mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career salvaged. now despite desperate to chase his lost relevance, pence is parachuting into races hoping someone is paying attention. it is a remarkable public split and spat between a president, former president and former vice president, who served together for four years. we should note that. our correspondents and analysts standing by to break down all the headlines. let s begin with kristen holmes in atlanta. kristen, it is a lot of races in georgia that are key, the outcome is key and you might call them bellwethers to some degree. break it all down for us. reporter: good morning, jim and erica. that s right. the big one we re watching is the one you just mentioned, this is the gubernatorial republican primary, which has become a proxy war. on one side, the maga trump election denying faction of the republican party and on the other you have that republican establishm
mckinfully west virginia s congressional primary. that s no surprise for me. endorsements from former president trump is always a good thing. shocking new video shows homeless people in sceettle using public transportation as shelter. our citizens are not able to ride on public railways and enough is enough. the goat is coming to fox. tom brady agreeing to join the channel. the network, the experience. once he retires from the nfl. steve: it s a brand new day. good morning, charlotte, north carolina. this is your 6:00 a.m. eastern wake-up call. right now you have got temperatures in the 50 s. buff you are going up to 81 and live it up today because there is a chance of rain. brian: no one promises you tomorrow. ainsley: seized moment, brian. brian: any more catchphrases, ainsley? steve: there you go. charlotte, north carolina. welcome to studio m we are up here on this wednesday, may 11th, 2022, mezzanine level. good to have you aboard. once again thre
joining us now, nbc news chief political analyst, chuck todd, the man behind the article and nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard. chuck, when you go back and look at 2020, and why donald trump lost, is there a definitive answer for why he lost? i think if you surveyed political strategists and political scientists, you wouldn t get a definitive answer. i think he lost simply because of covid. there s a lot of people because of what happened after the election with january 6th, they think about his antics, the first impeachment. then we had the second impeachment that sort of took place right after the inauguration. we never really had that sort of consensus, you didn t have the after action reports because you have one party was in denial that they actually lost, so they didn t do an after action report. but in some ways, neither did the democrats and i think that what i feel like i m watching is what the biden campaign thought their theory of the case was in october of
Now new tariffs that might ultimately ignite a trade war. The president has ignored the advice of most of business leaders. If you are thinking this president hasnt really thought this through very well . Thats how it happened. Jesse but the tariffs were just a Bargaining Chip and they worked. President trump this week we secured a wonderful deal with south korea. We had a deal that was a horror show. It was going to produce 200,000 jobs and id did for them. She was right, but it was for them, not for us. Jesse south korea doubled the amount of american cars they will allow to be sold in their
country. This in exchange for trump temporarily dropping the threat of steel tariffs. The Washington Post reported it marks the First Successful renegotiation of a trade deal for the Trump Administration. That line was buried at the bottom of the story, not even worthy of a headline. Little rocket man traveled to beijing for constructive talks with his puppet master. America and north korea are n