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Ago where the conventional wisdom was, no one could sfamd up and attempt to challenge trump in 2024. were seeing his former vice president might speak openly. weve seen nikki haley tweet about the possibility of running. ron desantis not taking his name out of the ring. sara, do you see a fairly wide open race for the republican nomination? and does a trump-like candidate help or hurt republicans in a general election? >> im not sure i would call it wide open. i think that trump still absolutely...

Agenda. >> joining us now is republican stra strategists. good to have you both on. sara, youve been conducting weekly focus groups with 2020 trump voters. i wonder, are they desperate for a trump rerun for 2024 or mike pence, do they like either of those candidates for 2024? >> yeah, im not sure its either. right now, there are a little more in the ron desantis camp. if it was a trump/pence matchup, it would be trump all the way. mike pence is in the sour spot with gop voters. the trump acolyte...

Bid, excuse me, it does seem as though they are setting up for this epic showdown between the two men who served side by side in the white house. >> kristen holmes, thank you very much. joining us to discuss, cnn political commentator se cupp and former republican congresswoman from utah, nia love. good to have you on. you cannot underestimate the significance of having a former vice president, four years later challenge a former president, right? so openly here. but i wonder, we have a gop po...

Direction you want? tell us how that works. >> first of all, i dont moderate the focus groups. i have somebody else moderating them. >> okay. >> i think, actually, i would say for the record that like i said, i was very skeptical of the trumps grip on the gop is slipping and i was the one arguing when everybody else started to advance that after georgia that that was not -- that was an over read of what would happen to georgia. so im not looking for these voters to say -- and the reason was so m...

To nominate, us, republican voters in republican primaries people like doug and herschel walker and he has ads out there saying were going rhino hunting. there is a very scary, very stop the steal set of candidates emerging in these gop primaries and that is all trumps influence so anybody wants to argue trumps influence as a phenomenon is waning is wrong but its possible trump the man in terms of being the 24 nominee, that that is waning although, ill say, if he still has his 30, 40% of diehard...

Wing media, the hard core right wing media is trying to say about what happened on january 6th, 2021. >> jennifer, what is your assessment? well see if there is more in sept september. we know there will be. >> the scope they took to make clear january 6th was not about an isolated event that happened on a single day. instead, there was a system make pattern of behavior, a system, a series of events that were crucial to understanding what happened on that day and its the connections between them...

As a political expert, ill save that. tucker charleston called the shameful other television stations aired the hearings. fox didnt show the prime time finally so to speak and yet, everybody else did and the news still seeped through. including in murdoch media. there are blistering new editorials this weekend in rupert murdochs "wall street journal" and new york post, both raising alarms for donald trump. here is the headline from the post saying trumps silence on january 6th is damming. "the p...

And other people started applauding him as if he was being, one, telling the truth about what happened on the january 6th committing commission, when exactly telling us what happened. but more importantly, we are seeing these different individuals coming out of the woodwork from the republican party. and pence may not be someone that i am aligned with. but if he can break that maga fever and start communicating to republicans that they have alternatives, thats actually great, not just for the re...

Selfies, and i dont really think thats a big deal either. >> so republican voter in florida talking to nbcs chuck brewster, but you see these focus groups, you see that they are disengaged from what the committee is doing. but there is often sort of a feeling, a shift happening when it comes to trump. you also -- you had the post washington hearings minute by minute, based on the numbers you put out, a bulk of evidence has been presented by republicans. you take those two things side by side, it...

Also, people love you for this, like, so thats how you -- thats how they would tell him bad news. they couldnt just go heres a bunch of bad news. >> of course, hes a man baby. >> thats joe rogan there calling trump a, quote, man baby. i wonder, obviously, joe rogan is a podcast host. but what do you read into this, because he does have a pretty big republican maga-leaning audience. >> yeah, i mean, hes generous. hes not steve bannon. he does have some appeal. hes never been a trump acolyte, like...