In this episode of The Dennis Prager Show, recorded in Seattle, Dennis Prager opens with a brief travel anecdote about a recent four‑day trip to Fairbanks, Alaska, describing the extreme cold, a brief warm spell, and his missed chance to see the Northern Lights. He then shifts to political analysis, focusing on Donald Trump’s decisive win over Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary. Prager cites a Wall Street Journal article, noting that 16% of GOP primary voters said they would be so disappointed by a Trump nomination that they wouldn’t back him in November, a figure higher than in New Hampshire and Iowa. He highlights that Trump lost in the state’s most populous counties—Charleston, Richland, and Beaufort—where college‑educated and higher‑income voters are concentrated, and he also underperformed among voters with postgraduate degrees and household incomes above $100,000. Prager criticizes “Never‑Trump” Republicans, arguing that refusing to support Trump is irrational despite personal revulsion toward his behavior, and he frames the choice as Trump versus any Democrat. He briefly mentions a recent murder of a young woman in Virginia by an illegal immigrant, linking it to broader immigration concerns. The monologue concludes with a plug for the full episode on pragertopia.com, encouraging listeners to become members.
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Hello everybody, Dennis Prager here coming to you from Seattle, Washington, where I spoke last night. It's a wonderful church here. I'll mention it later, and we're gonna put up the video of the pastor interviewing me. It'll fascinate you, I think. Also, I spent 4 days in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the average temperature in the winter is minus 15, often -25, sometimes -50. I hit— I actually, I'm not joking, I hit a hot spell because the temperature got up to 4. So I didn't experience what I really wanted to. And I also missed the Northern Lights. If you don't know about that, it is one of the phenomena of nature that people strive to see in the Arctic areas. Very, very northern areas in the winter. 4 nights in a row it didn't show up. And that's why the French have a saying, c'est la vie. Anyway, welcome to the show, everybody. Dennis Prager with you. And Donald Trump won another resounding victory, and this was in South Carolina, which is Nikki Haley's state. Nobody is surprised. The question that needs to be addressed is, will he win? And of course there's no way to know. That's obvious. But I read a very interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on this issue, and I'd like to just offer you some thoughts. With, uh, with regard to that. Hmm, okay, let's see here. Sorry, folks, we're on the road. There's a lot more to, uh, to do. It's a, it's a very important series of questions with regard to the, to the victory. Then I have that, the terrible murder of the, of this precious young woman in Virginia by an illegal immigrant. But I'm first here in South Carolina. This is Wall Street Journal. 16% of Republicans in the GOP primary said they would be so disappointed if Trump were the nominee they wouldn't back him in November. A potentially dangerous signal that he could have trouble rallying his party behind him. That compared with about 20% of Republicans in New Hampshire's primary and 15% of Iowa who said they wouldn't back Trump in the general election. Another danger sign: Trump lost to Haley in two of South Carolina's three most populous counties, Charleston and Richland, as well as Beaufort County. Those are the only counties in the state in which residents with a college degree make up 40% or more of the adult population. Trump also lost among voters with postgraduate degrees, typically professional class workers, and he lost among voters with a yearly household income of $100,000 or more. So I, I don't I have railed against Republicans who won't vote for Trump, the Never Trumpers, for 5 years now. To think that the Democrats will do more good for the country than a Trump administration is, in the face of his having been president for 4 years, is 100% irrational. It, it is based on a feeling of revulsion at, at his behavior, which by the way, I do understand. But every human is a package, and the, the Trump package versus a, any Democrat package. How could you be Never Trump? I'll have more on that and about the poor young woman who was murdered. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
