spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
all so much for joining us on this very busy news hour. we are still watching that race in virginia very closely. and de and a news night with abby, phillip starts right now virginia is not for lepers, at least not tonight. that s no, i don t need sign cnn breaking news good evening. i m abby phillip in new york, down to the wire or thousands of republican voters in a district of 800,000 people in virginia are now rendering a verdict. it is technically about two men, bob good and john maguire. but it s about something else. what donald trump prizes most what he s always valued above all else is loyalty. and bob good, the chairman of the freedom caucus and house, a band of congressional hardliners that has fought hard for the mega agenda inside of congress is not good enough for trump. good found himself on the opposite side of the primary race with trump and the reason and it s pretty simple, good. wanted ron desantis to be the republican presidential nominee, not donald trum