their constituents with the key win here. that being said, jim, the white house, this is the strategy that biden has implemented, even before he became president. when it appeared as though certain gaffes or other issues during his presidential campaign would take him down, the white house always sticks to their original strategy, biden usually always sticks to his original strategy. and that was trying to pass these two bills in tandem together knowing that he had to do it that way, because the fact that progressives want a lot of what s in the spending package, his moderate centrist faction wants the infrastructure bill, and so the white house is deciding to pretty much ignore the noise, which is what they did a lot during the infrastructure battle and want to plow ahead with their plan thinking that ultimately voters are only going to care about that end result versus a lot of the infighting that happened in between. so they try to focus on the positive and what they have seen
continuing to push the big lie. you wrote a couple of days ago that this litmus test of the big lie should not be the one that is out there and isn t a winning strategy for republicans. and yet 78% of republicans in a recent cnn poll don t believe joe biden won the election as you likely know and nearly two-thirds, 63% said donald trump should leave the party. the numbers are not in your favor. i think saturday donald trump showed his hands because he came to georgia and spit in the face of every republican. it feels like a tectonic shift is starting to happen, even the most ardent trump supporters started calling and posting things on social media after that speech and calling into question donald trump s true intentions. we re watching on display his pride bigger than his party
pennsylvania, but you can t scale up the lunatic fringe and win statewide in pennsylvania. you know, this the gop knows that this isn t a winning strategy. in fact, if you remember, they started this election cycle not wanting to relitigate 2020, but they got dragged into it, and now they re stuck with this massive, you know, set of subpoenas that has outraged people on both sides of the aisle, subpoenaing their personal information, and when arizona, you know, goes down the tubes, what on earth can you possibly accomplish in a state that joe biden won by 80,000 votes and there s absolutely nowhere to go other than just turn this database over to, like i said, some dude off the penny saver and god knows what s going to happen to all of our voter information if it even gets that far. just sounds so ludicrous when you say it out loud. somehow on twitter you know, like, risk identity theft. it s what they re doing. in service of the man baby s hurt feelings. it s insane. do you
mitch mcconnell is incredibly smart and he knows where his caucus is. they might be saying they re unified but you have corey gardner, joanie earns the. mcconnell will be conscious of where his caucus is. i think they are going to cut a deal, because mcconnell knows this isn t a winning hand n2013, he said there s no lesson to be learned from a second kick of a mule. that s what he s experiencing right now. dana: let me ask you then, chapin, the president saying i don t care politically, i just want to do what s right. they have something i think that the democrats are vulnerable on, they voted for border security in the past. is there a way for the president to bring democrats along on this, or are we basically just at a point where compromise, even though the president mentioned compromise last night that s not going tobl possible and the president could do a national mng as he just said, that s still an option for him. i think you re seeing him,
least as of now it doesn t look like he s going to get them. it just shows you, brian stelter, your point, josh, of the power of conservative media and the freedom caucus for that matter. the power, that s right, of the freedom caucus and the conservative media. the president s message was be afraid, be very afraid. most americans are not afraid of what he was describing, the so-called threat that he sees and portrays from mexico. however, many members of his base are very concerned, and that is because those concerns are stoked every day by right wing media. so i think it s notable that the president thinks this is a winning issue for him, even though we just had a mid-term election and. president made this his main message right up to the mid terms and the gop lost in a big way in the mid-terms. right. this isn t a winning issue for him and he s still being supported by the right wing media voices, rush limbaugh, for example, challenging the president to do something and then