i m christine romans in today for alex. it is two pm on the east coast. 11 am out west. we begin this hour with campaign bus lighting at new hampshire. we countdown to tuesday s first-in-the-nation primary. closing arguments are underway with mikaelyan donald trump making their pitches in person to voters in the granite state. while ron desantis has turned his gaze south campaigning in south carolina today. on the democratic side, supporters of president joe biden are staging a write in campaign over a fallout over the first democratic primary left him off the ballot there. today biden s challenge is congressman dean phillips and author are out there stumping for votes ahead of the states unsanctioned democratic primary. you can see new hampshire primary voters favoring ticking haley as the republican candidate who do best head to head against president biden. trump is widely expected to win the republican primary on tuesday. l spk a name rally in manchester tonight. meanwh
Voters in here. See what they had to say a little earlier. This time, i voted for john ossoff. Theres a little message being sent by me and others. No question about that. I also do think there needs to be a check on donald trump. So there you have one voter i talked to who said, look, i want toe a check on donald ump. A lot of the voters i heard from today, they do cast this as a referendum on the president himself, on donald trump. Several republicans i talked to said, you know, god bless donald trump. I will say, this isnt necessarily trump country. Trump didnt win here by as much as tom price did, the congressman who was reelected in 2016 by a 20point margin. Trump won by 1. 5 points. At the same time, it does tell you potentially gives you a sense of the energy that the democrats have. Thats what it is going to take if they are actually going to try to make a dent in the Republican House majority in 2018. Ali . Encourage folks to make their voices heard and to make history here in