MSNBC's Joe Scarborough applauded Nikki Haley for staying in the Republican presidential primary race in the face of Donald Trump's "meltdown."
Trump easily defeated Haley in New Hampshire, although not by quite as big of a margin as polling suggested, and he lashed out at his remaining GOP challenger after she declared she would face off against him in her home state of South Carolina and possibly beyond.
"I was glad to see Nikki Haley stay in last night," Scarborough said. "There's so many people that have done this halfway measures and been weak. They pretty much assigned themselves to be nothing but Donald Trump's lapdogs for the rest of their political career. For Nikki Haley there's only one way through this. I mean, there's light way down there at the end of the tunnel and the way you do it is you win and you just keep at it, keep going, and maybe you don't win outright, but you win a war of attrition because this candidate she's running against, Donald Trump, more untethered from reality than ever and, let's face it, you know, it's very sad."
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"I saw it in my parents and Nikki Haley saw it in her parents," Scarborough added. "It's just, you know, it's just nature. He's losing more than one or two steps, he gets confused up there. There's no reason why Nikki Haley shouldn't stay in this race, and again, possibly win a war of attrition, and find herself after all of these trials and all of the chaos, find herself as a Republican nominee this summer. That said, Donald Trump is freaking out. He had a meltdown last night, he threatened her. Again, more reason to stay in the race because again, he's more detached and more radical than ever."
President Joe Biden's campaign had been hoping Haley would drop out so they could focus on the contrast between him and the increasingly unhinged former president, and Scarborough said that dynamic showed why she should stick around for now.
"The Biden campaign trying to pretend she's not there, like, they are saying the general election has begun – forget what happened last night, don't listen to what Nikki Haley does," Scarborough said, showing a photo of Trump alongside Haley. "Why? Well, it's very obvious. They want to run against the crazy guy. They don't want to run against -- look at that split screen. Who do you think -- who on this planet of extreme MAGAs thinks Joe Biden wants to run against the woman on the right? Nobody, nobody. Republicans know Donald Trump is the only person on that screen that Joe Biden's going to beat. They know that, that's what makes this so fascinating. Will they be too stupid to vote that way in the upcoming contest? I think they will!"
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