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New Hampshire Spin on Nikki Haley, Dean Phillips

The New Hampshire primary results didn’t dampen media enthusiasm for a Trump vs. Biden rerun. But Nikki Haley only lost by 11 percent. Democrat Dean Phillips almost hit 20 percent against President Biden. Haley’s voters were lauded for their votes, but Phillips remained an asterisk in the pro-Biden media’s coverage.

Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro analyzed the election-night spin in real time.  Minutes after the polls closed, ABC’s Eva Pilgrim lionized Haley’s non-Republican voters as people on a mission, who understood the assignment, and could decide the entire Republican race. They “told us…they take this job seriously…what they decide here, they know matters in a big way.” This is not what Pilgrim would say about voters who chose Dean Phillips instead of Joe Biden. 

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