Well, it's the morning after the New Hampshire primary. Welcome to the Bulwork podcast. I am am Charlie Sykes so you know how it

turned out we're joined by Benji Sarlin Washington Bureau Chief for

Semaphore who's previously covered elections and their consequences at NBC

News kind of an early night, wasn't it Benji?

Yeah, I mean the call was within minutes from the Associated Press, the networks weren't

that far off.

It wasn't like the same kind of blowout margin of Iowa where you know Trump was

winning by like 30 but it was clear that Nicky Haley wasn't getting what she

needed within the first literally five minutes of returns so yeah in that sense early night I was

Charlie we were just talking I was prepared to be up till you know two three in the

morning you know pouring over exit polls and county numbers and got a great night

asleep. Yeah I mean spoiler alert here. This is pretty much the end of the primary season. We're now pivoting to the general election now, you know, Nicki Haley put on a brave face that she's not leaving the race, but she's about to crash into the wall in

Nevada and in South Carolina so I suppose if we were calling the NFL game it's

like 56 to 3 and we're in garbage time right now. So a lot of the punditing that pretends

that there's still a Republican primary

feels like, we'll be another mixed metaphor.

Like writing a bicycle as slowly as possible

without falling off, but I mean this thing is done isn't it I mean it's cooked it's baked put a fork in it

whatever I've been asked about like does anyone have a chance to beat Trump I've given the same answer for months which is well

Nicky Hilli looks pretty competitive in New Hampshire if she can get it down to a

one-on-one race which she did you know and bringing a bunch of

independence and beat him there then that might provide a shock to the system that gives her a bunch of

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