From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, January 24th.

So you could be forgiven for waking up confused, as you heard the news this morning about last night's New Hampshire primary, because

the two big headlines seem to be contradictory, right? Headline won. Donald Trump beat

Nikki Haley decisively in the early state where she was supposed to have the best chance to beat

him. Trump won by about 12 points. And Nikki Haley gave her most anti-Trump campaign speech yet in her remarks to her New Hampshire

supporters, turning up the volume in her campaign as they head to South Carolina, where the

recent polls have Trump way ahead by like 30 points.

So here is Haley last night, like you probably not heard her before.

The other day, Donald Trump accused me

of not providing security at the Capitol on January 6th.

No, I've long called for mental competency tests

for politicians over the age of 75.

Trump claims he'd do better than me in one of those tests.

Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.

But if he thinks that, then he should have no problem standing on a

debate stage with me. So we will start there to discuss the state of the race with Atlantic Magazine

staff writer McKay Coppins, an award winner from the White House

Correspondents Association for his coverage of the Trump presidency, and author of the book Romney

A Reckoning, which came out in October. Some of you will remember, he was last on the show for

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