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Speaker 1: As part of our special coverage on this Super Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we turned out of Jim Gilmore, the former chair of

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Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee, former governor of Virginia. It's good

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Speaker 1: to see you, sir, Welcome back to Bloomberg. You were

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Speaker 1: recently calling for unity in the party following a string

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Speaker 1: of early victories for Donald Trump. That has been affirmed

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Speaker 1: repeatedly with more than ten victories tonight in favor of

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Speaker 1: the former president. Is it time for Nicki Haley to

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Speaker 1: drop out?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes it is. It's a little late for her

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Speaker 2: to be dropping out. To say the truth, I gathered

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Speaker 2: together about twelve leading conservatives in the country and said

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Speaker 2: Nikki a letter in the early part of February, right

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Speaker 2: after the sith Carolina primary, and said, look, you didn't

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Speaker 2: win your home state, You've lost all the primaries up

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Speaker 2: to this point, all the caucuses. Get out and support

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Speaker 2: the president, and lets you unify the party and get

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Speaker 2: about the serious business of defeating President Biden. That has

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Speaker 2: to be our goal now of the entire Repobel Party.

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Speaker 2: And by staying in and just attacking Trump the way

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Speaker 2: she has personally, I think that she's probably missed her

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Speaker 2: vest opportunity to get out. But still she still should

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Speaker 2: and we should unify the party. It's a serious business.

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Speaker 3: Well, sir, you speak of unifying the Republican Party. Certainly

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Speaker 3: you use that language and that letter addressed to Miss Haley.

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Speaker 3: And yet when you look at the vote tallies coming in, granted,

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Speaker 3: the votes have not been complete across any of these

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Speaker 3: Super Tuesday states, but she currently has forty seven percent

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Speaker 3: in Vermont. In Virginia, where you served as governor, thirty

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Speaker 3: four point six percent. Yes, the state was called for Trump,

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Speaker 3: but she is pulling in a relatively significant share of voters.

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Speaker 3: Cand a Republican party that divided actually be unified in

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Speaker 3: time for a general election in November.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think the party can unify in time for

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Speaker 2: a general election. They look, these are landslide numbers. Let's

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Speaker 2: let's be honest with each other here, and this is

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Speaker 2: a really landslide election that we're seeing tonight. And frankly,

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Speaker 2: it's been a landslide up to this point the state

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Speaker 2: of Virginia. You know, there are a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: different kinds of attitudes and the people in Virginia. I've

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Speaker 2: served as governor of the state. But Trump is carrying

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Speaker 2: the state tonight two to one, almost two to one,

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Speaker 2: and that's dramatic. And then many of the other states

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Speaker 2: are sometimes three and four to run to one. This

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Speaker 2: is a landslide primary victory tonight. So the point is this,

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Speaker 2: this is an opportunity for Nikki Helly to get out

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Speaker 2: and say, look, the time has come for us to

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Speaker 2: unify the people who have been supporting me. That's an

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Speaker 2: honest thing to do. Everybody that runs in an election

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Speaker 2: is going to get vote. The time has come to

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Speaker 2: really get out there and talk about the serious business

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Speaker 2: of changing the country, of really addressing the issue on

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Speaker 2: the border, of really addressing crime in the streets, of

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Speaker 2: really addressing this problem of inflation which President Biden created.

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Speaker 2: Let's face it, at the beginning of his administration. He

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Speaker 2: created this inflation. He did it deliberately. But the problem

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Speaker 1: Governor. We don't really have a way to confirm me

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Speaker 1: intentionally caused inflation here at Bloomberg, but I most recently

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Speaker 1: you were with us to talk about your passion to

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Speaker 1: fund our ally in Ukraine at war right now with Russia.

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Speaker 1: If Donald Trump is the next president, A lot of

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Speaker 1: folks think that money might not be coming. Is that

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Speaker 2: Well, let me say this. You know and everybody else

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Speaker 2: knows that I am a strong supporter of Ukraine. I

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Speaker 2: has to be addressed. But when I was ambassador to

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Speaker 2: was the time when President Trump actually gave Javelin weapons

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Speaker 2: He never really told me or anybody around me to

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Speaker 3: Sir, are you hoping you would be in a position

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd seek to have an opportunity to to offer

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Speaker 2: on my part, feel strongly about this issue and about

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Speaker 2: the other issues as well. And you know, once again

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Speaker 2: I've beg to differ with you on inflation. I observed

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Speaker 2: I knew, just like you did, that it was inevitably

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Speaker 2: going to cause inflation, and we got inflation. The interesting

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Speaker 2: trying to pay gas, trying to pay groceries. This is

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 3: Jim Gilmore, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, former

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Speaker 3: governor of Virginia, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Selinda Lake, the president of Lake

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Speaker 1: Research Partners, for her take on what we've learned this evening.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you on Super Tuesday. Thanks, thanks

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Speaker 1: for it. Here is the story tonight that the pollsters

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Speaker 1: were right. Ah, I'd love that to be the story.

