kissimmee, florida, ali vatali. you heard me tee up there, what is your sense of what you re hearing this weekend in orlando? alicia, i have been to these conservative gatherings since trump left the white house and they re all in many ways trump loyalty tests. on its face it is billed as a strategic plan for republicans both in the house and in the senate but also looking more immediately at the 2021 race in virginia. what we re seeing is a continuation of the trump years in terms of messaging. instead of focusing on hard policy, it s a continuation of stoking culture wars. a lot of mentions, for example, going against the idea of critical race theory, for example. which is basically the idea that just says that america is a systemically racist country. a lot of deriding of that theory of thought here on the ground.
chris: let s take impeachment acquittal, where does that leave the president and where does that leave the democrats? i believe in a way for the president and the republicans, this has been just the latest in a long series of loyalty tests, things that you have to go through with donald trump as a republican to kind of prove you are in the party and the results show that he s cemented the party behind him even the person like will hurd chris: relatively moderate republican from from texas who is not running for reelection so he doesn t face that threat. the democrats had high hopes of peeling him off, he said no, there was wrongdoing here but it s not impeachable and i think that the president comes through actually with his base fortified from this. on the other hand, i think the
chris: let s take impeachment acquittal, where does that leave the president and where does that leave the democrats? i believe in a way for the president and the republicans, this has been just the latest in a long series of loyalty tests, things that you have to go through with donald trump as a republican to kind of prove you are in the party and the results show that he s cemented the party behind him even the person like will hurd chris: relatively moderate republican from from texas who is not running for reelection so he doesn t face that threat. the democrats had high hopes of peeling him off, he said no, there was wrongdoing here but it s not impeachable and i think that the president comes through actually with his base fortified from this. on the other hand, i think the democrats come through with
chris: let s take impeachment acquittal, where does that leave the president and where does that leave the democrats? i believe in a way for the president and the republicans, this has been just the latest in a long series of loyalty tests, things that you have to go through with donald trump as a republican to kind of prove you are in the party and the results show that he s cemented the party behind him even the person like will hurd chris: relatively moderate republican from from texas who is not running for reelection so he doesn t face that threat. the democrats had high hopes of peeling him off, he said no, there was wrongdoing here but it s not impeachable and i think that the president comes through actually with his base fortified from this. on the other hand, i think the democrats come through with
also slamming republicans who have been critical of him. i hate to say this, but we have some republicans they re not good. you call them a rhino, they re rhinos. they re rhinos are worse. and some of them are worse than the obama people, right? they re worse than the obama people. they re worse than the clinton people. but there aren t too many of them left. they re pretty much on res sp respirators. they re gasping. they re gasping for air. it s really unbelievable. this is what autocrats do. he s not an auto crat, of course, he s a with be auto crat if he lived in a country that was allowed to be one. there are these loyalty tests. and despite the fact that republicans have been sick of it and allowed this guy to breach constitutional norms, to breach political norms, to say the worst things about p.o.w. war heroes, to say the worst thing about other american heroes, to