Attention. You're listening to the top Huff radio show, America's home for conservative not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host Todd Huff. Yes, my friend's Nicki Haley's out there trying to explain why she lost to literally the candidate of No. One in the Nevada primary, which didn't matter anyway.
Crazy series of events, I tell you what. And she's down thirty seven points to Trump in South Carolina, which is her home state. Talk about that today, along with lots of other things that we have in the news cycle. And you may hear. I've got a bit of what I'm gonna call just a cold here. So bear with me. This is this is rare. This is a rare occurrence. Usually I get this once a year. Oh no, this time. This time it's hit me twice.
So the vocals, I shouldn't be that big of a deal because it doesn't feel that bad. But I do know that I sound a little bit different. But I will make it, my friends, I will make it. Everything is fine, it's just the way that it goes sometimes. So if you want to be part of the conversation today, I welcome you to email or to text this. You can do that by well. Email's Todd at Toddhuffshow dot com. The text the number you can text is three one seven,
two one zero twenty eight thirty. So we talked about this briefly yesterday. Nicki Haley, of course she's you may or may not know this. She's running for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. She is getting just obliterated every time there's a poll, every time there is a caucus or primary. Fact, I'd said before the New Hampshire primary that this was her best chance because she was out there, remember in Novat or excuse me,
in New Hampshire, she was out there recruiting Democrat crossover votes. In fact, exit polling, I'm going from memory here, but we talked about this on this program a couple of weeks ago. Exit data. Exit polling showed that Nicki Haley, the people that voted for her in New Hampshire, seventy percent of them were not previously registered as Republicans prior to the day of the primary, and that was her best chance to get Democrat voters. She
still thinks she's making the case anyway that she's got a chance. Of course she doesn't. I mean, there's a chance, and there's a chance, just like in the movie Dumb and Dumber. You're telling me there's a chance. For those of you that saw that movie, when Lloyd Christmas asked forget her name, Mary Swanson? Is it? That's it? That's pretty remarkable because I don't remember stuff like that. I think that was her name. Though he asked her, what's the chances of a girl like me, of
a girl like me getting with a guy like you? That's what he asked her back when we weren't confused on our gender. That was actually something you could laugh at. She told him one in a million. And instead of being upset by that, instead of being discouraged by that, Lloyd Christmas says, so you're telling me there's a chance, and that is about as good of a chance as NICKI Haley has here in winning the Republican primary. Now
this is not personal for me. We have to talk about this. You step into the political arena, you have effectively agreed to put on your big boy and or big girl pants. It comes with a certain amount of I mean, you open yourself up to criticism and critique, and rightfully so. Now it shouldn't be it shouldn't be hateful, it shouldn't be vile, it shouldn't be personal. But we have to be able to make the point because
this is the most important decision Americans make electorally with their actual vote. Then, well, there's many important I'm not saying there's lots of important roles, but the presidency is a big one, and so you have to be prepared to answer the tough questions. And so she was asked. She was pretty much asked about how she lost to none of the above. It wasn't just that it was a close race either. She lost by more than thirty points,
thirty points to literally no one. People in Nevada chose the option that said we would rather have no one listed here than Nicki Haley. Trump wasn't on the ballot. She didn't lose directly to Trump. Of course, we all know that she did in another sense, of course, But she is out here trying to explain this away. She has to try to explain this
away, and so what does she do. She comes out and she basically sounds like the typical Democrat, the typical leftist, the typical member of the seven pillars of propaganda, trying to persuade people to believe that Trump did something here in nefarious. Trump was the one responsible. Trump rigged the Nevada primary process. According to Nicki Haley, I want you to listen to this, and this is of course rather ironic coming from someone who doesn't like to hear
