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WATCH: Writers Discuss the State of #FITN2016

National political reporters talk about New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary and the state of the presidential race at Concord event.

What is the biggest surprise of the primary season, so far? Is it Trump surging and staying strong or the fall of Jeb? And what about those debate questions and does the New Hampshire primary matter any longer?

Those were just some of the topics in a discussed at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year dinner and annual meeting.

Professor Dean Spiliotes moderated the discussion between Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Victory Lab,” Steve Peoples, a national reported for the Associated Press, Peter Hamby, the head of news at Snapchat, and Jonathan Martin, the lead political reporter for the New York Times.

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In these clips, the panel discusses some of the surprises of the presidential campaign, so far, as well as the debate debacles, and the state of the primary race.

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