the space and basically for a period of time anyway become donald trump s general election opponent here in september and october. what we have seen are candidates like beto o rourke stepping up defending joe biden very strongly, very decisively. that s kind of an interesting campaign dynamic if you re the biden campaign. do we just let them do it? i think we ll see more candidates do that. this is a very crowded field and you re running against donald trump, for all of his faults, he wants to dominate the oxygen. this is an opportunity think to go face to face with him. but i think this is an example of what, whoever is our nominee is going to deal with this. what we saw in 2016 is going to be gentle by comparison. this is going to be brutal. it is going to be absolutely brutal. that s why i think we need to see how our candidates deal with these tough situations through the rest of this year, early part of this year. how they deal with adversity,
alternative here is really go out there and aggressively fill the space and basically for a period of time anyway become donald trump s general election opponent here in september and october. what we have seen are candidates like beto o rourke stepping up defending joe biden very strongly, very decisively. that s kind of an interesting campaign dynamic if you re the biden campaign. do we just let them do it? i think we ll see more candidates do that. this is a very crowded field and you re running against donald trump, for all of his faults, he wants to dominate the oxygen. this is an opportunity think to go face to face with him. but i think this is an example of what, whoever is our nominee is going to deal with this. what we saw in 2016 is going to be gentle by comparison. this is going to be brutal. it is going to be absolutely brutal. that s why i think we need to see how our candidates deal with these tough situations through the rest of this year, early
with governor gavin newsom announced some that they already had obamacare open for illegal aliens, and then he announced that it would be applied to everyone in the state to, regardless of whether you are there legally or not, and then of course the mayor of new york. doing the same thing, making the same proposal. that would stretch out a apply of 2021 and apply to everyone, conveniently just after the 2020 election. so they are campaigning on this. it is a campaign dynamic, but it is california new york saying exactly the same thing. that there should be universal health care and it should apply to whoever is in our borders. that is impossible. and it would, you can look at it, we can use this historically, not just venezuela. but you can look at even a controlled socialist framework like this destroys civilizations. it destroys cultures, it destroys countries. and it does so, because it is unsustainable. and yet, the left, has nothing
donald trump just told time this past week, i don t believe they interfered. that became a laughing point, not a talking point. anyone who s seen the intelligence says there s beyond question they interfered. they want to get into the hows and whys and how deep, but donald trump won t believe it. this is congress, both sides, standing up to the president-elect. what s that tell you? it s going to be an interesting january and february, you know? i think mccain, especially, you know, the 2008 republican nominee, who, you know, has both of these guys, by the way, mccain and graham have had testy relationships with donald trump and donald trump revealing lindsey graham s cell phone number a year ago, so the idea of those two guys now flexing their muscle and, you know, trump is not in a campaign dynamic anymore. this is a dynamic testing the powers of washington. i think this is going to be a pick your battles presidency. you re going to have to be really careful about where y
of rent-seekers and hangers on. that will be a very difficult things to man manage. friends of hillary friends of bill all that. having real competition might impose a kind of discipline early on that would come in handy down the road. jon: one wonders, nina, whether this campaign organization she is about to build or about to launch, is going to have so many moving parts it could be this big lumbering creature that might not be thimble enough to react to, you know, changes in world events and changeses in the campaign dynamic. well that was certainly her problem as we recall in 2007 and 2008. that is why barack obama was basically able to end-run her because she had this big lumbering campaign. but i think time around it is totally different because she doesn t have a real contender in the democratic primary. the other thing is that she actually had missteps before she