tonight, donald trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on maine s ballot ban. a clash of legal challenges and campaign events which is two weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. then, harvard university s president stepping down after backlash over congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism. and, congress as a lot to get done in a election year. how this could all play out with republicans now in the majority in the house as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. happy to be back at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we are kicking off our first show of the new year with the reality of defendant donald trump on the 2024 campaign trail, less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, three weeks from the new hampshire primary, and right now his challengers for the gop nomination have yet to touch him in the polls. but donald trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he makes his pitch to vot
tonight, don t trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on means ballot ban. a clash of legal challenges and campaign events which is two weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. then, harvard university s president stepping down after backlash over congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism. and, congress as a lot to get done in a election year. how this could all play out with republicans now in the majority in the house as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. happy to be back at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we are kicking off our first show of the new year with the reality of defendant donald trump on the 2024 campaign trail, less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, three weeks from the new hampshire primary, and right now his challenges for the gop nomination have yet to touch him in the polls. but donald trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he makes his pitch to voter
republicans, tim. donald trump blocked steve scalise from a chance at being speaker of the house. he boxed him out. what did steve scalise due today? he endorsed donald trump. so who exactly are the normal republicans? this is my pet issue. so thank you for asking me about this. i do note the endorsement race this time. it is over 140 members of the house, senate, and city governors have endorsed, trump and nikki haley has to. last time january to 2016, don trump had a single intimacy in congress, jeff sessions. now he s got all of them. 18 senators. the house majority leader, the speaker the house. this party has united behind. him i call it the new maga establishment. there are a handful of closet normals, the people that don t want trump but don t have the courage or the gumption to say it. and then the people who haven t endorsed anyone but they re not
so thank you for asking me about this. i do note the endorsement race this time. it is over 140 members of the house, senate, and sitting governors have endorsed, trump and nikki haley has too. last time january to 2016, donald trump had a single intimacy in congress, jeff sessions. now he s got all of them. 18 senators. the house majority leader, the speaker the house. this party has united behind. him i call it the new maga establishment. there are a handful of closet normals, the people that don t want trump but don t have the courage or the gumption to say it. and then the people who haven t endorsed anyone but they re not out there helping haley, they re not helping desantis, they re sure not helping christie. so i just think that s why going match your previous question, a lot of these folks, mike lawler in new york, they ran in 2022 acting like they were gonna be a normal republican but then after two years we ve seen the evidence and they are no different from
that s really the point of disinformation, right right. is to confuse, to muddle, to make everything so you just doubt democracy as it is, and as you showed in your data download is exactly what happened. people have no faith in democracy anymore. very quickly, jonah goldberg, can the january 6th come up with anything that would change republican minds? it remains to be seen. a lot of people did some very, very bad things trying to steal the election, and it just depends whether they can find the actual evidence, the smoking gun. if there are, in fact, videos of donald trump practicing his appeal to the mob to go home that have all sorts of damning stuff on it, that could be a big deal, but it just remains to be seen because a lot of this is baked in. i do want to say i think there are a lot of what i call closet normals in the republican party whose chief crime is just cowardice and not being willing to tell the truth rather than actually believing the full scope of the