Hey, pull up a chair. It's hacks on tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

I can safely say tonight I would made this Republican primary a two-person race.

Okay there you have it, Murphy and Gibbs.

That was Nicky Haley.

I thought she was running on the strength of being an accountant, but apparently not so good at the counting thing because she didn't finish second, she finished third, so I don't, apparently they didn't change her speech.

She had the second place speech ready to go

and they just didn't have time to fix it.

Trump had the best possible night he could have had.

He hit expectations or even arguably a little better so

he can historically say his first person to get the number he got in the

caucus. On the other end people win the caucus often don't win but he

crushed and Nicky of and he crushed

Nicky

who wanted and needed second place

to off the Santas politically

and double down on her motion in New Hampshire got third and then they didn't know what to do so they roll her out to do a three new paragraph version of the big second place victory, two ticket speech,

and kind of a clumsy pivot to attacking Trump.

So of course my head exploded on one hand I'm going to have to listen to you guys for a minute and I eat a

crow burger on a pretzel bun please. I was totally wrong about turnout which is what sunk

everything else due to the storm.

I should have known better when I was driving last night

from Des Moines,

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