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Americans slaves. simple facts. here to discuss political reporter from the wall street journal, josh jayme erson and political anchor for spectrum news, commentator errol lewis. good to have you both on this morning. josh, i know that everything is a partisan issue today. i mean, we see it with vaccinations, right, a public health crisis. are you amazed that robert e. lee, the leader of a rebellion against his own country, in defense of slavery, is an issue? trump is going to trump. he does it because he believes there is an audience for this, right? and that people eat it up. exactly. what i remember looking at the pictures you just showed of them taking down the statue, i remember the protests last summer where there were thousands of americans in the streets protesting against that statue still being there, protesting against racial in justice after the death of george floyd. and i also got reminded the polls showed the majority of ....
Americans supported removing those statues. but as you said, this fell along partisan lines. majority of democrats supported removing the statue, majority of republicans opposed removing it. that s the time we re in and the former president, i should say, knows that. errol, you can sense a trump, sort of energized perhaps in recent weeks, cheering, in effect, the fall of afghanistan as an opportunity to criticize biden, the return of the delta variant, et cetera. is he running in 2024 and can he win? well, he s oh, we lost errol there. we ll get him back. while we get him back, josh, i ll send that question to you. because folks have been saying for sometime, he s not going to do it. i ve been skeptical of that. and you certainly see him talking a lot about it, hinting a lot about it. exactly. you know, i think, you know, we ll see if he runs. but i think what s almost more ....