'This Week' Transcript 12-17-23: Nikki Haley, Gov. Chris Sununu & Sen. Chris Van Hollen

Interview

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We are all in on Nikki Haley.

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Well, yes. Well, look, no one in -- no one in New Hampshire is going to vote for Nikki Haley just because the governor says so, right? You earn it. I think we've been pretty successful in knowing how to earn it, how to engage with constituencies, what's important to -- not just what the voters want to hear, but how they want to ask the questions. And, most importantly, how are they going to earn the trust with folks? We can all agree on a lot of policies. We want to know that as individuals we come first. And that's exactly what Nikki's bringing to the table.

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Sure.

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We have 40 days. We're going to be out on the trail and we're going to be helping make that grassroots support, helping build folks up. But right now there's so many folks undecided. Everything's been delayed. A lot of the decisions won't be made really until the last couple weeks.

And in New Hampshire, it's all about results. So, if you're results-driven, you want that efficiency in government, here's the path, not just to get the Republican Party unified again, but the entire country. Give them a strong, next generation of conservative leadership that everybody can get behind.

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Well, it's like --

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He does everything he can to not talk about issues.

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He almost acts like he wasn't there, right?

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He doesn't want to talk about building the wall and securing the southern border because he didn't do it. He doesn't want to talk about fiscal responsibility because he made a hard promise that he would do it in that debate. I'm going to be the most fiscally responsible president this country's ever seen, he said.

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Yeah, didn't even try to balance the budget.

And, you know, the thing that -- for someone in New Hampshire where, you know, it's not about big government, we love the idea that he was going to drain the swamp. That was an amazing opportunity. Didn't even try. I mean, literally didn't even try.

So if he talks about those issues, he has to kind of own those failures. So he's always going to talk about retribution and just kind of to spur something up.

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But it -- I think to Nikki's point, it's in the law, right? The court -- the court --

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The courts -- the court's only -- only decision is, is the law -- are they following the law.

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So, I think what Nikki's saying exactly right is --

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And what Nikki's saying is, if -- if there's a problem there, it's in the law. And that's up to the citizens and the lawmakers and the legislature. That's how states do it.

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Oh, it's an absolute win. No, it's a win and a reset button. If everyone that could vote in the primary comes out and votes, not only -- she's going to win in a landslide. And that's not an exaggeration. So, you're going to see a record --

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No, it's not an expectation.

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It's not an expectation. It's people getting excited.

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