security. let s bring dan heninger and editorial board member kyle peterson. political fallout from this. how much is this hurting the president or could be helping him? donald trump, at the moment we have to divide american politics into two haves, the first half is the nomination of the presidency in 2024 which takes up the rest of this year or next year with the primaries, the second half is the general election and this is hurting donald trump s prospects in the general election against president biden. no question about that. on the other hand, talking about the nomination in the primaries, i think the democrats and donald trump are playing republican voters like a stradivarius.
desantis who has been making the rounds in iowa and new hampshire had this warning for republicans last weekend. there is no substitute for victory. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures and provide a positive alternative for the future of this country republicans will win across the board. we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then i think the democrats are going to beat us again. paul: dan heninger and bill mcgurn, dan, people saying there was going to be a smaller field than 2016, you couldn t even have them on the same stage. i thought we would have a smaller field. what is going on?
prisoners. he didn t relieve forced levels at 2500. he didn t have an arrangement with the taliban and they want to attack our troops. he came in with a certain set of circumstances, he had no ability to change. paul: let s bring in dan heninger, kim strasser and bill hemmer. the argument is president biden was a prisoner of the donald trump agreement. do you agree with that? we are a long way from the buck stops here. it s the buck stops somewhere else. it is always president biden s mo. i disagreed with the trump decisions but the actual chaos, that was biden s fault and i think it was because he wanted his first 9/11 in office, the 20th anniversary, to announce
headlines, the left leaning box saying the nubian s underpinnings of the trump case. there s a worry among democrats, they want so much to see donald trump pooled into a situation like this and elevated as dan said but there s a fear this is going to collapse. also on their mind is whether this will undermine cases that could have been stronger against him, particularly what prosecutors are doing in georgia with regards to the transfer of power case and the special prosecutor is looking at in terms of classified documents. this could blow up on them a little bit if this case collapses. might not happen for a while but could be a humiliation. paul: the republican response is rallying on donald trump. the indictment is we can should never have been brought. press is saying this lashes the republicans more closely to