Indictment watch. Safe to say Donald Trumps team is right to be worried. The former president could be charged this week with prloting to overturn the 2020 election. What will it main for his campaign to return to the white house. Plus the desantis burn out. What is the plan to turn his Campaign Around . They want to see you be able to stand up and fight back against the people that are destroying this country. Nobody has done that more than me. And bidens record. There is good news on inflation, immigration, and crime. So why dont voters believe it . Hoello and welcome to insie politics sunday. Im abby phillips. This morning we have new polls in two key states. That are the s out of iowa and South Carolina all year and in iowa donald trump has a 30point lead over ron desantis with tim scott there nipping at his hiells. Trump lda big lead in South Carolinaith the states former governor nikki haley in a tie for second place with desantis. Senator tim scott also from South Carolina is only other candidate in the doubledigits there. Lots to discuss. Here with us in the studio is harry enten and errol lewis of Spectrum News and Shelby Talcott and Shane Goldmacher of the new york times. So these polls seem to confirm what we maybe knew all along which is that donald trump is still very far in the lead and all of the other challengers are still struggling to even get close . Yeah. It is certainly he has the frontrunner, hes acknowledged recently that hes so far ahead he could have to do something seriously wrong to lose the lead. Well we have indictments coming but well talk about that later in show. In the South Carolina poll, this is something that desantis supporters have been concerned about for a few months now, is the fact that they have two people from South Carolina in the race and so their argument to me over the past few months has been all of those votes, if nikki haley and tim scott were in the not race, would go to ron desantis and he would be closing the gap. So whether or not all of the votes would go to them remains to be seem but a trunk would so that is notable because that is representing what theyve been concerned about for a little bit of time now. Shane, you have a great piece t times today which is what happening in the desantis campaign. Which is frank soul searching, the donors an allys are nervous and one person close to the governor is experiencing a challenging learning curve. That is to say the least. And this week hes in park city in utah for a Re Trooe Preplanned but a lot of the changes come back in the last week that showed state of his campaign. Which is they were spending more then than they expected and raising less money that he they expected an the rates were not competitive to be through the iowa caucus and through super tuesday. So theyre saying were making some changes. But that poll captures the challenges he has. Right now hes closer to pack of people far behind than to donald trump. And that is a ricky place for a candidate who has been trying to portray this as a twoperson race. He cant afford to be behind tim scott or nikki haley if he wants to say this is a twoperson race between him and donald trump. And just one note about your story, errol, you also report some news that that video that was denounced as antilgbtq tried to criticize trump for being too friendly to gay and trans people was created by the desantis staffer and then they handed it off to someone and pretented like they didnt make it but it was theirs all along. It speaks to the silos where the campaign has set up there is not happening and for the first time were saying that this wasnt just a supporter, a meme that they were amplifying, they pushed out and was out there, oh, look, people should look at this but turned out people should be behind it all ang lo. That is part of what is gone wrong here. That is sophisticated to try to create something and launder it through some outside performer. They con pull that off. But the more serious problem was spending 200,000 every day and 40 cents on the dollar is vanishing out of their fundraising. There are other signs of serious problems. What saw that jumped out of me, no members of congress have come out and endorsed him. This is a person who served terms in congress. Maybe the guy who sat next to you. Anybody . Well the answer is he was not the most friendly guy when he was in congress so to that point exactly. Harry, one of the other interesting observations that some folks have had when you look deep into the numbers, not just in the fox poll but in other polls recently, desantis is losing ground, among College Educated white votersm look at the numbers from quinnipiac. Since july or since february, he has lost 22 points from College Educated white voters and trump has gained 12 and haley and scott has also gained. What going on here. This speaks to the problem of Ron Desantiss campaign and who he wants to be. The antitrump vote within the gop is in the middle and it is among college graduates. Yet ron desantis wanted to rub run a campaign further and further to the right alienating those that are antitrump and weve seen in the polling numbers, you know, part of this is trump is going up because of the indictments and some rallying around the base. But it also speaks to the