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Hear who Haley supporters would vote for 'with a mouth full of vomit' in a Biden-Trump rematch

CNN's Jeff Zeleny speaks with North Carolina voters supporting Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Super Tuesday and who are dreading another Biden-Trump rematch. Republican strategist and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson and CNN political commentator Karen Finney also weigh in. #CNN #News

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I would vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in a heartbeat. >> What are you doing that with trump with that mountable vomit but I can't vote for Joe Biden Kim brand, and Stacey van grand again, are both voting for Nikki Haley on Tuesday and ding what likely comes next. >> Had a weekend and rally in North Carolina. They watched Haley together but parted ways that the notion of a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump should she not win the nomination? >> What do you do in November cry, >> Br
and, a retired bankers said she'll back Biden banned grant again, a retired consultant said she'll vote for trump again. >> First time I did with joy. Second time I did with my nose pled. But I'll do it again with my nose plug I just can't believe though that that's what we had to choose from. We >> Have to start in the waning days of the primary conversations with Haley voters offer important lessons, perhaps less so for her own candidacy than for trump. >> Biden, or >> Even a third party candi
date in November, if she's not on the ballot at all? I'm voting for Biden because I don't want Donald Trump to be anywhere near my country. >> I've been intrigued for a while now, at the whole notion of it, have a legitimate third party eve, you don't think you need that 30 or 40% of us? You are showing exactly why you're going to lose a general election. >> North Carolina, one in 15 states holding Republican contest. Tuesday is emerging as an early general election battleground. The fast-growin
g suburbs in college-educated voters are in the sites of both parties. As the next chapter of the campaign take shape no, they state is 50, 50. >> Anderson Clayton, his chair of the North Carolina democratic party it's been 16 years since Barack Obama. One here, the last Democrat to do so. Trump's margin of victory has narrowed a little more than one point in 2020 down from more than three points in 2016. >> I job in my opinion and right. Is to go chase every Democrat that from 2008 did not vote
afterwards, did not see themselves represented in this party afterwards. >> Billy ward is vice chairman of the wake county Republican party in Raleigh. He draws a different lesson in the booming population growth. >> We see a lot of people that are moving in because even though they're Democrats, they're frustrated with the way the Democrats had been running their former states, their former cities. And in many ways, the country, the big question is whether the fall election becomes a stark cho
ice with trump or referendum on Biden the economy and more, I think people are ready to go back to what we have four years ago. >> Sir, 3D Jones, Mrs. Trump's policies and said she can tolerate all that comes with it. >> Suburban women are afraid they can't pay the bills. They're having to go back to work at the end of the day. They're worried about personal safety and they're worried about providing for their families, go out and vote on Tuesday as Haley ways, whether super Tuesday will be her
last stand. Supporters like brand and Von grand again, in brace for a long road to November. So when you try and work on each other over the next eight months, or your we value Independence thing. >> So of all the state's voting tomorrow, North Carolina's stands out for what it could mean for the fall. And those Nikki Haley voters are squarely in the middle. Now there's no doubt as you heard, there are some supporters are anti-Trump, but many, many we spoke too, also anti-biden. But Erin, the ou
tcome of this primary could expose trump's vulnerabilities , particularly among college educated voters in those fast-growing suburbs where Biden also has considerable ground to makeup if he wants to turn it into a winning battleground and earn those 16 electoral votes. >> All right, Jeff, thank you very much. Fascinating. >> Everyone could learn from those two women's friendship and finding independent thinking and being able to be friends, such close friends with someone voting the other way.
I'd run now, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Republican strategist and pollster along with Karen finney, the former senior spokesperson for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. >> All right. So Kristen, you just heard those super Tuesday voters telling Jeff that they're intrigued by the idea of a legitimate third party is how they put it. And obviously, no labels that group has said they'd be opened in Nikki Haley leading that ticket. She's publicly rejected it. But she's got a lot of money. I mean, she ju
st raised $12 million in February. So what do you think it would actually due to the race if and I understand it's an if she's currently rejecting, but if she pursued an independent run, what would it do? Kristin? >> If Nikki Haley pursued an independent run, it would really make things challenging for Donald Trump to put together the coalition he would need to win in November. You do not want to go into a general election in these polarized times with a divided party. Now I think it is highly u
nlikely that Nikki Haley, whatever do this, she has a long career in politics. I think she has her sights set on a future Republican nomination, running as an independent would really just sink that particular boat for the long term. But I think if somebody was compelling as an independent, we do see a real dissatisfaction in both major party presumptive Dave, nominees this time around >> Right. And of course, as you point out, when you look at the generational divide and she talks about this ne
w generation, I mean, she is young. She's got a lot ahead of her if she does want to pursue more Republican politics, obviously >> But >> Karen, for those sitting at home, they suddenly say, wait a minute what if there was a ballot choice and it's Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and rfk junior >> What the heck happens >> Donald Trump likely becomes our next president thankfully, no lao-tzu. One thing about no labels. They've said they're interested in hurts my understanding. She's not inte
rested in them and that's smart because that is a slush fund for the two people, the donors who founded it. They've even said their goal is not to win its, to offer a choice. I would just remind people all those women who were bawling when Donald Trump won in 2016 those folks who voted for Jill stein and Gary Jonathan, how D you feel when you found out that trump won so I think that's a history we don't want to see repeat itself. But I think we look as Democrats, we were taking it very seriously
. The potential challenge. I just Ed the one-third other thing I would say about Nikki Haley, though, she is a smart politician and I think she probably knows her future is in the Republican party not as an independent. And if she was seen as a spoiler, that could be a problem. I think she should go out and campaign for other candidates down ballot so Kristen, the context here, of course, is, here's another poll I'd mentioned the New York Times, the beginning of the show. So let me give you the
ap1 now, 80% of independent voters are not confident in Biden's mental capabilities. 56% say the same about trump. I mean, it is overwhelming in terms of people feeling this way about Biden more than they do about trump >> Yet listen to trump this weekend >> Putin has so little respect for Obama that he's starting to throw around the nuclear war terror. You heard that nuclear, the Biden border will, well, you know this right? The Biden border bill did you just see maduro, Venezuela it's unbeliev
able. >> We are a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia we'll repeat will be reducing >> And you know, people pull together these clubs, Kristen, we've all seen them on Twitter, you know, they're trying to make the point that, oh, look at trump, he stumbles, he confuses Pelosi and Haley and he confuses Biden, >> And Obama but why isn't that resonating with voters in the same way that it is with Biden on age >> Well, this has been part of Nikki Haley's message for the last
couple of weeks now, is that it is unfathomable that as a country, this is the choice that we're going to be facing. I think the reason it's hit Biden a little bit harder thus far is that he has stayed more off the radar most of what Americans hear about him are these gaps where for Donald Trump, there's a lot of well, he's just weird. Well, he just says stuff kind of priced into how people already think about him. With that said, I do think that clips like the one you just showed, if that begin
s to at least eliminate some of the advantage trump as over Biden on the who is older and more with it? Question that could be a problem if enough of them accumulate as we get closer to November. >> And Karen Evan osnos just got a rare interview with the president. When you're talking about him appearing more and Evan said he did not see much of a difference in the president physically. And he writes in his article for the new Yorker that he wrote about them this quote is voice is thin and clott
ed and his gestures have slowed, but an hour conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date. That's an honest assessment, right? I mean, no one wants to hear their voice being clotted and thin, but mine seems unchanged. Never bungling a name or a date. Is that bar? Hi enough for voters >> Well, look, I think it's going to play itself out over the coming months. I mean, Americans are going to have to see that for themselves. But I will say as someone who has had worked
for people in Evan osnos profile is no joke. And that's those are tough, long interviews. So that's for those of us know that, that's a positive sign. But again, I think it's going to be more about the president getting out there and talking to people for folks to see for themselves. I will also say though the amount of coverage of Joe Biden and

