you know the years. you haven t won since 2016. got four hours. that s like chicago cub stuff right there. you haven t won since 2016. to the point, jen mentioned the poll, trump doubled his lead over desantis in the last month. it has doubled. i think we re going to show it in a second. let show this poll. americans just don t care. i mean, republicans don t care. right. if he is indicted. should it disqualify him for running for president? 57% say yes. only 23% in the republican party. wow. 75% of republicans say it shouldn t disqualify him for running for president. three out of four. they re going to you know, i just i used to be a republican. i don t know if you guys knew that or not. is that right? i used to run for republican. when was that, joe? you would like to still be. literally, mika loves this
it s true. maybe people say, oh, he is too old. the end of the day, they re false positives. we found that out in the midterm elections. republicans running the clown car off the cliff. they ll lose again to biden. the public proved in 20, 22, they understand what s at stake. they understand. democracy is on the line. they understand the issues on the line. they re going to turn out to vote in droves. election deniers in 22. i don t know where the big picture is for the republican party. here s a can i make one small amendment to that? yeah. if i m joe biden s team, i m not psyched about a large number of people in the country worried about who don t like the idea of a president in his 80s. i m worried the republicans will get their act together and put
it s polls for the last eight years that have had you know, it is not pulled from a new batch of presidential candidate that the voters have never seen before. he s led in presidential primaries for eight years. you know, it just doesn t the post had a story, you talked about it on way too early, probably republicans in d.c. looking around at alternatives. scott reid, who ran bob dole s campaign, was in the piece. around the fall, people will get a look maybe. nikki haley or chris christie if he gets in or yeah. you know, we love sports analogies here. i am loathe to compare donald trump to anybody favorably. but this is mike tyson when he is heavyweight champion. as far as the republican party goes, you have tyson and everybody else. maybe buster douglas lands a
would be around this. it was another moment in which it s clear that democrats and allies of the president even felt like they were caught flat footed. it s not that they necessarily would have changed their votes had the white house talked to them before they made their announcement, but they just feel like there isn t the same level of cooperation and coordination that there has been in the past. namely, under someone like ron klain, the former chief of staff who, as i said, had great relationships on the hill and made it a point to get down there all the time and talk to the folks to be sure they were involved. the building behind you has been consumed with talk about guns this week. we heard emotional democrats yesterday confronting republican colleagues. what s their plan if there is no effort the gop isn t going to budge on legislation. what is the democratic plan to get this in front of voters? we ll see them hammering against republicans. it can draw a contrast between th
another florida governor that s going to get crushed by donald trump. you know, if desantis runs against trump, jonathan lemire, his best shot, and i mean this, he s got to bow out of the debates. he has to say, i don t need to debate that guy. he s crazy. i don t want to hear about him hating his kids. i m saying, he can t take him one-on-one on the debit stage. he just can t. do what republicans are talking about doing in the general election, don t do debates. that s his only shot. yeah. i mean, the republican apparatus does seem, part of the establishment, wanting to rally around desantis. his super pac has big-name operatives. there s going to be fundraising that s going to come. they re making noise about it. but he s not in. he s not going to get in. the danger here is, if you remain silent, you let your opponent define the race. the opponent is donald trump, who is defining the race by bludgeoning him each and every