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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis Finally Go Head-to-Head

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

While Donald Trump took the stage alone at a competing town hall, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis debated one-on-one for the first time, days before the Iowa caucuses. But did their dueling barbs do more damage to their own campaigns than to the frontrunner? Plus, Chris Christie suspends his campaign before the New Hampshire primary, leaving questions about who will inherit his supporters and what his next political move might be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:27.0

Events are moving fast in the Republican presidential race with days to go until the voters get their first say in the Iowa caucuses.

0:37.0

Chris Christie drops out of the presidential race,

0:40.0

Nicky Haley and Ron DeSantis debate one another and Donald Trump keeps attacking

0:44.4

Nicky Haley as she rises in the polls. We'll explain what it all means on

0:49.5

today's edition of Potomac Watch. Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo, editor, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal,

0:55.9

and I'm here with my colleagues, Kim Strassal and Kate Bachelor O'Dell.

1:00.4

Let's start it off by hearing a couple of clips from Wednesday's debate between

1:05.0

Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis going after one another. There's going to be a lot

1:09.8

of Ron's lies that have happened. There are at least a couple of dozen so far that he's done. So what we're

1:15.6

going to do is rather than have him go and tell you all these lies, you can go to

1:19.2

DeSannis lies.com and look at all of those. There's at least two dozen lies that he's told about me and you can see where fact checkers say exactly what's going to happen and exactly why it's wrong.

1:31.0

So it will cover the fact that he's only mad about the donors

1:33.7

because the donors used to be with him but they're no longer with him now and

1:37.5

that's because he's upset about the fact that his his campaign is exploding

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