Would you vote for Trump if he chose Nikki as VP?
And would you say no to Trump?
That's the question that I asked you specifically.
Well, I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would I would advocate
against it as strongly as I could.
Wow. Wow.
- Yeah. - Now.
Tucker Carlson made some pretty strong statements during a recent appearance
on Tim Poole's show, and clearly he is not a fan of Nikki Haley.
And it does really highlight this divide within the Republican Party,
where you have the traditional conservative Republicans that are
representative of the neocon ideology, and then you have the MAGA crowd, which I
would now venture to say is the majority of Republican voters at this point who are
not hawkish, who do not want to engage in various wars abroad, who are not
interventionists like Nikki Haley is.
And I think that's what Tucker Carlson is really alluding to here.
Now, here's more of what Tucker Carlson said during this live discussion,
again hosted by Tim Pool.
And it's actually at a Turning Point USA event known as America Fest.
Let's watch.
Well, that that's just that's just poison.
I mean, here's someone who's actively opposed to the interest of the country
I grew up in, who endorsed the BLM riots and who is not only it's not left,
but is neoliberal in the darkest, most speaking of nihilist, nihilistic way
and has no real popular supporters, is a creature of the oligarchs.
So yeah, that would be that would be reason to oppose the ticket.
- Even Trump Haley is a no go Nikki Haley. - He would get.
Assassinated immediately if that were the case.
Yeah.
And by the way, I just can't imagine a world where that could happen.
That would be so crazy.
I mean, anything could happen, of course, but picking Nikki Haley, who's utterly
treacherous and utterly dismissive of, like, the interests of Americans.
- Yeah, it's. - A no go for me.
Now remember, Tucker Carlson also despises Donald Trump, which is what we learned
through the messages he was sending to his Fox News colleagues on January 6th.
On and around January 6th, he was reveling in the notion
that he might not ever have to talk about Trump again, said that he hated his guts,
and so Nikki Haley would be a convenient excuse to not support Donald Trump.
Should that be the ticket for Republicans in the 2024 presidential election?
But it is true that Nikki Haley represents the the hawkishness of
the neocon wing of the Republican Party.
That is not conducive to what MAGA supporters are in favor of.
Yeah, let me shock the world here a little bit by a agreeing with Tucker Carlson
a little bit and b, saying that he's doing a little bit of smart strategy here.
So I'll break down both.
So of course Anna's right. She is a neocon and Warhawk for sure.
No one would dispute that. And that's a disaster.
And for the wing of the Republican Party, that is against endless wars,
but they just don't agree.
So that makes sense.
And she is a neoliberal in the sense that, you know, top down economics, the powerful
make the choices the poor have to suffer and the middle class have to suffer.
Yeah, that's definitely Nikki Haley.
That's her wing of the Republican Party, for sure.
Okay, we have to clarify this. We've done it before.
But it's really important for people to understand
that neoliberal does not mean liberal.
There are two completely different things. Can you explain that real quick?
Yeah.
So and that drives me that word drives me crazy.
Neoliberal, means basically a top down model where the the people at the top
know what's good for you, and they're going to make these decisions.
And oftentimes it is to take from the average person
it doesn't have to be just America.
They did neoliberal policies against Greece and Italy, and it was incredibly
painful and led to revolts, etc..
And the idea is austerity for you guys.
And basically wealth redistribution to the top.
They don't frame it that way.
They say these are the hard, things that we must do to, to recover.
And but the hard thing is never include higher taxes
for the rich or for corporations.
It's only painful to you guys.
And so a giant wing of the Democratic Party and a giant wing of
the Republican Party are both neoliberals.
That's the uni party that people refer to. Yes.
Okay. And it's just weirdly labeled.
So and by the way, these days, in the old days, neo conservative made sense because
because conservatives always wanted a war.
But these days the true conservatives don't really want war.
So now that's become kind of a misnomer and an odd title.
There's a weird realignment happening.
I don't know where things are ultimately going to end up,
especially in a post-Trump America.
But there is a strange realignment happening where you're hearing more
and more Republican voters say things that were historically typical
of Democratic voters, you know, antiwar rhetoric, stuff like that.
But the great majority of their politicians still definitely want war,
like Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley are great examples.
And whenever war does break out, they do go back to their instincts.
Like with Israel and Gaza, a lot of the right wing, including the voters,
are like, yeah, bam, bam, war.
Yeah, right.
So you got to keep it real and actually implement what you think you stand for.
And last thing on why he's right about Nikki Haley is he said
that she's a creature of the oligarchs.
And that is definitely true.
So she gets huge donor money, does exactly what the donors want.
Corporate media loves her for that because it helps corporate rule.
