good day from msnbc reports. welcome to alex reports. i m christine romans in for alex today. we begin at a live look at the beautiful snow scene in pittsburgh new hampshire. the big story today, of course, as the countdown to tuesdays first-in-the-nation primary. it is a busy day for republicans as well as democrats making closing arguments for voters. they re nikki haley and donald trump are holding in-person events this weekend and new hampshire while rhonda santas is putting more of his chips on south carolina. from the democratic side, president joe biden is not on the ballot. his supporters are staging a write in campaign. his challengers, congressman dean phillips and author mary and williams are stumping for votes ahead of the states unsanctioned democratic primary. nikki haley s camp just got some good news today. a new polls shows her as a republican favor in new hampshire a head to head general election match with president biden. trump is expected to win the repub
good morning to you, it saturday, january the 20th. i m ali velshi. three days, three remaining candidates for the republican nomination are gonna face off in the new hampshire primaries. ron desantis, nikki haley, and donald trump. they re all holding offense throughout the state this weekend. and in the normal presidential election year, the race would really be ramping up right now. we would be talking about momentum from iowa and how the independents would line up in new hampshire and who would last through south carolina and to make it to super tuesday? this isn t a normal year. this is a post trump era of american politics, and anyone who s been tank attention to the republican party and as long as it s concluded the try some piece multiply indicted experts wouldn t will be the last man standing. that s how thoroughly he has taken over the gop. the former presidents decisive victory in iowa on monday resulted in the republican party consolidating its support for him eve
the new hampshire primary. all three top republican presidential candidates are there and for nikki haley, she says it is about beating former president donald trump. we were focused on desantis in iowa. we re no longer focused on him. it is trump in new hampshire and trump in south carolina. meanwhile, new developments around several of trump s legal issues including his new warning to the supreme court about what could happen if he s left off of more state ballots this election. in washington today, top u.s. and mexican officials are meeting to discuss the humanitarian crisis at the border. we ll talk to denver s mayor who says his city is at a, quote, breaking point. and the brutal and in some cases deadly weather conditions across the country, with at least 95 million people under weather alerts. we begin this very busy hour with a 2024 race for the white house. the republican candidates are entering the final weekend to make their pitches in new hampshire, whic
we are live from manchester, new hampshire, out of the most consequential night in this political season to date. we have lots of students here with us in the studio, which is exciting. we ve got lots of guests coming by over the course of the next hour, and we have so much to talk about. because we are at a bit of a crossroads here in new hampshire. their timing to pass that these next two days could open up. if donald trump wins convincingly on tuesday, then this status all but over. and you don t exactly have to stretch or imagination to picture that happening. i, mean he is currently leading nikki haley by 19 points in the latest new hampshire tracking poll. and remember, this is the state that is supposed to be the friendliest terrain for a trump alternative. live free or die, independent minded people. the friendliest terrain also for nikki haley. so again, if trump does win big on tuesday, the republican primary race would more or less come to a close. and trump knows
desantis has dropped his bid for the gop presidential nomination. desantis made the announcement on social media, the social media platform, ex, hours ago, he since endorsed donald trump for the nomination over nikki haley, who says this is now, quote, a two-person race. we re going to dive deep tonight into what this departure really means for the race. the cultural wars gripping our country right now that desantis was a major figure in, standing by tonight we will talk with to florida former congressman, congresspeople, one democrat and one republican. and we ll hear from up bishop of one of the major churches in florida, who s been on the frontlines fighting desantis on the so-called war on woke, and what desantis coming home will mean to blacks in that state and the ramifications nationwide. we have a lot for you right on the ground to dig into what this means. but first, from manchester, new hampshire, is msnbc shaquille brewster, shaq, can you recap what happened to