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Biden Shutdown Politics & A DeSantis Disaster in New Hampshuh

The latest chattering of the national political class as the government prepares to shutdown while the general election season beckons.

The past weekend was a Politics 101 refresher for the Biden bundling network.
Democrats are looking to Biden and the White House to make sure that this shutdown is painful for Republicans. Photo: Brendan Smialowski via Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
September 21, 2023

Back in mid-May, when I followed him during his post-announcement New Hampshire debut, Ron DeSantis still evidenced some of the external signs of a candidate on the rise. The governor had already secured the backing of New Hampshire’s then-House majority leader Jason Osborne and about 60 other state lawmakers. He was still riding high from a poll, conducted some four months earlier, showing him with a 12 point lead over Donald Trump, despite the fact that voters knew little about the Florida governor besides his Harvard-Yale-Navy JAG, anti-woke, Covid-is-overblown MAGA street cred.