general election, because this is exhaust some voters, but in a primary situation. counter-intuitive, it can be politically helpful. we ve talked a lot, tara, about the exhaustion factor. i ve talked to tons of suburban women voter who in 20230 told me they were just too tired that trump had essentially worn them out, even though they might have voted for him in 2016. but if you mood of the country is gloomy, and he s negative could that work. s obviously not changing his messaging. an awful lot of the republican party is on that bandwagon right. it s obvious, as much as the establishment republicans would like to move on and think that somehow miraculously indictments will make dump go away, they re
else getting a toehold so far. that s a different landscape for donald trump to face. in ron desantis, he faces someone with whom he has few ideological differences. the differences are stylistic, and this, ron desantis has a veto-proof majority in the florida legislature. we should expect them in the next two months to pass his agenda which will enable him to say, look what i can get done, and contrast that also with former president trump. there s one thing we haven t said yet, vaughn, and i don t think you saw this at cpac, but there was the exhaustion factor. it s hard to be exhausted by ron desantis because, frankly, a lot of the country is just getting to know who he is. donald trump is a completely different story to your point of, we all know where we ve been. we all know what he did for the four years he was president, the four years since, but is your sense that the exhaustion factor is significant enough to help ron desantis?
okay, take me on, we ll see you actually shows up to the fight. this mike pence run, this ron desantis, run this chris christie run, does nikki haley run, youngkin? we ll see who actually runs. this is not a good decision for the party that he announced tonight. it s not gonna help republicans in the georgia runoff, but trump does not care about that. he s trying to shape this field. and frankly the more people who get in this race, the better for him. because he can win for literally with the vote. but his star is diminishing it, it has been dimension for sometime. it s only gotten worse. in many respects, i m puzzled that he would announce now. but on the other hand, i get it. he wants to see which cameras are actually want to come at him. we will see. and as laura pointed out as well, multiple investigations and multiple states on multiple subjects. there is an exhaustion factor here going on. so what is going to change now that trump has announced his 2024 run? plus, president bi
oh, we changed our mind. even if you run, we re going to go ahead and pay your legal bills. they ve done that before. that might not be something that keeps him from doing it. but one thing that could keep him on the track to doing is perhaps he thinks it s protection from prosecution because then he ll say, i m a candidate and then, you know, maybe the doj will have to think twice about how they go about doing it. that s when they talk about the special counsel. that s a good point because there was a discussion about whether or not to have it to have the insulation of being able to say, look, we re not going after a political opponent. it s not a politicized department. then there s almost the exhaustion factor in a way. y if you re going into an announcement knowing, i m going to have to pay legal bills for you that are probably going to be one of many, does that count against the enthusiasm, you think, or is the base that he has potentially enough to overshadow that? the victim
defense or cross examine the witnesses. that s the choice president trump and kevin mccarthy made not to have representatives on that committee. but as a result there has to be a pushback other than president trump s social media. that social media is about witnesses against him rather than attacking the facts. he s not rebutted the facts that have presented that. he hasn t said he did something on 6th that we re not aware of. he had evidence of real fraud in the election that hasn t been presented out there. there s no defense whatsoever. it s strictly attacking the witness kind of response. and i think that obviously suits him, suits a lot of his rally goers, but i think that the point that a lot of republicans are looking at. is there an exhaustion factor. even if people don t want to renounce trump, are they tired