u.s. default on its debt and see what happens. is it concerning that a party leader might be saying that s a viable option? he s not the president so he doesn t have the vote currently. we are not going to default. he s not the president, okay. factual statement. the bigger surprise is senator todd young, the head of the republican senate campaign committee in 2020, criticized trump s refusal to call putin a war criminal and a silenced he would not support him in 2024. that s why i don t intend to support him as the republican nomination. who are you going to support? i have not decided. it won t be him. why was the reason for you not supporting him? where do i begin. that looks at a lot. it was a very different story with most of the announced and expected candidates running against trump, the people you think would say something. tim scott saying he doesn t do walk and talks. mike pence and nikki haley stayed mom. aipac supporting ron desantis did just slammed trump
cnn town hall, including that congress could just let the u.s. default on its debt and see what happens. is it concerning that a party leader might be saying that s a viable option? he s not the president so he doesn t have the vote currently. we are not going to default. he s not the president, okay. factual statement. the bigger surprise is senator todd young, the head of the republican senate campaign committee in 2020, criticized trump s refusal to call putin a war criminal and a silenced he would not support him in 2024. that s why i don t intend to support him as the republican nomination. who are you going to support? i have not decided. it won t be him. why was the reason for you not supporting him? where do i begin. that looks at a lot. it was a very different story with most of the announced and expected candidates running against trump, the people you think would say something. tim scott saying he doesn t do walk and talks. mike pence and nikki haley stayed
that the wind is at trump s back within the rope can base and that in some places, in more purple districts, purple states, if trump is able to do well with his candidates, and that s a real open question, john, the main thing that you have heard from trump folks over and over is voters don t care that much about the january 6th riot at the capitol, and that may more may not be true. that doesn t mean that it s not deserving of the attention that it s getting, but it might not be the issue that voters are investigate on. one of the things we ll watch. you and your colleague jonathan martin at the top have a face fating piece on ron desantis, one of trump s favorite, because he won t rule out running and lately he s criticized trump. in the piece you say mr. trump and his aides are mindful of the increasing public fatigue of the drama that trails mr. trump. mr. desantis is the first name republicans cite as a trump-style contender not named trump and that gets under
trump and said the republican party needs to change the page. i ve heard a lot of republicans who have criticized trump, who are ordinarily 99% there with him when they vote. it has always reverted to the same place, and that s that they are afraid of their voters because right now their voters are with trump. you know, just turning to january 6th for a moment, because i get into this toward the end of the book. i asked a lot especially social conservatives, was it worth it? given everything that we saw happen over five years, was it worth it in the context of january 6th especially? every single one of them said yes. i got quotes like, oh, we take the bitter with the sweet, like any president we judge the full spectrum. i think most republicans and this doesn t just include evangelicals and social conservatives but most republicans can come they learned how to compartmentalize, as one of them explained it to me.
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