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Good Tuesday morning! Here's what Nick Reed covers this hour:
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set Trump’s D.C. trial for March 4, the day before Super Tuesday.
The Ramaswamy campaign is using Nikki Haley’s first name, Nimarata Randhawa, in attack ads. Though Haley is of Indian descent (like Ramaswamy), her legal middle name is Nikki and she adopted her husband’s surname Haley after the two married in 1996. Her full birth name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.
A 20-year-old clip of Vivek Ramaswamy asking then Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Shapton why he should vote for him given his lack of “political experience” has resurfaced on social media.
Rapper Eminem has sent Ramaswamy a cease and desist letter asking him to quit performing his songs on the campaign trail.
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) consulted with the state attorney general to determine if the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment empowers him to keep former President Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot.
After this news came out, voters started calling Scanlan's office. He is now backing down, saying he is “not seeking to remove any names” from the Republican primary ballot.
Republicans are increasingly optimistic that may win over substantial amounts of black voters as support for President Biden among the demographic appears to be waning. Polling data over the past month appears to show substantial movement away from Biden and toward Trump in terms of their 2024 voting intentions.