Hints and tips:
...DeSantis and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley are fighting for second place....
...By Wednesday morning, Trump’s last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, announced she was pulling out of the race after winning just two state primaries in the campaign....
...“I think if [Trump’s margin of victory in New Hampshire] was under five points, she’d be bringing in new donors and there’d be a lot of enthusiasm,” the adviser said....
...“I’d like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis,” Trump told supporters on Sunday. “He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it’s not easy.”...
...If they donate to a super PAC, they can give as much money as they’d like....
...I’d put JD Vance at the top of that list, only marginally ahead of Ramaswamy (who, as Ed has pointed out in previous Notes, has no saving graces)....
...If she came from a swing state rather than South Carolina, I’d suspect Nikki Haley, who meets all these criteria, of being assembled in a lab to become president....
...It is supposed to comprise the US, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, offering a forum for governments and companies to discuss and co-ordinate policies on supply chain security, workforce development, R&D and...
...Sure, he’s getting 60 per cent or more of the primary vote (he got 68 per cent in Michigan) and Nikki Haley couldn’t even win her home state of South Carolina....
...It’s much more likely they’d fall, despite any new Trump tax cuts. And that is the more benign scenario....
...The state-run oil producer said the energy ministry had ordered the move which would have increased its daily output from 12mn barrels a day to 13mn b/d by 2027....
...“The bad news is if the election were held today, he’d lose,” said one Democratic strategist. “The good news is that it is not being held for 243 days.”...
...Their ideal one would be someone like Nikki Haley or Mitt Romney. Another would be Liz Cheney....
...And then more recently this week, he spoke to, I believe, it was Russian television, saying that he’d actually prefer having Joe Biden as president instead of Donald Trump....
...While I’d agree with your assessment about Ramaswamy as a self-promoting phoney, such people can still tell us important things about where we are in a given moment in history....
...“The bad news is if the election were held today, he’d lose,” says Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist who advised former president Bill Clinton....
...So you’d basically be giving up a fairly nice, simple, cheap, transparent model for a bit more opacity, a lot more costs....
...But on the political front, we saw glimmers of this in New Hampshire, where he was clearly threatened by Nikki Haley getting nearly half the vote, and went into “Mean Trump” mode (or as my colleague Andrew...
...Susan, I’d like to hear your views on this, but I think you probably agree quite different to Trump coming in January 2017. Trump coming in January 2025 would be a different scale of problem....
...I’d rather give my money to underprivileged kids than do that.” “I give my money to make a difference.”...
...Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley will next face off on Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary....
...I wasn’t with DeSantis or [former vice-president Mike] Pence or [former UN ambassador Nikki] Haley but I’d be with Glenn Youngkin’?”...
...We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D King (Yale) Until recently, central banks were worried that inflation was too low....
...We hear [Nikki] Haley talk about a competence test for leaders....
...“I think he’d do a good job but I don’t know if we can get him elected,” said a different man in the second ad obtained by the Financial Times. “I think it’s too risky for the country....
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