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Debate performances. what are you looking for from her tomorrow night? >> i think nikki haley really needs to lean into the electability argument. the one thing the gop field agrees on they want to defeat joe biden. in consecutive poll after consecutive poll nikki haley performs best against joe biden in some beating him 16 points. ron desantis he at times loses to joe biden in a general election. i think shes going to hammer home if you want to win the general and not just the primary, i am the...

Guy like trump. >> its a zero idea of whether this moves the needle at all for chris. kristie i probably guess. no but chris christie went wide for the conduct. we skip the whole discussion with a lot of republicans. saying, i dont think it criminally, think its a witch hunt. and whatever it is and how about what we actually know that donald trump has done, not proven by court of law. the stuff that hes done in plain view, that he has done on twitter. that he has said to people. all of the thing...

If ron desantis is not willing to -- not even talk about the subject but defend trump on the subject, why are you running against him? a republican primary is meant to challenge and vet candidates, right? if you want to talk about electability, nikki haley sort of got there. she said donald trump is disliked. how about the fact that president biden and democrats are almost certain to make this a focus of their campaigns? these criminal charges, as this goes to the courts, is almost certainly goi...

That debate as a favorite. right now no one has consolidated that 58% majority that want a different nominee. >> dana: only the speech writer could carry that sports met -- they are looking for someone closest to them on the issues. only 29% said that they are looking for basically the electability argument. best chance of defeat. call for number three, please. this is what the poll says the best chance of defeating joe biden. trump there at 38%. no, sir as commanding a lead as he has overall. d...

After january 6th it was still at 65%, so what are we seeing? fewer republican voters have a very favorable view of the former president. what does it mean? maybe theres a door open for some of his top competitors to step in if they decide to barge through that door, they could make the electability argument. >> good to have you here, thank you. lets bring in former republican congressman from florida carlos curbelo and former adviser to the 2020 biden campaign, alencia johnson. congressman, fir...

Investigations are an attack on penal like me rather than 21% say that it is about upholding the rule law. in that kind of environment, there is not a lot of wiggle room there for republican political figures to be on other side of voters in this context. >> well, and i think that that is very obviously reflected in the behavior of republican politics, including trumps rivals would have really been weary of frontally taking him on. of even saying things like you lost the 2020 election. and i thi...

Seen before. the flip side, of course, they say is that if hes not there to defend himself, perhaps theyll just use the time to introduce themselves further to the american people. i mean, as you know well, the first debate for anyone is really a proper introduction to the american people for the first time, no matter what position youve held in the past. so they dont want to spend too much time talking about donald trump at that first debate. though i do know, as you know well, folks like chris...

Alike are still wanting to defend him and to rush to his side. thats because they can look at the entire justice system and try to paint it as corrupt, not just against trump, but against republicans and also against those voters who trump appeals to and those hard-right maga republicans also appeal to. now, we obviously know that thats not the case, as you were just talking about. senator graham voted less than a decade ago to confirm the judge hes now railing against, saying hes biased against...

Their best hope is to all gang up and in chorus to make that electability argument against donald trump and so far only folks like congressman will hurd and asa hutchinson have done that in a full-throated way and these are candidates that dont have much name i.d., they dont have a snowballs chance of winning, so right now there is not enough firepower going against donald trump on this argument. and i dont think that it is going to change anything for just a couple of candidates to be out there...

Not a cents on defeating joe biden. hes looking at ways to get in there. >> this is probably the biggest part of the re-set as that weve seen so far. as we mentioned, so far desantis has shown a willness to fight everybody but trump but with this statement, were seeing the gloves come off a little bit. this is a little bit more tougher and sharp than before and it gets at the general electability argument that trump has been making on friday in iowa, saying, hey, look, this person is self-servin...