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00:00 Good day or good evening to you wherever you're watching. Thanks for joining us here on France 24
00:03 We begin in South Carolina where Donald Trump has stormed to another win in the Republican presidential nomination race the former president
00:11 Roundly beating his sole rival Nikki Haley to take his fourth primary win from for Trump boasted a bigger win than expected
00:18 Haley though presented herself as the candidate of unity and said she would not pull out. Take a listen
00:26 And even bigger win than we anticipated and I
00:30 Was just informed that we got double the number of votes that has ever been received
00:38 in the great state of South Carolina, so
00:42 That's pretty good. So it's a record times two and there's something going on in the country
00:48 I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run
00:54 I'm not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden
01:01 When Trump said his win was a measure of how unified the Republican Party has never been more unified
01:09 He said Haley meanwhile said she was the candidate of unity and she was the one who could beat Joe Biden in November
01:16 We're joined now by John Zogby political strategist and pollster founder of the Zogby
01:22 International poll and and what better guest to have to join us after this event. Mr
01:27 Zogby polls show that Nikki Haley has no chance of beating Donald Trump, but she's refusing to give in what is her strategy?
01:34 Her strategy is to stay in as long as she possibly can
01:39 In the belief that Donald Trump cannot win the general election in December and that something
01:47 Extraordinary could happen between now and say the end of the summer that would render him
01:53 not fit or
01:56 You know unable in some way to to carry the torch for the Republican Party
02:01 so she's gonna hang in there and she does have about 40% support of
02:06 Republican primary voters so far not enough to really go anywhere
02:11 But enough money is coming in apparently for her to at least try and to stay in you make illusion
02:18 I gather to potential legal troubles for Trump on the horizon. That's that's one thing that Haley may have her eyes on
02:26 Is she also perhaps looking further ahead towards 2028?
02:31 That could be but it would be a very strange strategy because she's going to need a
02:40 Unified Republican Party. Yes, it's impressive in one respect that she's getting about 40% of the vote
02:47 But that's not enough to
02:49 Present yourself to the same party
02:52 You know four years down the road
02:55 especially when Trump is on the winning side and it does look to a great degree like it's
03:01 Donald Trump's make America great party
03:05 We do talk a lot about the finances of this campaign on both parts. Of course, Nikki Haley's got plenty of cash
03:11 After after the month of January, which was great for her in terms of her campaign campaign contributions Donald Trump
03:18 Potentially some financial trouble for him. He's got hundreds of millions to pay in legal fees and and penalties
03:23 Yes, he does and he has to come up with this money within 30 days now within about 25 days
03:32 Whether he's paying them to you know as the actual fines plus interest or he's paying an escrow
03:39 account
03:41 To hold that money
03:43 You know in case he appeals which he's you know
03:46 likely to do but in any event he's got to come up with that money and
03:51 strangely the biggest problem for for him can be that he uses
03:57 political
03:59 contributions and
04:01 His donor base to raise money because he doesn't have the money and if he is shown to not have the money
04:09 Then a lot of the mystique that Donald Trump has built around himself
04:15 You know may hurt him
04:18 Plenty more we could talk about fortunately we are running short of time
04:22 But thank you for now John's Ogby founder of the zombie international poll great to get your views there
04:28 Thank you