Mar 05, 2024, 22:57

decision desk and now project that former President Trump will win North Carolina in the Republican primary tonight. So another big win. And so far, all the states that we have been able to call have gone for former President Trump. Remember, 1,215 delegates is what he will need. If he runs the table tonight, he will come just short, probably at 1,100. We'll see how it all goes. Depends a lot on California and the winner take all at 169. If that happens, the Trump campaign says it might be March 12th, it might be March 19th, that he can mathematically clinch the nomination. It is 8 p.m. All the polls have closed in five more states. Too early to call all of these. Alabama, there you see Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Former President Trump adding Virginia, as we said, to his scorecard earlier this evening. Bill Hemmer's at the board. You're looking at Vermont. You say that it's interesting in Vermont. But a week and a half ago, you said, we got any drama tonight? Right. And I said, we're gonna find the drama. There is a story in Vermont. I find it very interesting. Too early to call. You got 15% of the vote reporting, okay? Donald Trump's at 50.3%. Why is that important? Because at stake are 17 delegates, but our rule book will tell us this. It's majority take all, which means you need 50% plus one. So if this thing were called right now in Vermont, Donald Trump would take all these delegates, right? Nikki Haley just, she was above that 50% number and dropped down about seven or eight minutes ago. So if you don't get the majority, then it goes by proportion. If you're at a minimum of 20% throughout the state of Vermont. Now, Brett, do not ask me to do this for every state, okay? Because I'm gonna need an encyclopedia, and I'm gonna need a calculator, and I'm gonna, no, I'm gonna need AI is what I'm gonna need. Can you go to North Carolina real quick? Dial that sucker in. Okay, here you are in North Carolina. We've called this race now, okay? Look, the numbers aren't big, but we called a race with 3% reporting. The reason you do that is because you've been in the field and you know what the voters are thinking and how they're reacting. I told you she had to do well in two areas. It seems like early on now she is. That's in Mecklenburg County. That's Charlotte. I mean, paltry numbers right now, but a slight majority there. In Wake County, where Raleigh is located, you got a lot of places of education, higher education, where Nikki Haley seemed to have an appeal. We'll see how this goes right now. I mean, super early, just 845 votes in that tabulation. If we come back out here, okay, you got a lot still on the board, all right, and just hit eight o'clock, Maine just closed. So did Tennessee. I was making the point about 15 minutes ago that in these rural counties in Virginia, when Donald Trump's running up the numbers, we expect to see the same in places like North Carolina and also here in the state of Tennessee, although I just checked this. And so, I mean, it's a gray slate at the moment, but it'll, it'll fill in throughout the night. Let me try and check this in North Carolina and just see if he's getting some of the numbers that I talked about there along this Virginia border. I would expect it to be the case. All right, you're at 76.7, pop over here for more in a person. You're well over 80% there. Another county, Rockingham County, I mean, small numbers here, right, 58 and 12. You don't think much of it, but this is what Donald Trump will do across the country come November. And well, okay, you're up 60% over here, the Tennessee border. All right, that's early. I mean, a two point edge right there along the border with Tennessee. So we're off and going, I'll kick it back to you, but just for, okay, all right, Vermont, you're back at 51.0%. So that could be a critical number as we move throughout the night. All right, we'll head back in moments. Thank you, Bill. So it is 8.03 on the East Coast and we'll bring in Jesse Watters, who is with us. Good to see you, Jesse. Good evening. What do you make of what you've seen so far? Well Brit Hume gave me some advice. He said, Jesse, don't make any more predictions. So I won't be making any more predictions ever. And with Dana's permission, I'd like to make an analogy. Donald Trump is like political helium. He keeps rising and rising and rising. But he's also combustible and everyone's worried about when's he going to pop? Is it going to be sabotage, prosecutors, his big mouth? But so far he's risen above DeSantis, Haley, and he's been beating the pants off of Biden in the polls since Halloween. And there's a few reasons. One is because American people don't like dirty cops. And Joe Biden's gang of lawyers jumped Donald Trump with six on one. They're kicking them, hitting them with raids, with fines, with mug shots. And Americans don't like that. They want to see a fair fight. We can sense that kind of injustice. And the American people have been impressed with how Donald Trump's not only held his own, but he's given it right back to him. So his strength has been impressive. Number two, Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, the oldest, probably the most unpopular president that we've ever seen. And he needs to get it together. And that's not a book plug, although you can preorder it on Amazon if you wish. But he's now experiencing the worst stretch of his presidency since Afghanistan. You've had his own Justice Department say he's too senile