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Okay, you are up to date, those are the headlines here now to see or the news continues off to risk and you to will make sure you stay with us for that. The hi, im Steve Clements and i have a question. So many politicians want to be the rePublican Partys candidate for president next year. But to any stand, a chance it gets donald trump, lets get to the bottom line. The last count, there were more than a dozen republican politicians competing for their parties. Nomination to run for president next year. Some will fall off the map this month even before their 1st public debate on august 23rd and others like Florida GovernorRhonda Santas have amassed a huge war chest and are expected to do get out for months. The. But can any one of them on seat, the reigning king of the rePublican Party, donald trump, despite his mounting legal problems, hes still way ahead in fund raising and popularity. So does he really have any challengers today . Were talking with julia, manchester, who covers National Politics and political campaigns as a reporter for the hill. And david weigel, who covers politics percent of 4 were in full disclosure. I also work. Thank you both for joining us. Let me just start. Were going to try to get as many of these candidates as we can, but i want to start for a moment with the i a i or republicans of lincoln dinner last week, or one of the candidates was booed on the stage slip. Lets hear this clip a donald trump is running to stay out of prison and if we elect i know i know i know. But if we elect donald trump, we are willingly giving joe biden for more years, and the white house in america can handle that. God bless you and god bless america. Of course that is warmer, representative will heard from texas running for president. And he is, you know, out there making his case julia, i have to ask is, is making a criticism of donald trump a death wish when you, when that want to run for the g o p. Right . Yeah, it seems like it at this point to considering donald trump is really running far away with the nomination according to the polls. And we have seen other g o p gatherings. So there was one and evangelical christian gathering held in washington dc a few months ago. Where we saw that, you know, Chris Christie was booed for, criticizing donald trump. So i think these events where you see primary voters christy is out there doing Southern Coast christys out there saying the only way to be donald trump is to run against donald trump. Right, he did that actually we had a semaphores event where he did that very boldly and a lot of the other candidates were not doing it. I havent figured out yet if thats where well heard is. But, but do you use, do you see a path for any of these candidates or will or others to begin dealing with a g o p base right now . Um thats, thats not taking the criticism very well. Yeah. At this point its really hard to see a path, and i mean, thats just shown in the polls. And even when you hear about Donald Trumps legal issues, all of these candidates with the exception of maybe will hurt or Chris Christie. They are even want to touch that topic. They dont want to criticize them on that. In a normal world, you would think that other candidates would want to criticize the front runner of a party for having that kind of a conundrum. This close to an election day. What, how do you see it . You heard the booze and, and you know, hes candidates intimately and youre on the road with met them. How is it playing with . Whats the vibe that youre getting when youre out on the road . When it comes to taking on donald trump, right, i wasnt both of the events were to were talking about both these candidates are running unusual campaigns. Chris christine will heard, do not have a pass to the nomination as we see it. If you look at the polling, they are the, the candidates that they know heard at all. They definitely know christie, the can to the largest opposition for republicans. Theyre running to make a point. The down trump shouldnt be the nominee again. But you know, neil, can i go by this accidental speech writer at expression elections or not, or not one weeks or one and years. And several years ago there that entire Publican Party apparatus went along with all truck up to a point saying, well, 2020 was such a jump all. And who knows who actually one were not sure. Find one. Were gonna wait for the states to figure this out. Were going to wait for the course to figure this out. They created this, this problem where that the most the easiest argument gets dropped would be. This is the only guy in america who lost the presidency, whos running against joe biden. They would, cant make that argument credibly the base believes, but the down trump one the last election that everything was better under donald trump, that is under joe biden. Something they have some independence agreeing with the parts of it as big as the beginning of the economy changes. So theyre, theyre starting a place where theres not a compelling argument not to bring the guy back apart from. He cant serve more than one more term. Does they have just made that argument when he started campaign in iowa and he dropped it because its a little and i think it makes sense, but is a little bit obscure for most voters at all these candidates are trying to say, im more electable than somebody who, if youd asked me, you know, in december 2020 was perfectly collectible and then he deserved to win the presidency again. And thats where all the problems started except for except for heard and christy, or just on, on these, these one man i guess to me and now truth telling missions less less about one of the presidency been just stopping this guy. A trump remains not just, not just well like that, most republicans around 70 percent of them. But, but were adored by more republicans and you need to win combination around 4045 who use the word that adored it. And i, im not to repeat everything i was saying that they think you won the last election, but they dont have the qualms with donald trump, that the, that, that some democrats have Hillary Clinton, they had worries. Can she went again and prove, prove if you could, if it was in 2016. And they also at going back to their accounts are saying, and if you could make down trump vulnerable on his legal problems, the fact that this chris gets, he says he might be out on on bond. And a couple of states by the time are voting. But that was an argument that wasnt made about Hillary Clinton, 2008, but. But let these guys dont believe that the voters believe this is all like a ruse. Its all the deep skate to translate this right now. He said for a minute, i mean i, i know there are false correlations in yalls. Causality, julia, yeah. But if you actually go track it and you watch the indictments, Donald Trumps popularity has gone up with indictments. If i were running. I mean, the question is, should mike pence go get arrested for something . Right, right. Well, no, i dont think it would work for my parents because donald, from