back in the majority. trump s aims are different, to regain control of the white house and punish his enemies and all the things important to him. that s two different reasons for being in the white house. a republican party that can govern and trump s reasons for being in politics in trump. those two world views actually were aligned. when trump was the president, mcconnell was in charge of the senate. now they re on two different tracks. do you think mitch mcconnell will do anything to get in the way of donald trump s aspirations? well, i don t know what he could do, to be honest with you. the reporting you just aired was pretty accurate, i think, with the number of republicans who support donald trump. in my view, if he wants to be the nominee of the republican party, he s going to be the nominee. also, republicans have a really good chance to retake the majority of the senate in the midterm and mcconnell would be well positioned to be the leader
was the only democrat since 1964 to carry the state of indiana, for example. so he is in the main saying things that i think a lot of us believe. the one thing i would say to qualify what he wrote is that candidates actually matter. circumstances matter. you know, trump if there had not been a virus, a covid virus in 2020, trump probably wins that election. we don t know what s going to happen before the midterms. we don t know what s going to happen before 2024. and then candidates themselves matter. if joe biden is very popular come the midterm elections, democrats will do better. he s acknowledged that as well. i don t think this can all be laid out in a data spreadsheet. there are human factors and there are sicks that will enter
again. i m not sure trump can get in the way of mckonld and i m not sure he can get in the way of trump. trump being the mrepublican party. i want you to listen to steve scalise, dodging, leaving, lies when pressed by george wallace about the 2020 election. listen. at the end of the day, are we going to follow what the constitution says or not? i hope we get back to what the constitution says. but clearly in a number of states they didn t follow those legislatively. so you think the election was stolen? what i said is there are states that didn t follow their legislatively followed rules. that s what the constitution says. last time, i promise, do you think the election was stolen or not? do you think there were irregularities and things that need to be fixed? it is not just irregularities. it is states which followed the
about why he was standing there. he noticed that 91% of republicans in iowa do support trump, so he wasn t playing coy about just the politics of all of it. hthank you. so the election lies not the only thing the former president is talking about. also mitch mcconnell. here s more from iowa. mitch mcconnell did haven t the courage to challenge the election. he s only a leader because he raises a lot of money and he gives it to senators. he should have challenged the election. this bill is a sinister
that is same old trump. but what s unique about this story were really the elected officials like chuck grassley and others who were with trump, right? exactly. i covered so many of these rallies and you do hear some of the same things come up over and over again. what was unique about this rally is nine months after january 6th there was this moment where the republican party it seemed like they were maybe going to distance themselves from former president trump, but that s no longer the case. it was very apparent when i was in iowa that trump really is the leader of the republican party at the moment and that was tipfied by senator chuck grassley standing by his side. he s running for re-election for senator in iowa. he stood by trump s side and he accepted trump s endorsement. now grassley was pretty up front