to stand trial. Immigration's been dominant. You have Biden migrants now murdering American women. The stench of his son is wafting into the West Wing. And he can't get one ally to fight harder, the other ally to stop fighting. And it's just too expensive and it's too dangerous in this country. And now Donald Trump is harvesting voters from Joe Biden's orchards. He's plucking out blacks, Hispanics, women, young people, putting it in the basket of deplorables and going along his way. And these people are coming willingly. Because if you policy, the contrast is so stark compared to what it was a couple years ago. I just went out to get Jesse Jr. a birthday present. I wanted to get him a play gym. And I looked at the price tag of the play gym, Brett, and I passed out. And when they picked me up off the floor, they said plastic and lumber prices have tripled in the last couple of years. So now I'm basically paying for a second home to put in my backyard. And all it has is a slide and a swing set. And I'm just gonna maybe just buy him a stick and tell him it's magic instead. It's too expensive. It's too dangerous. And the Republican Party is now more unified than the Democratic Party. And the Democrats are the ones on defense, having to answer for Joe Biden, having to answer about the border. They're trying to give the guy advice. And they're trying to tell him he might have to drop out. The Republican Party, for the first time I've seen in many, many years, is not constantly having to defend Trump controversies. And that's unifying the party. And if they can stay unified, I think they have a good shot at winning the White House. You know, Jesse, you've spent a lot of time talking about the president and his own party having trouble with concerns about his age and mental fitness. He's upside down with independence on the border, on crime, on the economy. And we heard from Michelle Obama's staff today that she officially is not running for president. She is supporting President Biden and Kamala Harris. You've said maybe there's another shoe to drop in the Democratic Party. You still think that's true? I'm so glad you asked me that question, Brett, because if you read between the lines, she's not saying she wouldn't agree to be drafted at the convention in Chicago, her hometown. She's saying she's not running for president. So there is a chance. And I'm not just saying that to titillate the audience, or maybe I am. But I personally, if I was Michelle Obama, I would not want to go anywhere near the White House, have a great life. And I wouldn't want Barack telling me what to do. Well, you know, I mean, I think that Wow is right, Martha. Wow. That's all I can say, Jesse. Just, you know, wisdom oozing out. So tell me something, you know, what do you think the plan would be? Right. So when you look at these numbers that are extraordinary, as Brett just pointed out, Biden is down 31 points, 47 points, 25 points. These are with independents down 43 points and unifying the country. So is there any suggestion that they are genuinely looking for a plan B when they look at the way Trump is rolling up these states and they look at the national polls that we got from New York and New York Times, Sienna? There aren't any party elders that can come in and tell Joe it's time to go. Joe is the only party elder left. And you know, you reach a certain age, you're stubborn. You're not going to just do what someone tells you to do. His wife's in it to win it. His son's in it to win it. And he feels like he's been able to beat Donald Trump before and he'll do it again. You go into someone at that age, his house, and you try to adjust their thermostat and it's World War Three. Nothing can change. He's decided he's going to stick with it. And if he loses, it's probably better for the Democratic Party to lose with Joe Biden than to switch things out in a chaotic convention, leapfrog Kamala Harris, first black female vice president, and install a straight white male, Gavin Newsom, that could get licked by Trump himself when he could just keep his powder dry for four years and run in an open primary. Well, Jesse, we appreciate the commentary and the use of the eight o'clock hour. It's my gift to you, Brett. Don't abuse it. All right. Final predictions for tonight. Is former President Trump going to rack up all these states 15 in a row? And when do you think he mathematically clinches the nomination? Well, that would go against the Brit Hume advice, so I'm just going to zip my mouth and say good luck. All right, sir. Good luck with the playhouse. The playground. I mean, that's a big deal. I'll pitch in. You have some building to do. Thank you very much. We need all the help we can get. Thank you, guys. Well, listen, we've got some calls. First of all, the president, President Biden, is going to win in Alabama. But we can now project that former President Trump will win the Alabama Republican primary. And the Fox News decision desk can also project that President Biden will win. He's also going to win Alabama. He is. Did we mention that? Twice he's going to win Alabama. We can also project that former President Trump will win Tennessee's Republican contest tonight as well. We're getting there. There it is. Alabama, 82 percent. It's early on, but we'll call that. The Fox News decision desk, again, will say that former President Trump can win Tennessee and President Biden. You know what? They're just going to. They're winning a lot of different states. Tennessee. Alabama. And