fund-raiser the group that used donald trump s presidential campaign to do this fund-raiser, right? that group was not legally allowed to operate in the state of california. veterans for a strong america got its franchise tax board registration suspended in california months ago. not only did veterans for a strong america not file their federal tax returns, state officials say they did not file their california tax returns either. as far as the state of california is concerned, veterans for a strong america should not be operating in california at all. in fact, they told us it s illegal for them to operate in california with their tax status suspended. we asked california officials today whether it was legal for this group, whether it was legal for veterans for a strong america to hold that fund-raiser with dona
quit correspondent, isn t it weird that it s scott walker? oh, no. no? he was dead man walker for the last two and a half weeks. certainly since the aft debate when he made no impression and when the latest cnn poll came out showing him having less than 1% it was over. tied with jim gilmore, george pataki, bobby jindal, rick santorum. in iowa he s ahead of guys like rand paul, chris christie. he is doing better and seen as more viable than some of these other guys but he s the one who has to go? it s not that he has to go. i think he s someone that is very well respected and admired and taken seriously but he s in that very competitive establishment bracket. we talked last week, this is a race being dominated by outsiders. and that s why ben carson and donald trump and carly fiorina have more latitude with republican voters, because they are so hungry for someone outside of the establishment
tonight, exclusively here, about what donald trump got himself into on that battleship when he was trying to make it look like he had all this veteran support. that fund-raiser that donald trump held for that group on that decommissioned battleship, it was held in southern california. that s where the uss iowa has been turned into a museum. well, we can now report that on the night of that fund-raiser the group that used donald trump s presidential campaign to do this fund-raiser, right? that group was not legally allowed to operate in the state of california. veterans for a strong america got its franchise tax board registration suspended in california months ago. not only did veterans for a strong america not file their federal tax returns, state officials say they did not file their california tax returns either. as far as the state of california is concerned, veterans for a strong america should not be operating in california at all. in fact, they told us it s illegal for them to