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In the second of three segments on Thursday reporting on the fallout from Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, NBC Nightly News touted an editorial by The New York Times calling on Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) to drop out of the 2016 field.
National correspondent Peter Alexander chronicled the post-debate movement among the candidates not named Jeb Bush (as correspondent Hallie Jackson had done that in the previous story) by first mentioning that Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) was “abruptly postponing a campaign swing through Nevada, instead rushing back to Capitol Hill to rail against a bipartisan budget deal.”