his donald trump. I mean, hes very unique to the situation. He has this very unique rip on this primary elector and you know, like they was saying these voters genuinely believe that there is a bias. And how donald trump has been treated by federal Law Enforcement in this country. How he was treated in the 2020 election is how those results were counted. And then on top of that you have the situation with hunter bite and happening. And you know, parallel um, you know, sort of in peril explained to our viewers that might not get the hunter bite and quagmire that clearly write a little bit of clarify a little yeah. Whats the support of parts to at number one and, you know, House Republicans have really been looking into hunter bite and particularly in his to his business dealings and how his father, whether his father was involved with his business dealings on the hill this week. Im a former business associate of hunter biden testified, and essentially said that joe biden was conference in to say hello on speaker phone to some of these in some of these meetings to some of these associates when he was Vice President , or when he about status, his Vice President. Now theres also a were creating the illusion of accent theory. You should have asked that with a clean yes and go down. Think if you were Vice PresidentUnited States or present United States, you would be concerned about someone creating the illusion of acts as absolutely just to be fair to those repub, with the, even if he was just saying how low you know, it gives the illusion to access it, its almost like hes selling him, so hes selling himself as the son of the Vice President , which is, um, you know, ill ask a call at this point, but 100, right . And this also dealing with very serious legal issues related to drug problem. Your drug usage, as well as a gun, a gun charge um he was in possession of the fire firearm illegally. So and there was a plea deal made at some point error. We thought there would be a plea deal made between prosecutors and hunter biden. Seem that unexpectedly collapse. So the, the future for hunter biden is very uncertain at this point, and its continuing to really plague the white house and that theyre constantly having to answer questions about the House Republican part the legal issue and also his that a child. He had with a woman in arkansas. Finally the white house acknowledged for president biden, for the 1st lady, acknowledge the existence which i really i really want to get to these a dozen other republican state. But i want to give him a moment to run to sanderson this huge group. You had dave of a internal communications on the messaging app signal that showed connectivity between senior members that campaign and some pretty vile videos. But really on the, id love to hear you get a snapshot of that. But is that the santas campaign in floating right now . We see layoffs. We see questionable fundraising. Uh, you know, targets being hit. You know, were not head. And im just wondering where do you think the sanchezs as we look right now . Is he, is he in free fall . Well, if youre almost at the paralyzed the santas campaign, because there is a, the santas Campaign Operation that the ality staffers work for a very large communication staff has been shrunk down with a 38 layoffs. And then there is a super pack never backed down, which is not allowed to coordinate. Im using scare quotes because i was in iowa every event. The santas held, including a after party for people who went to the idea of the dinner, was hosted by the super pack is riding on the bus with this rebec. Uh, so they are clearly coord. Yeah. Theyre recording the survey or i could violate i just wanna they are violating the law and log in broad daylight and, and, and nighttime because like a theme of this discussion with others that are really enforced against certain people. But yeah, that, so theres a super pack that has all the money, it needs to run ads to put them on a bus. Then theres a Campaign Operation which is supposed to be messaging. And look, theres only one candidate whos giving speeches. I thought just my opinions reporter covering the guy the speech he gave an iowa on friday, 10 minutes hard kit hard stop was the best eat articulated his message that i look at my record in florida. Look at how much more effective i can be of the own truck without saying his name on the trail. He has been sort of rambling. He will get a side track these things on day 10 of arguing with the Vice President over florida education standards. And in the campaign where they were trying to do is with these messages which youre referring to get folks inside the campaign, were trying to make viral videos that had kind of the, the tenor of the internet. They looked like for jan, it looked like the kind of things that you learned most could retweet that had, you know, little little cartoons of sad, depressed people becoming happy when they saw how, how ethic and cooled ronda santas was how he was making liberals cry. How he was making trans people angry. They were, they were coordinate with these videos. And once there was a blow back, they, theyve kind of through the staff or who they said was great in the, under the bus. They actually say reporter is, they told reporters quietly they, theyve agreeing, they didnt say it themselves. What we saw in these internal discussions that they really were trying to foam up from the runway and create really excitement for the santas by helping create some videos and then distributing them to a non student on with twitter account. So youd log, i told her it looked like proud elephant us just found this amazing thing that makes the safest look. Awesome. And in some cases with his hands campaigned crating it and say, hey, you check this out and read we did for us. What did do for the campaign, basically nothing apart from the negative stories they know, but they were trying to recreate some of this organic magic that the down trump had in 2016 when he so fresh and interesting to her a lot of like and voters that they would share images a hand that youre his best insults, looking at him talking on these people at the debate. They were trying to do that in organically for the, for the santas. And it wasnt really working. Its, i think its one of several problems theyve had, but this is that, i mean, they have a super pack that during the normal campaign and they had a candidate running kind of a blog campaign. And the staff of the candidate were trying to strategy that was just not making sense to anybody. Certainly not now that we have written about it, julia, how do you see this campaign . What i hear is, you know, a lot of any emigration stuff. A lot of l g b t q stuff, a lot of pro crypto currency stuff. Mean is that the pathway to, to being victorious and the g o p to yeah. So randa stands is just such an interesting figure be and i was in florida for the most of the height of the pandemic. And thats when we saw his rise. And we also saw that of a switch flip with him. I dont want to say he was necessarily moderate before,