Focused on. we shouldn t be celebrating in this moment. we should be aghast at what is happening in the house in a branch of government at this moment as opposed to celebrating what is happening with the republicans. michael, real fast, donald mcdaniel, the rnc chill woman is going for reelection. and the case she is making is she can prevent donald trump from running it as a third party candidate in 2024. [laughter] third party candidacies have gone nowhere in history. so why she making that argument. because she is so desperate to be republican chairman. a more mature and states like person would say, if that is the price of being chair person, i don t want it. same thing with kevin mccarthy. a lot of others in american history would have said, if the cost of being speaker is being shackled to being one of the most extreme members of the house republican caucus, i don t want, it but he was
Forward to that meeting on friday in ramstein main battle tanks is what they re looking for also. fred, thank you so much. we will a continue to watch them throughout the week. important meeting to come. up next republicans declare candidacies today in two 2024 senate races, the map heavily favors republicans. democrats are hoping, hoping incumbents in several trump states stay in the fight. before we begin, i d like to thank our sponsor, liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance,
wow. charlie, let me pull you into this. i know the answer to the question, is there room for denver in the republican party, of course not, he believes in facts and he s not a fan of disinformation, but is there is there a swell around moving toward independent candidacies and an independent existence that could insert some of these politicians who are willing to tell the trust about what the republican party has become in certain instances? well, you d like to think so, but i think as denver just laid out, you know, there s no place for him in this party, and why would he want to be there in the first place? why would you want to sit in a room with these people? it s just not worth it. the heart of his point, though, what denver just said, has been the normalization of lying, and it really goes back to that moment back in 2016 when
Defy him in the house just in the last week, that s interesting. i think the key moment will be the next few weeks as other republicans who are rumored to be jumping in the 2024 race, do they do so? do they take their steps to declare the candidacies as we learn the trump campaign, after going dormant for months, looks like it is going to start up again. they just announced an event in south carolina in a few weeks. it will be interesting as these candidates emerge, and trump, you know, obviously will go after them, and if it will have the same impact as it did the first time around. a lot to watch ahead in terms of the republican campaigns getting up and running. eugene robinson and jen palmieri, thank you very much for being on this morning. have a great weekend. and still ahead, donald trump is planning to hit the campaign trail as lemire said for the first time since announcing his 2024 presidential bid. we ll have details about his expected stop in south carolina
They support their conference. they re not disciplined. they do. guys, guys, we all know that there are independent forces that help shape the candidacies in the primaries in the senate and in the house. but not against incumbents. not against sitting members of the congress. how could you have the leader of a party the leader s name is never on it, but they re don t you think some of these leaders and some of these have preferences. margaret, i think that one of the things that the house freedom caucus people believe is that mccarthy has in some ways moved against them. that was precisely why they put this in the rules. that s right. and i don t think he s going to dip his toe in that water again. because he took credit for chuck edwards. what do you think tonight with all this that happened that he didn t expect, right, that people turned against him, people gave their word, people lied, somebody almost punched somebody out on the floor of the
This is mccarthy said uncle. yes, but why are we why did we get here now after six of the ballots? why is this something he hasn t caved on before? that s because this also matters in open swing seats. right? there s a republican the republicans are trying to get the majority. that s what kevin mccarthy has spent his entire career focusing on. this pledge is just on safe republican seats. am i wrong? i saw the word safe. what does that mean? there aren t that many swing seats left. there are not. either way, they have come to focus on this has been the central grievance of a lot of the anti-mccarthyites, that the establishment comes in and crushes their candidacies before they have a chance to get off the ground. a couple of them have made them into congress anyway, like bob good. it s why he is angry at kevin mccarthy. that was a convention in
The question, will you or won t you run for president of the united states? the meet the press candidate interview has been a staple from adlai stevenson, who said, i do not seek, i will not seek the democratic nomination for the presidency and was the democratic nominee two months later after saying that, to shirley chisholm, who spoke about her groundbreaking 1972 bid tight on this program, to the more than three dozen active presidential candidates that i ve interviewed as moderator of this broadcast. and it has launched candidacies. long before he ran for office, ralph nader s appearance in 1966 generated so much mail for this broadcast that the post office finally called meet the press and offered to deliver nader s mail directly to him. in 1960, just a month after his speech to the greater houston ministerial association, our first catholic president, john f. kennedy, appeared here to answer questions about whether in the united states there should be a religious test for office. i hope no one would vote for me, either for me or because of my religion.
Trump-backed candidates who played to the far right ideologies of the republican party. the foe outrage at the core of their candidacies from kari lake to mehmet oz and herschel walker. this is the bookend to what was a very difficult end for these republicans who decided to walk in lockstep with donald trump. mark, the big takeaways here are for republican lawmakers that the candidate quality really matters. donald trump drags them down with his personal choices. early work we saw it in pennsylvania with the fetterman organization. even more so in georgia. five years of what stacey abrams and her organization had done. grass-roots organizing made a big difference. in close races like last night, everything ends up mattering. what was interesting, when
I see you, struggling parents. i see you, essential workers. and with warnock, you get the sense that it s not just rhetoric. this is the the foundation of his candidacies to help vehicle. yeah. and the american covenant it s also illuminates. strong coming from a strong, place and beside people who are struggling, the state of georgia right now comparatively speaking, is doing quite well. and he is in office. the economy, they are back to better jobs numbers than they ve had before the pandemic. it s becoming an electric vehicle hub. gas is now under $3 in georgia. so a lot of people in georgia are doing quite well so that argument from the republican party, the democrats are and in such a horrible hand and they are suffering. they are, not what they want is something better. and he spoke tonight about delivering that. but he also georgia also has a lot of hospitals closing. they all have a fundamental economic issue. and so at this, point moderate issues include health care.
Why is when president biden makes the decision important? he is expected to say something by early 2023. you have to get these machines going pretty early. candidacies are quite complicated. if he is not going to run, he has to give time for a democratic candidate to replace him. is it going to be kamala harris, his vice president? her approval ratings are roughly as low as his art. is it going to be somebody like a governor murphy from new jersey or someone from illinois or gavin newsom from california? amy klobuchar from minnesota? it could be any of those, but they have to gear up. you have to give them plenty of time to get there candidacies and ground games organized. he has to declare pretty early in 2023. arthel: finally, how much does who prevails as the g.o.p. presidential front runner factor