Everything You Need to Know About New Hampshire

The Run-Up

The New York Times

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language. On Sunday, after a disappointing finish in the Iowa caucuses and with just two days to go before the New Hampshire primary, Ron DeSantis ended his campaign for president. His decision made it official: The race for the Republican nomination is now a head-to-head contest between two wildly different candidates, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. And now, the famously independent New Hampshire voters are going to determine how serious a contest it is. We’re looking for three big things. First, how Haley’s recent change in tone and sharpening attacks on Trump will play with independents. Second, whether Trump is as dominant here as he was in Iowa. And third, what the Democrats are up to — since there’s a contest here on that side too.

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0:00.0	This weekend, as we all arrived in New Hampshire for round two of the GOP primary.
0:07.0	I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources.
0:12.0	We don't have a clear path to victory.
0:14.0	Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.
0:17.7	Ron DeSantis announced that he was dropping out of the race.
0:21.1	But that wasn't all. Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden.
0:25.0	That is clear.
0:27.0	I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee
0:30.0	and I will honor that pledge.
0:32.0	He also endorsed Donald Trump.
0:34.0	He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear,
0:39.0	a repackage formed of warmed-over corporatism that Nicki Haley represents.
0:44.8	And took a parting shot at Nicki Haley, who was still challenging Trump for the nomination.
0:50.8	So right after Desantis made it official, my colleague Caitlin and I walked around the lobby of our hotel in New Hampshire, talking to our colleagues about why he fell so flat and what his decision to drop out would mean for Tuesday's primary.
1:05.0	Ooh, why do I think Rod Desantis flopped? People didn't seem to like
1:10.0	Rod Desantis very much.
1:12.0	And it really seems like DesSantis completely miscalculated
1:16.3	the GOP electorate.
1:18.2	I think from looking at New Hampshire,
1:20.4	this is not a state where the culture war issues that DeSantis put at the top of his campaign
1:24.2	resonate at all.
1:26.2	He focused on issues of wokeness when polling showed that Republican voters cared much more
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