fact that ron desantis has become less well loved. There is these this very favorable number if you look across an aggregate of polls, it was near 50 . That is how many republicans have a favorable view of ron desantis at the beginning of the year. Now the number has dropped into the mid30s. So it is not just that trump is becoming better likes, it is that desantis is less liked. These are the voters paying the closest attention to primary. And that happened in 2020. That is the group that moves. Theyre following the news and when desantis is struggling and hes losing support. It is the volatile group and it is a dangerous base to have in both the democratic and Republican Party because they move as the news moves. So one other not having so great of a weekend. Mike pence, he was on with dana bash today and i want you to take a listen. Republican primary voters know that we need new leadership based on then enthusiasm and the support that were seeing not only across New Hampshire this week but iowa and states around the country. Im convinced well have a new Standard Bearer in this party. Hes in the singledigits in the polls. Who would you never consider and his numbers are the highest on that front. I think the problem with pence is that he has a message. He had a clear message. The bulk of Republican Voters, a. , are still very angry that he certified the election. Weve seen him on the grown try to kind of combat that messaging. To be determined if it is working. It doesnt seem like it based on the polls. But also, be, his message is not where the Republican Base is any more. Speaking of, harry, you were talking about ron desantis kind of veering away from the middle here. One of the ways that we saw that happening was with all of the woke stuff in florida. Hes running on his florida agenda. One of the things that have come out of florida is changes to the educational curriculum here. So here is what change, instruc instances could be used for their personal benefit. The instruction includes acts of Violence Perpetu against and by African Americansut it is not mited to the 1906 atlanta riot and the 1990 d. C. Race riot and the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and the 1923 Rosewood Massacre as well. So the Education System is in florida changing and i think this is something that is penetrating to the public. Listen, youve got a florida strategy byr ron desantis that is not selling so well in florida. He have him on an hostile administrative attack on the civil rights movement, on womens rights when it comes to abortion with the sixweek ban. With him attacking or disparaging or demeaning lgbt rights and he thinks this is the path to attracting the evangelical base, i guess, but that doesnt seem to be working. Soee so hes throwing away what was supposed to be his trump card which is the economy and 7 inflation in florida is not helping either. And this put him on a Collision Course with the Vice President Kamala Harris who really went down to florida to talk about this. This is her and also how desantis responded. How is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization. I think that their probable going to go show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life. So just as a reminder, were talking about slaves here who later in life they would have been enslaved. So im not sure what being a blacksmith would be helpful to them in that respect when they were still enslaved. But well leave the conversation there for now. Everyone stand by. Coming up next for us. The republican frontrunner is now staring down the barrel of yet another potential indictment this week. So will this one shake up the race . Outes. So you can deliver more value to your customers. Fastst. Reliable. 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They did it because it is Election Interference. They did it right in the middle of my campaign. That is called Election Interference and it is called weaponization of the justice system. There has never been anything like this. There is that. But also last week a federal judge said a mayh trial date for trump in the other case he faces on classified documents. So that means that hell spend next year campaigning not just for president but also foris freedom. There are w three trials scheduled for the first half of the next year as Republican Voters are deciding who is their president ial nominee. That is a Nightmare Scenario for republicans. Trump could be convicted of federal crimes after winning the primaries. Which is why trump continues to run on his legal troubles. I mean, Here Is A Quote From Steven Chung who is one of trumps spokesperson. He said Republican Voters, they see another political indictment or Target Letter and they know it is just the weaponize add Justice Department going after President Trump. So much of the legal messaging is political message and so much of the political messaging is legal messaging. You cant separate them. No, it is completely intertwined an it is intentional because it is really the only way they could run this campaign and also fight multiple indictments. So what i think were going to see in the shortterm, as hes fighting these indictments and campaigning, is virtually no changes to the schedule just because the trials have not ramped