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Speaker 5: We're never no one ever says that I'm coming back

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Speaker 5: every night. But you guys, no, I think the story

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Speaker 5: is the same story it was like six months ago.

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden is going to be the nominee of the

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Speaker 5: Democrats and Donald Trump is going to be the nominee

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Speaker 5: of the Republicans.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough, Okay, fair enough. And Nikki Hayley perhaps was

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Speaker 3: a factor only on the margins and may not be

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Speaker 3: a factor after this evening, depending on what decisions.

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Speaker 1: She We hope she stays in.

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Speaker 3: How likely is that though? In your mind?

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Speaker 5: I think it depends on her own owners, And I

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Speaker 5: That's when candidates get out, when they run out of money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, there's a special group out there, seventeen

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised on some days that number is so small

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Speaker 5: It's a really great question, and in some of the

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Speaker 5: polls it's a size twenty twenty one percent. It's record

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Speaker 5: but this is a record high number this or like

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Speaker 5: many of them are contemplating third party and when you

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Speaker 5: push them, they'd really like a different set of choices.

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Speaker 5: But when you push them right now, they go for

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden, and they have pretty consistently. That's good news

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Speaker 5: So it's a very different election time.

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Speaker 3: Well, so when we're looking at some of the figures

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Speaker 3: in these Republican primary states in which Nicki Haley, while yes,

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Speaker 3: is losing to Donald Trump, she's pulling pretty consistently right now,

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Speaker 3: knowing the full figures aren't in twenty to thirty percent,

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Speaker 3: how many Nicki Haley voters could become Joe Biden voters?

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Speaker 3: Is there an overlap in the ven diagram of those

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Speaker 5: Is an overlap but it's hard because they hate Joe

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Speaker 5: be third party. There's also a lot of voters considering

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Speaker 1: The ballot just yeah, top, yeah.

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Speaker 5: And that's interesting because we've only had like three percent

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Speaker 1: How about that? So tell us about the sample. We

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Speaker 1: keep hearing the samples broken, people light upholster, They don't

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Speaker 1: How do you get an accurate number in this world?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's really hard. And can you tell all your

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Speaker 5: viewers to please pick up the phone yourself. If it

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Speaker 5: says Lake Research Polls.

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Speaker 2: Please take it out.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, But you call them back time and time again.

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Speaker 5: You offer them multiple ways to respond online, telephone, text,

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Speaker 5: by saying we're not selling anything. We're not going to

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Speaker 5: ask you for a contribution.

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Speaker 3: Because people like.

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Speaker 5: To give their opinions, but they just don't want to

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Speaker 5: be hammered to change your utilities.

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Speaker 1: That's the first word out of your mouth. I'm not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how the sausage is made. The sausage

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Speaker 3: being political polls in the United States you mentioned a

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Speaker 3: few times now though, So Linda, this idea of people

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Speaker 3: the top of this hour at ten pm Eastern. RFK

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Speaker 5: Well, the interesting thing is, first of all, he's not

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Speaker 5: also RFK is being misunderstood for his father. You probably

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Speaker 5: and all of the third parties pull from the Democrats.

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Speaker 5: That pulls from Joe Biden. And this is the important

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Speaker 1: It has to be like Democrats need to run a

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Speaker 5: Well, they actually have in the Free Press, and people

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Speaker 3: Well, you bring up abortion. Of course, in the last

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Speaker 3: in fact a disruptor in the elections. Democrats performed significantly

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Speaker 3: better than was expected going in. Is that going to

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Speaker 3: It doesn't have the same galvanizing effect that much further

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Speaker 5: Well, this is the gift that keeps on giving. So

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Speaker 5: what voters have concluded is they're not done yet. They

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Speaker 5: there are a number of states that have initiatives on

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Speaker 5: young people. So yes, this is a very key rategic

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Speaker 1: So often we have Slimda Lake at the table here

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Speaker 5: I think so, And honestly, I think he's a nominee today.

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Speaker 5: Biden is our nominee in Kate there was any question

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Speaker 3: I just want to follow up on your point though

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Speaker 3: a problem with the president's stance on Israel, given what's

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Speaker 5: I'm very concerned about it. I'm very concerned about the

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Speaker 5: division among young voters because that was part of our

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Speaker 1: I will say this.

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Speaker 5: They're not going to vote for Donald Trump. They might

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Speaker 5: vote for third party right, they could not show up,

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Speaker 5: they could skip to presidential, they could vote with third party.