Trump talk about twenty twenty being rigged, But nonetheless here we go. Nikki Haley being asked about this in an interview, is that situation Nevada hurt a little bit? No, I mean Nevada. It's such a scam. They were supposed to have a primary. Trump rigged it so that the GOP chairman who's been indicted would go and create a caucus. We knew months ago that we weren't going to spend a day or a dollar in Nevada because it wasn't worth it, and so we didn't even count Nevada. That wasn't anything we
were looking at. We knew that was rigged from the start. Our focus is on South Carolina, Michigan Super Tuesday so if you look what we did, and I when you look what we did in New Hampshire, we're continuing to grow. That's what matters. I think people are dropping out what happened this week here you have Republicans lost a major vote on the border, Republicans lost a major vote on Israel. Donald Trump was found that he will not have immunity in all of these court cases coming up. The R and C
chair is fired. All of this chaos is happening around us, and Donald Trump's fingerprints on every bit of it. We can't continue as the Republican Party to go forward with this chaos. You don't defeat Democrat chaos with Republicans in chaos. And that's why we've got to see a change, all right, You don't defeat Democrat chaos, she says, with Republican chaos. And I got a few thoughts on that. Well, first of all, this is a delusional, delusional way of looking at this. It didn't matter, she
said, Look, we didn't spend any money here. She didn't really care about Nevada. She expected, I guess, because she didn't spend any money to lose to no one. Quite. Look, now I'm not saying she lost to No. One. As saying she finished first, I'm saying she actually lost to a general name on the ballot that says none of these candidates. So people selected a nameless, faceless person of No. One over Nikki
Haley. She doesn't think that's a big deal. I don't care. If you didn't spend a nickel in the state, that is a big deal. And by the way, who I mentioned this yesterday? I mentioned this yesterday. So I'm looking here, you know, why did Nicki Haley not participate in the caucus because that is where that is where the elector the excuse me, the delegates are awarded. It's not in the primary results. So why didn't she Why didn't she do that? I mean, I've looked at this.
I didn't know. Did she miss a deadline? Did they sneak this past her campaign? I mean, Trump's the one that's having to deal with people trying to keep him off the ballot, and yet he's finding ways to do this. I mean, I don't think anybody's out there actively opposing the candidacy, meaning the right that Nicki Haley has to run and be on the ballot, so she doesn't have to fight those battles, don't I just what
is what happened here? It seems to me she just chose her campaign chose not to not to participate in the caucus in the caucus instead opting to participate in the primary. I mean Trump got signed up into the caucus. I'm reading this is nbcnews dot Com, so of course take it for what it's worth. Nevada is typically a major, hard fought stop on the path to
the Republican presidential nomination, except this year the fight is off. Nevada Republicans are holding caucuses on Thursday, was yesterday, which we'll be used to allocate delegates to the national convention. Former President Donald Trump is running virtually unopposed. His top GOP opponent, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, didn't put her name on the caucus ballot. She's instead participating in Tuesday's state run primary, which
is mandated under state law but has no delegates at stake. President Joe Biden is on the ballot for the Democratic Party's nomination excuse me, parties primary, which is the party's official contest in the state. And then, of course, this article explains the differences between the caucus and the primary, which I won't get into that, but the bottom line is why, why doesn't tell
me? Why does she make this decision? Hailey is the only major candidate on the state run primary ballot, which again makes her ineligible to win delegates in the state. I mean, it just doesn't. It's like there's no curiosity. I mean, what happened? What is what result? What caused her to not be there? Trump didn't stop her for being there. She instead, she wants to malign an individual who she says has been indicted colluding.
