Welcome to the Reason Roundtable Podcast, your weekly Libertarian

podcast brought to you by the magazine of free minds and free markets. I am Matt Welch joined as per holiday tradition by Nick Gillespie, Peter

Suderman and Catherine Mangue Ward happy video test drive everyone howdy monday

All right let's just get into it.

Good this

Nikolausbe really be the end, O mama.

Yeah, I'm talking about yesterday's withdrawal from the GOP presidential race by Florida, Governor

Ron Desantis, but in ways that I don't think America has fully processed,

could also be talking about tomorrow's New Hampshire primary in both parties.

Could be the last real gasp for major party political competition

before the seemingly inevitable and incredibly unpopular Trump-Biden rematch, the death match, cage match.

That would be if this indeed transpires in such a way,

41 weeks.

We'd be watching these two old codgers. Here's how the math works. Trump last week, as we know, became the biggest non-incumbent winner of the Iowa Caucus in its history.

He's up by more than 20 percentage points in New Hampshire in direct head-to-head polling against

Nicky Haley. New Hampshire is basically the state where there are the most independence and independence have the biggest ability to vote.

So if she can't make it there, it's arguable that she won't be able to make it anywhere,

including her home state of South Carolina, which is the next major caucus in February

24th.

Trump there is up in sparse polling by 30 percentage points. So if

Haley gets clobbered tomorrow her campaign might go into kind of actuarial

mode by which I think it's called clinical death or brain death well

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