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More GOP candidates enter the fray. Will it help Trump?

Of the 10-plus Republicans now vying for the 2024 presidential nomination, only two have been down this road before. 

One, of course, is former President Donald Trump, who in 2016 beat out 16 other GOP aspirants and shocked the pundit class to claim a mantle as party leader that he has never relinquished, even after his 2020 electoral defeat. 

The other is two-term New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. In announcing his campaign in New Hampshire Tuesday, Governor Christie made clear that his path to the nomination will hinge on momentum from its first-in-the-nation primary, although that bet did not pan out for him in 2016.

He also made clear that that path will have to go directly through the former president – a factor looming over every non-Trump Republican in the race

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