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A Christie Intervention & Manchin’s Pageant Daughter

The latest plot twists and bickering as all roads lead to Iowa: Manchin’s grasps for relevance, Nikki Haley’s potential fallback plan, and the movement to vote Christie off the island.

Chris Christie’s inner circle hasn’t yet had the talk with the candidate, according to a donor, but will likely do so soon.
Chris Christie’s inner circle hasn’t yet had the talk with the candidate, according to a donor, but will likely do so soon. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
December 21, 2023

If there’s any path for Republicans to derail Donald Trump during the primaries, outside a fantasy Supreme Court intervention on constitutional grounds (suddenly, everyone’s an expert on the 14th Amendment…), it may all come down to a bank shot in New Hampshire. Sure, Iowa may look like a layup for Trump these days, but the Granite State is swooning for Nikki Haley, who has seen double-digit polling gains since she was endorsed by Governor Chris Sununu. The latest St. Anselm survey—which was conducted before Tuesday’s Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s primary election—had Trump at 44 percent and Haley at 30 percent. Chris Christie came in at 12, DeSantis at 6, and Vivek at 5 percent.