then President Biden with Alabama. We're going down, ticking it one by one. But there are no surprises here in either of these calls, Alabama, Tennessee, Biden and Trump. And what's setting up is a general election battle that we expect to see. We're adding a new panel, though. Yeah, it's just like magic. We have swapped out our panel and we have some big stars and wonderful brains to speak with you. Larry Kudlow is here. Kellyanne Conway, Jessica Tarlow and Trey Gowdy. It's great to have all of you with us this evening. You know, Larry, let me start with you, if I may. When you look at this situation across the country, right, this Lake and Riley young woman lost her life in Georgia. There's a bill that is being moved through the House to work to make the country safer essentially from the infusion of violent criminals who are carrying out the crimes like the one that was against her. How powerful do you think that story is for people as they look forward to this? I think it's an explosive story. I mean, I think the the larger issue is an explosive issue and may become the most important issue, the border ahead of the economy and inflation. Very good chance of that. I think at this particular moment in time, it could well be I mean, it's showing up in some of the polls. I think the death of this beautiful young woman is an equally explosive issue and an infuriating issue. And one that has made many Americans angry who don't understand why even at this point, nothing is done to close the border. OK, and I want to make a point there. I mean, we've done the research on this. There are several congressional laws signed by prior presidents going back to Bill Clinton that gives any president the authority to stop people at the border and to deport criminals back to wherever they came from. And the fact that President Biden has been unable to do this, he has been unable to take any actions in the light of what has happened to this beautiful woman and many others also is to me baffling, infuriating, and it has become an explosive issue. It has become the number one issue. And you know, Trump has a good record on this, a very good record on this. Biden undid this record. This is not going to go away anytime soon. You both worked for the former president. Kellyanne, what do you look for tonight? I think Trump has had as good a three or four day period as he has in a long time, beginning with the four consecutive polls from very different outlets over the weekend, all showing the dominance against Joe Biden head to head with the real dominance on who do you trust to handle the issues? And who has improved the economic situation of your family versus hurt it for for a sitting president Joe Biden to have only 18% of those polled saying that he has helped them financially is pretty remarkable. That means that there's tripartisan support. You've got majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents all saying it's either the same or in most cases it's hurt. Then Monday you have a unanimous Supreme Court decision. Then today he's going to have a sweep of Super Tuesday. I think Trump looks unflappable and these swing states look unflippable. And I think it brings us to a couple of questions, which is when you look at all the poll results so far, people made up their mind last year. And that is pretty remarkable. You have people who have said from the beginning, I want if it's going to be biting and Trump are going to focus on that now the way he has focused on it. And it means that he's able to speak with general election parlance on most things like the border. You have Donald Trump 2015 elevating into the national consciousness when it's mired in single digits. This is him saying, folks, eight and a half million people have just walked in. The fentanyl is the number one killer of 18 to 45 year olds, 24,000 Chinese nationals. Who are they? What are they doing? Why are they here? The border has become a proxy for American voters who live thousands of miles away from the southern border for the economy, for fairness, for sovereignty and for security. Jessica, we're not going to hear from President Biden tonight. He does have the spotlight Thursday for the State of the Union address. Do you think the warning bells are loud and clear for Democrats and in the Biden campaign about what Kellyanne is talking about here on immigration and on these numbers? Absolutely. I think the last three weeks or so have been bullhorn level alarm bells that have gone off, really starting with Ezra Klein's essay about why he thinks that Joe Biden should retire a hero and that we should find someone else at a contested convention. I happen to not think that that is the safe way to go with this because you're going to end up nominating someone who hasn't been battle tested. But you could see how seriously Joe Biden is taking it in the conversation that he had for the New Yorker piece, a huge profile on him, where he's defending him staying in the race. Not only does he say, no, I never considered getting out. He says, point blank, I'm the only one that's beaten him and I'll be the one to do it again. And that is what Democrats want to hear from him. But having been now with you very fine people for a few primaries and a caucus, I really hope that the Biden campaign is looking at the results, especially the exits on the Republican side as a roadmap for what the campaign has to look like. Because the Biden coalition is very different from the Obama coalition. It has changed. It's