of spending. he stopped well short of urging members of congress to vote against this deal. which of course could lead to a default. of course he has the luxury of not being forced to cast a vote on this. but he did talk about spending. one thing he did not talk about tonight, at least so far in the first 30 or 35 minutes of his speech, is anything about donald trump. for the last several days he has been sharpening his criticism of the former president, saying he simply did not get the job done at the border, he did not get the job done in terms of bringing down the deficit. we have not heard anything about that so far tonight. he simply said, leadership is not entertainment. perhaps in veiled reference to the former president. anderson, ththe iowa republicans in the audience here are hungering for an alternative to donald trump. of course, donald trump still has his supporters here. perhaps 30% or so of the republican base. as you can see behind me here,
had much of a chance, and obviously he pulled through. he had a certain combination of decency and empathy and the promise to restore the soul of america, and all of these things that people were hungering for that worked for him then. will it work for him? now i don t know. but the question is, whatever his record and whatever the frustrations that real voters have with the state of the economy, which may or may not be related to actual biden policies, who is the alternative? who is the alternative in either party? people are clearly disillusioned with their options as biden often says, it s not the almighty you are running against, it s the alternative. everyone, stand by for us. on the other side of this race it s been just one day since ron desantis stepped into the ring. and this is already the state of play. i don t know what happened to donald trump. rob the sanctimonious
eight miles high and waiting to touch down you ll find that it s turn on, tune in, drop out. i spent some time in new new york and i spent some time in london, and i m here to tell you it s happening all over! in any large city, there were other haight-ashburys, which people could point to. see, we are on the map. we re big, and we re far more interesting than what you all have to offer. how do you answer the questions of parents who are concerned about the use of lsd and marijuana for their children? these are young people who are hungering for older people, for their parents to listen to
behind. we really needed to expand the map. so the rnc has made the largest investment in places like rhode island and connecticut and oregon and washington in illinois, where we need to be long-term as a party because people are hungering for republican policies right now. they re hurting under these democrat crazy wacko policies. i know a lot of it came from a conversation you and i had two years ago. laura: no state left behind means that these policies of american renewal, i call it populist conservatism, the border matters, trade matters. being tough on china matters. all the issues people are gravitating toward, the economy and crime, it works for everybody. it s not that it just works for mrs. ami or alabama, it works in places like arizona. totally. when i was chair in 2016, michigan was flyover country for
i ve given you an answer. and so coming from talk radio was this aggressive, right-wing pundit. a fraud and a phony and a fake. named sean hannity. a liberal dribble that you get on some other stations. and they re televising it. but does that government have the right to, for example, distribute birth control to children without the permission of parents? allow these 12-, 13-year-old rupert murdoch sees an audience that has been hungering for something just like this. conservatives have a real appetite for political talk and political entertainment. greg, is there any religious agenda at work here? is that part of what s going on here? and at the same time, roger ailes was smart enough to know you can t come out of the gate as a right-wing news network. biggest tax increase in the history of the world. we ll debate that later. one of ailes great geniuses was launching fox with the tagline fair and balanced. fox news channel, fair and