issue republicans have to think. of donald trump is going to lose that appeal, he s going to end up going to trial in front of a stacked left-wing, d.c. jury, of all democrats, but are the odds that he s going to get through that? that s not even talking about the validity of the charges. i don t think he gets through that. so are we going to do? the democrats in the media would love to run with that. all right, put aside the gross and racist, frankly, aspersions cast on the jury pool of the washington d.c., that was the first time that i ve seen one of donald trump s competitors for the republican nomination, who is not in this explicitly anti trump camp of chris christie or hr hutchinson, just raise the obviously clear possibility that trump is going to face criminal trial and likely a conviction in an election year, which could hurt him politically. of course, the ex president is doing everything you can to
mucarsel-powell, they are back with us. david, does this change the contours of 2024. no, i don t think so. remarkably, we know the impact of an indictment on donald trump actually allows him to strengthen is hold, but if you look candidate by candidate, as it changed their strategy? no, nobody has been going to come out and say that donald trump should drop out of the race but for hr hutchinson, nobody is defending donald trump either, they re just letting him deal with those issues themselves. what they are doing, as he played, is attacking joe biden and, in some cases saying that they will settle scores what they get to the white house. that was essentially a statement by ron desantis, but each one of them remained today with the strategies that they had last week. early state delegate rhonda scent is trying to get to every county, me as many people, surprises many people in iowa. mike pence trying to do the same with the evangelicals. the interesting thing here, alicia, we have
candidates? which he says, you stay in until i tell you to get out. keep carving off the opposition. and then, you know, i ll pay you off with some kind of reward, when the time comes. for you to drop out of the race, and i get the nomination. so there is a number of factors that make this difficult to get coalescence against trump within the gop primary field. jonathan, as you say. talking to people on the trump camp, they welcome all these newcomers to the fray. they threw rose petals at the feet of nikki haley when they got into the race. let s keep carving up, hr hutchinson, come in, let s carve out the anti trump vote. so my question to you though jonathan is why has the anti trump message, italy so far, we re talking about what rhonda santos may do an iowa, it s been so make. if you re really running against the guy i understand his base of support is strong, they feel they need those votes, but if you really want to beat