more back to what it looked like in the 90s for Bill Clinton when you brought together moderate Republicans and independents and liberals. He doesn't have to be as concerned about lefty progressives. I mean, I hope for everyone's sake that the hostages are returned out of Gaza and we don't even have to think about what's going on in Israel like we do right now. But I'm not that worried about far lefties there. Maybe a few set it out, but they're not going to switch over for Donald Trump. I'm concerned about Nikki Haley's voters. So you look at the exits for GOP voters tonight who won't guarantee their vote for the nominee. North Carolina, 35 percent, Virginia, 36 percent, California, 33 percent. That has been consistent, that there's 30 to 50 percent of people who don't want Donald Trump but identify as a Republican or voting in that primary. How can Joe Biden and his team make the case? Talk about some of the things, of course, you talk about on your show, Larry, about the economy to up those optimism numbers, which are going in the right direction. And there's always a lag from results to how you feel about it. To talk about immigration, clearly he wants to. That bipartisan border deal is going to be a big deal at the State of the Union and other non-traditional Democratic issues. Coming home is really the question. Yes, yes. Or staying home. I want to bring Trey in here because you're from South Carolina. Nikki Haley is going to have decisions to make. She could potentially forge some kind of arrangement with President Trump to help bring those voters to him. How do you see this playing out? If indeed she drops out, which we don't know whether or not she's going to do that. The speed with which she drops out determines what kind of conversation the former president would have with her. I mean, the talk has been pretty vitriolic, even by political standards and the comments about dresses and your supporters need not apply. When you called Alabama, Brett, the first thing I thought of, of all the things in the world to think about, was Jeff Sessions. So if I, your first major cabinet position, you would tell us, you would admit you botched. So if we are moving to the general election, to your point, what do we do to get people who are apprehensive about President Trump to come home? So when you're winning, act like you're winning. Tell jokes. Don't comment on what people have on. Don't call people birdbrain. The other thing I would do is say, look, you're worried about chaos. Don't worry about chaos with my second term. This is what my cabinet would look like. If I'm President Trump, I am magnanimous, like he was when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled his way. He said, look, use the ballot, not ballot bands. Use the people, not prosecutors. That was a conciliatory general election speech. If he can keep doing that, I think he's got a real shot. Today on Fox News, we need to unify the party. And among independents, Biden is seen as unifying the country, 20% mostly succeeded, 75% mostly failed. It's Trump saying this morning on Fox News, Nick, I hope that we can unify the party. Can I just look at the New York Times Siena poll, OK? Of those who voted in 2020 for Trump, 97% intend to support him this year, 97%. What's left over there is what, I don't know, the Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain, may he rest his soul in peace kind of thing. When you look at the Democratic side of those voted for Joe Biden in 2020, only 83% intend to vote for him, according to the Times Siena poll. So I would suggest that Mr. Biden has a bigger problem unifying his party than Mr. Trump does. If Trump goes into this working class coalition, which is African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, even women, even young people now, I think he's the one that's encroaching into Democratic territory. 10% of that Biden vote said they want to support Trump, yes, 10% of them. Well, we're going to make some calls. The Fox News decision desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Oklahoma Republican primary. And the Fox News decision desk projects that President Biden will win the Oklahoma Democratic primary. There we go. And also President Biden wins Maine. This is a theme here. We're just going to keep turning. President Biden wins Massachusetts. And we are counting down to a new set of poll closings that are coming up, including several states hit hard by the migrant crisis, how that issue could impact the vote. Sean Hannity on that and more as our special coverage continues. Place my pants with Nikki Haley. So I don't want people to be fooled that Nikki Haley and Donald Trump weren't odds or weren't allies before all this happened. I think one one important thing to note for Nikki Haley, who did have a big event sponsored by Charlie Kushner, Jared's father, at his beach house for her and where he announced she'll be the first female president, I think he meant sometime down the road, I'm sure. But I when I look at Nikki, the more she's attacked Trump personally, the more her unfavorables have climbed. She's somebody who is seen as middle of the road unifier. Women are often seen as consensus builders, great negotiators, generally interested in what the other side thinks and how to come to a deal. And I feel like the Nikki I know has been going in the opposite direction. So I'm hoping very soon she'll come back. I'd love to see her at Mar-a-Lago talking to President Trump, figure out a way to