Nikki Haley through her campaign manager has finally decided to go after
Donald Trump and Ron De Santis who still hasn't announced that he plans to run for
president, although he's expected to very soon.
Now, Nikki Haley did not directly go after Donald Trump, but
her campaign manager, Betsy Ankeney decided to do so.
And so she wrote in a donor memo released yesterday, quote,
Donald Trump had a pretty good Q1 if you count being indicted is good.
So Q1, first quarter, absolutely love it.
But there was more, she claims,
look, we don't like this politicized prosecution, okay.
The sensationalized partisan prosecution in Manhattan understandably made
Republicans more sympathetic to the former president.
It is an outrageous prosecutorial abuse, still, it's increasingly clear
that Trump's candidacy is more consumed by the grievances of the past and
the promise of more drama in the future rather than a forward looking vision for
the American people.
I just, I like it, I like it.
>> [LAUGH] That's a beginning, but I think it's still very mild.
It's slightly kicking to the side, whatever the hell that means.
>> I don't kick to the side, I kick forward.
>> Yeah, that makes no sense.
>> I think she realized after many people dunked on her for that line.
That, no, you're running in a Republican primary.
What do you mean, you're not gonna kick to the side?
You gotta win the primary first, I think she realized that.
>> [INAUDIBLE] Bernie Sanders, okay. >> No, come on, relax.
>> Okay, well, look, I love Bernie but
he should have kicked to the side during the primaries.
Anyways, back to the Republicans.
So you think you're gonna win with this?
No, okay, I like it, It's a good start.
But Chris Christie had the better way to go.
>> Did he? >> During the-
>> Where is Christie now.
No, no, no, no, I don't mean in 2016 where he humiliated himself.
>> You mean what, now?
>> Yeah, over the weekend he, look, let me tell you his line.
His line was it one that I honestly I suggested not to him but
I'm just saying overall.
No, no, the only way to beat Trump is to say, look, this guy lost to Biden.
He's like the only Republican who lose the Biden.
He was like 200 years old, right?
We could all beat him.
We could all beat him super easy.
>> It's a big lie.
>> Yeah, except Trump, right?
Trump's the guy who lost the Biden.
>> That's a good point.
>> And the reason why that's persuasive potentially is because people go,
yeah Republicans, Republican voters go, Yeah, Biden sucks, Man, Trump lost to him.
That's something we're risking it if we go with Trump.
Now that presumes that Republicans are mentally stable because
remember half of them think that Trump actually won and
that Biden stole it with undocumented immigrants and fraud and
all that stuff and then lost the right against himself.
So those guys you're never gonna convince, right?
Because they'll say,
what do you mean Trump beat them by 400 million votes, right?
But for the half that are convincible and there is some percentage,
we saw it in Georgia, we saw it in the Senate elections in 2022.
I can see them going, yeah, I don't want to lose to Biden again.
And so that's a much better approach than this, which is like, why we think
that what the Democrats have done to poor Donald Trump is really unacceptable.
At the same time, we are slightly perturbed by Donald Trump,
not good enough, weak sauce.
>> But I mean, the whole thing about taking jabs at him over being indicted,
that, that line was pretty good.
By the way, I politically, I am not on team Nikki Haley.
>> [LAUGH] Of course not.
>> We're in this current political climate where you literally have to spell
things out because people will just assume, like, she said something positive
about a campaign strategy that Nikki Haley's campaign is trying out.
She must be a right winger, but I'm not.
So but I do like the infighting, it's fun, we should enjoy it.
Why should the left be the only group that engages in infighting?
Let's see with the right.
>> [INAUDIBLE] But again,
here I'm actually not completely with you on this because, so I hear you, it's fun.
There, I'm 100% with you.
But guys remember in 2016, the Republicans had a mess of a primary.
They fought like crazy, started talking about penis size, etc.
>> It was super fun, yeah.
>> And guess what happened though?
They won.
>> They did.
>> Okay, in 2020, the Republicans don't have any messy primary.
They have perfectly, they have their incumbent,
Democrats have a messy primary kind of, but at least it was a loud primary.
Lots of people in it, lots of press coverage and guess what happened?
The Democrats won.
So primaries and messy primaries actually kinda great because it gets you a better
candidate at the end, hopefully kind of most of the time, and
it gets your message out, it gets your message out from eight different people,
20 different people at once.
And so I wish the Democrats would have a similar primary.
So if the establishment tries to shut up everyone on the left,
Marianne Williamson or whoever else decides to run going forward,
that's a disaster which everyone should be kicking sideways.
