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Angry Trump Supporters Chase Nikki Haley Into Elevator At CPAC - Ring of Fire
According to multiple reports, following her speech at CPAC this past weekend where she took several shots at Donald Trump, a group of angry Trump supporters ended up heckling Nikki Haley, forcing her and her staff to make an immediate exit to an elevator. CPAC has truly become a massive Trump rally, but the attendees at the event aren't exactly representative of the country as a whole, and that should always be kept in mind. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
I don't wanna spend too much time anymore talking about cpac. I don't even like talking about it when it happened. But there is one story that I, I, I have to hit on before CPAC disappears from the headlines. And that is a story that emerged that says that Nikki Haley and her staff, after she gave her speech at cpac, where she did take a couple veiled shots at Trump, she was actually chased into an elevator by a crowd of angry Trump supporters who were chanting, uh, we love Trump. We love Trump. So here's what happened. Nikki Haley finishes her speech. She goes backstage, she's in the hallways, she's shaking hands, I guess she's probably signing some autographs too. And suddenly her and her folks are confronted by a group of angry Trump supporters, which is pretty much most of cpac. So they wanted to get out of the situation.
They turn around, they start heading towards the door, the Trump group is following them. So I guess they kind of pick up the pace a little bit, run into an elevator, all the while they're getting yelled at by these Trump supporters because Nikki Haley is running against Donald Trump. This is what the 2024 election is. At least the Republican primary is going to be about. We are going to see more hoards of angry Trump supporters chasing down and trolling all of these other Republican wannabees. And for Trump it works. He wants his people out there. He wants them chasing these folks down. He wants them proclaiming their love for him to these other candidates who he believes have no chance whatsoever of winning. And maybe he's right, maybe he's not. We'll see what happens when the voting actually starts. But CPAC as one conservative radio host who was at cpac, put it is Trump Pack.
Here's what he said. This is from John Fredericks, a pro-Trump talk radio host, uh, who was broadcasting from cpac. He said, remember, you're not at cpac. You're at tpac. We own this thing. It's ours. No Trump, no cpac. Which is funny cuz it's actually existed before Trump burst onto the political stage. So that's kind of in an accurate statement. Now, has it morphed into TPAC instead of cpac? Absolutely. There is no doubt about it. Let's not forget a year or two ago they wheeled in that golden statue of Donald Trump that that's a bit over the top. Also a little bit sacrilegious there. I mean, I seem to remember a story in the Bible that almost played out exactly like that, and it didn't end well for those people. But this is the new era of American politics. Or is it? See, that's the thing a lot of people also forget. Yes, Nikki Haley got chased into the elevator by a hoard of angry Trump supporters at a essentially
A Trump conference. But that's not representative of reality. Honestly. It's really not even representative of the Republican Party as a whole. This is a small group, uh, smaller group than usual of fringe individuals who, yes, they love Donald Trump, but go outside that building where CPAC was held. And you're not gonna find the same response. You're not gonna find the same level of love for Trump in the Republican party as a whole, as you would find it's cpac. And that's something that everybody needs to remember. Yes, we just watched several days of a Trump love fest. But that is not typical and that is not the way that most of this country feels about that lunatic.
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I might even actually watch this! 
From the title, I thought there would be footage of that crazed MAGA crowd chasing Haley, and I really wanted to see that. Darn, that would have been so much fun to watch! 
