Ron DeSantis’s Cold, Hard Reality
Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET on January 16, 2024 Even before the caucus began, Matt Wells…
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The End Is Coming for Trump’s GOP Rivals
The arctic chill that upended the final weekend of the Iowa Republican caucus provided a fitting end to a contest that has seemed frozen in place for months.…
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Now It’s Nikki Haley
Does Nikki Haley really have a shot at beating Donald Trump? Does any Republican? On Monday afternoon, a basketball gym in Bluffton, South Carolina, was packed with people…
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Trump’s Rivals Pass Up Their Chance
“We’ve become a party of losers,” the conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy declared during the opening minutes of tonight’s Republican primary debate in Florida. He bemoaned the GOP’s lackluster…
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Nikki Haley Offers an Alternate Reality
For some Republican voters, to attend a Nikki Haley campaign rally is to dive headfirst into the warm waters of an alternate reality—a reality in which Donald J.…
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A Food Fight at the Kids’ Table
Suddenly, it just tumbled out: “Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.” That was former South Carolina governor Nikki…
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A Parade of Listless Vessels
What are we all doing here? The Republicans’ first primary debate dangles on the calendar like one of those leftover paper snowflakes slapped up on the mini-fridge. It…
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A Bouncy, Fresh Brand of Trumpism
Vivek Ramaswamy is a tall man with tall hair. And last week, when he stood in front of a crowd in Iowa wearing a black T-shirt under a…
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