S4 Ep16: New Hampshire Weirdos for Nikki? (with Tim Miller)

The Focus Group Podcast

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Nikki Haley is on the ropes after losing Iowa by 30 points, but there's one group of voters who could bail her out: New Hampshire's undeclared and moderate Republican voters. The problem? Even though they vote in Republican primaries sometimes, they hate Trump, they're pro-choice, and some watch MSNBC. Republican voters in all of the other states? Not so much.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Focus Group podcast. I'm Sarah
0:10.0	Longwell publisher of the Bullwork and this week we're taking you to
0:14.3	New Hampshire ahead of the presidential primary this coming Tuesday. Now with
0:20.0	Donald Trump winning Iowa by around 30 points and Ron DeSantis finishing a
0:25.3	distant second.
0:27.0	Nicky Haley is really on the ropes, but New Hampshire holds her last
0:32.1	glimmer of hope.
0:33.9	In the latest real clear politics average,
0:36.0	she is down.
0:37.2	Wait for it.
0:38.4	Only 13 points.
0:40.4	We saw some Democrats crossing over for Nicki in Iowa, but New Hampshire is one of the only places where it's really an ingrained part of the political culture for independence to cast strategic votes in primaries.
0:53.7	And in 2024, that means a lot of moderate or left-leaning folks are pulling Republican
0:59.6	ballots.
1:00.9	And that's mostly who you're going to hear from today, because there have been some recent polls that show Nicky Haley closing in on Donald Trump in the granite state.
1:09.0	My guest today is my dear friend and colleague at the poolwark Tim Miller who spent his share of days
1:14.8	traips him through the snows of New Hampshire in January on the Republican campaigns of
1:18.9	John Huntsman and Jeb Bush. Tim, thank you so much for being here, my friend.
1:24.1	I had a house in Manchester even for about three months.
1:28.0	So I was a local at Republic.
1:30.1	Unfortunately, they've closed down Republic.
1:31.7	It was my favorite restaurant.
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