yes, i think i can be that leader. that was former trump even ambassador nikki haley kind of sort of maybe saying that she will run for president which kind of sort of matters because nikki haley effectively challenge her former boss, who is the only announced candidate in 2024. that is evidence that donald trump s hold over the gop will finally be starting to slip, maybe. today, but the new york times and washington post are out what new stories about trump s growing rift with the evangelical movement that one supported him. that while an influential texas pastor told the washington post this week, the most conservative evangelicals i know are in favor of ron desantis for president. and inside the republican party itself, a war has broken up between the current trump backed leadership and conservatives looking for a new direction. rnc chair ronald mcdaniel who has trump s backing, is facing an aggressive challenge from his job of a former trump lawyer who has the backing of die hard
evangelicals don t like trump, but they is there any chance that the something differently than they did in 2016. it was not their chosen candidate, but they eventually circled up and got on board. do you think something different happens in 2024 if trump is close to being the nominee? i want to wait until we secure and hear a little more from actual voters. the evangelical elites, with the exception of were against trump, great? but you are sort of culturally evangelical person, maybe not a multiple times weekly churchgoer, but someone who identifies as evangelical. they were trump s core base. it was the most religious, top most religious voters. that breakdown might happen again this time, where the elites are signaling that we need to trust more and need to do with the devil, got our supreme court seat and now it s time to move on.
prosecuting fauci. i think trump both on speeding up the vaccine and going along with some of the lockdowns and some of the covid mitigation efforts, i think this might seem like we re in the upside down, but that is where he is most vulnerable, is that he can get positioned as, the human establishment with the medical elites, but the raw desantis example, it s not that direction to listen to the people and the maga voter. from the man who is advocating he is not to mention for the gop. trump s rift with the evangelical seems to be born over is suggesting, and i don t think this is not incorrect, that abortion is not a great issue for the republican candidates in the 2022 midterms. evangelicals did not like hearing that. they would like to press for a national ban. they are very pro life in an absolutist sense of the word. at the end of the day,
today, the new york times published a new report on the 60 days between the first discovery of the documents and when the public learned the news. here it is. the handling of the documents case has eroded his capacity to claim the high road against mr. trump, while also raising questions that his team s ability to navigate republican attacks from capitol hill. joining us now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent to the new york times and one of the reporters bylined on his very these. peter, thanks for joining me tonight. tell me a little bit about how complicating the documents scandal has been in terms of how the white house sees its agenda writ large. because they have accomplished so very much. two years of landmark legislation big achievements on a number of fronts is this but a passing storm, or do they really seriously think that this is shaping public opinion? well, at the white house they would tell you, this is not that big a deal. it s politically outside the
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