I guess with Trump rigging the election in Nevada for Trump, except miss Haley, you got shellacked by nobody. You got hammered by someone who doesn't even exist. This is Trump wasn't even on your ballot. You couldn't finish first. You lost to none of these candidates literally that option. People said I would rather not have a candidate than have Nikki Haley, and that none of these candidates, effectively, no one, the name no One, the
mythical person of no One, beat you by third points. How is that Trump's fault? How is this rational? How is this logical? How does any of this make any sense? Whatsoever. It doesn't, of course it doesn't. Of course, this is what happens when you have no reason to be running a campaign. And again it's not personal, but my goodness, there's no reason. I have been remarkably consistent on this from the beginning,
and I never thought I would be in this position. When I started this show back in twenty fifteen, I thought I would not be endorsing or making the case for anyone during the primary process. As a general rule of thumb, I followed that. I remember, back in twenty sixteen, I did not, you know. In fact, I remember doing an episode where I
found something positive to say about all sixteen candidates. It was difficult for a couple, but I could find something that I could legitimately say positively about the person. But there was some really good candidates in that mix as well, and I said some good things about all of them. Whoever was there at the time. But this is a different scenario. That was when that was
back before everything happening with Trump happened. That was back before you know, we all knew, or most of us knew, those of us that were paying attention, we knew that there were problems in this country. We knew that the swamp was a mess. We knew that the bureaucratic state was an absolute, just sickening disaster. But I think at least for me, and maybe you knew more than me, but I don't think I understood how bad it was. It was at least twice as bad, maybe ten times as
bad as I thought that it was back then. And to see the reaction to Trump, to see Trump's not just candidate see but also his term as president, the things that he did, his willingness to continue to do, the things that he promised to do. You can disagree with his policies, you can dislike his tweets, but folks, he pretty much did or attempted to do what he said he was going to do. This is remarkably rare in a world where Republican candidates often campaign and fundraise on issues and then never
do anything about them when they have the political power to do so. They are happy getting elected and re elected. They're happy to stuff the coffers full of dollars for future campaigns and so forth current campaigns, but don't actually hold their feet to the father fire. In fact, I actually wrote a little bit about this in this week's column, which went out on Wednesday night. Wednesday Night, well you can get that by free or for free by the
way, at todtefshow dot com. I wrote about this specifically in regards to the southern border because I took talked about how Biden blamed Trump and Maga Republicans for not securing the border, and then of course we did a little bit of a reality check and painted the picture as to how we got to where we were, how many years and decades the border had been basically ignored or was only used as a political, i don't know, talking point shiny object
to get the base riled up about supporting a candidate, and then they did nothing. Those who elected did nothing once they were elected about that issue until Trump and Trump brought with him or pushed with him Republicans that went kicking and screaming. And it's one of the reasons they don't like him, by the way, because he actually forced them to do the things that they were campaigning
to do, and they didn't like it. They didn't like it because they have supporters who candidly look at illegal immigrants as a source of labor, and and that's it, not as human beings created in the image of Almighty God. Fact that instead they look at them as just inexpensive labor. And of course the other side of the owl looks at them as votes. But neither one of them looks at them as really at the core of the parties. They don't look at them as human beings with the rights given to them by
God. Who are individuals who, by the way, we have a right to say how many folks or who comes in, how many come in? We actually have a sovereign border. We should anyway, We don't in reality, but we should, and that's totally legitimate to have that. So it's generally speaking, when you look at these things and you look at who Trump is and what he did politically, it's obvious that he has to finish the job, and we need a deep bench after Trump. But it's after Trump.
It's not in twenty twenty four. Trump needs to win this one in twenty twenty. I've said this for a long long time. Some of you may disagree with that, but most of you do, because Trump is destroying. Anybody who so much pretends or runs half a half hearted campaign against him, they get just obliterated in these primaries. Nikki Haley is going to be next, but again, what is she doing here? Strategically, No one forced her onto the primary ballot. She chose, so far as I can
tell, to be on the primary ballot instead of the caucus. That's not Trump's fault. And it's definitely not Trump's fault that you lost by thirty points, Miss Haley, to none of these candidates and the other people that were on there that people chose, some people chose over you. You beat them, but they were people that have dropped out of the race. Pence was on there. I think was the Santas on there, I don't remember, but Tim Scott I know was were people that aren't even in the race.
