we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
brings here. that is where this new nbc polling makes it very clear just what that support for donald trump could look like in a general election. i had conversations with mandela barns, who narrowly lost his wisconsin senate race last year to ron johnson, a close ally to donald trump. i talked to tim ryan, who lost by a decent margin in the ohio senate race to trump ally j.d. vance. there are realities in these battleground states that in 2020, donald trump turned out a record number of votes on behalf of republican nominee. in each of the battleground states, more than any republican nominee ever. that s where these conversations are heading. if you look at the new numbers from nbc polling, this is where kind of that begins to open up that conversation. yeah. let s get to those numbers right now. despite facing federal charges, the new polling shows that donald trump is expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. in the latest nbc news survey, trump is the top choice of 51%
incredible indictments, as long as they don t call him out, allow him to lead the party, this is where we are. in the politics of grievance, which is what trump s game is, every attack that s made on you only adds to your luster. you know, for the grieved, that s why you like trump. they re down on him. well, that s an immature response to politics. somehow, the republican party has to get over it. if it doesn t, we re in trouble as a country. flat out. david ignatius, thank you very much. nbc s vaughn hillyard, thank you, as well, for your reporting this morning. coming up, new questions about how donald trump is paying for his growing personal legal bills as he dips into presidential campaign funds to cover legal defense fees. meanwhile, trump is promising to contribute to a legal fund for january 6th defendants. we ll show you his comments,
called upon by the justice department to testify against him. the only flaw with that, richard, is we re assuing donald trump is going to give away any of his own money. exactly. fair enough. the fact of regularizing january 6th, that s the single scariest thing. what is that? that is the use of violence for political purposes by non-state actors. that happens to be the textbook definition of terrorism. i spent three yeas as the u.s. envoy to northern ireland. before that, you had three decades of the troubles. what were the troubles? sporadic, decentralized political violence by these groups, provisional ira, loyalist groups, whatever you call them. if january 6th ever gets normalized in this country, we could have the american version of the troubles. we could have assassinations. we could have political rallies disrupted by people going into them, beating up people on the other side.
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