bring some of those voters back in the fold. But if you're a close personal friend of the first daughter and her husband, I would think that you're not too far afield from coming back into the former president. You both work with him. Is he in that mindset? Do you think bring her back in? He could be and I think he will be. He's a very smart guy. He's a very good negotiator. He understands how important it is to unify the party and then some because he's going to edge into the Democratic Party. But the mistake that Nikki Haley is making, besides the ones that Kellyanne mentioned, she's actually out there blaming the Republican Party. She's now running against the Republican Party. The Republican Party is Donald Trump's party. As I said earlier, it's not the party of college professors and elites and Silicon Valley billionaires. It's a party of working folks. And he's building this broad based coalition around that theme. And they want to have a better economy. They want to have safer streets. They want to have a safer border and restore America overseas. She can't just run against the entire Republican Party and then hope to be welcomed back into the fold. That's a big mistake she's made in the last four or five, six weeks. Now, can that be patched up? Of course it can. I'm old enough or I'm of a certain age to remember that John F. Kennedy got it back with Lyndon Baines Johnson. And I've seen even weirder things in the Republican. I used to be a Democrat, by the way. I've seen even weirder things in the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as well. Our Fox decision desk getting ready to make some new race calls as the Super Tuesday polls close. The special coverage continues live from New York next. And we can project that former President Trump will win Maine's Republican primary tonight. The Fox News decision desk believes we do have a very close race in Vermont. Nikki Haley is performing well in suburban areas as expected. The former president dominating rurally. Haley actually has a chance to win her first state of the primaries here. She did win the District of Columbia over the weekend. Let's head over to Bill Hemmer at the board. This is a barn burner in Vermont. And indeed it is. Yeah. With a capital B at the moment. Remember, we did the the keys of this race right now with the 17 delegates up in the right hand corner. If you get majority take all. So if you get to 50 percent plus one, you get all 17 delegates. The last time we checked in on this, Donald Trump had a slight lead. But look what Nikki Haley is doing now. It's about one hundred and thirty four votes. Significant difference. Point six percent right now in the state of Vermont. You scan the country tonight right in the Super Tuesday. A lot of people thought Nikki Haley had a chance in Virginia. That has not happened. A lot of other people thought she had a chance in Vermont. It's possible right now if she hangs on to this slight edge right here that she would get some delegates and also get a state victory. So as we come out here, this is everything we're doing on Super Tuesday. And it might be Vermont might be her best chance to win a state during this primary season. So standby. More coming up on that. Definitely. And we're tracking the delegates as well. Let's bring in Karl Rove now, Carl Super Tuesday. You've been through a lot of them. What are your thoughts on this strong night for Donald Trump? We've got the big enchiladas yet to come in the form of Texas and California. But I wouldn't be surprised if given what he's doing in the rest of the country, he didn't take California, where if you get 50 percent plus one, you take all of the delegates. So a very good night for him. And it's all likelihood his campaign's projection that they're going to win a majority of the delegates by either the by later in the month, the 19th at the latest is probably accurate. Having said that, the high command of Team Trump ought to be concerned about unifying the Republican Party, because as we see in the in these states, a third of the vote in Virginia, 43 percent of the vote in Massachusetts going to Nikki Haley, a quarter of the vote in North Carolina. Maine is now dropped down to about a quarter of the vote, but it was 31 percent for Nikki Haley, Vermont, 48 percent. There's still some work to be done to unify the Republican Party. And that's going to depend a lot on his tone tonight and whether or not he stops doing things like calling her bird brain and threatening that if you give money to her campaign, you're going to be permanently banned. And we'll see how he does tonight. He did well in Iowa with his victory statement, unifying, humble, gracious, not so good in New Hampshire. And tonight is going to be the big night. And he's going to set an important tone for either a unified Republican Party or a divided Republican Party. Carla, I remember the night that Ron DeSantis dropped out and he endorsed former President Trump. And quickly, I spoke with the former president that night in New Hampshire and he said, well, you know what? I'm glad to hear it. I'm glad for the endorsement. I you know, can you mend fences? Yeah, probably, probably. We all see a lot of very dirty political language that flies around, and it's maybe more so now than it ever has been in the past. But what do you think he needs to do to unify the party besides, you know, giving a nice speech? I mean, you know, literally in terms of where he goes and who he says he will work with. How does that