Trump, Dominant On Super Tuesday pulling off. A nearsweeps. Thats could spell the end for his only real primary opponent left in the race. And President Biden, hoping to drive home to key points when he delivers his state of the Union Address, why hes fit for a second term, and why donald trump is not. And nikki haley is still hanging on. But for how long after seeing her hopes all but slip away on super tuesday a live look at the white house right there in front of the washington monument. Theres still not awake there. Can i its 06 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. It looks like that november rematch that most americans tell us they dont want. Well, its exactly what were all going to get after Donald Trumps near sweep on super tuesday, trump dominating nearly every race, winning by big margins and state after state and now closing in pretty quickly on the 1,215 delegates. He needs to clinch the nomination they call it super tuesday for a reason and they tell me the pundits and otherwise that theres never been one like this theres never been anything so conclusive. This was an amazing, an amazing item amazing day nikki haley did win her first state, vermont, keeping trump from running the table. But shes gotten no events on her calendar and her future is uncertain on the democratic side, President Bidens sweeping all the super tuesday states. He did not win an American Samoa. Hes turning his focus to november. Bidens campaign out with a new memo this morning calling trump a wounded, dangerous, and unpopular man. And this quote, we have a clear path to victory. Lets discuss all this in more with New York TimesWhite House CorrespondentZolan Kanno YoungsDavid Polyansky, former Desantis Deputy campaign manager. Weve got bakari sellers, cnn Political Commentator and former South Carolina state representative, and geoff duncan, the former georgia lieutenant governor. Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here because you had a very late night. Im particularly grateful to you for coming in early here for the American Samoa verdict i hate to call you out right off the top, but you did have predictions you thought haley was going to win alaska, utah and maine. Vermont was missing yeah. I would have taken your money you actually get destroyed and alaska, utah was a little bit closer. Vermont was slight amina maine was slightly closer, but she did well in vermont. I mean, thats what you want when you want to be the republican nominee, vermont and the District Of Columbia yeah. The queen of the swamp, Quote From David thank you for this is your first tour with us here in the mornings. I really appreciate you being here. Thank you. Talk to me a little bit about how you see haleys future in the context of what just happened with donald trump. I mean, you obviously ran against trump when you were part of the desantis campaign, he handled the aftermath of his early losses in a different way than she has. What should she do next . Well, look, the race was all but decided the night in iowa very cold night. But on january 15 for the republican nomination was one when you allow donald trump to get over 50 of iowa caucusgoers, the race concluded. And so every candidate and campaign had to make a decision at that point, not only for 24, but for their own futures Going Forward. What was the best pathway for them in our case . Ron desantis decided to we go back and serve as governor of florida and make decisions about his future then if i had been advising nikki haley, i probably would have fought through New Hampshire given the independent and democrat crossover. But going home and losing by such a wide margin in her home state that probably as an adviser, i would have recommended that be the end in unfortunately only for her taking so many losses last night to bakaris point up and down the country. And by significant margins in some cases, 80 going to trump. Thats not recoverable. Not only obviously for this cycle, but Going Forward, shes just not going to be the partys standard bear watching the results come in yesterday i was thinking about how you it seemed like nikki haley really never found the right sort of way or consistent message for criticizing the former president xi at times tried to make it a generational argument, both talking about the age of former President Trump and President Biden saying and that she was sort of represent a new generation coming in. But not often also directly taking on the former president , really until after iowa as well i think that that did play into this a little bit. She in a way represented a bit of the Old Republican Party and the oldest stablished front and the ended yesterday as the results were coming in, it was hard not to think about that. Yeah. One of the things that i think helped kept haley in the race longer than perhaps many would have expected was the way donald trump talked about her after the New Hampshire primary. So he was on better behavior from his advisers perspective when he was onstage last night, but he also talked thats about a much differently on talk radio. So he clearly knows his audiences. Lets watch first what he had to say onstage last night we have a great Republican Party with tremendous talent and we want to have unity and were going to have unity and its going to happen very quickly and i have been saying lately, success will bring unity to our country dropping. All right, so there he said on stage, tremendous talent and the Republican Party, we