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      Haley Reacts as DeSantis Exits 2024 Race: ‘May the Best Woman Win’

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      Nikki Haley entered a seafood shack in Seabrook, N.H., on Sunday afternoon with some news for the crowd: Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, was no longer running for president.“We just heard that Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race,” Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor, said to cheers from the several dozen attendees. “And I want to say to Ron, he ran a great race, he’s been a good governor and we wish him well.”“Having said that, it’s now one fella and one lady left,” she continued, holding up two fingers, to more cheers. She added: “For now, I’ll leave you with this: May the best woman win.”Ms. Haley and her allies have long sought to frame the presidential race as being between herself and former President Donald J. Trump, even as she finished third in the Iowa caucuses. With Mr. DeSantis now out of the race, that argument became much more salient — though recent polling averages put her 15 percentage points behind Mr. Trump in New Hampshire.She furthered that argument in a statement issued by her campaign, in which she noted that “only one state has voted” and that “half of its votes went to Donald Trump, and half did not.” (Mr. Trump received 51 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses.)“Voters deserve a say in whether we go down the road of Trump and Biden again, or we go down a new conservative road,” Ms. Haley said in the statement. “New Hampshire voters will have their say on Tuesday.”Ms. Haley also committed to staying in the race through the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday on March 5, regardless of what happens in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.Rather than deliver remarks in Seabrook, as she has at recent retail stops, Ms. Haley went straight to taking selfies and speaking one-on-one with supporters — a small victory lap, of sorts.Speaking with CNN’s Dana Bash after the event, Ms. Haley escalated her attacks against Mr. Trump, whom she has hit harder in recent days, as well as President Biden. She said they were “equally bad” for the country.“If either one of them was good, I wouldn’t be running,” she added.Ms. Haley told CNN that Mr. DeSantis, who endorsed Mr. Trump in his announcement dropping out of the race, had not called to inform her of his departure.She also said that Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina did not tell her that he would endorse Mr. Trump earlier this week — though Mr. Scott told CNN that he had texted her the day before endorsing Mr. Trump. “He didn’t tell me that he was going to do this,” Ms. Haley said. More

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      Trump Campaign Bars an NBC Reporter From a New Hampshire Event

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      Donald J. Trump, who popularized the term “fake news” and as president declared the news media “the enemy of the people,” is again clashing with journalists over press access, this time to his 2024 campaign events.An NBC News correspondent said on Sunday that aides to Mr. Trump stopped him from covering an event in New Hampshire, where the former president was expected to make his first in-person remarks after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida dropped out of the race.Vaughn Hillyard, a longtime NBC News correspondent who regularly covers Mr. Trump, had planned to attend as a pool reporter representing five major TV networks. But he told other campaign journalists that the Trump team objected to his presence.“Your pooler was told that if he was the designated pooler by NBC News that the pool would be cut off for the day,” Mr. Hillyard wrote in an email to the rest of the pool that was obtained by The New York Times. “After affirming to the campaign that your pooler would attend the events, NBC News was informed at about 2:20 p.m. that the pool would not be allowed to travel with Trump today.”Because candidate events often take place in cramped spaces, campaign journalists have long relied on a so-called pool system, in which one reporter attends on behalf of other news organizations. The television pool consists of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, with the networks taking turns on a preset schedule. Each network selects the individual journalist who is assigned to represent the pool.A spokesman for the Trump campaign, Steven Cheung, acknowledged that the network pool did not attend the New Hampshire event, but he said the Trump campaign does not “bar reporters based on their reporting.” Mr. Cheung said the campaign holds some events without a network pool, and noted that the pooling system for presidential candidates is less formal than the system in place for covering the president at the White House.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?  More

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      DeSantis Appears to Misattribute a Quote to Churchill as He Drops Out of Primary

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      WHAT WAS SAID“‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.’ — Winston Churchill”— Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, in a post on X announcing the end of his presidential campaign.This appears to be falsely attributed.There is no record of the former British prime minister, who died in 1965, saying those words, according to the International Churchill Society, which features the statement on a list of quotes that are wrongly tied to Mr. Churchill.Another quote, “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm,” is listed alongside it.“We can find no attribution for either one of these, and you will find that they are broadly attributed to Winston Churchill,” the organization reports. “They are found nowhere in his canon, however.” More

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      Haley Picks Up Endorsement of New Hampshire’s Largest Newspaper