look? Yeah. Well, first of all, stop the bad language, because you're right. Ron DeSantis offered his endorsement. President Trump had kind words to say for him. Then there was a leaked report of supposedly DeSantis off the record saying things in a private meeting that were disparaging of the former president and the president's co-campaign manager, a terrific guy, a personal friend of mine, went out and said, all we're going to remember about Governor DeSantis is chicken fingers and pudding lips. And that's just not the way to go about doing it. J.D. Vance, one of the former president's big surrogates, put out a statement saying, if you are not being supportive of Trump and his endorse and the candidates he endorses, don't bother showing up on my doorstep and asking me to help you on legislation. I have a long memory. Well, that's the kind of thuggish thing that most politicians, even if they believe in keeping enemies lists, they don't go out and say it in a tweet. And yet that was one of the president's, the former president's strong supporters, the senator, junior senator from Ohio. That stuff has got to stop. The presidential candidate sets the tone for good or for ill. It's up to him to be the one who's gracious, who's the adult, who does everything he can to unify. Because in 2020, one out of every 10 Republicans broke for Joe Biden and Donald Trump lost by 7 million votes. If 20 percent or 15 percent or 12 percent of Republicans break, that that's not going to be helpful to him in the fall. So he's got to set the tone. And the best way to do that is to start out tonight. Carl, really quickly, this is a primary. There's still opponent here. There's a candidate in the race. When you get to a general election, obviously, you know there are two candidates and it's it's a choice. And in independence, President Biden is down on helping the working class, improving the U.S. world image, handling the economy, making U.S. safer, improving border security, unifying the country. Decision desk can now project that former President Trump will win North Carolina in the Republican primary tonight. So another big win. And so far, all the states that we have been able to call have have gone for former President Trump. Remember, 1215 delegates is what he will need if he runs the table tonight. He will come just short, probably at 1100. We'll see how it all goes. Depends a lot on California and the winner take all at 169. If that happens, the Trump campaign says it might be March 12th, it might be March 19th that he can mathematically clinch the nomination. It is 8 p.m. All the polls have closed in five more states. Too early to call all of these Alabama. There you see Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Former President Trump adding Virginia, as we said, to his scorecard earlier this evening. Bill Hemmer's at the board. You're looking at Vermont. You say that it's interesting. I mean, but a week and a half ago, you said we got any drama tonight. Right. So we're going to find the drama. There is a story in Vermont. I find it very interesting. Too early to call. You got 15 percent of the vote reporting. OK. Donald Trump's at 50.3 percent. Why is that important? Because at stake are 17 delegates. But our rulebook will tell us this. It's majority take all, which means you need 50 percent plus one. So if this thing were called right now in in Vermont, Donald Trump would take all these delegates. All right. Nikki Haley, just she was above that 50 percent number and dropped down about seven or eight minutes ago. If you don't get the majority, then it goes by proportion. If you're at a minimum of 20 percent throughout the state of Vermont now, Brett, do not ask me to do this for every state, OK? Because I'm going to need an encyclopedia and I'm going to need a calculator and I know I'm going to get a. All right. So North Carolina dial that sucker in. OK, here you are. North Carolina. We've called this race now. OK, look, the numbers aren't big, but we called a race of three percent reporting. The reason you do that is because you've been in the field and you know what the voters are thinking and how they're reacting. I told you she had to do well in two areas. It seems like early on now she she is. That's in Mecklenburg County. That's Charlotte. I mean, paltry numbers right now, but a slight majority there in Wake County where Raleigh is located. You've got a lot of places of education, higher education where Nikki Haley seemed to have an appeal. We'll see how this goes right now. I mean, super early, just eight hundred and forty five votes in that tabulation. If we come back out here, OK, you've got a lot still on the board. All right. And just hit eight o'clock. Maine just closed. So did Tennessee. I was making the point about 15 minutes ago that in these rural counties in Virginia, Donald Trump's are running up the numbers. We expect to see the same in places like North Carolina and also here in the state of Tennessee, although I just checked this. And so, I mean, it's a gray slate at the moment, but it'll it'll fill in throughout the night. Let me try and check this in North Carolina and just see if he's getting some of the numbers that I talked about there along this Virginia border. I would expect it to be the case. All right. You're at seventy six point seven pop over here for more in a person. You're well over 80 percent there. Another county, Rockingham County. I mean, small numbers here, right. Fifty eight and twelve. You don't think