crime. in some cases talking about the southern border and lack of security there. these are the things that they feel can get them past the finish line in a very close race. as we know, midterm elections historically in this century in particular a lot of these races are close even in wave elections. the individual races are extremely close and what gets the challenger across the finish line is that feeling among voters, particularly the swing voters that are going to decide georgia s senate race. that s who is going to decide it. that for all of my doubts, i just need to put a check on the white house and i m going in that direction. christian walker pointed out in his video at the very end, said this is a candidate issue. it s not about him. it is. and it seems republicans have made their decision about this candidate a long time ago. knowing everything they know. about him. that s got its questions in itself. senior political correspondent for the washington examiner david druc
been fine, go ahead. he didn t do any of that. everything has been a lie. everything has been down played and cutting corners. the whole thing. and who whose expense is that at? me and my mom as we re chased down by the media, we re terrorized, all these different things. people are questioning my authenticity. don t lie. don t put this on me. this is a candidate issue. not a me issue. i wouldn t have spoken out if there weren t all these lies every day. that s christian walker, herschel walker s sonin a video posted moments ago. let s bring in on the phone greg bluestien. when this broke overnight and your new piece this morning, you have anonymous republicans smearing christian walker. this morning you have other republicans saying maybe all this is is true, but herschel walker is better for the country than raphael warnock. known about the allegations of
weighing in on this candidate issue. why not? well, no, he actually said on hugh he witt other night, we believe every one of those ten people that will take the stage tonight is eligible and qualified. we should be e should move forward. oh, good, a message to donald trump essentially saying stop suggesting that he s not qualified or eligible to run for president, yes? well, i d leave that up to mr. trump. what i think he has said is this needs to get settled. but right now every one of those candidates is eligible, yes. it s a settled issue as far as the republican national committee is concerned. yeah. look, it s not just the republican national committee. i think what this is is candidates petition to get on ballots. states certify them whether or not they re qualified to get on. they are all certified and qualified in most of these statds so far i don t believe any of the folks on tonight have
a problem, they are not reporting on this team romney, do they know? i can tell you this i know a lot of romney folks outside of boston are just they re throwing their hands up in the air, they just don t understand what this team is thinking. if you inject truth serum into mitt romney s advisers and certainly in the outside circle of advisors, they will tell you that, yes, the rules have changed, it s harder now to get the nomination because the delegate distribution, it s harder because of the addition of super pacs, but there s also more than that. they have a candidate issue, okay. they have a candidate issue in terms of a party that has become much more conservative than the obama era and they followed a candidate whose profile isn t great for where the party is right now and his performance on the campaign oftentimes isn t that great, so i think there is a challenge for them in terms of the inherent forces of this cycle. super pacs, new delegate rules,
the fact is that jay carney teed up the question about george romney. the george romney the fact it was very smartly asked at that debate, you would think he could say more than maybe. i don t get it. i think chuck, to your point here, it does not seem to be a staff issue. the one thing we know even if they weren t sounds like a candidate issue. monday night when he fumbled about tax returns on thursday they were ready for it. he got asked it and he gave this in the past year i may come to it sounded here s what it is. it sounds like he s hiding something. i don t think he is but he s uncomfortable with something in there. i don t know whether it s his wealth. we know he s wealthy. teddy roosevelt, john kennedy. barack obama fdr, one other point here, newt gingrich could be vulnerable on taxes because the way rehe released his taxes,