yeah, look, i think there s clearly opportunity for democrats to improve their messaging, their policy making, and i think you ll see a stronger joe biden a couple years from now if he s facing re-election. what it does say is donald trump very likely could be the nominee of the republican party. and he very well might win, but it s a slim chance. this is a person who lost the popular vote twice, and so the catch-22 for republicans is, if he decides to run and gets the nomination, you re going into 24 with a losing candidate. however, if he doesn t run, here s the thing i find most intriguing, alex. there s no off ramp for donald trump that is gracious and empowers other republicans behind him. he will say he s not running because the system is rigged and nobody should participate in, and he ll actually knee cap whoever might be the potential republican nominee behind him. so look, it s a catch-22, and i suppose a catch-24 for the gop. catch-24. real quick to this, donald trump, a
translation:- for if he doesn t run. translation: ., , ., , translation: that is a big question. translation: that is a big question. i translation: that is a big question, i don t translation: that is a big question, i don t know. - question, i don t know. after the rally, i asked eric zemmour how he would do french ivan uk relations differently if he was president of france. translation: i if he was president of france. translation: translation: i respect the british, they translation: i respect the british, they are translation: i respect the british, they are great - translation: | respect the | british, they are great people. i think the european commission in brussels doesn t respect them, they never forgave them for brexit. this is home turf for marine for brexit. this is home turffor marine le pen, she did very well here in the last presidential race but as eric zemmour has risen in the polls, she has dipped. one recent survey even had him beating her to a run off wi
the left is mad at me. my family is getting threats. i m being smeared. i m being sued. i knew all that would happen. so when i wrote this book, i knew this was going to be a very, very tough battle. so, yes, i got paid, but there is no price tag for what s going on. i just find it to be very, very important for the country looking forward. you said one of the reasons you re speaking out is you hope he doesn t run in 2024. if he does, do you plan to actively work against him? if i m asked to. if there s anybody who wants me to speak out or talk, yes, i will. i think that i had a very unique perspective in that i worked for the former president, i worked for mrs. trump, and i worked for both of them at the same time. i know the way they think. i know the way they try to distract. if there s any way i can be helpful to try to decipher some of those movements and what s going on, i would do that, yes. do you think if he s elected again, he ll destroy the democracy? i think it will
panel, juanita tolliver, and noel nikpour. welcome to you both. ali e-mailed this straw 308 to me. so, if trump runs in 2024, you have trump at 75%, and then followed by several. if he does not run, die san tis is at 68%, pompeo 5%, so on and so forth. donald trump junior is on there with 4%. what do you make of this, juanita, of this polls coming out of the cpac, one include trump, one not? since we know trump is such an ego-driven person, he s going to be asking himself how dare desantis get 68% if he doesn t run. that s what he ll fixate on.
harsh, belligerent, openly racist terms that we have seen from a national figure since george wallace in 68. but he didn t create it. and there is that demand in the republican party. and so i think he continues to feed on that. if he doesn t run, you see a number of republicans trying ways, ron desantis, marco rubio, ted cruz, tom cotton, to tries to scratch that same itch among a big portion of the republican base which by the way has made them very receptive to these a anti-small-d democratic maneuvers. trump is responding to it. if it s not him, there will be somebody else articulating those themes, maybe in not quite so personally belligerent a way, but this is part of our politics now and it s not going away. ron brownstein, we ll leave it there, thank you so much for coming on. happy fourth to you.