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number of backers. heres our political correspondent helen catt. three potential prime ministers. two of them have officially said they want the job. the former chancellor rishi sunak has confirmed he is running, after getting more than the 100 backers he needs. in a tweet he said he was standing because he wanted to fix the economy, unite the party and deliver for the country. penny mordaunt had already said she was in the race and is the only contender so far to go in front of the ca...

So hes been representing the louisiana Congressional District now since 2016. Hes in the leadership, but hes not too high in the leadership. So hes the vice chair of the House Republican conference. Heres the other big thing. He served on trumps first Senate Impeachment trial defense team. Hes a defender of donald trump, and we can see that in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, so what we see is that johnson, in fact, had drafted the house gop legal brief supporting the texas suit. And h...

Indiana has been very good at home all season, and the Hoosiers return to Assembly Hall on Tuesday night to take on the Elon Phoenix in a nonconference game. Heres the opening line on the game, plus a thorough history of how both teams have done vs. the point spread all season.

Place, so i think its too surprising that when we look at the polling now, we find that on a long list of candidates if you give multiple options to the membership, they tend to coalesce around boris johnson. 0ur they tend to coalesce around boris johnson. our latest figures show that a third of the party would have him as their number one preference. rishi sunak is not far behind. he is on 25% the last time we checked with the membership. so it would be a tight race. but at the moment, if it di...

Republicans have been expressing about how hell hold up as a candidate. looking at a 50/50 senate, you have competitive/potentially competitive senate races here. the way i look at it is this. if youre republicans, your three best offensive targets are georgia, arizona, and nevada. these are three democratic-held seats, where i think republicans at least on paper right now, have their best chance of making gains. you flip that around, and democrats, if they want to hold on to the senate, keep it...

The few republicans in 2016 who outperformed at the top of the ticket. he got 70,000 more votes than donald trump here in wisconsin in 2016. >> so mark, as much as democrats would like personally to beat johnson, does him running again make it more challenging for them to pick up that seat? he can also spend a lot of his own money. >> yeah. as charles was saying, its an incredibly competitive seat, but youre right. what ron johnson gives republicans is a sure thing. on the democratic side, were ...

Character will die. it will die every time a kid asks if he is so much against vietnam, how come he is putting party above principle. >> he went through everything he could not to run. he said with ted sorensen and he went over the meet with the new secretary of defense secretly at the pentagon, trying to work out some kind of commission that would be a soft landing for johnsons war policy. some way johnson could use it, that they could agree to change the policy. pull back from the hawks. and a...

So wasnt like with mccarthy. mccarthy will nothing to lose. he was our hero growing up. we all supported him in the beginning. we never thought he could beat johnson. it would take a bobby kennedy to beat johnson. >> you write about emotion. you write about the grieving that he went through and you liken it to somebody going through a war. and you write, it was time to tough it out. now we have a richer language for emotion or trauma. >> i think youre right. i think it was ptsd and imagine you d...