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Nikki refuses to drop out of race, as donors drop Nikki
All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in the United States, the primaries. In the United States, South Carolina, specifically where Trump beat Nikki Haley by a good 20 points. In her home state of South Carolina, that's not the big news. That hasn't surprised anybody that Trump won South Carolina or that he won by such a big margin. The question that everyone is asking is, "Why is Nikki Haley still in this? Why does she refuse to step aside?" There are a lot of different theories and narratives, but that's what everyone is wondering. What are your thoughts? I have to say, I've thought about this a long because, logically, it makes absolutely no sense now. If we look at the way the primaries have gone, the whole Nikki Haley project has been a complete failure in every single one. The breakthrough primary, it was expected, would be New Hampshire, and she failed there. That was a shock. The Iowa caucuses were a huge shock and caused a shock in Europe, by the way. It was in the Iowa caucuses, as a result of the Iowa caucuses, when the Europeans finally began to understand that the Nikki Haley project was going to fail, and they'd stayed a lot on it. Now she's failed. She's lost in her own home state, where she was governor, and looking onto Super Tuesday, which is in a couple of weeks' time, she's not going to win there either. This primary race, it makes absolutely no sense for her to keep going. I've thought about this a lot, and I have come to the conclusion, actually, that there were two factors which were keeping Nikki Haley in the race. Obviously, she's not discussed this with me, so I don't know, but factor one was money. She was getting lots and lots of money, but she was extremely well-resourced and funded by all her donors, and of course, that funding will remain in her campaign, available for her to use going forward, so in the next presidential election, in four years' time, there'll be that big pot of money already to start with, and who knows that that money could be used for all kinds of other things. But that's one factor. I think, in that respect, she's had the rug pulled under her now, because the Koch brothers have now indicated that they're no longer going to fund her anymore, so one of her biggest funders has now pulled out, they're saying, "You know, what's the point? Why are we throwing money into this failed enterprise?" But I think up to this point, that was one factor, but I think there was another factor too, and it relates to all the court cases against Trump, the disqualification exercise, all of that kind of thing. And I think at some level, she was saying to himself, even if he wins every single primary, if he's stopped from going forward to the election, provided I keep going, I am still there, so if he's stopped, I'm there and available as a potential Republican nominee to take his place. I suspect that was the calculation, not just her calculation, but also the calculation that many of the people who have been backing him. I was going to ask you, she must be being pulled this by various officials or permanent state members, Democrat officials maybe, stay in this race, because we're not yet done with Trump yet, we'll find something to knock Trump out of this, so just stick in this race a little longer. So how does she stay in this thing without money? Well this is it. I think the point is that I think that this particular project, despite all of that calculation, I think it's starting to run its course, and partly the reason is that she has made no dent on Trump at all in the primaries, is she done better in New Hampshire and in Iowa, and if she held Trump to say a 10% margin, not a 20% margin in South Carolina, then we might be in a different situation, if she'd have had some delegates to take with her to the Republican Convention, it would have looked as if she was in a position to step in. But the problem is that it looking increasingly now, as if the Supreme Court of the United States is going to come down on Trump's side over the disqualification issue, and do so perhaps even unanimously, and in a big way, that's the rumor, that's the talk, and to be frank, I think the court cases, the various court cases, are not playing out as expected, and are starting to unravel. We've had this very bizarre decision in New York, but it seems that Trump has decided to pay the amount to put up a bond, which will enable him to go forward to appeal, and he's probably going to be able to find the money to do that, and it's difficult to imagine this decision surviving in an appeal. I ought to acknowledge him. My debt to Robert Barnes, I've been in contact with him about this, and he says that the Supreme Court of the United States does have jurisdiction over this case also. So assuming that the New York appeal fails, and logically, it cannot, it should not fail, he can take it to the Supreme Court of the United States and argue that the decision violates his rights under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. So that case is starting to look shaky, because to be frank, it's so completely unbalanced. You need to look at Jonathan Turley's analysis to see why. He's got it all set out very clean. And the Georgia case, which I think a lot of people were expecting, would play out worse. Well, there's all the problems with the Georgia prosecutors, which gained lots of news. And the two Jack Smith cases don't look particularly strong either. So the cases are starting to creak, and it's perhaps premature to say that they're unraveling, but it doesn't look like they're going to stop Trump. So with Haley failing to break through in any of the primaries, you're starting to see the donors, the Koch brothers, amongst others. And I suspect the Koch brothers are only going to be the first. They're saying to themselves, look, this isn't flying. We're just throwing good money off to bad. It doesn't make any sense. It does look now increasingly as if it's going to be Trump versus Biden. And we have to face that reality and decide what we're going to do face with that choice. Yeah, that's why they're bringing out the Russia gate 2.0. Where's it? Russi gate 3.0. I don't even know what we are on to be quite honest. But that's why we're getting back into the Russi gate. Yes, narrative, because the Democrats are starting to understand that it's going to be Trump, Biden. And so now they're pivoting to Putin, of course, who else? Yeah, as long as Trump Biden's going to be Putin, Biden, that's that's how they get to try to. You're absolutely correct. You are entirely right. And I want to say again, I mean, this, the way some people are talking, too many people are talking, as if this is a done thing that if it's Trump Biden, Trump wins Biden loses. Nothing in American politics at this time is as simple as that. This race is far from open. This whole issue is far from closed. Yeah, who knows what they can manufacture, especially when you bring in Russia and then Putin from from now until November, to try and derail Trump. Yeah. Once the law fair ends, once the law fair ends, or you come up with something else, and you talk up a threat to democracy, of which there's been article after article pounding away at this. And you talk all talk all of that up. And for all I know, there'll be unrest. I'm using a very careful, carefully chosen word, but they'll be unrest again. In many of the American cities, we could be in for a very stormy song. All right, we will end it there, the Durand at locals.com. We are on rumble at a secret shoot telegram rock fin and Twitter X and go to the Durand shop 50% off all t-shirts. Take care. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]