Of leftwing commentators who are fans of joe biden, think hes been a good president but simply believe hes too old to run for a second eternal. More on that coming up. The networks called the South Carolina race after a big media buildup within seconds last night as donald trump won a landslide 60 of the vote on nikki haleys home turf. Its just embarrassing to lose by that kind of margin where you were governor. Theres no other way to view this other than a huge setback for her struggling candidacy. This time the former e president came out first. Now theres a spirit that that i have never seen. We ran two great races [cheers and applause] but theres never been, ever, theres never been a spirit like this. We need to beat joe biden in november. Finish i dont believe donald trump can beat joe biden. Howard haley had already served notice that she was staying in the race. Of the same politicians who now publicly embrace trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster hes been. I feel no need to kiss the ring. Howard but the most unusual moment was when she spoke about her husband. Trump had vaguely taunted her about his absence, hes a National Guardsman serving a 1year Deployment Serving overseas. I wish michael was here today, and i wish our children and i could see him tonight, but we cant. Hes serving on the other side of the world where conflict is the norm. Howard that emotional response was striking because haley is usually so scripted and disciplined. But it was too late to make a difference, a point that trump had driven home. Youre not supposed to lose your home state, shouldnt happen anyway, and shes losing it big. Howard nikki haley can keep on running, but the media will write her off losing her last real shot at stopping the coronation. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Howard joining us now to analyze the cover averages, mollie hemingway, editorinchief of the federalist, and richard fowler, radio talk show host. Both are fox news contributors. Im tempted to say what are we going to do for the next nine months, but trump wins iowa, new hampshire, nevada and now South Carolina. Can the media now basically declare the republican race over . Well, it has been over for a fairly long period of time. This was a particularly humiliating loss for nikki haley in that she used to be the governor of South Carolina, but its a free country. Shes allowed to run. Nobody believes that she will win the nomination. She knows shes not winning the nomination. So as she continues running, i think the media should focus more on what her mote if vegas is. We know a lot of democrats are supporting her both financially and in oral argument, but but why is she running . Is it just to hurt trump, or is there Something Else involved . Howard well,ing you anticipated my question for richard which, by the way, New York Times news story today did call it a coronation which i put in semifacetiously. Thats the question that news outlets keep asking on the air, in print, online and asking the candidate why is nikki haley still in this race. I think it is the right question to ask. And i think its also worth looking at last nights numbers to get some takeaways of what is nikki haleys path understanding that shes very unlikely to win the president ial nomination for the gop. Heres what you see, and every time shes run shes gotten about 40 of the vote. Our recent fox news vote voter analysis e said 59 of the people who voted for Nikki Haley Last Night would not vote for donald trump in a donald trump potential reelection, sort of serves as this quasirepublican incouple. Bent. Howard is shes a spokeswoman i what youve seen is trump hasnt done much to expand his base. But how do i get more voters, how do i make up the 7 million voter gap that the i lost to in 2020. And if hes not expanding his base and theres more and more republicans saying, 59 of nikki haley voter s saying i will not vote for this guy 59 this creates a problem for him. And while he creates a new sneaker and thinks thats going to appease africanamerican voters, in policy hes failing when it comes to expanding the voter base. Howard well, the sneakers are selling like hot cakes. Not true. Hot. Howard there is a New York Times piece just the other day saying that haley is hanging around in case trump deals over or he is convicted in up one of these criminal cases, and the exit polls from South Carolina, similar to other states, say about a third of those said the would not support they would not support the former president if hes convicted, but theres a lot of ifs in there. Yeah. Nikki haleys not going to be the republican nominee. Theres just no way shes going to be the republican nominee. People do need to think what exactly is going on, why is she running, why are democrats so supportive of it. While there has been openness to someone other than donald trump, the more she continues this campaign, it will sour her with Republican Voters which is not good for her in the party. Most people dont want joe biden to be the nominee howard even among democrats. But theyve closed ranks, and theyre having a closed primary and not allowing debates