[Baldwin:] President Trump is all but guaranteed to win his party's nomination again. So with no big primary challenger of his own, President Trump is making a habit of inserting himself in the Democratic Primary process. Last night at that rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, he seized upon the fact that in New Hampshire independent voters can vote in either of the Democratic or the Republican primary. Watch.
[Trump:] We hear that there could be because you have crossovers in primaries, don't you? So I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats. Does that make sense? You people wouldn't do that. My only problem is I'm trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate? I think they're all weak.
[Baldwin:] Jennifer Horn is former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. She's also a founding member of the anti-Trump Super PAC, The Lincoln Project. So, Jennifer, thank you for being with me. We just played that sound. What do you think of President Trump inserting himself in this Democratic campaign essentially and telling independent voters to vote for the weakest candidate?
[Jennifer Horn, Former Chairwoman, New Hampshire Republican Party:] Well, first of all, he's just wrong. In New Hampshire Republicans cannot cross over and vote in a Democratic primary. It's not allowed. Only independents or an undeclared voter could do that, so he's just factually incorrect again. The President is simply trying to, you know, solidify his base and divide the opposition. He wants to play into this idea that Bernie Sanders is somehow being, you know, mistreated by the Democratic Party, that there's more division on one side than the other. This is clearly, you know, to advance his own purpose. And very quickly, Brooke, just to add onto that, it's very obvious that the Trump campaign has made a strategic decision here. They're playing entirely to their base. They are making no attempt to try to reach out and build coalitions, reach out to other blocks of voters at all. They want to suppress any anti-Trump vote and just play entirely to their base.
[Baldwin:] Well, maybe to their detriment. I want to play some sound. One of our correspondents, Kyung Lah, she talked to this couple that were Trump voters in 2016. They are now turning to Democratic moderate Amy Klobuchar as their pick. Listen to them.
[Clifford Samble, New Hampshire Primary Voter:] We voted for Trump last time, and we're seeing who we can choose this time. We may go with him, but we like Amy because she seems to be a strong candidate. She had many years in the Senate.
[Baldwin:] I just thought that was really interesting. I know your paper, "The Union Leader" has endorsed her.
[Horn:] Right.
[Baldwin:] Why are you, you know, a lifelong Republican, you're getting behind Amy Klobuchar. Why?
[Horn:] Well, listen, I want to get behind the candidate who's best positioned to defeat Donald Trump in November, and why I'm doing that is easy, and something I think millions of Americans understand. Donald Trump creates an existential threat to the Republican I'm sorry, to the Republic. It's not about the Republican Party. It's about the country. You know, he has divided and damaged, he has turned the presidency into a corrupt crime enterprise. He has put the security of our nation at risk. You can go on and on. He is unqualified not just to be President but to in any way represent what the great principles and values that America was founded on. Amy Klobuchar, I think is really interesting to watch right now. You know, Bernie Sanders is likely going to win tonight. We saw the big boost that Pete Buttigieg got coming out of Iowa. He's likely to be very close to Sanders, if it all kind of works out the way that the polling suggests. But Amy Klobuchar is the one that if she places ahead of Joe Biden and if she places ahead of Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, that's an extraordinary win for her going out of New Hampshire. And I just think she's somebody who's well-positioned to build those coalitions that are necessary to win in November. Her ability to work across the aisle, to bring disaffected Republicans and right leaning independents together with the Democratic base that she needs to kind of push a win across the finish line.
[Baldwin:] I am sure she appreciates your words. We wait to see how New Hampshire speaks and votes later this evening. For now, Jennifer Horn, thank you very much in Manchester for us. Let's get back to our breaking news now. A prosecutor on the Roger Stone case is now withdrawing from this case after the Justice Department backtracks on Stone's sentencing guidance, and it all happens after President Trump complained about the recommended sentence on Twitter.