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with the obstruction. this is so important that he went down to georgia, which is ground zero, to raise, again, the conscience of the country on the attack and assault on voting rights. one point at the speech, the president asked, posed the question, do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? john lewis or conner, abraham lincoln or justin david? my question, was he talking to republicans or democrat holdout there s. no. you heard in the speech. he said everyone should vote for voting rights. independents, democrats and republicans. and he went on to point out that when we renewed the voting rights act in 2006 and other times even strom thurmond voted for it pt mitch mcconnell voted for it. it was 98-0 in the united states senate and now we can t get one republican? so he was highlighting the fact that voting rights have always
powerful and very heavy-handed super pacs that will spend quite a bit of money in the 2022 midterm elections and a lot of candidates have to weigh losing out on that potential support against aligning themselves against donald trump i across the board. a fascination of the former president s. i think he and mcconnell have spoken in over a year but fascinating to see how it s playing out within the republican party given it is, of course two warring factions. thanks for joining us. thank you. i want to bring in cnn political commentator and former trump campaign adviser david urban and former republican congressman joe walsh. david, welcome back. look, it s interesting. mike brown, mitch mcconnell and shelley moore capito, thune, kramer and others don t seem to be afraid of donald trump right now on this subject.
handful of senators, and i know it s more in private, but my god. we re five or six years removed from republicans in private, but publicly, you show me one republican, john, that wants to be president in 2024 that would have the you know what to say what mike rounds said. then i will tell you, oh, that s interesting. david, you worked for donald trump. can i just ask you, david, will you say right here and now, donald trump lost? yeah. the president lost the election. he lost the election. unfortunately democrats played the game better. i mean, it s a painful truth, but it s what happened. we won a very close election in 2016. lost a very close election in 2020. i look, i think i wish the president would spend time focusing on his accomplishments and comparing and contrasting those accomplishments of that of the current biden administration. talk about what the president s doing. talk about what speaker pelosi
minutes. they had a 15-minute interview. talking about the election and what we all know, which is what the outcome was. this, of course, is stemming also from this fight that the president has, the former president has now picked with senator mike brown after he bluntly stated what happened and during this interview trump was asked about those claims and about his attacks on senator rounds. people have no idea how big this issue is and they don t want it to happen again. it shouldn t be allowed to happen and they don t want it to happen again. the only way it s not going to happen again is you have to solve the problem of the presidential rigged election of 2020. mr. president, if i might one more question. i want to ask about a court hearing yesterday on january 6th. judge amit mehta he s gone. okay. joe what do you make of that? look, kaitlan, trump speaks for the base. i agree with david. you know, mitch mcconnell and some of, you know, the inside