Journalist and political commentator Charlie Hurt believes the Republican primary is all but finished and the nomination will belong to former President Donald Trump.

He said that the voters “are appalled and the political system and not Trump,” and the other candidates do not have a chance because the voters “want a fighter.”

Speaking on Fox Business network he said that the other candidates, if they achieve the greatest results they can according the polls, they will suffer a “slow death instead of a quick death.”

“The Iowa caucus is about three weeks away now, and it is really starting to heat up. Nikki Haley has new life in Iowa after getting backed by a super PAC founded by the Koch brothers. She has the money to spend. But according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, she trails Donald Trump by 35 points in Iowa. The question is, is it too late for Haley in Iowa?” the host said.

“I don’t know if it’s too late or just insurmountable from the beginning,” Hurt said.

“At the beginning of all this, it was anybody’s guess whether or not Republicans were exhausted of the Trump thing, everything dealing with Trump. And as it turns out, and it is becoming clear, and has been for a few months now, they’re not. They look at the treatment that the political system has given, and the way the political system has treated Donald Trump, they’re appalled with the political system, not Trump. What they want is a fighter and obviously, the Koch brothers and other huge money donors have gotten behind DeSantis, they will get behind anybody to stand up to Donald Trump because they want a safer pick, they are not as committed to Trump as his supporters are,” the analyst said.

“Nikki Haley might end up surprising everybody, but if everybody, whether Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina, if everybody keeps coming in doing a respectable second place, at the end of it, you will be in second place, you will not be in first place.

“If Donald Trump racks up all the wins, even with 51%, at the end of the game, it is just a slow death instead of a quick death,” he said.

“That is one way of putting it. You say second place, but it is well back in second place,” the host said.

“DeSantis has visited all 99 counties in Iowa, he spent a lot of time, a third of his staff moved to Iowa, he doesn’t seem to be making a lot of impact, and doesn’t get the traction I thought he would get,” he said.

“It’s truly amazing,” the analyst said.

“Especially considering the record he established in Florida, but he has run a terrible campaign and when you look under the hood and when you look at the mechanics of the way they spent money and raised money, how they operated, it is the most disappointing campaign, mechanics wise, that I have ever seen,” he said.