Thank you for making this happen. Thank you sen. Booker thank you for the opportunity. We have a bunch of eager members. I will introduce you real quick. We will open up questions. Sen. Booker that sounds great. Is that ok . Thats great. [applause] sen. Booker i want to get to your questions. I want to orient you to who the heck am i. I am a kid that was raised by two incredible parents. Who have seen the worst of america. They were civil rights activists. They saw violence and discrimination, but they also saw the best of america and they know we are who we are as a country because we Work Together and stood together. My dad is one of these guys that the older i got, the more difficult the stories of his childhood were. Hes like, son, the hail, when i was young, hale was the size of golf balls. By the time he was older, the hail was like beach balls falling from the sky. Son, let me tell you when this tsunami hit my town. I said, dad, you grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He
can nikki haley pull off an upset and prove that she insisted this primary isn t a coronation of donald trump. or will trump win new hampshire and win big as he signals he s ready to move past the primary and on to the general? and i think one person will be gone probably tomorrow. and the other one will be gone in november. our goal is to be stronger than we were in iowa and then keep going to my sweet state of south carolina. so the focus is you just keep going and you keep building. let s keep in mind we don t do coronations in this country. thank you so much for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we have special coverage of the first in the nation primary, the first big one on one contest between donald trump and nikki haley. right now, the polls are open across new hampshire, where voters are fiercely independent and tough to predict. haley stopped by a poling location in hampton this morning alongside her governor chris su
welcome to msnbc s special coverage of the new hampshire primary. we re here in manchester, new hampshire, for what could be the defining contest of the 2024 republican primary. for republican voters, there s now just one alternative to an ex-president who incited an insurrection, faces 91 felony counts in 4 jurisdictions who says he want thes to be dictator for a day. i could really go on and on about trump s alarming statements, but we don t have all day for that. the one person left standing in his way is former south carolina governor nikki haley. she spent the morning in new hampshire. trump did a stop and his surrogates marjorie taylor greene are also crisscrossing the state for him. out there campaigning on his behalf. haley now has that two-person contest she s always wanted. but everything suggests that she s an uphill climb. the last tracking poll out this morning shows trump up by 22 points. that s a lot. and over the last few weeks, the haley campaign has been res