Zack cohen really appreciate it. Thanks so much. The news continues right here on cnn its Super Tuesday, march 5, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump hoping for a Super Tuesday sweep hes asking the Supreme Court for more help after the justices ruled that states like colorado cant kick him off the ballot. President biden, preparing for his state of the Union Address its his campaign hoping Super Tuesday doesnt reveal more vulnerabilities and will Super Tuesday been nikki haleys last stand or is she going to try a different path to the presidency all right. 05 00 a. M. Im here in washington. A live look at the washington mind a little bit foggy this morning here. Good morning. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to be with you. Will come to Super Tuesday. Its maybe the last day that nikki haley can really make a credible claim of any kind to the republican president ial nomination voters in 15 states with about a third of it delegates at stake head to the polls this morning. All signs
mitch mcconnell and his wife in extremely personal terms over the last few months. they always had sort of a rocky relationship and trump has decided, you know, he was backing rick scott to challenge mcconnell for the senate republican leadership. this is clearly a relationship that, on the rocks would be putting it delicately and it s not going to be repaired anytime soon. i do think, you know you hear certain echoes of 2016 when you hear a lot of republican leaders, you know, talking in, i don t want to say vague terms but refusing to use the former president s name when they condemn him. if republicans in washington want to get onboard with another candidate, you know, that s really going to be the only thing that is going to stop someone like donald trump with a very high floor of support among republican voters from becoming the nominee. so unless those denunciations get much more forceful, consistent and explicit and
behind the scenes about why you don t think he s fit for office he will maintain his position inside the party and that grip. this is a moment once again where it feels like there is a loosening. can they make an actual pivot or go through what we ve gone through the last through years. for mcconnell to do that he knows mcconnell is one of trump s favorite targets and mcconnell is the republican establishment to trump. he s the problem. mcconnell would say, look around. look what happened in 2018, 2020 and 2022. trump is the problem. the question is what does he say today? they have plenty to point to to signal that trump is the problem and, you know, mcconnell seems to try to thread this needle where he very forcefully criticizes what trump says without going after trump personally. so i think to phil s point you want to see if today is he willing to actually say, you know, no, we cannot stand behind this person. i think the challenge mcconnell and others are grappling with, they
unified congresses, and now when the other side may have a majority, they don t even have one plan, let alone the four major things we passed. they do have plans in the senate. i want to talk about this because one of the things i think donald trump exposed is that the elite, the financial elite of the republican party, had no connection to the base. the base wanted what donald trump was selling. and the financial elite want massive tax cuts for the rich. the financial elite are now back in a big way, saying they re going to fight mitch mcconnell. you have rick scott who wants to challenge mcconnell, who was a sycophant to trump, for leadership. but rick scott is not only the guy who was in charge of getting republicans re-elected, but his plan is to take social security, medicare, and medicaid and put them on five-year tracks to be dismantled. this is a guy who presided over $1.7 trillion medicare and tricare fraud and got elected
can he have a different theme the second time around? that s very true. dana, focusing on the senate, you have rick scott saying his s going to challenge mcconnell. some reps are asking to delay the vote. that clearly is not going to happen, and then mitch mcconnell is speaking up for himself. i ve traveled around the country, people have repeatedly i think the outcome is clear. i want to repeat again, i have the votes, i will be elected. there are few guarantees in politics, of course, but when mitch mcconnell says something like that, just from covering the man, is there any doubt? no, he knows where his votes are and aren t. can we just take a moment, you and i had covered the hill together for a few years, including mitch mcconnell. it s kind of hard to wrap your mind around a notion of the way