Now she beat them. The people were choosing. If you add up the people that chose, none of these candidates or candidates that weren't even on the in the race anymore. She lost. She barely got not she didn't even get a third of the vote. That's not Trump's fault. Trump didn't rig that. Your campaign was unable to convince people to vote for you. That's the bottom line. So she also made a comment that I want to talk about here in the next segment. Or two. As I'm over really long
this segment, but the next couple of segments she made a comment. She made a comment something about just because the Democrat Party is chaotic, we don't need to be chaotic as well. I want to talk about that because I think that's an important thing to understand and have some context on as well. But we'll do that in due course. My friends, sit tight back here
in a minute. Welcome back to my friends. So one of the things Nicky Hate said in that clip I played last segment was basically that we cannot as the Republican Party just because the Democrat Party is in chaos. We cannot. That does not mean that we need to have a party of chaos. Now. First of all, she said that we lost the vote, which I guess she was referencing the board the so called border bill, which again was what I wrote about in this week's column. We've talked about this pretty
extensively in the past few days this week. Whatever that bill was garbage. I don't know if she's defending that bill. I don't know if she's claiming that the bill needed that we missed an opportunity to negotiate a better bill. I don't know what she's really after. But the bottom line is this is, dare I say indisputable. What needs to happen along the border is Biden needs to basically rescind his executive orders, undo the executive action he took that
reversed Trump's action. So basically, if Biden goes in and says, let me wipe from the record all of the things that I have done that are the opposite of what Trump did on the border, let's go back to what Trump was doing. If he simply did that, border security would improve quickly and significantly. Now there may be things, In fact, there definitely are
things that Congress is going to have to deal with at some point. But the first issue is, of course securing the border, stopping the mess that's happening from happening, reversing some of these policies like catch and release, returning some of the policies like remain in Mexico policy, just stopping the madness, just using your brain as you would as a reasonable person. Of course,
they know this, but they choose not to do it. They choose not to do it, and if conditions get bad enough, and they have by the way, they've gotten bad enough to where the average American knows that there's a massive problem on the border. I've said this a lot, and I'll say it again. We've won that issue. We've theoretically, or in the world of discourse, we have one Sanity has won on the issue of border
security. It is one. The problem is. The problem is Republicans have a way, and politicians in general have a way, but particularly Republicans have a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Now I'm under no illusion here. I know that Republicans have They don't have control of the Senate. I know Republicans don't have control of the White House. I understand that. But I also understand that there are people out there that are committed leftists,
committed Democrats who are have had enough of this. You have Mayor Eric Adams in New York City who's basically saying, of course, he's blaming the wrong people. He's blaming, say Governor Abbott or Governor DeSantis for transporting illegal aliens to their state, to their city. I guess in this instance they're upset about this. He's upset about that. But the problem is they're transporting people there because you've established yourself as a sanctuary city. You're the one that
is using this as kind of a virtue signal opportunity. But in reality turns out there are things to consider like price tags and what is feasible and reasonable
for people for a city to be able to do. And there's not an endless amount of money to accommodate massive amounts of people who are currently not working who I mean, there's just a massive amount of problems and stress that this can place on a city, on a state, on a country, and virtue signaling aside at some point, unless you're the federal government and just make up money by the printing press or inflate, you know, use the tools
that allow you to create inflation, which they've done that at record rates as well, unless states don't have that option, and so they're stuck with the realities. They've got to make the sides of the accounting sheep balance and they can't. They can't do that. And so I don't know what Nicki Haley is specifically talking about here. I don't know if she thought it was a failure that this bill didn't pass that even says more about if she's arguing for
this bill. That's even more of a reason not to support her. In case you needed that, I don't. I don't need that. But it doesn't matter anyway. She's not going to be the nominee. But regardless, she makes this comment that just because the Democratic Party is in chaos is acting chaotically, it doesn't mean the Republicans do. So she says that, hey, we've lost this vote. You know, some things happen here that got
out of our control. It's messy. She didn't reference this, I don't believe, But you know, what about the impeachment of Secretary Alejandro my orcis? What about that? That's kind of up in the air causing tumult and turmoil and chaos within the Republican Party. You've got the whole thing with Ronald McDaniel. Is she going to stay or go? What's really going on there? All these sorts of things, Mitch McConnell. You got Ted Cruz calling
for his resignation. And she didn't name these all these things specifically. She named some of them, and she says, we can't beat chaos by ourselves being chaotic. But I look at this differently, and I'm going to talk about that on the other side of the break. But I got to take a break, my friends. Clock is telling me it is time, and I'm going to oblige quick time out back in a minute, yes, my friends, So we are going to talk a little bit about this argument that
Nikki Haley is making that Republicans need to stop the chaos. Trump is chaos. We can't be like the Democrats. We need to have a slow, steady hand at the helm here, and she's going to be able to provide it, even though she's losing in primaries to a candidate named No. One and she's down thirty seven points in her own state. And again, I don't take pleasure with it. I'm just trying to put this into perspective.
