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Themselves from the rally and supporting the capitol insurrectionists. cnn s melanie zanona joins us. are they supporting it? reporter: clearly there is concern in the gop about potential political cal fallout and how democrats might try to weaponize the rally against them. but at the same time, republicans are not condemning the rally or its cause either. in fact, there have been several members of congress who have actively expressed support or sympathy for the jailed insurrectionists and there are some gop congressional candidates who are speaking on saturday. a sign that they view this as beneficial for their primary campaigns. all of it is putting gop leaders in a tough spot because on the one hand, they want to move on from january 6. they don t want to be seen as pro-insurrectionists, yet at the same time their basin creasingly believes the big lie, increasingly believes the attack was just, and has been increasingly sympathetic towards the rioters. that being said, there ar ....
Richard, when you frame it, like i did, it sounds like a no-brainer that president obama would be paying attention to urban america but i think when you sort of look at the incentive game in politics, i notice in the 2012 elections really i think pointed towards this the democratic basin creasingly is concentrated really in cities and metropolitan areas. obama in victory this year won fewer counties than michael dukakis while wiped out national 25 years ago. it strikes me little incentive that republicans say to playing to the city and written off urban america to the democrats and focused on the rest of the america. can that be on the agenda as long as that dynamic persists? steve, you re absolutely right. i ll have a post coming at atlantic city later this week for cities and metros in giving ....