subsidiary of trump that other candidates and and poll tigdstigzs have turned themselves into and so i think that s what that conversation is about. i don t see why he wouldn t run. but, you know, it s a while away. we played earlier another swipe from the former senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. there has been very little traction when it comes to demands to remove mcconnell from leadership. why would the former president keep i mean, i guess he just pushes this because what else is he going to talk about? i don t think it s strategic, anderson. i mean, i hear an enormous amount of frustration from a lot of people. um, in in conversations with trump. frequent conversations with him that he won t move off these attacks they consider counterproductive. even the people who, you know, share his antipathy of mcconnell, and there are some but they don t think this is helping him. they don t think this is a way to go forward. this isn t a strategy. this isn t a tactic. this i
themselves into and i think trump is struggling with that. i think that s what that conversation is about. i don t see why he wouldn t run. but, you know, it s a while away. we played it earlier, another swipe at the fsenate minority leader mitch mcconnell. there has been very little traction when it comes to demands to remove mcconnell from leadership. why would the former president keep i mean, i guess he just pushes this because what else is he going to talk about? i mean, this is just i don t think it s strategic, anderson. i mean, i hear an enormous amount of frustration from a lot of people. in conversations with trump, or infrequent conversations with him, that he won t move off of these attacks that they consider counterproductive. even the people who share his antipathy of mcconnell, and there are some but they don t think this is helping him. they don t think this is a way to go forward. this isn t a strategy. this isn t a tactic. this is just something he wants to ta
let s discuss with our chief political analyst, gloria borger, and the former republican governor of ohio. what is it about governor desantis that seems to get under trump s skin? well, governor desantis has said or has not said that he wouldn t run if donald trump were to run for president. he hasn t gotten out of the way of donald trump. donald trump believes that desantis is an ingrate because he believes that desantis wouldn t be where he is without donald trump, and there are lots of other potential republican candidates who have come right out there and said, look, if donald trump runs, we re not even going to think about it. but ron desantis isn t one of them. governor desantis, governor kasich, hasn t said he ll step which former-president trump calls the magic words, according
long time. i know she will look at the race. any smart politician would. she wouldn t run against the president or a vice president but if both of them should drop out and things are open she will be there. i take her at her word she will do everything she can to help democrats this year. bill: that answer is a no but you tell me. another clip from yesterday. she went hard after republicans with this sound bite here. to be clear to all of us that the struggle for a unity and democracy is far from over. republicans are defending coup plotters and curbing voting rights at precisely the moment when democracy needs champions. democrats are fighting for the rule of law and for judges who follow it. bill: nothing on crime, nothing on covid, nothing on schools being shut down for more than a year, nothing on the border. all of those issues i know mark
wounds. talking about the policies we re good at as republicans. believe it or not, we are good at a number of policies. and i think a majority of americans will line up with those. we keep forgetting to remind people what we re good at and doing it with a better tone than 280 characters on twitter. governor kemp says perdue promised him he wouldn t run. do you know anything about that? well, i ve certainly heard the governor talk about that. if that s what he said, it s hard to imagine he wouldn t honor his word. but, look, it s hard sometimes to lose publicly. i m sure david perdue feels the tension of losing in a public display in the election. he s trying to save face. unfortunately he will create even more disruption and chaos. quite honestly, look, i would be really worried if stacey abrams was the governor right now, right. that s the opponent we re trying to beat. if we had her as governor during the pandemic, we wouldn t have