want to have unity thats gonna happen. Now, listen to what he had to say on the mark levine show. He was not terribly complimentary let the beginning, she was very nice, very respectful, and then shes gotten crazy. And ive never seen anything like it. Shes gone off the wagon. Id never seen she got so angry, sees a bitter person. I never saw. Is that all right. So trump describes her as an angry, a bitter, a bitter person. I do also want to just update everyone. The Haley Campaign did just send out a release saying that she is going to deliver remarks in charleston today at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Our teams are working on sorting through exactly what what this announcement could be. Obviously, she had a Tough Night Last night on super tuesday, very unclear what her path forward a could be. Jeff, lets talk about the haley voters and haley supporters. I mean, this this Biden Campaign memo that came out at five really talks about how those people represent an opportunity for the president of the United States. Where do you think these voters are going to go . Well, look, Donald Trumps going to squander the opportunity to actually build bridges with these folks that supported nikki haley. What weve seen show up as an average of about 35 state to state is crossed up through this point in the primaries. Theres nikkis work was important in this process. Shi quan when a the heartburn inside the Republican Party, that just as consistent folks that have just dont believe theyre republicans or conservative, theyre like me, but they dont believe that the 2020 election was rigged. Theyre fiscally conservative. Their former republicans had donald trump alienated throughout his last umpteen years of doing exactly what hes done. The democrats who used to be republic thats a, thats a 35 grouping that is really quantifiable heartburn and its important work. Its interesting to hear donald trump call her angry, right . Nice and sweet or whatever his words were. First parts of the campaign, which i think was a mistake on her part. I think it was a mistake on hurs and ron desantis is but when shes not angry, she would just being honest and truthful and calling out donald trump for what he is. And thats a liar you know, the weird part about this race though, is that its really hard to dictate a determined nikki haleys future because this election even last nights shellacking was not a referendum on nikki haley i mean, the people who voted for donald trump were always going to vote for donald trump in the peat at people who voted for nikki haley or the Geoff Duncans of the world . Yeah. All right. And so that its unique, i believe she has a path forward in 2028 or whatever because you know what shes also has is she raised 28 in between january and february, and i know she didnt spend all that let me pause because we do have some Breaking News here just in to cnn. Cnn Breaking News. Nikki haley will announce today that she is exiting the president ial race according to sources, familiar with her plans, she plans to address supporters in charleston at 10 00 a. M. And today with us now, is kylie atwood. She is in South Carolina and is the person who broke this news for us, kylie, what have you learned . Yeah so were learning according to sources familiar with nikki haleys campaign, that she is going to announce today that she is suspending that president ial campaign. This comes after she has been running for president for more than a year, but it also comes after last night, she suffered losses across the board on super tuesday, her campaign saying just moments ago that she is set to deliver remarks this morning in charleston. That is her hometown. Her in her home state of South Carolina, at 10 00 a. M. So we will watch to see that speech from her. And i do want to point out that last night weve heard from the campaign in spokesperson thanking The Americans who have voted for nikki haley saying that there are millions of them and also pointing out very clearly that in nikki haleys perspective, there is still not unity within the Republican Partys saying that there are a large block of voters republican primary voters, who dont stand with donald trump, making it quite clear in that statement that nikki haley is not poised, at least at the time that they sent that statement out to endorse the former president well watch to see her language surrounding that today as this makes it very clear that donald trump is now set to be the nominee of the Republican Party kylie. I know she didnt have an event last night around the events. Can you talk a little bit about kind of what the mood was among people you were talking to last night as they were trying to decide what to do moving forward. And i am interested in this question too, about what she decides to do about an endorsement if not now, perhaps later, what else do you know about any timeline on Something Like that well, listen, yesterday, we werent hearing a lot from the campaign at all. And casey, youve covered campaigns for long enough to know that thats pretty telling. Of course, there were no public remarks that nikki haley had scheduled gould. There werent any Campaign Events that she had scheduled beyond super tuesday events that happened in texas on monday. So it was clear that they were really focused in on the results last night to determine the future of her campaign. And obviously as they tabulated everything that was coming in, it was clear enough to them that they felt