And she's gotten about 2 billion times more coverage than Marianne Williamson,
who has pulled higher than her throughout the entirety of the campaign.
The bias that corporate media has in favor of Nikki Haley is unbelievable,
outrageous and over the top.
All of that is true.
Okay, now, in terms of why it's smart strategy, number one,
they're sending a message to Trump.
This is the right wing base going. Don't you go in that direction.
Right.
We don't want those corporate hacks like, Nikki Haley, and we don't
want the establishment checking us when we want to do crazy stuff.
I don't want you to think that the Tucker wing is all great.
No, they pretend to be populist, and at least they're pointing out the
problems of the Republicans and Democrats.
But when it comes to ruling, they want to break all the rules, and establishment
people might reel them back in.
Like when Mike pence refused to cheat.
Regarding the 2020 election, they want someone who will definitely
cheat and do whatever Trump says.
Last thing is, they're also sending a message to Republican Party and voters.
Overall, if you pick Nikki Haley over Donald Trump as a presidential pick,
a lot of us are going to stay home because we find that unacceptable.
So basically, they're if I'll do an analogy here,
they're saying we'll be suicide bombers and cost the Republicans the election.
If Nikki Haley is the candidate.
That's what's partly implied in that statement.
Look, honestly, there is a part of me,
a big part of me, that is envious of
that kind of culture on the right where the voters are like, oh, we're not getting
we're not going to get what we want.
We don't care if Republicans win.
We care about the person we prefer winning.
Yeah.
So in the old days when they had two corporate guys,
Clinton versus Dole, that's a strategy that makes some degree of sense.
The Democrats don't have that luxury because Trump's on the other side, and
he's promising dictatorship 24 over seven.
If he wasn't such an idiot and he wasn't such a con man and a crook,
etc., it might be a different dynamic and the Republicans would have
a much better chance of winning.
But he can't help himself, they can't help themselves.
But overall, forget the analogy of the suicide bomber.
Forget everything else.
The fact that the Republican voters are to some degree, whether we like it or not,
or whether we agree or not on their policies, are taking their party back,
is, I think, the enviable part.
Whereas Democratic voters have constantly say, well, since the guy on the other side
is worse and they are okay, we'll go with the corporate wing
over and over and over again.
But most importantly, we'll get intimidated by the corporate media and the
primaries and pick the corporate wing in the primaries where you don't have to.
If you pick the populist progressive wing in the primaries,
then you steamroll the Republicans.
And when the Democratic voters wake up in the primaries,
that's when this country changes.
Now, I do want to just briefly talk about what's happening in New Hampshire.
There's a lot of buzz in regard to Nikki Haley kind of closing in on Donald Trump.
Don't get too excited, though, because closing in means there's still
a giant gap between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump in New Hampshire.
So let's take a look at this 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary.
Donald Trump is polling at 44%.
Nikki Haley comes in at second place with 29%.
So she is gaining on Trump.
A poor showing for DeSantis at 11%. Poor showing.
Poor showing. Poor.
Poor. Poor DeSantis.
Now with that said, obviously there's still a massive gap between the two.
And remember, Donald Trump hasn't really begun directing
his ire toward Nikki Haley.
He has started to do this.
He put out an ad attack ad against Nikki Haley, and now Nikki Haley is like,
oh, I must be doing something right if everyone's attacking me, maybe.
But, you know, previously I felt that Trump choosing Nikki Haley
as a running mate would be smart.
Because when you look at other polling, it shows that if there's a one on one
matchup between Nikki Haley and Joe Biden, Nikki Haley would
like just absolutely demolish him.
And it's because Nikki Haley appeals to more of the independent voters
who lean conservative.
Donald Trump turns a lot of independents off, so choosing Nikki Haley might
be a way of bringing in some of those conservative leaning independent voters.
But with team MAGA now speaking out against Nikki Haley, I think it's very
likely they're going to do to her what they've effectively done to Ron DeSantis.
I don't know. We'll see.
Yeah.
So last two things here, but I think Nikki Haley does have
a chance in New Hampshire.
And I'm surprised by how well she's doing.
So she's still got 15 points to make up, but 15 is so much closer than anyone
else has been to Trump anywhere.
And she gained 18 already, and fairly recently so she could pick
up 18 that quickly because she picked up the rest of the 15 in the time left
before the New Hampshire primary.
It's not impossible.
So then all of a sudden, we might have a race if she pulls in,
you know, even or or wins New Hampshire, that would be an unbelievable development
and it would be very interesting to see.
And then finally, if there is an argument to be made for picking Nikki Haley,
because then that neuters the establishment
and brings them back onto Team Trump.
There is logic in that.
But if MAGA rebels then it's probably not worth it.
That's the dichotomy. That's the calculus at hand.
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