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On china. look at trying to make saudi arabia a pariah while cozying up to iran. every stated foreign policy position we have seems to be undermined or soft pedaled by this administration. i want to take a step back and say i hope president biden is successful. i would rather eat crow on this network than see our country be less secure and the world less stable two weeks from now because it doesnt yield any kind of product. this is not a personal interest partnership. im not running for office a...

County, texas election administrator michelle peru was pushed out of her job after an extensive campaign against for failing -- over in philadelphia, ill schmidt formally the lone republican on the citys election board, he resigned after drawing trumps ire for debunking the stop the steal conspiracy theory. know there are trump purity test happening local and in statewide election offices all across the country. i want to make one point clear here, the problem is much bigger than donald trump, b...

Supporter. i mean look at whats happening to other local election offices across this country, in hood county, texas election administrator michelle peru was pushed out of her job after an extensive campaign against for failing -- over in philadelphia, ill schmidt formally the lone republican on the citys election board, he resigned after drawing trumps ire for debunking the stop the steal conspiracy theory. know there are trump purity test happening local and in statewide election offices all a...

Elise jordan, jump in. i feel that theyre doing something that is dangerous on many levels including the fact that -- i mean these two republicans should be allowed to use their voices, and so this seems sub versive in a number of ways. >> well, it just shows, mika, the ruling elites of the republican party are clamping down on all dissent when it comes to challenging donald trump. the trump purity test is still very strong among the people who are literally making the rules as to how the republ...

About one thing, donald trump, and whether you defend him or not. that is the one purity test so many in the republican party want to impose right now. >> to our next topic and that is, here is a riddle, donald trump versus desantis. who gets the republican nomination? >> i see this as a floridian, i think ron desantis will be successful in florida. i dont agree with a lot of things that he does but i think hes a talented politician and is very well liked by the republican base here in florida a...

Sort of baked-in, conventional wisdom that their political fate is sealed and its all good, but if they thought that, they wouldnt be hiring lawyers to deal with the 1/6 committee. they wouldnt be expelling liz cheney and adam kinzinger from the party, which isnt a thing. nobody really wants to be there anyway. its so stupid that im embarrassed to be covering it but it is another window into the depravity of one of the two political parties in america. >> this is just such a part of any autocrat...

Staffer, former republican consultant saying that. but it doesnt seem as though the war that so many of these republicans are waging against facts and reality and democracy is hurting their chances at all when it comes to winning the house and maybe the senate back in 2022. does that say something about the weakness of the democrats? >> i think it says something about our failure to communicate the policies and successes that democrats have actually had. but i think what were talking about is th...

Rights that has -- that began the day after roe v. wade and has been a political motivator for so many republicans and the idea that there would be also this purity test, this litmus test, is what led us to the kavanaughs and the barretts of the world so we had this feeling of suddenly this incremental approach has given way to the mask slipping and the justices are hardly even pretending that their goal is anything but to undermine abortion rights and make it illegal in at least half of the sta...

Because hes able to get non-republicans, democrats and independents to vote for him. he wownt win in a state like maryland if he didnt have that. donald trump appealed maryland as you know because hes lost pretty significantly in the past. were going to see this. i think its fair too say trumps endorsements is not based on who he believes is best to win in those district because he didnt really care about that. its mostly about exacting political revenge on his enemies, and we see that across th...

I wish we were making this up, this is not "the onion." it says they are going to ban big bert, bert, and ernie because they endorsed vaccinations. when i went to cpac, it didnt go well either, and im not a "sesame street character, despite what some people might think." >> banning big bird, this is what excites voters that you have to be -- have such purity test that you use it for puppets, um, is just -- its just taking it to a new level. and, unfortunately, its a very serious issue. so it can...