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Harvard Gooldgroup dot com promo code Todd. So what about this argument that Nikki Haley is making about the Republican Party not being able or not needing to not be in chaos like the Democrat Party is is in chaos. Well, in the one in one sense, I mean, she's she's right. The Republican Party should not be in chaos. But I question what she really means by that, because what what's happening both in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party
could be called chaotic because there is there's not just control. It's not just a battle of control of the American political system in this country. It's not just a battle between Republicans and Democrats for political prominence and power so that they can push their agenda through. It's there's also two sub fights, I guess within each party. You have the radical left and moderate slash liberal Democrats fighting
one another for control of the Democrat Party. The radical left being the likes of aoc Rasheta Talib, I mean Bernie Sanders been just people who who hate this country as as founded. They think it's an atrocious place. People that would have a really hard time explaining to you why they even why anybody would even want to immigrate here legally or illegally, because of how much they hate and malign this country. They want to fundamentally change this country as founded.
So you have the radical left who wants a fundamental reworking of the whole system. They don't like capitalism, they don't like the constitution, they don't like the Bill of Rights. They don't like this concept that our rights and our liberties come from Almighty God and not from government. They don't like that the Constitution constrains the government. They don't like this idea that basically the individual is paramount in this country. They don't like any of that. They want to
flip all that on its head. They're status they're socialists, they're communists, they're collectivists. Their lovers a big government. They make the rules. You and I shut up and comply, pay our taxes and do what they say
while they live high off the hog, and they ruin our lives. That's basically what they want to do. There's also the regular Democrats, like a union democrat, who it really is, has more in common with me than they would ever even remotely have in common with that person I just described. Teachers, auto workers, people who are conservative in every noticeable way except for
one, and that is that their union. And so they support Democrats because they're afraid Republicans are going to allow the big businessman to take away their income and job and everything else. And there's the liberals who simply, you know, they don't hate this country. They they've never met a social program. They don't they don't like. They think the government should do a little bit, or honestly, a lot more than it should be doing. Government's always
the answer. But they don't hate this country. Those folks are battling for control of the Democrat Party. The same is happening on the Republican side.
The same is happening on the Republican side, where there are conservative constitutional folks, libertarian folks, limited government folks who are fighting kind of the country clubs, the rhinos, the people like the Mitch mcconald's, the Mitch mcconald's who don't find anything wrong with the immigration bill until everything blows up in his face. The Senator Langford's of the world, who's out there defending this piece of
legislation that was an absolute piece of garbage. And there's a lot of these, the Todd Young's, my senator here in the state of Indiana, the Mitt Romney's. There's a lot of them in the Senate, a whole lot of them in the Senate. In fact, the vast majority of them in the Senate are the rhino types, the country club types, those who think, yeah, we're not Democrats, but we're Democrat light. We want to control you, just not as much, just not as much as the left.
