We're queuing the election music because you know what time it is. We are on the eve of the big vote in New Hampshire.

This is the first primary of the 24 cycle, I bet you know that. But this is also the first and greatest major disruption we've seen in the

Republican race a primary that began with the former president running earlier

than anyone in history and facing those eight other candidates.

They sparred on debate stages that Donald Trump boycott it.

Well, that race is now down to just these two candidates after Desantis dropped out

this weekend.

So for the first time, the Republican Party and America as it watches looks at this choice between a famous and well-funded former president and his former appointee Governor Nicky Haley who has now beat out seven other Republicans to get to this one-on-one face-off.

Can you hear that sound?

That's the sound of a two-person race. That is true.

That is true.

Haley finding a little momentum.

Good moods there because she is touting her political success, narrowing this primary today far faster than say

16, when then candidate Trump benefited from a long and divided Republican field.

And so I want to begin tonight with a very basic but important point that sometimes gets lost.

If this were an open primary with no quasi-incumbent former president, just a primary between

two senators, for example, like in 2008, we might be

seeing something very different. It was far later than this point in that cycle when it first

became a two-person race for Democrats and that left time for a battle and for two-person

debates and for voters to learn and weigh the choice and a choice among two is

very different and usually something to focus on more than among five or

eight or the early days. In fact if you recall when that race did narrow to two it

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