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      The Union Leader, New Hampshire’s largest newspaper and one that reliably picked Republicans for a century before the rise of Donald Trump, endorsed Nikki Haley on Sunday in the Republican primary.“Of course, we can’t talk about Nikki Haley without addressing the elephant in the room and the rather old donkey hiding in the White House,” it wrote, alluding to Mr. Trump and President Biden — though making no mention of Mr. Trump by name.The newspaper did not endorse Mr. Trump in the previous two cycles, either.In the 2016 Republican contest, it backed then-Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey — but later retracted its endorsement when Mr. Christie, who dropped out of the race after a poor showing in New Hampshire, endorsed Mr. Trump.Then in the 2016 general election, for the first time in more than 100 years, it did not endorse a Republican, instead choosing Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee.And in 2020, it endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. instead of Mr. Trump, who had previously called the newspaper’s publisher a “lowlife” in a television interview.“Nikki Haley is an opportunity to vote for a candidate rather than against those two,” the endorsement reads, again referring to Mr. Trump. It called Ms. Haley a “candidate who can run circles around the dinosaurs from the last two administrations, backwards and in heels.” More

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      Should Historic Buildings Give Way to New Housing?

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      More from our inbox:Moving the Needle on TrumpRussian vs. RussianI’m Off Social MediaA duplex in Canarsie, still standing, where Mr. Appelbaum’s grandparents lived for three decades.To the Editor:Re “Preservation Has Become the Enemy of Evolution,” by Binyamin Appelbaum (Opinion, Jan. 7):We must destroy New York in order to save it? And discard our history and heritage for expediency’s sake?New York City needs more, not less, historical memory. What we do not need is a return to the housing policies of Robert Moses.Mr. Appelbaum writes that much of Brooklyn Heights has been fossilized. Would he say that Paris has been “fossilized” because its city leaders preserve its buildings? There’s no other place like Brooklyn Heights in the United States. But there are countless other cities around the globe with soulless, interchangeable skyscrapers. We mustn’t sacrifice what makes New York unique and beautiful simply for new buildings and for uncreative solutions to pressing housing problems.We have lots of unused commercial and industrial buildings in the city that can be converted to housing. We have millions of square feet of office space that will never be used again, despite the desires of wealthy developers. The solution isn’t to destroy the homes that are already built and have been preserved.How the Russian Government Silences Wartime DissentA law making it illegal to discredit Russia’s army has ensnared thousands of Russians for even mild acts or statements against the war.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?  More

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      Biden Ad Shows Woman Forced to Leave Texas to End Dangerous Pregnancy

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      President Biden’s campaign is releasing a new advertisement featuring the testimonial of a woman who was forced to leave Texas to end a planned pregnancy that put her life at risk.In the 60-second spot, Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN and a mother of three from Texas, says she became pregnant with a baby that she “desperately wanted.” When she was 11 weeks pregnant, her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a fatal condition in which a baby is born without parts of a brain and skull.“In Texas, you are forced to carry that pregnancy, and that is because of Donald Trump overturning Roe v. Wade,” she says, speaking directly to the camera. “It’s every woman’s worst nightmare, and it was absolutely unbearable.”The ad is part of an effort by the Biden team to orient its campaign around abortion rights, which has mobilized voters since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022.Mr. Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and top campaign surrogates have planned a frenzy of events next week calling for the protection of abortion rights, pegged to the anniversary of Roe on Monday. Abortion access, Democrats argue, is one of many personal rights and freedoms that will be taken away if Mr. Trump wins the White House this fall.The ad, which will run for a week, is aimed at suburban women and younger voters. It is scheduled to be broadcast during the season premiere of “The Bachelor” and on channels known to attract female viewers, including HGTV, TLC, Bravo, Hallmark, the Food Network and Oxygen. The ad will also be shown during the N.F.L. conference championship games next Sunday.Dr. Dennard, a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, is one of more than a dozen women suing the State of Texas to clarify the “medical emergency” exception to the state’s abortion ban.In July, she testified that because she was not “critically ill,” she did not believe she would qualify for an abortion under the “extremely nebulous and confusing” law. Separately, she also met with Jill Biden as part of an effort to raise awareness about abortion bans.“Even prayed-for, planned pregnancies can end in abortion,” she told the first lady. “The state of Texas should not be making these decisions for me or for anybody else.” More

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      Recap: Jacob Elordi Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’

