how does that factor into this? well, i think what s going to happen is these down ballot races are going to get worse and worse for them. then at the same time, they re going to continue till recruit bad candidates. because if you re putting a message out there that is this far right culture war-y kind of stuff. that doesn t really relate to people. the candidates that you re going to bring in are going to be parroting these talking points. the candidate can do all they can to continue to get worse and worse. they really have to change something, because it s not going to get any better at all. danielle, with donald trump actively avoiding conversations about abortion, do you think that even he tacitly believes that republicans have a culture of losing when it comes to this issue and more? i don t know how he s avoiding it. he was just talking about the fact that it was his supreme court justice picks that got roe v. wade done. he wants to thread the needle. he wants to have i
he wants to show evangelicals that he s the one that got it done, but he also wants to be prepared that when he gets to the general race, he can turn around and say to women all across the country, we ve got to do it differently. we can t just do it the way republicans did at the last two years. they all want to have it the way that they want. it right? you have ron desantis talking in iowa. look at what i ve done in florida. then he goes to new hampshire where they actually permit women to have autonomy over their bodies, and then he doesn t mention abortion at all. the democratic party needs to remind american people why we are in this predicament. why we have a patchwork of rights, and bodily autonomy in this country. it isn t because of democrats. it s because of republicans. it s because of donald trump s three supreme court justices that he got to pick. panel, please stick around. coming up, chris christie, mike pence, both set to announce their presidential bids. not sure wh
i think is confused that they were chanting his name for him. they wanted to kill him. i m confused about who his constituency is. who he is going after. and if he can t stand up to donald trump, a man that literally told people to go and kill his vice president of the united states, then i don t see how he s going to win them over at all. rotimi, who do you have. that s a tough one. i m gonna go with chris christie. i think the blatant corruption he showed when he was governor of new jersey, with the bridge gate scandal means he should not touch the white house with a ten foot pole, to be honest. for me it s gonna be chris christie. you ve got to admit, by that standard, donald trump is just bridge gate looks like a parking ticket compared to a donald trump has allegedly been accused of. you re right, you re definitely right. oh yeah. i didn t mean to cut you off. go ahead if you want to finish your thought on that. no, i mean yeah, i think that just shows on such a li
talk to us, eugene, about these politico report from your colleagues. and the concerns you are hearing from possible non ballot republican candidates. i don t know if you perhaps have any insight, or a reporting on perhaps what your colleagues are hearing from somebody like mitch mcconnell. is someone like mitch mcconnell worried about a repeat of what we saw the last election cycle? yeah, mitch mcconnell is probably the most worried about that. even more so than the candidates themselves. because it makes his job much harder if he s in the minority, right? this is something we heard from him then, and this is also what my colleagues reported we heard from republicans in 2022. they would not come on any television channel and say it. but they knew, and they were worried about what was going to happen as donald trump was endorsing these candidates and donald trump endorsed candidates were going to win. now we can actually get him possibly being extra on the ballot. for them, that s