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Trump’s Fuzzy New Hampshire Math

A candid conversation with Matt Mowers, the former Trump aide turned New Hampshire-and-D.C. political affairs maestro, on Trump’s odds, DeSantis’ stumbles, and Youngkinology.

A Winthrop University poll came out last week that shows Trump at 41 percent, DeSantis at 20 percent and Haley at 18 percent. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
May 1, 2023

This morning, I caught up with Matt Mowers, the wunderkind aide-turned-operative-turned-State Department hand-turned congressional candidate who has made what he claims is a final turn to the public affairs business. Mowers, after all, may only be 33, but he’s already endured a Zelig-like career. Seemingly a lifetime ago, he ran Chris Christie’s brief campaign before jumping ship to the Trump–Pence ticket. Eventually he worked his way through the State Department under Tillerson and Pompeo, and he has already run twice (and lost) to represent New Hampshire’s first congressional district.