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Months since announcing his presidential bid, trump advisers are taking steps to position him for a protracted campaign, building out a policy platform including an education plan heavy on culture war proposals. >> our public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs. >> reporter: the former president is also set to dial up his travel in the coming weeks with an event planned in iowa next week, just days after florida governor ron desantis plans to visit the key early nominating state. while desantis isn't expected to launch a presidential bid until at least may, trump and his t...

Seconds, what biden used in the mud term election campaign, people told him not to and it worked. >> that's why mitch mcconnell didn't want him to write that down. he doesn't believe those programs. this is why there's going to be a lot of hesitant to write down what they do want. there are a number that want to cut the entitlement programs. there are a number of republicans that support them. >> this fight is not going away. nz. >> the way those programs have been dealt with in the past successful lu is with bipartisan commissions, which i think that's not going to happen at least until after...

Benefits. but it is obviously something that trump made a litmus test for the party and made a dividing line in the party and that we have seen become a source of tension in the party between, for example, mitch mcconnell and rick scott because these entitlement programs are incredibly popular. 80, 90% of voters do not want to see any changes to social security. they're just viewed as a guarantee and something that many americans feel like they've earned. so, you know, that was a big part of trump's success in 2016. and i think it's something that again the party has sort of realigned itself a...

Trying to get rid of social security for quite some time. >> not all republicans. >> we have heard from several of them. the ideas of sunsetting israel. >> rick scott who came up with this idea is now exempting medicare and social security. >> yes. when you get public backlash of course they will recoil to a certain extent. i think it's important that the media investigate this. a stark contrast for long time. >> jason, you served in the house. everyone knows you have to grapple with these two entitlement programs. a huge chunk of the budget. if nothing is done, they will go broke. do you feel...

Aside, understands that it has a problem when it comes to their stance on social safety net problems. writ large, there is a debate about how public the gop can be with their intention to slash social safety net programs. we have donald trump out there saying, it is -- rick scott should not be talking about the slashing of social security and medicare, we are not going to talk about the sun setting of entitlement programs. it's a bad idea. let's not do that. bad news for rick scott of florida. there will be no cuts. trump seems to understand the reality of this. he knows the people of east pal...