that is exactly what his advisers gave him. [ cheers and applause ] see, marco, the thing is this. when you re president of the united states, when you re governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how great america is at the end of it doesn t solve one problem for one person. this notion that barack obama doesn t know what he s doing is just not true. here it is. the memorized 25-second speech. that s the reason this campaign you know what the shame is, marco? the shame is that you would actually criticize someone for showing up to work, plowing the streets, getting the trains run back on time when you ve never been responsible for that in your entire life. a lot of laughs here in the room as we all watched that clip. from both sides of the table, i should note. scott, though, chris christie is going to be getting in the race. he has talked about giving it to trump on the debate stage, saying that he feels like he s one of the only people who
intentional? is this what you plan to do? and they said, there was never a calculated strategy not to go after donald trump. but she just didn t see the opening until later on. and she goes after trump and desantis on entitlement reform. but for her to really hold her powder back on trump and give a real knockout punch to desantis in his war on disney using taxpayer dollars, that goes to show clearly what her strategy is. and looking at this and speaking with a lot of iowa voters, they want to resonate in some part of what she said with the life issue, given that she is pro-life. and her argument that she made to jake in terms of, don t hold my feet to the fire on a six week or seven or eight week abortion ban if you re not going the hold the democrats feet to the fire. i know he followed up with a clarification of questions that biden has been asked. but the pro life community in iowa does want to see, if you re going to ask us on this end, you
federal ban. the thing that drew my ear is when she said that people don t want to see women basically imprisoned or getting the death penalty for abortions, and she s getting at this idea of overreach in the places where they are trying to create enforcement mechanisms or fetal personhood laws, that sort of thing, and trying to say, look, you can go too far with this, and i don t want to go that far. it s one of the many instances where it just feels like there is a policy or two she feels has appeal to centrists, and she s going to just kind of underscore them. i know there s a lot of conversation about her not being pinned down on a specific on the abortion issue, but i thought it was so clear it s like one area where she seems to have the general election next november in her mind much more than just the quest for the republican nomination or the evangelical base in iowa. it kind of reminded me if you remember in the democratic race four years ago when some of them
but, you know, jake rightfully pressed her and said, you re a candidate. you re running for president. what is your position? where do you stand? she still wouldn t go there. that is going to be an issue for her in this primary because these first of all, evangelical voters are a huge chunk of the republican party right now. and the leaders of these groups are really pushing for a number. they want to hear a commitment. and she did not give that. that s all true, and there s so many policy questions and answers to dissect on a whole host of issues. but one thing that really struck me was how folksy she was and how personal she got when she answered a lot of these issues. when she answered about abortion saying, i m pro life. and for many reasons, one of them was that i had trouble getting pregnant. and she talked about other issues, whether it was i know she s talked about this before, but on the stage. whether it was what happened in south carolina and the flag and her personal
need to ask the democrats on the other end. i think the second amendment is a huge issue for iowa voters. i think a lot of people will take pause with her she does not support. red flag laws, we have agreed there are some concessions that can be made with regard to gun violence. and red flag laws are an important one. and the fact she did not support that is going to be noted by law enforcement. democrats do get asked about where they stand. i remember we asked katie hobbs about it when she was running in arizona. i ve never heard biden say that he supports abortion up until birth. no, he does not. david, what were you going to say? well, you know, a couple of things on trump i know, but i lied to you. on trump, you know, she made a point of saying she s travelled the world and she sees the danger that comes when citizens don t trust the integrity of the election process. that would have been a good place to have a comment or two about the former president of the united sta