much of it, but this is what Donald Trump will do across the country come November. And OK, you're up 60 percent over here. The Tennessee border. All right. That's early. I mean, a two point edge right there along the border with Tennessee. So we're off and going. I'll kick it back to you, but just just for. OK. All right. Vermont, you're back at fifty one point zero percent. So that could be a critical numbers. We know. All right. We'll head back in moments. Thank you, Bill. So it is eight oh three on the East Coast and we'll bring in Jesse Waters, who is with us. Good to see you, Jesse. Good evening. What do you make of what you've seen so far? Well, Brit Hume gave me some advice. He said, Jesse, don't make any more predictions. So I won't be making any more predictions ever. And with Dana's permission, I'd like to make an analogy. Donald Trump is like political helium. He keeps rising and rising and rising. But he's also combustible. And everyone's worried about when's he going to pop? Is it going to be sabotage prosecutors, his big mouth? But so far he's risen above DeSantis, Haley, and he's been beating the pants off of Biden in the polls since Halloween. And there's a few reasons. One is because American people don't like dirty cops. And Joe Biden's gang of lawyers jumped Donald Trump was six on one. They're kicking him, hitting them with raids, with fines, with mug shots. And Americans don't like that. They want to see a fair fight. We can sense that kind of injustice. And the American people have been impressed with how Donald Trump's not only has held his own, but he's given it right back to him. So his strength has been impressive. Number two, Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, the oldest, probably the most unpopular president that we've ever seen. And he needs to get it together. And that's not a book plug, although you can preorder it on Amazon if you wish. But he's now experiencing the worst stretch of his presidency since Afghanistan. You've had his own Justice Department say he's too senile to stand trial. Immigration's been dominant. You have Biden migrants now murdering American women. The stench of his son is wafting into the West Wing. And he can't get one ally to fight harder, the other ally to stop fighting. And it's just too expensive and it's too dangerous in this country. And now Donald Trump is harvesting voters from Joe Biden's orchards. He's plucking out blacks, Hispanics, women, young people, putting it in the basket of deplorables and going along his way. And these people are coming willingly. Because if you policy, the contrast is so stark compared to what it was a couple of years ago. I just went out to get Jesse Jr. a birthday present. I wanted to get him a play gym. And I looked at the price tag of the play gym, Brett, and I passed out. And when they picked me up off the floor, they said plastic and lumber prices have tripled in the last couple of years. So now I'm basically paying for a second home to put in my backyard. And all it has is a slide and a swing set. And I'm just gonna maybe just buy him a stick and tell him it's magic instead. It's too expensive. It's too dangerous. And the Republican Party is now more unified than the Democratic Party. And the Democrats are the ones on defense, having to answer for Joe Biden, having to answer about the border. They're trying to give the guy advice. And they're trying to tell him he might have to drop out. The Republican Party, for the first time I've seen in many, many years, is not constantly having to defend Trump controversies. And that's unifying the party. And if they can stay unified, I think they have a good shot at winning the White House. You know, Jesse, you've spent a lot of time talking about the president and his own party having trouble with concerns about his age and mental fitness. He's upside down with independence on the border, on crime, on the economy. And we heard from Michelle Obama's staff today that she officially is not running for president. She's supporting President Biden and Kamala Harris. You've said maybe there's another shoe to drop in the Democratic Party. You still think that's true? I'm so glad you asked me that question, Brett, because if you read between the lines, she's not saying she wouldn't agree to be drafted at the convention in Chicago, her hometown. She's saying she's not running for president. So there is a chance. And I'm not just saying that to titillate the audience, or maybe I am. I personally, if I was Michelle Obama, I would not want to go anywhere near the White House, have a great life. And I wouldn't want Barack telling me what to do. Well, you know, I mean, I think that. Wow is right, Martha. Wow. That's all I can say, Jesse. Just, you know, wisdom oozing out. So tell me something, you know, what do you think the plan would be? Right. I mean, you look at these numbers that are extraordinary, as Brett just pointed out. Biden is down 31 points, 47 points, 25 points. These are with independents down 43 points in unifying the country. So is there any suggestion that they are genuinely looking for a plan B when they look at the way Trump is rolling up these states and they look at the national polls that we got from New York and New York Times, Siena? There aren't any party elders that can come in and tell Joe it's time to go. Joe is the only party elder left. And you know, you reach a certain age, you're stubborn. You're not going to just do what someone tells you to do. His wife's in it to