up to the point where it is going to effect him. So next week hell have had been interview on thursday with an outlet im told that even if the indictment drops that day, there is no changes to his schedule. Hell be going to iowa on friday and doing a rally in pennsylvania on saturday. That will remain the same regardless of what the legal what legal things happen. But what i think is notable, when im, and im sure youve had this situation as well, when i call up trump people to talk to them, theyre calling me back and saying, i was talking to lawyers. So it is really like i cant i dont think you can overscore how much these two things are intertwined. It has got to suck up the oxygen in the room. When you have your spokes people and advisers and lawyers need to get lawyers because theyre also in legal jeopardy, that is a practical weight on your campaign. They have tried to put a good fats on it and tried to make lemonade out of lemons and saying hur find raising goes up. There was a harris poll that said that Something Like 57 of republicans think that these charges are there for political reasons. Meaning, they basically accept autoim going to show you wh folks are talking about in terms of funaing. This is what it looks like ever raigned over the last couple of months. Fundraising just spikes. Yeah. And then dropped back down. And then drops back down to normal. But they have incentive. But the other part is that there is a theory out there and a reasonable one to think that donald trump has a lot at stake here because his goal is to win and pardon himself, hes going to win first. So hell try as hard as he can. And the other theory is perhaps there is some deal of a lifetime for great deal maker to try and trade dropping out of the race for making all of these cases go away. Now neither of those is likely. But they are both possibilities. And i think that is partly why were going to continue to see the legal and the political arguments intertwined throughout this campaign. I would just note, the polling has gotten better for m. Yeah, lets show that too. Here is the gop primary support after the new york indictment and then the florida indictment. Right. You could see that you saw this big jump after the new york indictment. Florida, a little bit holding steady. But hes higher now than he was back in early march. The race has become a oneman race between donald trump and himself. But here is the one thing i will note, there is a big difference between an indictment and a potential conviction down the roo down the road and the one thing that seemed to move Donald Trumps numbers was the 2022 midterm where the underperforming and he was seen as a quote unquote loser. If he were to get convicted that is a whole new territory. A indictment is one thing but a conviction is something different. And i found that calendar to be fascinating. Re looking at the first months of 2024 being dominated by a series of primaries as well as trial dates and yet when you look at those iowa and South Carolina polls that came out today on fox news, donald trump is winning the electability argument. Republican primary voters still see him as the candidate. And that is the consolidation over his own party and the challenge for other candidates even as hes facing a potential indictment over january 6 arent able to attack him on that issue. Not only are they not able to, theyre doing the onsy. Just listen to what theyve been saying. They are hunting republicans. That is wrong. I do not want to see my opponents eliminated because of the actions of a corrupt federal Administrative Police state. His reckless words on that dayen dayen on that day endangered all of us. It is going to be a further and further zrks distraction and that is why im running. We need a new generational leader. We cant keep dealing with this drama. As shane said, Thbs The Problem that trumps opponents are having and it is almost outside of their control. That is that they have to walk this fine line between not directly attacking trump, because when i talk to voters out on the ground, even the ones who are open to voting for somebody other than trump or openly dont want trump still dont want to go out and vote for someone that is going to attack trump and therein lies the problem. How do you defend trumps actions an keep good with base that believes that the doj is politicized and were seeing this fine line that all of the candidates are trying to walk and it is tough. So, desantis really tested where that line is this week. Let me play what he said and ill tell you what happened afterwards. I think it was shown how he was in the white house and didnt do anything while things were going on. He should have come out for forcefully. Of course, that. Not exactly the most toughest denouncement of trump. But the Trump Campaign and Trump Supporters really went all in going after him. Jason miller, another trump spokesperson said, called him ron decheney. That is a reference to liz cheney there if youre not familiar. But that is of the mildest of touches on trump an that is the rye reaction, and they understand what going on on the ground and they dont want to get booed or turn off voters. Theyre impossible. You have people like mike pence whose life was threatened and still licking the shoes of