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No one alive has seen a race like the 2024 presidential election. For months, if not years, many people have expected a reprise of the 2020 election, a matchup between the sitting president and a former president.
That didn’t prevent a crowded primary. On the GOP side, more than a dozen candidates announced campaigns against Trump, but that’s down to just Nikki Haley. The former president’s lead appeared prohibitive even before his landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses, but no candidate has ever won his party’s nomination while facing four (so far) separate felony indictments. (Then again, no one has ever lost his party’s nomination while facing four separate felony indictments either.) Haley supplanted Ron DeSantis as the leading challenger to Trump and forced him out of the race, and she hopes to pull out a win in New Hampshire, but her path…