that this was the moment for her to bow out, not to continue campaigning on. Now, when you talk to campaign officials, they also said that there was a sense of jubilation among the Campaign Last night that they were happy worries that they were feeling but i do think that nikki, haleys campaign feels like she did what she set out to do, which of course not becoming the nominee is not ideal. She wanted to be the nominee of the party, but she did set out to try and make the case that there is an Alternative Pathway forward for the Republican Party here she truly believes that there are principles that the Republican Party should stand for, that donald trump does not stand for, and she made that case incredibly clearly throughout the entire course of her Campaign Just last week, she was campaigning in more than ten states leading into super tuesday, even though they knew that the stakes were going to be incredibly high, that the odds were incredibly low, that she was actually going to be able to clinch the nomination. She was still out there campaigning, making sure that americans who wanted an alternative to former President Trump had an option that they could choose in her. All right. Kylie atwood. Thanks very much for your Great Reporting for being on top of it for us this morning. Really appreciate it our panel is back with us. David, let me just put this question to you. Is this the right call for her to get out right now . It is blook in president ial politics, theres nothing more difficult than talking to a candidate in a. Campaign. Under these conditions, but its the right decision for hurts, right decision for the party. The bigger challenge i think has alluded earlier was what does she do in regards to donald trump . I would be surprised if she endorsed him today, but i believe between now and are convention in milwaukee, she will she committed to the rnc to get on the debates stage that she would make that choice . Yeah. Although she kinda went back on that and interview recently, if you want to have a future in this party, fair . Not on the president ial level. Shes going to have to get behind the nominee. And thats another calculus. Her and her team are going to have to make, maybe not today, but in the weeks ahead for sure. So when we should hear, shes already said thus far that she couldnt bring herself to support the other leading candidate, right . That being President Biden. This is somebody who worked for President Trump to sometimes i feel like that gets lost a bit in this fastpaced election season. She is somebody who worked in his administration as well. So thats immediately what i look towards, but i think this is, this becomes the immediate pressing question now. But i mean these somewhat one of the stories of the sort of trump era is many republicans coming out and criticizing him for various pivotal moments, whether he, when he was president or even post his presidency, and then quickly there king a trip to maralago, or coming out and once again, pledging support for him. So this immediately becomes the question. Now, let me extinguish any burning notion that nikki haley will not endorse donald trump. I mean, that is that is just a Fantasy World that a lot of pundits may live in finding reasons to the pretzel themselves to say, nikki haley will not do this. Look, shes going to do it is going to come in a moment where both of them can stand on a stage together and say that were unifying the Party Sometimes with trump, with letter stand on the same stages, him i mean, you can already see the cinema behind it. I mean, its about unifying the party. Its a good day. The moment everybody is going to say, oh, my god, this is terrible for democrats because republicans are unifying i think the flip side of this is, this is no longer 1984 or 88 or 92, or whenever it is that republicans nominate the number two to be the standardbearer Going Forward, nikki haley is not the is not the Republican Party pretty number two. She she she literally and i was just reading. I loved article. I mean, i actually think we can look. I was reading the Washington Post is a great, theres a great piece in here this morning by robyn, given it says people arent voting for haiti. Theyre voting for themselves like this is exactly right. This isnt some oh, my god, nikki haley is the next shining star. Shes not going to be someone who is a bastion of antitrumpism, who stands for the age of morality, and fiscal responsibility that was the Republican Party of a of a day gone by. I think i think she happened to be somebody for the moment that people could vote for themselves and not have the vote for donald trump in a primary. My encouragement should really read the newspapers on your guests. Thats the whole point of the news for nikki haley not to endorse donald trump. I believe its a mistake i believe its not moving forward for the party. And what will be a shortterm sugar high and i just named a number of individuals. Kevin mccarthy tim scotts moment where just cringeworthy at best. I mean, weve talked about it ad nauseam. Its a mistake. And i believe theres a number of folks, this 35 of republicans that didnt vote for donald trump in these, in these primaries were going to be absolutely disappointed to think somebody would just want to preserve their political career and not do the right thing. Look, if were going to turn the tide as the Republican Party, if were going to turn the tide as a country weve got to be more serious minded than just pett