people who he all but ordered attack him. So theyre in an impossible situation. They may be relying on the courts to eliminate trump for them. That is not a safe bet and certainly not before january. So theyll all continue to cluster at bottom of the polls and continue to attack the Justice Department which is unfortunate and it is unfortunate that more people dont understand how the judicial system works. Our Justice Department at a federal criminal defendants, less than half go to trial and get acquitted and they almost always win. Litly almost always win because they have an overwhelming advantage and a whole lot of evident and that is true in this case as well. And not to put too fine of a point on it. The trials that might lay out even more damaging evidence against trump, they will begin after voters have basically decided who the republican nominee is. So there will be nor opportunity for that to be factors into their Decision Making come next spring. So well see how that turns out. So stand by, coming up next, what evidence does prosecutors have as they prepare to indict trump in the january 6 case. Well have that next. When youre ready to go but static and wrinkles are like, nooooo try bounce, its the sheet. Less static. Less wrinkles. Morsoftness. More freshness. Bounce. Its the sheet. Bug spray works best. When your family actually wears it. Get odorfree eight hour protection from mosquitoes and ticks without the ick. Zevo onbody repellent. People love it. Bugs hate it. Living with diabetes . 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And hes made his case that he wassen tight was entitled to seize all of the irregars went exactly that. Oath to do now that was trumps newest attorney in the january 6 case. T the Target Letter that was sent to trump reportedly cited deprivation of rights and the other conspiracy to defraud the United States and there is a Witness Tampering Statute in there as well. Our legal panel is joining us now. Cnn correspondent Kara Scannell and katie cherkasky. So cara, what are you expecting this week because i think people might be rightfully a little bit confused because there was a targ letter that was a week ago now and the grand jury is still meeting, they still spoke to witnesses as recently as thursday. So what could be possible in this coming week . Well, i think were waiting to see if there is movement on this front and if things will progress to the grand jury. But if you look back at the maralago documents where he received a Target Letter, there was a three week period between that Target Letter and when he w was indicted. Trump attorneys had asked for a meaning and they went in to try to persuade the Special Counsel team not to bring the charges. So hes brought in a new counsel who was just on fox. He played that clip. They may have a Strategy Session where they want to go in and talk and try to persuade them not to bring the charges and we dont know if that is happening or not on the Special Counsel team. So it is possible that is something that is happening that could in essence slow down this process. Of course, the Special Counsel doesnt have to ing before the charges although when someone gets a Target Letter that is ultimately what happens. And as we look at the documents case, in that instance, they brought this indictment but theyre still they havent sent a Target Letter to a low ranking official or an employee at the Trump Organization at maralago and that indicates even though trump and nauta, that they are still pursuing that. And there could be a couple of things at play here. And katie, when you see how active this grand jury still is, there are interviews scheduled out into the future, what does that say to you as a federal prosecutor . Well the grand jury is still conducting interviews so they could vote at any time. Once theyve received any evidence and talked to the witnesses they could decide to vote and that could happen quickly. So we dont know in terms of the timing. As cara was saying. These things could happen in a flash if things wrap up on the investigate decide. What do you think about this week in terms of the timing . I dont know that i have a prediction in terms of whether theyll drop an indictment this week. A Target Letter is not a necessary predicate. Most people dont receive Target Letters at all and are charged. You cant read into timing. And i tell my clients ill believe the charges until i see the indictment, until then it was all rumors an speculation. And what wee believe based on the witnesses that they are interested in is the mike pence of it all. He did not testify before the january 6 committee. Who investigated some of this in congress. But did go in to speak to the grand jury. I wan to play what trump had said about pence that could be in the sights of the Special Counsel. Because if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. All Vice President pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president. So there is that, cara . What else do you think could become very significant for these investigators . If this indictment, if it does happen, is focused on, you know, the interrupting this peaceful transfer of power and looking at this fake elector target and it is ties into the Pressure Campaign on mike pence which