>> So, she also went after Ron DeSantis through her campaign manager, again,
Nikki Haley is still trying to keep her powder dry weirdly.
But she writes, Ron DeSantis essentially launched his presidential campaign
with a national book tour during this period and made one misstep after another,
confirming what many observers have long suspected he's not ready for prime time.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah, now I know that you got to work on that a little bit.
Now they're so weak.
I mean, look at how weak Nikki Haley is.
She's sending her campaign spokesperson to do the attacking.
Are you gonna let her be president too, ok.
No, you gotta do what Trump did in 2016.
Get in there and just start punching people in the face.
My God, you're a Republican, Republicans love punching people in the face.
You're not gonna win that primary with, I had my campaign spokesperson say
kick a little bit sideways and say that Ron DeSantis is not ready for prime time.
[LAUGH] No, that ain't gonna cut it.
So definitely not gonna cut it on the Republican side.
Go and start punching people in the face politically and do it yourself,
Nikki Haley, otherwise, okay, I get it,
you want labor secretary or transportation secretary.
Go ahead and warm that seat up.
Now, finally, I don't know why this shocked me.
It's just the amount of money that gets thrown around during the election cycles
blows my mind.
But Nikki Haley raised a lot of money, right.
So Trump's former ambassador, that's Nikki Haley to the United Nations
raised $11 million in the final six weeks of the first 2023 quarter.
Haley's fundraising hall is more than Donald Trump raised in his first quarter
in this race and more than nearly all the Republican presidential candidates in 2016
raised in their first quarter.
Her campaign manager wrote which the comparison to 2016 isn't
a good look because as we have seen, each election cycle usually
consists of massive increases of corruption and money being thrown around.
So I don't think that says anything, but I do think it is interesting that
Nikki Haley raised that much money in one quarter, blows my mind.
>> Yeah, that tells me a couple of things.
Number one, Republican donors are really sick of Donald Trump.
They like, I don't know, Nikki Haley is in the race, let's just give her money and,
but you can't be Donald Trump, he's too unstable.
We need someone stable like Nikki Haley, who's just gonna give us the keys
to the car and we're gonna do whatever the hell we want.
Just like the good old days when corporate Republicans, the corporate Democrats won.
Now, it's not that Trump would do better with the car.
Trump would immediately crash the car, right.
And that's part of the reason they're against him.
>> I'm the best driver.
>> Yeah.
>> I drive very well.
>> But the second thing that it tells me is that donors think,
she's making it in the cabinet.
So even if she loses the presidency, which she almost certainly will, the nomination.
Hey, look, man, maybe I'm a railroad company and I'm gonna crash all my.
>> Derail all my trains.
>> Derail all my trains that have these giant mushroom clouds.
It helps to grease these politicians.
I mean, when the company did it for [INAUDIBLE],
when he became transportation secretary, he let them all talk on everything and
trust me that Nikki Haley will do likewise.
>> But I think, look, I think that you're really being unfair to Nikki Haley and
how fierce a fight she's putting up in this election.
And you're gonna see how fierce that fight is in the next video.
>> Let me go back to my original question though because anybody that is looking or
seeking a nomination, it's you're going to be comparing and
contrasting your policy positions, your views,
what direction you wanna take the country with your competitors.
Right now there's former president Trump is the only other candidate for
the nomination we expect many others.
Maybe even Mike Pompeo was on earlier in the program today.
Where do you see, if you see policy differences beyond what you mentioned,
which are generational differences?
What specific policy areas would you say part with Donald Trump?
>> What I am saying is I don't kick sideways.
I'm kicking forward, Joe Biden is the president.
He's the one I'm running against.
And what I'm saying is you don't have to be 80 years old to be president.
>> [LAUGH] >> Fierce.
>> [LAUGH] So that was from earlier, she's getting more fears by sending her
assistant to the assistant out there to say something.
>> It's the campaign manager, be fair.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, anyway, I love that clip so much because it's deer meat headlights.
>> It's not deer meat headlights, it's the look of fear in her face as Hannity is
like asking the questions, like she knows the direction it's going.
And she's like she starts with a smile, starts with a smile,
[CROSSTALK] watch, watch and then slowly, slowly, No, No.
>> [LAUGH] Its so true, it's so true.
>> No, please stop, please stop.
>> God, that's hilarious.
The fake smile was already funny to begin with and
then when the fear came into our eyes, it was awesome.
But look, we're the fairest Sean America.
That's the first good question, Sean Hannity has ever asked.
Hey, what's the policy difference between you and Trump?
Pretty good question?
And of course she didn't answer.