win it. His son's in it to win it. And he feels like he's been able to beat Donald Trump before and he'll do it again. You go into someone at that age's house and you try to adjust their thermostat and it's World War III. Nothing can change. He's decided he's going to stick with it. And if he loses, it's probably better for the Democratic Party to lose with Joe Biden than to switch things out in a chaotic convention, leapfrog Kamala Harris, first black female vice president, and install a straight white male, Gavin Newsom, that could get licked by Trump himself when he could just keep his powder dry for four years and run in an open primary. Well, Jesse, we appreciate the commentary and the use of the eight o'clock hour. It's my gift to you, Brett. Don't abuse it. All right, final predictions for tonight. Is former President Trump going to rack up all these states, 15 in a row? And when do you think he mathematically clinches the nomination? Well, that would go against the Brit Hume advice, so I'm just going to zip my mouth and say good luck. All right, sir. Good luck with the playhouse. The playground. I mean, that's a big deal. I'll pitch in. You have to build it to do. Thank you very much. We need all the help we can get. Thank you, guys. Well, listen, we've got some calls. First of all, the president, President Biden, is going to win in Alabama, but we can now project that former President Trump will win the Alabama Republican primary. And the Fox News Decision Desk can also project that President Biden will win, whoa, he's also going to win Alabama. He is. Did we mention that? Yeah. Twice he's going to win Alabama. We can also project that former President Trump will win Tennessee's Republican contest tonight as well. We're getting there. There it is. Alabama, 82 percent. It's early on, but we'll call that. The Fox News Decision Desk, again, will say that former President Trump can win Tennessee and President Biden. You know what? They're just going to they're winning a lot of different states, Tennessee. There you go. And then President Biden with Alabama. We're going down, ticking it one by one. But there are no surprises here in either of these calls, Alabama, Tennessee, Biden and Trump. What's coming up is a general election battle that we expect to see. We're adding a new panel, though. Yeah, it's just like magic. We have swapped out our panel and we have some big stars and wonderful brains to speak with you. Larry Kudlow is here. Kellyanne Conway, Jessica Tarlow and Trey Gowdy. Great to have all of you with us this evening. You know, Larry, let me start with you, if I may. When you look at this situation across the country, right, this Lake and Riley young woman lost her life in Georgia. There's a bill that is being moved through the House to work to make the country safer, essentially, from the infusion of violent criminals who are carrying out the crimes like the one that was against her. How powerful do you think that story is for people as they look forward to this? I think it's an explosive story. I mean, I think the the larger issue is an explosive issue and may become the most important issue, the border ahead of the economy and inflation. Very good chance of that. I think at this particular moment in time, it could well be I mean, it's showing up in some of the polls. I think the death of this beautiful young woman is an equally explosive issue and an infuriating issue and one that has made many Americans angry who don't understand why even at this point, nothing is done to close the border. OK. I want to make a point there. I mean, we've done the research on this. There are several congressional laws signed by prior presidents going back to Bill Clinton that gives any president the authority to stop people at the border and to deport criminals back to wherever they came from. And the fact that President Biden has been unable to do this, he has been unable to take any actions in the light of what has happened to this beautiful woman and many others also is to me baffling, infuriating, and it has become an explosive issue. It has become the number one issue. And you know, Trump has a good record on this, a very good record on this. Biden undid this record. This is not going to go away anytime soon. You both worked for the former president. Kellyanne, what do you look for tonight? I think Trump has had as good a three or four day period as he has in a long time, beginning with the four consecutive polls from very different outlets over the weekend, all showing the dominance against Joe Biden head to head. But the real dominance on who do you trust to handle the issues and who has improved the economic situation of your family versus her did for it for a sitting president, Joe Biden to have only 18 percent of those polled saying that he has helped them financially is pretty remarkable. So it means that there's tripartisan support. You've got majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents all saying it's either the same or in most cases it's hurt. Then Monday you have a unanimous Supreme Court decision. Then today he's going to have a sweep of Super Tuesday. I think Trump looks unflappable and these swing states look unflippable. And I think it brings us to a couple of questions, which is when you look at all the poll results so far, people made up their mind last year. And that is pretty remarkable. You have people who have said from the beginning, I want if it's going to be Biden and Trump are going to focus on.