is those statements, there was a phone call between trump and mike pence that ivanka overheard a little bit of and there is all of the outrage that trump and his allies, including Rudy Giuliani and others have made to State Officials and some of the states and including brad raffensperger. And we have that call to remind folks, just take a listen. So, look, all i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. So that is one example of a piece of the potential evidence that prosecutors could point to. This issue of pressuring. And as we reported yesterday that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp had been contacted this past week by the Special Counsel because he had already received a call from former President Trump during the election period. And as well as some other states, in arizona theyve been contacted with the Special Counsel team and been interviewed in some cases. So you could see that theyre looking at all of the people that were part that would have been in every point along the line from the folks in the states where they may have been under pressure, to either reaudit, to fix them and also some of the fake electors, some of them have been interviewed. We dont know what they said to the grand jury. But, you know, it is all part of the same, possible alleged conspiracy or alleged scheme of how they were trying to swing the election. So katie, im curious about this. Do you think what do you think is the stronger avenue in this case . Is it the kind of Election Interference trying to disrupt the peaceful transfer, usurp the will of the people or is it also the violence that occurred, perhaps as a result of trumps actions and statements on january 6. It strikes me that trump and his allies and lawyers would point to these tweets that he put out on january 6. Please support our Capital Police and law enforcement, theyre on the side of the country. Tapeaceful. Im asking for everyone at the capitol to remain away from violence and theyll say hes not responsible for the violence. Do you see evident that the Special Counsel might be more interested in the other stuff and less interested in the violence . Yeah. I think so. Exactly from the Target Letter we dont see any carnals relating to a potential insurrection or inciting violence of any sort and i think the reason for that is because you do have a lot of ambiguous evidence in terms of what we call the brandonberg test that dictated what speech is kind of crossing the line from free speech into inciting violence and when you have alternate sort of statements about staying peaceful, from a prosecutorial standpoint, that is difficult to get to beyond a reasonable doubt. So when you look at the Target Letter, it is looking at charges relating to the efforts to elect the fake slates of elector and on Strucking Proceedings and then the question will be what evident do they have of trumps involvement in those schemes directly . So it be it gets away from the weaker charge quite frankly. And the other wrinkle here is theyre trying to charge him on things that he did while he whats a sitting president. Well im glad that you said that because i think that is something that is overlook very significantly. This is unprecedented territory. Right out of the gate, theyre to going to file whether you could prosecute and when athe acts outside of the scope of his office, et cetera and that is something that needs to be adjudicated at sticking points point, maybe even up front in this case, that is a major, major question. And that is the pointp his lawyer was making, that as a president he was entitled to ask to an audit and that is a defense to shape it that way. It was in the scope of his duties. Thank you both very much. Coming up next for us, President Biden touting an unlikely endorsement this week. Stay tuned to see who. Wiwith ubrelvy, theres another option. One dose works fast to eliminate migraraine pain. Treat it anytime, anywhere without worrying where you are or if its too late. Do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. Allelergic reactions to ubrelvy can happen. 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President bidens campaign has found a new surrogate. Marjorie taylor greene. Joe biden had the largest Public Investment in special infrastructure an Environmental Programs that is actually finishing what fdr started that lbj expanded on and joe biden is attempting to complete. Programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, medicare, medicaid, labor unions and he still is working on it. And no, joe biden did not write that speech. That ad polls from two very sarcastic but real speeches about bidens record. It is definitely unconventional but the Biden Campaign is highlighting what they see as a record of accomplishment. The Political Panel is back with me now. This is just further evidence that they want to run on the economy. And thre getting a little bit of backup from cnbc. Take a look at thiheadline that ran a couple of days ago. Morgan stanley Credit Bidenomics for much stronger than expected gdp growth. Yeah. I mean, look, this lays out the terms that the republicans are going to have to try and fix this they want to lay a glove on joe biden. The economy is always the first issue for many voters an biden has made it front and center. You have 3. 