no, i understand it is big business, big money. come on, you really, put the and people are loving this, but to put this in the middle of spring training when they should be getting ready to earn their tens of millions of dollars? it seems kind of crazy well, it is it s horribly misplaced. it should be played after the season is over in november or in january, prior to spring training starts. you ve got a legitimate two-week disruption in spring training for most of the star players who have gone to these teams and i don t know whether the fans are really thinking this is really great i d like to see what the ratings are. i don t know what they are my strong suspicion is, given some of the matchups i ve seen, they re not drawing much. okay. all right. let s start with a new poll that shows donald trump has widened his lead over florida governor ron desantis for the 2024 republican nomination. the latest quinnipiac poll finds
capitol because he told them to, who are still, oh, i know what that s like. we ve said it a million times, it s a cult. here s the interesting thing, and i ve been doing calculations. here we go. i ve been doing calculations. molly said something else. molly said it better than you. instead of you going on and on and on, she said, trumpism doesn t scale. just to help drive home the point. but i never really thought about this before. she said biden wins, trump loses. i just went back you re not going to believe is this. i know. trump lost in 2017. yeah. trump lost in 2018. trump lost in 2019 trump lost in 2020 oh, yeah. trump lost in 2021. trump lost in 2022 and he s going to lose in 2024 that s what i don t understand like, why do they like losing so much so the question i have is not for the people who have been
and nikki haley and all these other republicans who want to be president are afraid to cross donald trump because just as trumpism doesn t scale in general elections, anti-trumpism doesn t scale in the gop. just ask liz cheney at 2%. yeah. i think that s key here. i understand, and i ve talked to voters about this, their frustration with republicans i ve talked particularly to voters who voted republican for decades until trump or until 2020 they will complain to me all the time, why won t, you know, and name some republican you know that serves in washington or high up in a state level, why won t they tell truth about trump? why won t they criticize him why won t they fight him of course, i always explain to them, it s their voters that they don t want to make angry at them it s their voters that they don t want to appear as though they re calling them stupid.
every day. we ll be following that story. i suggest, perhaps, we ought to reconsider tiktok on a number of platforms that are used. hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of paris to join a national strike over president emmanuel macron s plan to raise the retirement age the plan would raise the age from 62 to 64. in addition, it would deny a full pension to anyone who retires at that age without having worked for 43 years the contested bill comes to a vote later today we will be following that. now to the legal news this morning, michael cohen, the one-time attorney and fixer for former president donald trump, wrapped up his testimony before a grand jury, convened by the manhattan district attorney s office in its investigation of trump and hush money paid to adult film actress stormy daniels.
on the republican side, david, i know you ve heard this, too, people going, donald trump, we re grateful for what he s done it s time to move on. yet, here we are in both parties. i suspect we re probably going to get a rematch of 2020, even though there are whispers in both parties about how they d prefer somebody else. right well, look, joe, i mean, you are right about the constant whispers that aren t always whispers, frankly. there s so much conversation about a desire on the part of voters in both parties i talk to voters about this all the time, even on the democratic side they re pleased with how biden has governed they think he s done an admiral job. yet, they keep talking about this idea that it d be great to have somebody who is just, you know, not 80 years old i hear the same thing but in a different way about donald trump. in that, even a lot of republican voters that wish he