denmark and norway prohibit buying tv campaign ads which diminishes the need to raise money. last i checked, all of these countries were vibrant democracies. so one proposal for a constitutional amendment would affirm that congress and the states may regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections. this shouldn t be a partisan issue. the campaign finance laws that the court struck down passed with bipartisan support. citizens united initially seemed to help republican candidates. in 2012, 64% of outside spending benefited republicans versus 36% for democrats. but liberals learned how to play the game. in 2020 outside spending favored democratic candidates 56% to 44%. american democracy is drowning in cash. people feel they have lost any voice in the real process of
there s a women s march on saturday morning. she quickly spoke at that but did not participate in the actual march. she quickly moved to her vehicle there. i think this is a situation that has frustrated democrats, frankly. i ve had a great number of conversations from legislators to democratic voters to operatives frustrated by katie hobbs not going on the attack and fighting back against those conspiracy theories. i was also talking with a former mccain aid, longtime republican operative, who said he d join for tv campaign ads, do what it would take to stop kari lake in support of the democrat running in this race, but she said the cavalry never arrived. he needed katie hobbs to be the one fighting, but she hasn t done that, which makes him and others, republican, independents, feel on the outside by jumping forward themselves when they feel like the democrat herself has not
that people like steyer and bloomberg have. bloomberg, i think, has so far spent $60 million on tv campaign ads. which is extraordinary. he essentially debuted at 6% in the polls. brian: what poll was that? steve: the hill poll that they do with harvard. bloomberg is doing okay. but what s interesting this morning is, you know, pete buttigieg, who had surged nationally over the last couple of weeks, their campaign has announced they have suddenly gotten endorsement from a bunch of obama people like reggie love, former special senator to president obama. as you austan goolsbee and linda douglas the former director of communications for the white house office of health reform rather than throw their weight behind joe biden who was the vice president during the obama years, they are looking to pete buttigieg. emily: which is fascinating.
into tv campaign ads to make sure whoever he picks gets through. and there s going to be a lot of focus on those red state democrats. those like heidi heitkamp, joe donny, joe manchin who voted for gorsuch the 50 tifirst time aro but the calculations a little different heading into the midterm. it strikes many people that the selection of gorsuch and the process in selecting a supreme court nominee has been the best run operation of any of the operations in this white house with all the chaos in the cabinet and all the changes and the like. is this what we re expecting again? they know how to do this? you never like to predict in politics. yes, the federalist society and white house counsel don mcgahn came up with the list. yes, it worked with judge gorsuch. even how justice kennedy got on the court in 1987, after robert bjork, after ginsburg go through their whole episodes.
unemployment, lowest since 2001. the stock market all-time record highs. the strongest military in decades. the president s enemies don t want him to succeed, but americans are saying let president trump do his job. so the president calling for unity there after the charlottesville, virginia, attack and rallies that happened there brsh that ad certainly showing some divisiveness saying the president s enemies don t really want him to get anything done. take us inside the timing of that ad, daniel. it s clearly tone deaf to release it right after this horrific attack. i think if you look at other presidential tv campaign ads, they don t usually talk about enemies. to use that word as a loaded term, and this comes only one day after the president said we have to love each other.