5 unemployment. You have inflation that is coming down. You have expansion. It is giving sort of a validated by places like Morgan Stanley and against that Marjorie Taylor greene has to pull up all of the other side issues, Hunter Bidens laptop and all of this other kind of junk. That is exactly what biden wants. He wants people to focus on that. He especially wants it to be a focus in the industrial heartland in the places where we keeps talking about industrialization and where people care about their jobs. And even though it might not be reflected in wildly over the top polls for him, he knows and i think we all know, that is what voters are really going to take seriously when it is time to maca choice next year. And it is not just the economy where this is happening. It is on a couple of other issues today. Errol said, inflation is down and up employment at a 54year low but micides are down as well. 9 drop. Border crossings are lower than theyve been in two years. What that amounts to is the main republican argument against biden has been the economy, the border and crime. Those are starting to come off the table. There is the possibility that maybe education is put back on the table. But theyre running out of issues. And one of things that is really interesting to watch republican Stump Speeches is the shift in focus over time. In 2022 they were all talking about the economy andin f infla. And even in the republican primary. Today is not the case. Theyre talking about woke corporations an the left overreach. It is really shifting to a heavy emphasis in culture over economy. Theyre not doing a lot on the campaign trail, but what they are trying to do is slowly repeat them self over and over again, that things are Getting Better and maybe in the next months youll start to give him some credit. I do think there is still republican candidates still view this as an opportunity for them just because as you said, it hasnt been wide lid reflected in the polls. I think people are still feeling inflation or crime. And so we saw with desantis this week and i think this is part of his reset, he was talking more about the economy on friday or saturday. He what he was talking about national security. I do wonder if people like desantis roll out their policy plans if well see more of a shift to try to keep those poll numbers on bidens end low. And of course, the other majoe looming over President Biden is his age. Polling and including this n news Poll Showthat of the things thaeyhink that they should be concerned out, it is his age. 34 say it is a major reason why they think biden should not run for president. Yeah, it is exactly right. And i think this is the real question. How much of joe bidens low approval is actually because of the economy, because of the crime, of all of the different issues or is it something that he simply cannot solve . Was he someone who was just seen as a place holder and now hes served his what will be four years and they dont want him any more. And if age ends up being the issue of this campaign, there is nothing put that joe biden could do to solve it. Pr perhaps the only thing he could hope for, is that his opponent is Somebody Else who is also approaching the age of 80 in donald trump. And as we talk about head winds for biden, i want to play from a hearing on capitol hill this week that featured two whistleblowers who say the investigation into hunter biden did not go the way that normal investigations usually go. Listen. I watch United States attorney weiss tell a room fuel of Senior Leaders that he was not the deciding Fperson On Whether charges were filed. That was my red line. I had already seen a pattern of preferential treatment and obstruction. It appeared that the u. S. Attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly maam strung, limited and marginalized by doj officials as well as other u. S. Attorneys. Now those allegations havent been proven. But if they are, they would be fairly serious. If these are definitely serious allegations. The thing that is going for the Biden Administration is they pushed back on this is that his son was in fact prosecuted for tax crimes. And this week even we will hear from hell be in a court. He will be in a court. So he is facing consequencesm now theyre arguing that hes facing less consequences because their investigation was hamstrung but given that he did face consequences, it is hard to see that irs prosecuted ivanka trump or any of his children for wrongdoing. It is still an allegation that there was interference and an invest investigation. And i think that republicans argument on all of this and as we saw and talked about earlier, they believe that the doj is widely politicized. That resonated with a lot of voters. So on that front, focusing on this hearing and focusing on what this hunter biden stuff could be effective for republicans running against joe biden. Because so many republicans believe this. Yeah, it is certainly something that animated the Republican Base but it is still remaining to see how far outside of the base will get. Thank you very much for being with us today on the show. And coming up next fonr us, thi weeks big divide on capitol hill. 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