so, i think that there s this kind of one-two punch, which is, like, here s this part of my biography that some middle of the road voters will really kind of find appealing, and here s the more hard-line policy that comes along with that. and, you know, it remains notable that every time she talks about the mother emanuel shooting in charleston, she kind of avoids talking about race. when that shooting was carried out by a white supremacist. or guns. the policy she said tonight was, ending gun-free zones. that means around schools, et cetera. one thing i believe was new or newish was her opposition to a red flag law. she believes they don t work, that the government cannot do them in a proper way. this is a significant part of the biden administration policy, but it s also something that some republicans, especially local law enforcement, have embraced. but she s staking out pretty hardline positions on these issues.
governor haley, including a number of them, to continue to flesh out issues. she s going to have to continue to flesh out this issue along with a couple of other ones that we ve talked about over the course of the evening. so i expect that iowa caucus-goers, new hampshire voters are going to try to pin her down on that. she s going to be responsible for answering it. i do just want to say really quickly, i think it was incredibly significant the nuanced answer they gave on abortion. love it or hate it, that was probably the most laying out the facts and reality of what doing abortion policy at a federal level requires. and i worked in the house wherever year on the anniversary of roe, we would send a 20-week the pain capable abortion ban bill to the senate. that doesn t have 60 votes. there is not in the votes in the senate for a 20-week abortion ban. so i m not sure if you actually break through to the public and explain, i thought her take was very reasonable, which is i don t need
right. there were a lot of points throughout this town hall where she brought that humanity. and that s no small thing. she s very effective at using her personal biography to make specific points. but it also allows her to dodge certain issues and questions. so, you hear why her sort of thinking you hear her thinking through being a candidate who is against abortion. but then what slides right under that is an attack against the biden administration, unfairly claiming that their stance is abortion up until birth, when we know that the president has said that they basically support the codification of roe v. wade, which does allow for abortion restrictions. you can t attack someone on their personal biography, right? it s the same thing she can talk extensively about the effects of racism in her life but always ends by essentially saying it s not systemic, that this is just something i went through and everything is fine now because america is a great country.
to republicans that, look, trump gets distracted. he s easily distracted by the next shiny object. i will never get distracted from these people. i will fight it and root it out where it is forever. that s what he s communicating. i m not sure her attack is going to work in this primary. but you missed the second part of that attack respectfully, which is saying he s using taxpayer dollars to do it. pick up the phone and call disney. that s what an executive is should be doing, working with the businesses to say here s the issues we have. let s come up with a solution that works. that s where i think he starts to lose the more traditional conservatives who thinks we can find allies and partnerships with business even if we like some of the esg that they re doing. but republicans are wanting republican officials to take a more muscular view of their political power. they look at liberals and democrats who have power and say, they drive their agenda no matter what, and they don t wan
quote, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. he did not mention names but our friend at punch bowl news say it is an implied dig at former president donald trump who played a key role in endorsing candidates in arizona, pennsylvania and georgia. in arizona, polling shows trump-backed blake masters consistently eight to ten points behind senator mark kelly. in pennsylvania, trump-backed mehmet is behind his opponent, john federman. and walker who, released an add about putting a gun to his wife s ahead is in a toss-up. and there s concern in washington and potentially marco rubio in florida. there are a number of big policy issues at play as well, including the reaction to abortion and the passage of the