And good morning.

Good morning to you.

It's Saturday, January the 20th.

I'm Ali Velshi.

In three days, the three remaining candidates for the Republican nomination are going to face off in the New Hampshire primaries.

Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Donald Trump. They're all holding events throughout the state this weekend.

And in a normal presidential election year, the race would really be ramping up right now.

We'd be talking about momentum from Iowa and how the independence would line up in New Hampshire

and who would last through South Carolina and make it to Super Tuesday.

But this isn't a normal year.

This is the post-Trump era of American politics, and anyone who's been paying attention to the Republican Party has long since concluded

that the twice impeached, multiply indicted ex-president will be the last man standing. That's how

thoroughly he's taken over the GOP. The former president's decisive victory in Iowa on Monday resulted in the

Republican Party consolidating its support for him even more. This week, Trump officially

secured the endorsements of more than half the Republican members of Congress, and before all

the votes were even counted in Iowa on Monday night, Elif Stefaniq, chair of the House GOP

conference, was already calling

for the other candidates to drop out. This weekend, she's in New Hampshire, campaigning on the former

president's behalf and perhaps auditioning to be his running mate for vice president. Also at a

rally last night, Trump received a key endorsement from one of his former 2024 opponents,

South Carolina Governor Tim, South Carolina,

former South, I'm sorry, the South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who was ironically first appointed

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