We know better than you, but we're not as bold than his brash about it as these leftists. And so there's a fight for control of this and Trump represents that, my friends. For the Republican side, Trump represents. Trump represents the individual who has watched what's happened in Washington, d C. Watched what has happened in the Republican Party for the past number of decades and has either gotten angry or who has completely just given up, thrown up
his hands and said I'm done with this stuff. They're sick of the corruption. They're sick of the campaigning, the promises, they're sick of the fundraising. They're sick of the politics as usual. They're sick of again, all these things they're told that are going to happen if they vote for Republicans, and of course none of these things ever materializing. They care about liberty, They care about a government that stays out of their business, whether personal business
or their business business. If there are people who own small businesses who have to oftentimes with all sorts of crap that comes from the government, not all from the federal government, but some of it, a lot of it. Rules and regulations, filings of things that no one can tell you about, random fines for not meeting some deadline you had no idea about. I mean, this is the list goes on and on, a sink being two inches too low or too high, just silly, ridiculous stuff. They're sick of
the detail. They're sick of the fear mongering. They're sick of politicians telling us what the sea levels are going to be in one hundred years when they can't do the most basic thing, like say, secure our southern border. It makes no sense that you would vote for anybody who can't secure the border, But yet you would trust them and take them at their word that they are taking every appropriate action necessary to make sure that the sea levels don't rise
by twenty feet in one hundred years. Thereby why being out the entire eastern seaboard or whatever, right this does None of this make sense. They're sick of it, they're tired of it, and so there's a battle because candidly, my friends, the rhino types, the country club types, the moderate
types, have run the show for a long long, long time. And so if they're not going to give up power easily, or if they're not going to cooperate with the Trump type Republicans, the conservative type Republicans, the limited government type Republicans, the libertarian type Republicans, what does she think is going to happen. It's going to be chaotic. And I say to this,
you got to bring the chaos on. I'm not wanting it to be chaotic for that sense, just for the sense of it being chaotic, but I'm if it means that the two options are fight the establishment and the rhinos and it'd be deemed to be year termed as chaotic, or sit back and let them continue to drive this party and the country into the ground. Will forgive me for choosing the former. I will choose chaos over whatever you call
the second option every day of the week. Anyway, Gotta take a break with my friends, Sit, sit tight back in a minute, Welcome back
to my friends, you know. In another way of saying what we were saying last at the end of last segment, Trump represents to the to the American who is just absolutely sick, sick of what they've seen their country become, their political system become the Republican Party become Trump represents an opportunity to change that for the first time in forever, in fact, maybe literally their entire lives. Some of these folks, now you can argue and say they're wrong,
You can make the case. I don't see it that way. But from their vantage point, this candidate, the former president Donald Trump, is the only one, the only one that has any real desire to make the changes that people, well, the people that follow him, the people who love this country and see and identify the problems that I would identify. They look at this, They look at him and think this is an obvious choice. Like a lot of times, some of these folks would say, what's
the point in voting? Because I have Candidate A and I've got Candidate B, and they're practically the same. I don't see any difference there. They're not going to make neither one of them. They might say a bunch of things, but I don't see any one of them doing anything about it. So people will just opt out versus And this is also what terrifies the left, the media. Seven pillars of propaganda. This Trump candidacy, the opportunity
to vote for Trump creates voters that didn't the people that became voters. I should say the left creates voters. If I'm allowed to say that, there actually are instances of multiple cases of like elections being rerun because of votering election integrity issues. I'm not allowed to say that, apparently. But anyway, you ever seen the comment that said, when I'm dead and gone, just make sure that I don't vote Democrat. I mean, there's it's funny in
a way because well, there's some truth to it. But anyhow, these Republican, these Trump voters, they were sitting on the sidelines, not even paying attention, just minding their own business, sick of how the politics had been run. And for the first time, now now there they they they'll walk through proverbial fire over broken glass to vote for this guy because they see him as really the last hope. And Nikki Haley kind of points out that
different. She illustrates it pretty clearly. So timeouts in order, my friends sit tight back in just a minute. Yes, I know, I know, I know, the most sad and depressing time of the week for you as we wrap up this busy broadcast week. But my friends, never fear you can always go back and visit the website toddeffshow dot com, listen to anything you may have missed, and I even I don't shame you if you go back and listen to the website or the podcast wherever you would consume a
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