for the last six plus years our next guest has covered the twice impeached ex-president from the earliest days of his campaign expertly. his new book the big lie, election chaos the host of way too early jonathan lemire looks at the big lie and its formation was born on a sleepy monday in ohio in august of 2016. that is where the disgraced ex-president, then a candidate, first claimed his election with hillary clinton would be rigged. the seeds of the big lie have been planted. a celebrity candidate with little regard for the truth had publically doubted the intrinsic fairness of america s most sacred democratic institution. taking the first step on a
that is a very tough line to toe. you are right, there s plenty of time left. there s plenty of time to make mistakes to progress finally you have written a book called star power american democracy in the age of the celebrity candidate. i pick up one point you ve just said but ron desantis is an income but he s in office now. he has inability to react to issues and enact them that mike pence does not have. that s a great point for. with that give desantis a potential edge? yes i think it does absolutely. he has made headlines by criticizing biden and avoiding criticizing trump. but if he is on a debate stage with final trump and mike pence what seems to be growing more likely every day, he is going to have no choice but to step away from just bashing biden and to attack these other republican presidential hopefuls perhaps.
he s not done public campaign events but doing a lot of trolling online. but the question, will he be able to debate oz in the fall? this is one of the most closely watched races because democrats see it as a chance to pick up a republican seat. i think it s too early to know. this race is not going to turn on snooki, i do not believe. let s turn to georgia here. this is a case wherie it s another question of a celebrity candidate. herschel walker going up against the incumbent here, raphael warnock. walker is now on the campaign trail after not being around a whole lot. what he is saying is what s getting him in a little bit of trouble. take a listen. if we patrol the air, we go over to china, bad air. so, with china getting all the good air, their bad air got to move. so, it moves over to our good air space. and now we got to clean that back up. did you get that?
a red state and raphael warnock, because of that, is in a very vulnerable position. he just squeaked out a win. hershel walker has the benefit of name recognition. he s coming in as a celebrity candidate, someone that a lot of that has inspired other celebrities to get into the race, like dr. oz. he s coming in as a hero and a superstar. they both have questions about their past domestic violence issues on both sides and so that s going to come into play as well. but they both sort of have these sort of cloudy pasts so they can t really use it against each other. at the same time, hershel walker, it s his first time as a politician. he s not the perfect candidate because of the domestic assault issues. but he does have the backing of president trump which will help him in the primaries and the general in georgia.