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hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. a busy day in the republican race for president. in the next two hours, two new candidates as the field grows to ten. that s ankeney, iowa, where mike pence will announce his candidacy for the republican normination next hour. and in fargo, north dakota, the first lady is about to introduce the government nor. he, too, will enter the republican race for president. that will bring the field to ten. we believe these are likely the final two entries in the crowded republican field. we have reporters to bringout latest. let s start in iowa where mike pence will make it official next hour. what are we going to see? reporter: you re going to see in about an hour this official in-person rally for mike pence. this is the kickoff for his iowa campaign, where his campaign says they have to lean all in. this is where they will make their mark or be allowed to continue. and they plan on try too good that ....
trump and biden take the stage in ten hours. we ve seen them spar. last time around four years ago. a 90-minute contest this time that could have big consequences in november on election day. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. we re looking at the venue live right now in atlanta. and there is already a noticeable difference between the candidates and how they have gotten ready this week. president biden spent seven days doing mock debates with 16 advisors at camp david. we haven t seen him in a week. donald trump used multiple ways to prepare for tonight including very public events as he hit the campaign trail to talk and listen directly to voters. fox news chief political analyst brit hume said biden better be ready after spending a week away from the white house. the president, by the very nature of his or her job, his job so far, is cognizant of the details of the major issues. you have to deal with them all the time. so this level of prepara ....
It s almost polite when you get there. human times did he say small towns. 99 counties and a lot of small towns in iowa. if you re anybody in the long shot, that s where you re going to have to breakthrough. the question is, can can you? do you need a trump implosion for somebody like that to breakthrough? or can we have in this day in age, a jimmy carter? you probably need a trump implosion. that s why a lot of candidates are jumping in the race and why there s so many in the race in case that trump implosion happens. anything can happen in a republican primary. we re still almost a year away from any votes being cast in this republican primary. but the more voices in the field, the trump people think that is good for donald trump. it fractures the republican base. other people say it s good the more voices are better to challenge donald trump. ....
Part. and this is probably the majority of today s republican leaders, if not the party, today. that simply face the reality that this is the constituency they created. right? all of the gerrymandering, the rigging, everything they ve done with big money to secure what would otherwise be a minority party, to secure the ability to control the majority of government, that is the constituency they ve created. and they can t lose it, so they will have to continue to pedal in this lane, of corruption, of authoritarianism, until it either further consolidates or until it fractures the party once and for all. but a fraction of the party will mean that donald trump has been overtaken in leadership by somebody else out there, one of the governors or congressional leaders. whoever maybe that comes behind trump. i want to read to you something that masha gessen when they fantasize about killing you, believe them. wow m. wo ....
So they will have to continue to peddle in this lane of corruption, of authoritarianism until it either further console cases or until it fractures the party once and all. but to fracture the party will mean that donald trump has been overtaken in leadership by somebody else out there, one of the governors, one of the congressional leaders, whomever it might be that comes behind trump. i want to read to you, masha, something that hussein innish wrote in the atlantic. he says, during his four years in office, he preposterously describes as the greatest crime in history, trump s own sanguine eious impulses and visions have been migrating to congress and the republican mainstream and purchasing his followers to try to outbid one another in their vicious and gruesome pro-announcements. what begins as hyperbolic posturing, when it is persistent and repeated, will eventually be taken seriously. i ask you that in the context of the fact that the pillow guy ....