There is a theory that's in many elite Republican circles about what went wrong in 2016. They have an understanding that mistakes were made on their parts and they believe that Trump won because there were too many candidates in the race in 2016. Do they have a plan to do things differently this time? And what are they going to do differently to get what they want? So I don't know their specific plans and what exactly they will do. Someday we will have a Republican presidential front-runner. Someday.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is running for president. Vox’s Andrew Prokop says she’s likely the first of many prominent Republicans to challenge Trump.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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