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      Jacob Elordi hosted an episode in which Alaska Airlines was mocked with a parody ad about finding the upside in a flight where a door plug blew out.With 2024 underway and the presidential race in full swing, it was time for “Saturday Night Live” to get back to doing what it loves best: lampooning former President Donald J. Trump.In its first new broadcast of the year, hosted by Jacob Elordi and featuring the musical guest Reneé Rapp, “S.N.L.” kicked off with a sketch featuring its resident Trump impressionist, James Austin Johnson. It parodied Trump’s impromptu remarks outside a courtroom in Lower Manhattan where he is again on trial facing accusations that he defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, after an earlier jury verdict in May that Trump defamed and sexually abused her.After a brief introduction by Chloe Fineman, who played Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, (“I am new at this, and I am learning,” she said), Johnson entered as Trump and quickly dressed down his own legal representation.“You’re great on TV,” Johnson told Fineman, adding: “Maybe the worst lawyer I’ve ever had, which is quite an accomplishment. Look at this team — this is the bottom of the barrel, folks, this is who said yes. I’m in the lead for president, and this is the best I can get. Feels like a red flag, no?”Johnson addressed his remaining lawyers and said, “You’re not getting paid, by the way.”He promised to abide by a gag order that prevented him from discussing the current defamation trial. “So I will not be saying that the judge is an idiot,” Johnson said, “or where he lives or what kind of crappy car he drives. I didn’t know they still made Wagoneers.”Johnson celebrated a first-place finish in the Iowa caucuses by taking potshots at rivals like Ron DeSantis (“Ron DeStupid,” he said. “It just works. We’re going with Ron DeStupid”) and Vivek Ramaswamy (“who dropped out of the race and has agreed to live in my suit pocket,” he said. “I love my little ‘Ratatouille.’”)He went on to contrast himself with President Biden, his likely rival in this year’s election. “He sniffs little girls’ hair,” Johnson said. “I am different, of course, I do far worse than that. You ever see that video of me dancing with Epstein? Boy, is that some dark energy.”Johnson predicted he would prevail because of his loyal voters: “We just need ’em to stay alive till November,” he said. “Stay alive till November. Just pull that lever and drop dead.”No matter what, Johnson predicted that 2024 would be an exciting year for him. “I’m either going to jail, be president or frankly, the Purge,” he said. “Perhaps all three; let’s spin the chamber.”Celebrity worship of the weekThe awards season has already produced several viral video clips of celebrities talking to one another in conversations inaudible on camera. So who better to interpret what they’re saying than a pair of professional lip readers, played by Elordi and Bowen Yang? Well, probably anyone else — the two were genuinely terrible, but hilarious, as they misconstrued a romantic heart-to-heart between Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner and an obvious joke from Jennifer Lawrence. Aptly, for a comedy sketch about spoken language and its meaning, no written words can fully do justice to the dopey voice that Elordi adopts when trying to lip-read Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.Fly the friendly skies of the weekThere’s basically no upside to the episode this month in which an Alaska Airlines flight had a door plug blow out shortly after takeoff. But that didn’t stop “S.N.L.” from seeking a positive spin in this fake commercial for Alaska Airlines, which reveals the company’s (fake) new slogan: “You didn’t die and you got a cool story.” The ersatz ad also points out that Alaska was the carrier in an episode in which an off-duty pilot was accused of trying to cut the engines on a flight in October and was charged with more than 80 counts of attempted murder. As a flight attendant, played by Kenan Thompson, says: “Now we’re so proud to say that’s our second-worst flight.”Weekend Update jokes of the weekOver at the Weekend Update desk, Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on the 2024 presidential election.Jost began:Well, guys, it’s 2024. But is it? [His screen showed photographs of Trump and Biden] I don’t know about you, but when I think of the year 2020, I never think we should run that one back. And if you’re feeling confused, you’re not the only one. At a rally on Thursday, President Biden said he was mixed up when he claimed he had just taken a photo with a woman who wasn’t even there. Then the next day, Donald Trump repeatedly confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. Guys, I don’t know if we should do this election. It’s honestly starting to feel like elder abuse. And I don’t even blame them — I blame us for allowing it. It reminds me of those bum fight videos, where they made two homeless guys fight for money. And now we look back on it and we’re like, how did we as a society let that happen? So I think the best solution is, we should just tell Trump and Biden that they both won. And that we’re very proud of them. And that they can rest now.Che:In Monday’s Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis beat out Nikki Haley for second place. [His screen showed a photograph of DeSantis smiling awkwardly.] Well, that ought to put a — whatever this is — on his face.Weekend Update desk segment of the weekOff Friday’s news that Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina had endorsed Trump at a rally in New Hampshire, Devon Walker performed an impersonation of Scott, seeking to justify his endorsement. After poking fun at Scott’s voice (“My voice is like if Bill Clinton was actually Black,” Walker said. “I sound like the princess and the frog. I sound like if Forrest Gump was doing an impression of Ja Rule”). Walker explained that he didn’t see color: “When I looked at all the people at Trump’s rally, I did not see a single color,” he said. He also contended that it was not “a racist dog whistle” to ask whether Haley was born in America. Walker then took out what he said was an actual “racist dog whistle” and blew on it, seemingly to no effect — until Jost, wincing in discomfort, asked, “What is that noise?” More