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@jorgem50

My buddy voted for Biden in 2020 and says this time around he won't vote at all. He bitches about the economy yet he has had raises, bonuses, promotions at work since 2020. He just bought two brand new cars. OH but the economy right? SMFH.

@TheBigStink9268

One of the nice things about Joe Biden is he’s not a sociopath

@w.e.4759

American's loyalty must be to the US Constitution, not the political party. Right is right, wrong is wrong, and 'NO ONE' is above the law.

@steve2070

how much hate do you have to have in your heart to say "i plugged my nose to vote for that guy twice."

@jesseperez4583

These are worried about safety, but they are willing to let a rapist and sexual abuser run loose. Really

@judithmelvin7392

I just don't understand these people who will vote for someone who stands against everything they believe in just because he's in your party.

@ryanmalone2681

Pretty pathetic when being more concerned with one’s career as a politician than the country is just so accepted. Wake up America.

@bozzab369

College education must mean something different in America than the rest of the world. This isn't a hard choice.

@artiefakt4402

4 years ago... Americans were dying in droves because of Trump's crass incompetence, lady...

@ghettorestoration

Love France and the message they sent America. A woman should have the constitutional right to govern her own body. Believe the world is watching, because it is. The world is watching democracy fail and stupid thrive in the most profound way. Never in my lifetime.

@OptimusOne

Unless you're a billionaire, what policies did Trump enact to make our lives better?

@lindaSmith6588

I have Republican friends. The freinship only exists because we don't talk poltics at all. But, I still wonder about them. They are friends with a question mark.

@kellysanchez1000

From Cheney's words to gods ears "We can survive bad policies, we cannot survive a second term of trump".

@ytsux9259

I don't know why the Magas complain so much about the economy when all of my family and relatives are doing great in this economy. 🤷

@Columbiastargazer

Just imagine that some people prefer a failed business man, that stole from a charity, a draft dodging coward, found liable for a sexual assault, a 4 times indicted 91 charged felon… instead of a man with more than 50y as a civil servant, commended for his diplomacy skills and work across the aisle, a man who shows decency, humility, care and respect!

@melanatedone4894

I don’t see how any Woman could Vote for Trump . So he could further erode her rights .

@KleWdSide

"I think we're ready to go back to what we had 4 years ago." Yeah, the pandemic. Good times!!!!! These people are seriously out of their gourds.

@momtur4875

If you have to plug your nose then maybe you shouldn't vote

@carykalscheuer6429

Worst thing about Trump is that he makes me feel like America isn’t Home anymore.

@MrRobot898

Oh no suburban women might have to work? Trump will totally help that as he puts on another 3 trillion in debt.