Rivera: I don't think Trump will beat Biden | NewsNation Prime

here at news Nation when I say the oao I mean the one and only and that can only mean correspondent at large Heraldo Rivera so Mr Rivera what do you make of the happenings at South Carolina well I uh find the great mystery of my life Chris is that Donald Trump has managed to convince a majority of the Republican party uh and and a very substantial majority of the Republican party that the big lie is true that he was somehow cheated at the 2020 Victory uh it is uh amazing to me when I think back

to Senator Tim Scott and Senator Lindsey Graham on the night of January 6th uh you know 2021 as the capital was smoldering from the riots uh condemning Donald Trump in no uh uncertain terms and here they are kissing his behind uh I think that uh it's pretty clear that Tim Scott is going to be his vice presidential pick it seems to me uh he's gone so far so effusively uh Nikki Haley I come to cherish her I would vote for her if I if I could if given the chance she's Fierce she's sincere uh she's

a Class Act I like the fact that her husband is serving in a very dangerous uh War Zone in uh in Africa uh you know but in all things considered I thought that she had to do 40% tonight to stay credible uh in this long shot uh candidacy uh she's slightly under that uh does she have her any chance really of uh of sustaining of winning uh I doubt it uh makes it interesting gives us something to talk about uh but uh I I like her a lot she's definitely presidential Timber I covered the uh the Emanue

l Church Massacre 2015 in Charleston she held that state she held the country together uh the way she handled that Massacre of nine black uh parishioners uh she's she's a great lady I don't think she's gonna beat Donald Trump and I don't think Donald Trump's going to beat Joe Biden Chris you say he's convinced uh half the party but you know even though she's not at 40 she's close and the idea that he's running as an incumbent and therefore she should get out of the race because it's over isn't s

he doing too well to get out of the race even though she can't win but the idea that he's blowing her out I mean this is an this is a Party primary with a fringe overweighted voting population right so these are his most Ardent supporters and he's still only winning six out of 10 Ambassador Haley has is playing with house money Chris I she's got so much money in the bank uh 11 12 13 million last I saw plus the super pack fell you had on earlier a similar amount uh you know and you have that kind

of checkbook tendency is you want to spend the money so you stick around and a miracle may happen I mean somebody could drop dead uh keeps talking about how old everybody is I guess that could happen he could go to jail I guess that could happen although I'm opposed to these awful uh uh partisan lawsuits against him and various prosecutions against him uh I think you got to beat him fair and square uh he is the most resilient political player in the history of the country uh you know he uh you

just can't you can't keep him down what whatever is thrown at him and I think that uh the the more uh you know uh trouble he's in it seems to me the more support he gets from the base uh South Carolina to me a very good reflection of the country with the evangelicals overwhelmingly supporting him uh you know and then there's the traditional Republican voters and how they you know like Scott uh you know and like Lindsey Graham how they rationalize his flaws away at least he's better than a Democr

at what about the Border you had that awful murder of a co-ed in Georgia a couple days ago by an illegal immigrant uh so you know that that's a flash point people want that border closed and so on and so forth they don't care about the fact that Trump ordered the Republican party not to press legislation that was agreed upon in a grand compromise that doesn't matter he keeps saying border border uh poisoning the blood of the country uh the all the uh aliens are from prisons and insane asylums uh

you know he's uh he's got the ear of a substantial hunk of the American people and he's going to ride that all the way in November can he beat Joe Biden I don't think so uh but it's going to be very close uh as it was last time uh and I but I am still I'm still baffled by the fact that he could trample on the Constitution of the United States he could uh he could upset the whole orderly constitutional succession that's been the Hallmark of American democracy since our founding he can do all tha

t and still he could win the race he could be the next president of the United States thank you for watching go to newsnation now.com to find newsnation on your television provider and don't forget to click the red subscribe button below to get more of news nation's fact- driven unbiased coverage