he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this is even more damning. 37% have a negative opinion of the former vice president compared with 33% of primary voters who view him positively according to that same nbc news poll. that s what we call in, in the business, underwater on favor abilities. it s very clear reason for that. donald trump is still quite popular front runner for the republican nomination, blames mike pence. on january 6th and over and over and over again in the two and a half years since then, trump has told his followers th
people for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president s body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but offered me money. offer me power. i don t care. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. mike pence is in the very first presidential contest state of iowa tonight in the midst of the three-day campaign spectacle. although there s nothing more predictable than a former vice president iran for the white house, mike pence is in a unique position. not only was he number
one-on-one, you use the line of veto to eliminate or lower the cost of something. right? you use the line item veto to lower something in the budget. the last few days, two democratic governors dealing with hostile republican legislatures have managed to use a line item veto to score some pretty amazing political victories. in wisconsin, democratic governor tony evers is facing one of the most aggressively gerrymandered legislatures in the country. governor evers had to get clever in order to fight for his priorities. wisconsin governors used to have an even more a expensive line item veto power than they do right now. quote, at one time, governors could veto individual words to create but individual letters to create new or strike words from two or more sentences to make new sentences known as the frankenstein veto. those governors cannot strike individual words and letters from bills anymore, probably for the best. there is nothing saying they cannot fool around with numbers.
safe gun storage. it doesn t affect how anybody gets a gun or gets to keep a gun. the nra has not weighed in publicly on this. i think culturally, what you will find especially after santa fe, we saw a lot of conservative lawmakers get out in front of gun owners to lock up their gun. when you have a gun, you need to be responsible with it, i think we re waiting to hear what the nra is going to come out and say and also what the governor is going to do. let s talk about what the governor is going to do. where do his allegiances lie on this one. the texas state legislature is not something you d call a liberal group of people? not at all. this was negotiated among mostly republican lawmakers. the governor has a line item veto power. he can take that track and it won t blow up the entire budget bill. i am genuinely curious where the governor comes down, and i think all of texas is waiting and
the governor. he still will have veto power. he will have line item veto power. but of course, democrats very upset, because republicans decided to strip away a few of his powers in advance. wisconsin has been getting most of the attention, but what s going on over in michigan? so similar, different, but similar. democrats in michigan saying that republicans there are also attempting a power grab. also attempting to work against the will of michigan voters. but the slight distinction here is that so far, republicans and governor rick snyder, the outgoing republican governor, have targeted measures that were supposed to be on the ballot, republicans took them off the ballot, increasing the state s min wum wage, increasing the mandatory minimum wage, increasing the mandatory sick pay that someone can receive, and republicans took those measures off the ballot, decreased, watered them down, essentially, and democrats saying, that s not what voters wanted. all right, rebecca buck,