innocent and will get his trial if he goes to trial, even before that those were the documented mathematical failures of a trump-led republican party. it s a losing streak well known to the party s leaders, elders, professional class, pollsters and right now trump and biden are the clear leaders for the nomination of their parties. trump there against the knew declared alternatives or potential alternatives. top gop donors eyeing this have been recently publicly warning whether they should go down this trump road again next year. part of the problem, i don t think there s any question in my mind, that hurt republicans all over is donald trump. some are also knuckle heads with strange beliefs and closets worth of problems. many came courtesy of donald trump. there s a very high correlation between maga candidates and big losses. a true leader understands that it s time to step off the stage. going into 2024, the
whatever they ve claimed or said privately, whatever some of them initially said on january 6th, 7th or 8th now minimize or even warm towards the trespassers, the seditionists. so here we are in this first official week of president biden s re-election campaign. it is worth connecting the dots, connecting that gop problem to a history that already showed donald trump was a huge mathematical drag on this party as we look at the match-up because as one nonpartisan ecently put it, action i owes, they have been on a documented and epic losing streak that dates back to those first 2018 mid terms. the prospect of democrats getting upwards of 40 seats looms very large right now. democrats picked up more than two dozen house seats to take control for the first time in eight years. the moment the entire country has been waiting for after a very close race. joseph r. biden jr. is
gets forgotten even before he was indicted or the insurrection, trump has never won more votes than a democrat when he s on the ticket. and the maga mid terms were a bust for the gop in 2018 and then the recent 2022 mid terms, and that doesn t mean it s smooth sailing for anybody. joe biden, who s just announced this week he s running for re-election, has faced inflation and economic problems that have not steadied. he s faced lackluster approval. he s covered this. he s consistently below 50% which is not historically a great number and then you have a huge share of the public who say they don t want biden to run again, and if you compare it in all mathematical fairness, it is actually a larger share suggesting biden doesn t run again than say that about trump although both numbers are incredibly high. so here we are on this very busy newsweek where, again, if you hadn t heard, the president s
and all of this other accountability and what s going on over on the right and fox, is it wrong for trump to embrace a jan 6er? is it wrong for trump to vow a pardon for an attack on the congress? i disavow and disagree with any violence on january 6th. anyone who committed violence against our country and against the procedure of that day needs to be held accountable, absolutely. i do think that president trump or whoever ends up being the gop nominee should be looking forward. i do think that it s important to note that even with all the issues that you laid out, president trump is actually doing very strongly against joe biden. if you go to the real clear poll tickets website, wall street journal has it within a three-point race. most of these are within the margin of error. mark penn who was bill clinton s pollster has trump defeating joe biden 45 to 40.
yeah. no. i think it s funny you mention the age thing that way. you can put it in the context of other discrimination, like age i mean. yes, like ragan, biden s going to be up front about it. he s spoken about it. it does make for what can be a very interesting period of time. we wanted to get into all of this with the context of what has been a wild and interesting, to say the least, newsweek and hear from everybody. chai and carrie, thank you to both of you. thank you. thank you. absolutely. appreciate it. next we ll turn to mickey, goofy, ron desantis and the disney problems. the tennessee attacks backfired on republicans. something else is happening in a different state in this context as we look at defending democracy and whether you want to discuss ideas and other viewpoints and even if they won elections. that s important. we ll get into that. sedition charges for proud boys, going to the jury.