Say the first in the Nation Status helps boost voter turnout. Certainly it has limitations but its not as if primaries bring out a, you know, major, more than 50 of the voters it. Really is the engaged electorate who is participating in caucuses. Bret whether democrats will make iowa first once again in 2028 is still unclear. I think its going to be a hard, Hard Push for the Iowa Democratic Party to get that back. Bret republicans, however, plan to keep iowa first. We take politics very seriously because of this process has worked for almost two generations. While the winner in iowa does not determine the nominee. I think we have made a strong case that we can come in fourth place, you know, or higher. Bret it does give candidates momentum. In 1980 george h. W. Bush won the caucuses and went on to be ronald reagans vice president. So help me god. So help me god. Bret he was eeventually elected to the White House in 1988 the Year Bob Doll won the
domestically? if you have one policy that doesn t go well, you re projected as showing weakness for america abroad. joe biden has an appreciation for the fact that history will look kindly on him for the degree of difficulty of running, right now, two hot wars in two of the most important regions on earth, and doing it extremely well. but in terms of his domestic politics, in terms of his re-election in 2024, i think it will, you know, with that and about ten bucks, you could get him a nice starbucks vete latte. there s no political upside in this for joe biden. as richard haass said a couple weeks ago, the one thing he learned about from george h.w. bush s presidency when he was working with george h.w. bush, is when it came to foreign policy, doing the right thing all the time and being great at
oath, as a member of congress, or as an officer of the united states, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the constitution of the united states, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. but congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each house, remove such disability. former federal appeals court judge michael luttig, who was appointed to the court by republican president george h. w. bush, believes section three couldn t be any clearer. the supreme court is not wrong to decide this case. and it will likely look for every legitimate way possible, legitimate way possible, to avoid deciding whether the former president is
think this moment right now for trump, again, is crystallizing in a way which yeah, the judges around all these cases going, you know what? we ve got to start clamping down. how do you think that actually plays out? well, what the judge did here was he s basically saying, you can t fool around. i mean, the problem he has in this cases, for procedural regions, there were two separate cases. one was the case that was tried, his defamation, he engaged in against e. jean carroll after he was president. this is the one, this is the first case that would ve brought that held up because he claimed that the federal law prevented the lawsuit and then he later claimed that he would have, he was immune from it because he, he was president. and the first trial, where he had the opportunity to testify, but did not, was where jean carroll presented her story and the story of the women who she told, just like within a day or
served as u.s. deputy aory under president george h. w. bush. stuart garrison, who served as acting united states attorney general during the clinton administration and 93. also served in the justice department under bush. you know, their legal voices were able to step back and say, there s damage that s being done to the institution. and what s talking about donald trump upended norms. republicans, under trumpism, they re now doing that in his state. yeah, the problem that we have here is, like joy put it, just sort of the impeachment -palooza, you sort of take away the full force effect of what that is there for, why it s in the constitution, right? it s not something that some arbitrary regulation that, you know, the government has kind of made up, you know? in 1792. so, the reality for a lot of republicans on the other side of this is when you get the power back, and the tables have