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- [Jordan] The general election candidates
seem all but settled,
but Nikki Haley has run a strong campaign.
So, what will her supporters do if she drops out?
I went to North Carolina
to one of her Super Tuesday rallies
held in a quaint train station to find out.
- I was a Trump voter in 2016, not 2020.
And so, I'm ready to stop him.
I'd like to make him sweat.
- How do you make Donald Trump sweat?
I think probably a walk down the stairs will do it.
- Yeah, I have no idea.
- If Nikki Haley drops out after Super Tuesday.
- She's not going to.
- She's not going to?
- No. - You're defiant.
- She's not going to.
- Even if she doesn't have the number,
she shouldn't drop out?
- No, no.
- You sound like a Republican.
You're just not gonna accept any election results.
- Keep going, that's right.
- Of course, they'd love to keep going.
Oddly enough, they seemed as anti-MAGA
as the tiny crowds at a Biden rally.
- Mr. Trump would sell his own grandmother
if he could for a profit.
- First off, I don't think he can win, period.
I honestly don't.
And even if he does, guess what?
The country loses, because he's out of control.
- He's chaos.
He's gonna be working on his court cases for the whole time.
- After January 6th and all that.
I'm like, there's no way I could ever vote for him again.
- You still think insurrection?
- Oh yeah.
- And just to be clear, insurrection bad.
- Yes. - Okay, okay.
This is good to know.
I'm trying to feel out the electorate here.
- That's good.
- Here was a group of Republicans who don't like Trump.
A not insignificant number of voters
who could be decisive in the general election.
It was finally time to ask the difficult question.
If Haley doesn't go past Super Tuesday,
who do you plan on voting if it's Trump versus Biden.
- First, I'm gonna have a cry, then I'm gonna have a beer,
and then I'm gonna have to pray.
- And if Nikki Haley isn't in the race?
- I'll be so sad.
I voted for Trump twice.
I will not, I can't say I won't vote for him.
Oh my God, don't put me in that position
where I have to pick between him or Biden.
- If it's not Haley in the general election?
- It's really tough.
The end of the day, if I'm forced to, you know,
I just, it's gonna be really hard.
I mean, it's just hold my nose, close my eyes,-
- And? - tie me up, you know?
- But you're still not sure,
if you had to vote Biden Trump, you're still?
- Like, you know, would you rather have rat poison
or what was the other thing that the people did in Arizona?
The fish tank cleaner.
- Rat poison versus the fish tank cleaner.
- Isn't it horrible?
- Let's say Nikki Haley doesn't get past Super Tuesday.
- Right.
- And it's Biden, and it's Trump.
Where's your head at?
- I just think both of 'em are too old.
You know, we shouldn't be voting
for octogenarians at this point, you know?
Gosh, I don't know.
- Lemme try some warmups. - Gimme some warmups.
- Just get you in the making a decision.
- All right.
- Pizza, burgers?
- I'll go pizza.
- Great. Alien, Predator?
- Alien.
- Barbie, Oppenheimer.
- Oppenheimer.
- Trump, Biden.
(interviewer grunting)
- I must say Biden.
- Wow, some are ready to turn the page on MAGA,
while others are still working through some things.
Do you feel Donald Trump poses
an existential threat to American democracy?
- I really do.
- You do? - I do.
- So, you're like Donald Trump, I'm done with him.
- No, done, yeah.
- Completely done with Donald Trump?
- Completely done.
- Hypothetically, if it is Biden versus Trump,
who do you support?
- It's really gonna be a toss up for me.
'cause it'll be Trump, but I, you know,
I'd rather just almost not vote, but I will, I mean.
- And it'll be Trump?
- I think so.
- That guy you just said you were done with?
- Well. - You're struggling.
- I'm just trying to be nice.
- Why can't you be done with Donald Trump?
- It's just, and the sex cases and all the, I mean, come on.
Just the fact that you have all the criminal stuff.
- It's insane. - It is insane.
- No one should support him for president.
- No, but, yeah. - Yes.
But if it's him versus Biden,
you will support him for president?
- I think so, yeah. - Oh, come on.
The process of soul searching
can be agonizing for these never,
well, maybe just for a third time, Trumpers.
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But maybe the pain is a sign of growth.
Do you think Trump poses an existential threat
to the American way of life?
- I think Trump will sell Ukraine to Putin.
It's a threat to global security.
And to me, it's a big issue.
- If we get to the place where it's just Trump versus Biden,
who do you support?
- Well, I don't want to vote
for either one of those characters.
- Right. I mean, one person you just described
as a existential threat to global security.
- Yeah.
- But even with that, voting for an old man is too much?
- That's for voting for nothing.
- Yeah, I mean like global security risk or nothing.
I'm not saying those are great options,
but I'm also saying that's not a hard decision.
- That's a hard decision to me.
- It is?
You could feel nothing. Okay.
It'd be nice to feel something inside.
Or you could feel getting punched in the nuts.
If you had to choose feeling nothing or punched in the nuts,
it feels like a no brainer.
- Hey, so if at least if you get punched in the nuts,
you can fight back.
You're still there.
- Trump 2024, it's like a punch in the nuts.
At least you'll feel something.
- Yeah.
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