now feels like covering like our cane nscandals, this is our whie house now. this is our national politics. abc news reports tonight that donors to president trump s e reelection campaign have surprised been paying for something they might not have known they were paying for, the trump e reelection tap pain campaign is tapped by jared kushner to help pay for legal fees. presumably jared kushner could afford to pay for his own lawyers himself but why bother when you can have the little people pay those bills for you? jared kushner is the son and air of the kushner real estate family fortune and married into the trump family real estate r fortune but the people paying his legal bills are those buying
up a billboard saying i m not running in 2020. she literally said this guy. there was a lot of talk around getting her in, that she could primary him and he would be one that has the reputation to run against the president and i think what that shows you is this is trump s republican party and there is an understanding that unless something happens to him and he s no longer in office, he s taken over this party. he s maintained strong support among the base and there is no going up against him only hurts your political career. and i think that s what we see. elih, sometimes when you put this question to people, they say if the president runs for e reelection in 2020, where does that skepticism come from? because he s saying that behind closed doors. he s all in for 2020. he s never given any eindicatio. he thinks a lot about the second material and we know how much he views of winning and losing. that s a measurable thing.
you re not going to have a lot of republicans that want him campaigning on the trail for him. this article adds, here is the quote in 2018 s governor s race the white house is interested in three states that will be battle grounds in 2020, florida, ohio and pennsylvania. how much of this campaign is looking beyond 2018 and looking to 2020? laying the groundwork there? absolutely. it s all about 2020 for the president. clearly, he wants 2018 to be maintaining the house and senate and that s important but the reality is he s running for e reelection in 2020 and those are interesting states that the president flipped, right? those are the states that were supposed to be part of that solid blue wall for hillary clinton. my home state of pennsylvania has about a million more registered democrats than republicans but they are moderate. these are democrats that are blue collar, folks out there god-fearing and law-abiding but feel the country is moving in the direction they are in the comf
now either you follow me or you leave is that what we re hearing. and that is really interesting it seems like it is indeed whether senators are with trump follow his speech and share his main messages or they speak up against him and then they can really forget about his support for the primaries next year and therefore forget about a victory in their constituency in november next year and this is also what jeff flake made very clear during his speech on the senate floor we just heard part of his speech but it is also very important to stress and to point out that jeff flake has been criticizing donald trump for more than a year now he published in the book a best selling book this summer titled conscience of a conservative and here his main message is that the president vowed to work to defeat him flake if he reelection next year so this has been
euphrates. back to morning joe. seven-term republican congressman charlie dent surprised many yesterday when he announced he will not seek reelection next year. the co-chairman of the tuesday group who has been critical of president trump and declined to support him in last year s election said he reached his decision earlier that s summer and noted the political climate in d.c. was an impact on the decision. dave reich effort s decision also deciding not to seek e reelection in 2018. but another one earlier this year, republicans will be forced to defend three open swing districts in next year s midterms. charlie dent, the kind of guy you hoped wouldn t leave