or anything like that. The Republican Party should think about does it want to win, does it want to move on, or do they want to continue this . Howard well, as haley has increasingly sharped sharpened her criticism obviously former president , for a long time she was pretty mild, but when shes saying hes unhinged and hes in love with putin, he brings day yo chaos, has she alien may noted republicans to the point where her future in the party is rather limitedded . Well, i think youve got to be honest, and this is where i agree with mollish s e. I do think the former ambassador might be on some kind of Kamikaze Mission understanding that i likely will not run again. This is the end of it for me. But in this moment, im going to do everything in my power to call out the problems i have with former president donald trump. And like i said before, i think where she might have a little bit of runway to do Something Like that is that you havent seen from the former president an expansion of his base. How do you go, how do you make up that 7 million vote delta that joe biden had in the past election. How do you talk to voters that reason will be with you. How do you talk to voters who voted for you in 2020, Saw January 6th and decided you are no longer the president theyre going to vote for. All of these things set up a world in, which yes, theres issues with joe biden and also with donald trump. Howard the former president , even when he was in office, always talked to the media even when he was angry or using the media as a punching bag. Right. And, you know, we talk about how joe biden did in the 2020 election are. But leading up to the 2020 election joe biden was winning in National Polls by 10, 11, 12 . Now hes down by those numbers. I mean, hes down significantly. So were dealing with a very different situation and a very unique situation in that you have people in america being able to compare what life was like you should a Trump Presidency and what its been like under a biden presidency, and that fully explains why so many people are supporting trump over biden. Howard you know, it is the oddest election i think ive ever covered in that i dont think any nonincumbent has swept the first four contests on the republican side. So all of the Media Geniuses who said trump was very vulnerable and somebody and if only we could just get one candidate against donald trump, they all turned out to be wrong. Remember the whole, well, he hes not debating, and Republican Voters are going to punish him for that. Let me ask you have you take a step back, mollie, and then ill come to richard. How does a man who Many Republican if leaders castigated after the events of january 6th, condemned by the media and how does he bounce back to the point where he not if only is winning the nomination, virtually has it won, but is clobbering Everybody Else who is in the field . Hatred of donald trump by the media and even by the republican establishment has always been something of a feature, not a bug for donald trump. So the fact that people feel that way about a him does not hurt him with the american voters. Americans do very much feel like the country is broken. They look around and see the border is broken, Foreign Policy is broken, the economy is broken, crime in American Cities is broken. When they look out at the political landscape, they see a lot of status quo and that could be joe biden or nikki haley, but they see very few people who are looking at a tackling these issues in a different manner, and they already saw how he handleed them differently in his first term. Howard joe biden could always argue that the economy is getting better. Richard, is are the media upside estimated donald trump underestimated donald trump throughout this Long Campaign from the if four indictments, to civil fraud suit, the nato controversy . If most of which wound up helping him . Look, i think it depends on who youre talking to, and i dont think the American People are a monolith. I think it depends on what swath of americans you talking to. While you do see the president doing well amongst his base or you do see the president sort of reshaping and owning the Republican Party because obviously he does, the problem the president really runs into is how do i appease new voters to come over to my camp and think im the best candidate. Every poll says theres these big swath of voters, and i think it e matters how people vote in elections howard you said e earlier wait, wait, wait howard ill let you finish, but you said trump was not making much effort. No, hes not. And the past election in ohio, what we found was the number one demographic to vote to protect a womans right to choose was not women, it was actually black men. Black men voted to protect a womans right to choose more than any other subgroup. This is a group that the Trump Campaign thinks theyre winning over. You know, Howard University just did a poll that showed Donald Trumps support among black men has tripled well, thats assumption their, mollirk e. Take it up with Howard University. And we just see in all of the National Polls people are extremely dissatisfied with the Biden