mind the republican party doesn t even have a platform. they don t even pretend to be about ideas anymore. when i was a kid, it was ronald reagan s party and it was low taxes and less government, christian family values. they had a platform. this is now a cultive personality and his personality will dominate even if his physical presence is not there. which is fascinating because joe, you mentioned nikki haley s comments. she went after vivek ramaswamy last week who said that he would cut back on aid to israel after the aid package expires in 2028. so haley of course former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said that he was completely wrong, she posted on x, formerly known as twitter, supporting israel is both the morally right and strategically smart thing do saying it is a part of vivek, his foreign policies have a common theme, they make america less safe. who do you think, joe, has the
and all the other myriad issues facing america including the fencing across our southern border killing over 70,000 americans each and every year. drilling down to the details. imagine that. i d like to see some of that. paul, you mentioned the cultive personality, the republican party becoming a cultive personality in many ways. a poll found 71% of trump voters say that they feel like what trump tells them is true. that is higher than what they appear from their friends and family as you can see there. higher than conservative media figures and higher than their religious leaders. how do you think the nontrump candidates can get around numbers like that? it is so hard. a great point. for me a heartbreaking number to look at. fact checker of the washington post counted just during trump s presidency 30,573 separate lies. this guy is the monarch of lord
tour of munitions factories. and they say one was a large caliber complex. and that he presented directions and guidance for production. kim jung-un unlike his father or grandfather has had far less time to develop a cultive personality. so he really is in a sense creating that cultive personality in office. so he has to therefore live up to the images of the strong veer ral leader. reporter: and u.s. officials are increasingly concerned that kim s regime may sell weapons to russia for use in ukraine. our information indicates that russia is seeking to increase military corporation with the dprk such as sale of munitions to russia. reporter: john skirby says a
cultive personality. there are people, republican primary voters who will stick with donald trump despite anything that happens. we have seen it. there s been indictment after indictment and there are at least two more we can expect to come. i don t think he s going to lose his entire base when these next two indictments come out. ron, your column this morning hits on exactly this. the headline why trump s indictments haven t shattered the deadlock between parties i ll read what was so striking from it. these forces face the immovable and geographic divisions tha produced one of the longest periods in american history whicher party has been able to establish a decisive advantage over the other. the parties now represent coalitions with such diversive visions of america s future, it s u what could allow one side to break between the close competitiobetween them and that includes the prospect of republicans choosing a presidential nominee who could be shuttling between the campaign t
trumpism, that if trump candidacy were to collapse, someone else to carry that flag theoretically ron desantis was poised to own that lane but the trump base, the republican base is not focused and not really energized or animated to move on, they re not concerned about policy, they re not all that concerned about electability. republicans lost the house on his watch in 2018. 2022 in the midterms republicans underperformed in large part because of his influence, the republican base is focused entirely on trump s personality, the cultive personality that is now the republican party and reporting out the poll findings i was struck by a couple of voters, one said as long as