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Speaker 5: The president and the vice president taken lots of actions

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Speaker 5: around abortion, around student loans. I hope and pray that

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Speaker 5: we have a ceasefire before Ramadan and all of those

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Speaker 1: We're waiting for results in Utah. Just to reset. If

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Speaker 1: you're joining us late here, as part of our special

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Speaker 1: coverage on Bloomberg TV and Radio. Donald Trump winning eleven

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Speaker 1: of fifteen states. It's been a sweep so far, Kayley.

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Speaker 1: I know that you've got your eyes on Vermont here

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Speaker 1: but this is pretty remarkable. Joe Biden now also winning

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Speaker 1: the Democratic presidential primary in Utah, and we should have

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Speaker 1: We'll be looking at the results a little more carefully.

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Speaker 1: To get back to what you were talking about him.

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Speaker 1: The series of uncommitted protest campaigns in states like Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or what to look forward to in the state

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Speaker 3: of the Union is Biden tries to message around those issues. So, Linda,

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Speaker 3: it's worth noting that Super Tuesday is today, forty eight

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Speaker 3: hours from now. Joe and I will still be here

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Speaker 3: be addressing the nation, perhaps the biggest speech he can

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Speaker 3: give in this election cycle, aside from the convention. What

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Speaker 5: I think there are three things that he needs to do. One,

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Speaker 5: you're going to hear him be very very aggressive about

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Speaker 5: thing is he has to paint the picture of what

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Speaker 5: four more years of Joe Biden will be and what

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Speaker 5: the hell that four more years of Donald Trump could be?

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Speaker 3: All Right, Slinda Lake, great to have you with us

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Speaker 3: at our DC studios this evening. Really appreciate you joining us,

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Speaker 3: Linda Lake, Lake Research Partners, President and polster. Now we

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Speaker 3: want to get some final thoughts from our political panel,

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Speaker 3: Rick Davis, partner at Stone Cord Capital, and Jeanie Shanzano,

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Speaker 3: political science professor at Iona Universities. We wrap up our

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Speaker 3: Super Tuesday programming here on Bloomberg Television and Radio. Genie,

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Speaker 3: first to you, what really did we learn tonight?

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Speaker 4: I think we learned that Joe Biden has a task

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Speaker 4: And then two days later the State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: And his task is big.

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Speaker 4: That maybe why he didn't come out tonight and speak publicly,

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Speaker 4: and it is to tell the American public not only

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Speaker 4: And you know, he is facing really bad poll numbers

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Speaker 4: out for him. But he has the race that he wanted,

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Speaker 4: and so does Donald Trump. They both wanted to face

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Speaker 1: Eat to be the wet blanket here, but I'm always

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Speaker 1: glad to play that role. We said in New Hampshire

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Speaker 1: it was a late night there, Rick, we said this

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Speaker 1: are saying it again. Did we just waste all that time? No,

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Speaker 1: it's not wasted.

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Speaker 6: I mean it was interesting and we got to see

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Speaker 6: a little bit of fighting.

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Speaker 1: But there's no.

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Speaker 6: Question this was Donald Trump's night. Not only was it

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Speaker 6: he'll finish it off next week. But the reality is

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Speaker 6: that they both of his opponents, Nicky Haley and Joe

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Speaker 6: Biden gave him the night. It was his night to

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Speaker 6: talk and nobody else did so. As Genie said, Biden's

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Speaker 6: got a job to do. On Thursday, that'll be his

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Speaker 6: This is the moment that voters are going to be

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and of course we're can. Genie will be with

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Speaker 3: or not Nicki Haley will still be in this race.

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Speaker 3: We have about ninety seconds left with you two, if

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Speaker 3: you had to put odds by the next time we

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Speaker 3: see you on Thursday on State of the Union night

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Speaker 3: as to whether or not Nicki Haley will still be

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Speaker 1: But oh, I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think, you know, I think it depends

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Speaker 4: on the donors. I mean, I think in this case,

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Speaker 4: you really do have to do what Bloomberg does best

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Speaker 4: follow the money, because she doesn't get out because she's

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Speaker 4: not going to win. She gets out because she can't.

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Speaker 4: She doesn't have the money to go forward. So I

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Speaker 6: I think, yeah, I think that quiet is telling us

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Speaker 6: everything there's there's there'll be no more campaign that has

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Speaker 6: any legitimacy, And if she does, it's only a matter

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Speaker 6: of time before she gets out. And then the question

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Speaker 1: That's spoken from somebody who's been there and had those

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Speaker 1: hard conversations. Well, of course, keep you posted on whatever

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Speaker 1: we're hearing from Nicki Haley's campaigns to Rick Davis and

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Speaker 1: Geanie Shanzano. That does it for us here for now

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Speaker 1: in Washington,