Administration and how its handling these major problems. And you can, you know, i agree with you, itll all come down to the polls, but were definitely seeing some changes. The only reason i say its illusion their is a poll is a snap if shot in time. In 2016 black men voted higher for trump than in 2020, but the idea that in this election theyre going to entirely vote higher than they did in 2016 or 20 to 20 i think is illusionark a ry. Howard all rightful well, unlike last time, excuse me, donald trump didnt criticize nikki haley. He didnt even mention her. When we come back, the coverage of jim biden, the president s brother, called to testify how he made big bucks based on the family name. Jeopardize my vision. It was hard, but taking preservision was easy. Preservision has the exact clinically proven areds 2 formula recommended by the nei. 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Joe biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities, none. Now, what americorps paid jim biden 200,000, he turned around and wrote a check the Joe Insisting he was repaying a Personal Loan. Americorps collapsed, the dojs investigating major allegations of medicare fraud. So, molli everything, these are serious allegations. A lot of money was involved. No question that his last name was Something Else, jim biden wouldnt have gotten this business. But also when he says it was just rea payment of a Personal Loan repayment of a Personal Loan, 200,000, do you question that . Well, he was unable to provide any evidence that there was a loan or any interest paid. He said there was no documentation for this. He had a bunch of problems with his testimony. So you had what leaked to the New York Times, but then, you know, where he said theres never been any involvement in different things. He, he was confronted with claim, he said that he had never done this one particular Business Deal with hunter biden and tony bobulinski, and when they showed the paperwork with him signing off on it, he was, like, oh, i dont remember. There was also the issue where the Chinese Communist company gave diamonds to hunter biden, and he said he gave one to james biden, and james biden says he threw it away. This was kind of disastrous testimony. Howard okay. Richard, this is the problem with closed door testimony, we get selective leaks without challenging the fact that he changed his accounts, hadnt had this deal with the Chinese Company with hunter or and his mart merit partners. What do you make of that statement being leaked many advance to the New York Times and rather than coming out and making a short statement for the cameras . Lets zoom out, there should be a documentary around the nepotism that happens in washington, d. C. And the nepotism that happens in every industry howard ive covered a lot of president ial relatives. Right. Theres no difference here. You see people taking advantage of somebodys last tame to benefit. The concern name to benefit. Why this was more closed door testimony than open, Blockbuster Hearings in these particular cases is because there doesnt seem to be any clear connected evidence between this and the president of the united states. Since 2018 when the senate was investigating this to now that the republicans are investigating this, we are nine months out from the president ial election, and there still isnt any Bombshell Evidence that gets you to a Blockbuster Hearing or potential filings of Impeachment Articles that could be disinfected in a courtroom. Is and thats what lie bfers the oversight chief and the judiciary committee. They come on air over and over and over again, they continue to make these allegations, and there doesnt seem to be not clear evidence for them to subpoena anybody or to put the Impeachment Documents forward, and thats the problem for them hu hu well howard well, thats why you have investigations. There certainly are are unanswered questions, mollie. And do you think also this warrants more News Coverage . Oh, its fantastically interesting stuff, to have the biden Family Business be i under investigation. And its something that would be would be great if the media itself were investigating rather than working to run interference, which is usually what we see. But there is another problem other than just Impeachment Proceedings for joe biden which is the American People understand that the biden family benefited in really weird financial deals on the back of joe biden. And so they can claim that he had nothing to do with it, but you have all this evidence and people saying, yes, they were put on the phone with him, yes, they did meetings with him, you have text messages. Nobodys ever explained what 10 for the big guy would mean if it werent or puff joe biden. Everyone just understands this is a family that has gained a tremendous amount financially with no explanation for why. Howard yeah. But the key question remains did joe biden himself benefit or just acquiesce in or allow . Because they moved the goalposts a little bit saying he had no involvement with any financial dealingsing, and i guess now his brother or hunter, but at the same time, you know, he certainly