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With a victory in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary tucked in his belt, both Donald Trump and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) are looking towards Michigan as the next stop.

However, both candidates are facing headwinds for different reasons.

Former Republican strategist Ana Navarro and GOP pollster Sarah Longwell both urged Nikki Haley to stay in the 2024 presidential race, even as they both acknowledged that she has no shot at overtaking former President Donald Trump.

Appearing on CNN on Monday morning, Longwell made the case that Haley is performing a valuable service to the country by staying in the race.

According to the Rev. Al Sharpton — a longtime acquaintance of Donald Trump going back 40 years — the former president is reeling under the weight of a flood of civil lawsuits, adverse judgments and criminal prosecutions.

What's more, said Sharpton, Trump knows he will never get out from under them unscathed.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Sharpton was asked whether Trump "seems to be, frankly, even more unhinged by the day."

'Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough scolded the press on Monday morning for accepting at face value claims from Donald Trump's campaign and allies that he will do extraordinarily well with non-white voters when he has repeatedly flopped in the past..

Speaking with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Scarborough recalled the many times it was predicted that the former president had a huge following among Black voters only to come up woefully short after the ballots were counted and election post-mortems were conducted.s

With that in mind, the MSNBC host admonished news editors to get their acts together for 2024 and quit buying the hype.

"I just want to circle back really quickly," he began. "Again, we're talking about the media and its coverage. We have been hearing now since 2020 breathless coverage because this is what Trump campaign people are constantly are telling the media: 'We're going to do really well with Black voters. Black voters are breaking to us, it'll be historic. 'I had one of their top people say, we're going to get 20 percent of the black vote, you wait and see, you just wait we're doing better.' And it's all we hear."

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"Rev, you hear it all the time, 'Why is Donald Trump doing so much better with Black voters historically? Perhaps it is because Black men like him because he plays a macho,'" he continued. "You know? Can we just actually deal with the facts here for a second? In 2020, Donald Trump, according to AP, got 8 percent of the Black vote. It's about what he got in 2016. — 8 percent. Editors, think about it. [Senator] John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 got 12 percent of the Black vote — not a landslide. You know, maybe Donald Trump will get 8, 9, 10, 11 percent of the Black vote in 2024 if he's the Republican nominee."

"Could you bust open this lie about Donald Trump doing well against Black voters because it's a lie," he said turning to Sharpton. "The data shows it's a lie. The data shows that people in the media keep repeating this lie, that Trump somehow has some magic with Black voters and is doing better than other Republicans when he's just not."

"He is not doing what they are saying," Sharpton replied. "He clearly, as you stated, did less than John McCain and other Republican candidates."

"Let's be real clear," he continued. "We're talking about a man that was just found liable for lying about how many square feet he had in his bedroom. Why are we being surprised he'd lie about how many Blacks are voting for him? He did not get the overwhelming majority or even a significant amount of Black male voters, and he won't get them this time."

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Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" busted Donald Trump for suggesting Black voters liked him more because he had been indicted.

The former president claimed Friday at a campaign event in South Carolina that Black voters related to his mugshot and 91 criminal charges in four jurisdictions, and the Rev. Al Sharpton started off by explaining why his remarks were so insulting.

Kicking off Monday morning after Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough disabused the former president of any notion that it was the overwhelming victory that he seems to think it was.

Noting that the GOP frontrunner lost 40 percent of the vote to his opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the MSNBC host claimed that it was not a good showing for a former president.

Added to that, while reading from a Wall Street Journal editorial about Trump's underwhelming win, he pointed to an alarming trend so far for Trump.

As he put it, Trump "always underperforms."

"A couple weeks ago, [in] New Hampshire, 'Donald Trump routs,' you know, we're hearing Trump will win by 30 to 35 points in South Carolina. How long did we hear that? Heard he was going to win by 30 points for forever again. He always underperforms as far as margin of victory in the polls, always does. Yet, this was supposed to be a 30-point win. It ended up being a 20-point win," he began.

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"That's not the issue here for Donald Trump. If you're inside his campaign, what you're concerned about are what I would be concerned about," he continued. "I don't want to speak for them but what I'd be concerned about is, she won 40 percent of the vote. Here we go. Fox News voter analysis found that 59 percent of her voters, 59 percent, said they would not vote for Donald Trump if he's the GOP nominee. 36 percent of all South Carolina Republican voters said a conviction in just one of his criminal trials would make him unfit to be president."

"That is something the Trump campaign is going to have to focus on between here and the end of the year," he added.

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HBO comedian John Oliver lined up footage of a West Virginia public meeting at which conservatives read from books they argued should be banned — and ridiculed them for the explicit content that came out of their mouths.

"Look, I admit, I don't remember that scene from The Giving Tree," he said as the reel of clearly uncomfortable citizens read sections out of books they claimed shouldn't be in school libraries. "But, I admit, it's been a while."

Newsmax host Lidia Bastianich asked Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, if President Joe Biden could be sued after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant.

"We saw what happened with that Venezuelan illegal alien who is now accused of killing that nursing student, Laken Riley," Bastianich told Habba during a Sunday interview. "Now he's accused of killing this beautiful young girl, 22 years old, prime of her life. Does Joe Biden have blood on his hands at this point, Alina?"

According to a former Donald Trump White House communications official, the former president's rhetoric is reaching "unhinged" levels as he scrambles to return to the Oval Office.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Sarah Matthews — who quit following the Jan. 6 insurrection — claimed Trump's open embrace of extremist racist rhetoric should be alarming to anyone who has watched him recently.

"I'm sure you've been watching, because he's been so outspoken in the recent days and weeks, and you are someone, I know from the role, you probably read speeches, you edited speeches, you are very familiar with how he talks.," Psaki prompted. "As you are watching, do you think he's gotten worse, more unhinged?"

"I do think he's gotten more unhinged in his rhetoric," Matthews replied. "Obviously, Donald Trump's first four years in office were marked by lots of controversies. but I think that the type of rhetoric that he is using today, it's really concerning."

"It's almost Hitler-esque in a way, when he talks about immigration, poisoning the blood of our country," she continued. "He is trying to prey on people's worst instincts and get them angry and riled up; that is something he tends to do, but it's just the rhetoric that he is using, it's really concerning to me now."

National Review reporter Caroline Downey faulted Donald Trump after the former president declined to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

During a Sunday Fox News panel discussion about Trump's remarks, Downey said Trump made a mistake by omitting Putin's role in Navalny's death. Instead, Trump compared himself to the dead opposition leader.

Donald Trump's victory speech in South Carolina after winning the Republican Party presidential primary drew a mixture of laughter and stunned reactions on MSNBC Saturday night that led to more questions about his fitness to not only be re-elected but also to run for the presidency a third time.

As members of the panel noted, the former president went to great lengths to thank his family members and their spouses but made a glaring omission by forgetting his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara whom he has endorsed to become co-chair of the RNC.

Asked for comment about the whole affair, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pointed to the 'incoherence" of the speech — where the former president also misidentified the supporters standing behind him — and said his speech was the kind of "schtick" the public has become accustomed to.

"There is all of the weirdness of it, " she told her co-hosts before issuing an exasperated, "What are you talking about!?"

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Calling Trump "Uncle ramble standers, " she continued, "Trump is rambling and incoherent even when he is at his best early in the evening."

Continuing in that vein, she explained, "And tonight, getting that little slice of it is a real reminder again of [Republican] Nikki Haley's message. Nikki Haley is saying both Trump and Biden are both unfit and you should pick me instead."

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