Department. it is a risky strategy. and you saw biden. there is bad blood between biden and trump. the white house is looking his chops at prospect of a re-election. any question about biden s energy level changed and shifts the moment that donald trump is invoked and you saw some of that on camera when he answered that question. secondly, yeah, what they re doing is allowing the voters to make their own decisions. voters is hyperaware of the chaos on the other side of the legal jeopardy and all of the challenges he s embroiled in as well and so they re hoping that voters will make the informed decision, biden is a creature of the senate and he governs and keeps his head down and he hopes to get credit for those things and that is where the white house is falling short off. but allow the voters to make their own contrast decision. there is always a risk. you don t say anything and someone filled up the vacuum by contending these are political prosecutions and then there is
Particular moment in american history, when we are taking on somebody, the former president, who in fact does not believe in democracy, he s an authoritarian, and a very, very dangerous person. i think at this moment, there has got to be a unification of progressive people in general. is that going to work for left? it might. senator sanders i think felt a real urgency to deliver that message. because he doesn t feel as though that democrats are talking enough about the working class. and that the democrats are ceding those voters to republicans. so it makes a lot sense for him to be elevating this. we know that progressives feel underutilized and they re not elevated enough in the party and something that this president is going to have to confront. i know from my own conversations with young progressive voters that if trump isn t ultimately the nominee, it is going to be
More like governor chris christie. it is hard to think who they think their audience is because they re running in a republican primary that, you know, now the republican base voter, ramaswamy, trump, that is seeming to be what they are looking for. nikki haley was great. but when you are hypocritical on attacks on spending and hedging on abortion compared to your other rivals on the stage and talking about defending u.s. aid for ukraine, these are all positions that may make sense in a general election audience, and maybe with some swing voting women. but i don t know how they re going to play also, what they believe, it is a conundrum. if the things that you believe are really far away from the core tenants of maga or trump politics and you re at 3% or 5% anyway, why not say what you think. i mean, like if you re goal in this race, chris christie for example, is to get republicans to rethink what they ve signed
To be trump s policies, it looks more and more like it will be his demeanor and it will be his extremism. so, that is what we saw on the stage. so whether it is former president trump or not, i think that it will be everything that he has brought the republican party to. one thing i m not hearing from the biden campaign is what is the agenda for next four yearsba that is not what they re running on. tear running on trying to disqualify the republicans. thaey re running on what they ve done already and contrasting that with the chaos they believe republicans would create if they were in office again and they need that contrast. the campaign could be summed up in biden s statement when he said don t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. that is the campaign. finish the job is a murky slogan for what the next four years will be and most of it will depend on whether or not they have democrats running congress or not. if they don t, there is only so much they could do. they will talk about protecting
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Up for, to rethink what the party stands for, to cleave the party and say it is better to lose a general election and re-set the party than to sign on for another four years of this. if that is your goal, it makes sense to do exactly what they re doing. will the republican the people that will decide that nominee, are they going to it is just so fascinating to see the old guard versus the new guard within the republican party. mike pence for instance pushing a lot of the issues. more support for ukraine. that is something that is supported among the base, just such a fundamental philosophical divide and so much to play out in the months ahead. ahead, trump s fourth disciple was in the books. but will any of the trials kick off before republicans decide on a nominee?
Entitlements and lower costs for families and all of the things that have been overarching themes of what they ve done so far but they do need to define that more for voters and that is what wul see in the months ahead. and there is a strategic decision by the biden white house not to talk about the trump many legal issues and there is plenty of ammunition for them to seize upon. they ve decided to stooer clear. this is how biden responded to the mug shot when asked about it last week? have you seen his mug shot yet? i did see it on television. what did you think? handsome guy. i mean, he was joking there. but he obviously does not want to discuss this. does it become a point where the biden campaign and the democrats say, you know, talk about this. or is it too risky because republicans have been accusing him of weaponizing the justice
Get into later in the program about the calendar is just going to completely consume the presidential election season. but for voters, at what point did republican voters say these legal problems could be problematic for our nominee of our party? well the base of the party, if you speak to them, i was recently in iowa are just not there yet, manu. but i can t get out of my mind that republicans have long claimed ownership of law and order. sometimes in explicitly racialized ways. and now the standard bearer, the face of their party is facing four criminal indictments, and is fundraising off of a mug shot. so our politics are truly upside down in this country. the very same institutions that republicans have long held up as part of the example of why america is a great country, there are now castigating those very same institutions. so it is i mean, really, post
Much harder to get young voters out and feel really motivated. who feel really dispirited by the reversal of roe and some other promises that they feel haven t been fulfilled. and speaking of which, some of the members who feel underutilized, one of them is jamal bowman. he s a new york he told this to the messenger, i know for a fact that members of congress like myself, cori bush and presley others who inspire an engage young people across the country. when you look at what we re trying to do in 2024, it is imperative to make sure the squad is in front and center in that conversation. now this is this squad referring to the members of far left to the house democratic caucus. folks who the republicans are very eager to tie to joe biden. biden though, has kept them at arm s length. and biden has done a masterful job at this as well. he s incorporated some of the platforms and some of his key legislative victories.
Really interesting race themes coming out of last week s debate. one is really you do have a number of candidates of color on the state. you have two indian american candidates who parents were immigrants and their both conservative but their foreign policy views are so different. i also think if ramaswamy were a democratic candidate, who was self-made and very wealthy and went to harvard and yale and talking about the meritocracy that they would respond differently to him. but it is this idea that you could be a person of color and wrap yourself in all of the policy positions of donald trump. that is the proposition that he s testing right now inside of the gop base. and one of those indian americans are nikki haley who actually did well according to the polls, that same poll. republicans who watched that debate, gop voters who watched the debate. 17% among those specific voters,