pole position. two days from new hampshire s primary and new cnn poll finds trump leading the pack. we need big margins because we have to send real unity as a message. as his rivals pile on. we can t have someone else that we question whether their mentally fit to do this. could anyone knock trump off his path to the nomination? plus reluctant rematch. democratic leaders worry if 2024 is a rerun, voters will tune out. as republicans face a familiar dilemma on trump. i would support him. even if he s convicted? new reporting on the fears in both parties. and house of cards. the november is house speaker squeezed by his own party. i think it is a nonstarter. i don t see what the problem is. let s fix it. has mike johnson backed himself into a corner. inside politics starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. right now a brand-new snapshot of the republican presidential contest less than 48 hours away from whe
remove former president donald trump from its 2024 primary ballot. big bipartisan backlash over this. some are calling it a far left political ploy to try to get trump out of this race. maine s top election official democratic secretary of state shenna bellows announcing her unilateral decision last night. last week colorado s state supreme court voted on party lines to boot trump from the state s ballot citing the 14th amendment section three. both state decisions are on hold pending appeal. colorado s secretary of state announced yesterday trump s name will be on the ballot unless the supreme court decides otherwise by january 5th. the maine republican party not holding back on unelected bellows single handed trump takedown. a statement excerpt reads we ve been fighting these back roomy leitz since they started their push to subvert democracy by tossing president trump. we reserve our right as a private organization to use a caucus system if that s what it takes to keep a d
interpret the constitution based on the specific text and the document. so that says to me that they might have an uphill climb to be opposed by the supreme court. i also think what s notable here, the court may a college the opinion that this is a big deal. they know what they are doing. it s historic. and they know there is gonna be blowback. they say, look, we are mindful of the magnitude and the weight of that questions before us. we are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law without fear or favor and without being swayed by public reaction to that decision that the law mandates we reach. and of course, the loudest, biggest reaction from former president trump was trying to frame this as political persecution, which i am sure they could see coming. that s right. the trump trump campaign released a statement. we haven t really heard from trump on this. he was speaking in iowa. he did not really note anything. just very quickly, what are his allies saying?
billion dollars is definitely, i think, a shot in the arm of people who think that liars like jones can be held accountable. seeing him today on the show say that we are going to keep talking about parkland, and uvalde, and they can t stop us, and the war effectively goes on, is just absolutely devastating. and a decade later, also, the heels of justice chrysler. but sometimes they keep turning forward. thank you to all of you at home for joining us tonight, we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are
those who are impacted by that hurricane as we get through this. and on that note, i wish all of you a very good and safe tonight. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are making a huge last-minute investment in their candidacy. she will join us live a little bit later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight of donald trump s mar-a-lago document sca