happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the orga
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
power. our republicans do. and so this is how we get to the first two speeches of the president joe biden re-election effort in 2024. friday at valley forge in pennsylvania and today at the mother emmanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina, the two kickoff speeches of his re-election campaign. speeches about our status as a democracy, the fight to establish ourselves as a democracy in the revolutionary war, the fight to keep our democracy in the civil war, the threat to end democracy today posed by the republican party and trump. and i don t know. i don t have insider information, but i doubt this is the ground on which the biden campaign hoped to be making its case for re-election. they have other things they want to talk about, like nancy pelosi was just describing with jen psaki in her exclusive interview tonight. they want to talk about kitchen table issues, right? and they have a lot to talk about. the unemployment rate has been
around the world don t necessarily get behind them when they try violence to stay in power. our republicans do. and so this is how we get to th first two speeches of the president joe biden re-election effort in 2024. friday at valley forge in pennsylvania and today at the mother emmanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina, the two kickoff speeches of his re-election campaign.n speeches about our status as a democracy, the fight to establish ourselves as a democracy in the revolutionary u war, the fight to keep our democracy in the civil war, the threat to end democracy today posed by the republican party and trump. and i don t know. i don t have insider information, but i doubt this is the ground on which the biden campaign hoped to be making its case for re-election. they have other things they want to talk about, like nancy pelosi was just describing with jen psaki in her exclusive interview tonight. they want to talk about kitchen table issues, right?
in the race this could be that would be his top moment and he would go down from there. his launch has exceeded expectations and the number of donors he s got has exceeded expectations and the number of followers and his staffing level is very good. and i think this speech, too, was just another strong moment. his candidacy and front-runner status is for real. long race but it is for real. it is a long race. some 200 plus days until the caucus there in iowa. in the meantime, he did mention and i ve seen so many of these kickoff speeches, these tend to do them now on the weekends. and many of those candidates don t talk about the obama legacy. but joe biden took it head on. i guess he couldn t avoid it, could he? no. and look, i think it is very it is a big it is a really obviously large asset for the vice president that he was side-by-side with barack obama. i mean, i think there is a lost people on twitter who may forget this but barack obama is