so tucker carlson s advice was to urge republicans to campaign more on demonizing immigrants and homeless people, because, tucker carlson. but the problem that republicans are facing right now isn t simply a messaging problem about demonizing poor and brown people. the fact is republicans have nominated a truly bonkers crop of candidates. i ve never really felt it was societies responsibility to take care of other people s children. on january six, i never felt threatened. it s where tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been concerned. the fact of the matter is, this didn t seem like an armed insurrection to me. don tommy joe biden won 81 million votes. don t insult my intelligence. i refuse to have it. the largest standing army in the world are american gun owners. we ve got over a trillion
to be a great election for republicans. off, here presidents got weak numbers, inflation. but then the circus came to town in the senate races. so what should be a negative referendum on the president, from the republican point of view, is becoming a, who are these clowns discussion of someone like oz is on life support on pennsylvania, a lot of the others can t raise any money. the party is running out of money so they are getting beat on television which is critical. so it s almost a perfect storm of screwing up and i think leader mcconnell, you can see he s trying to lower expectations. like, hey, we have some candidate problems here. and it s true, they do. doesn t to point to a vacuum of of course, donald trump is stoked all of this. but in terms of actually someone, on the hands of but the captains wheel, it suggests that no one can have their hands on the captain s wheel. no we can t even try to grab the captains we ll at this stage of the game. we have reporting that a lo
a poll shows that mastriano is trailing behind his opponent by 15 points. he trump endorsed candidates are behind, and democrats are starting to get maybe a little excited. joining me now is longtime republican strategist mike murphy who is advised republican candidates including john mccain, jeb bush, and rob mccain. he is the co-host of must listen. thank you for joining me. whose fault is all of this? mitch mcconnell is bemoaning the quiet candidate quality. is it his fault, is a fox news, is that donald trump? how is it? how did we get here? one, congrats on the show, alex. great to see you. two, if you have to blame somebody, start with the crazy that spoken up the republican primary, and i think has been whipped into a problem for republicans by none other than donald j trump. if i generically, this is supposed
as schools in florida? share. i mean i think that education has become the political battlefield for republicans right now, but a big player in that is hillsdale college. and the networks around that. hillsdale college is this small, conservative christian school in michigan that has become just a really influential part of conservative politics. conservative politicians really love to go and speak better. they get a lot of attention there. activists go there. the president of the school is close with governors in tennessee, in florida. ron desantis, the school has had people like justice clarence thomas come and speak on their campus, and ginni thomas, justice thomas s
but tonight, we begin with the story. the man waiting in the wings. while donald trump is finding a torrent of investigations, there is one person who has been ready to take the mic, should the former president go bankrupt, be caught in jail, or fall into a classified box. that man is florida republican governor ron desantis. the first term governor has catapulted to celebrity status among republicans thanks to his abrasive style and his relentless desire to weigh into the culture wars on behalf of the far-right. with his sights clearly set on 2024 run, governor desantis is now taking his show on the road. he is headlining rallies for k gop candidates all across the usa. just last week, he visited arizona to stop on behalf of the far-right election deniers running for governor and senate in that state. there, he was praised as the beast from the east, and the best governor we have in this country. gubernatorial candidate kari