back in september, decembe desantis having a double digit lead over trump of 14 points but, it has been a tough tough week for rhonda scent as he wa trying to beat trump at his ow game a strategy that filled i spectacular fashion this wee as trump has bee systematically peeling off support in desantis s ow backyard trump has now won the suppor at the majority of florida s congressional delegation including the representative who took over on desantis s ow seat in congress and one particularly humiliating case earlier thi week, a texas congressma endorsed donald trump on his way out of his meeting with ro desantis in washington but, there are republica hopefuls who seem to be trying to carve out a space as an alternative to trumpism. trump s own former running mat and vice president mike penc and south carolina senator tim scott are leaning into the conservative christian value that once drove their voters t the polls. but, the folks at politico are making a strong case thi weekend that
and how she presents the american people, she can reall sell the democratic message, i she is given a platform and th authority to do so that is the important part here? yes if she is given the platform, that major if. there susan, so there s been a couple-foot set up and stepped on when we talk about th abortion issue right tim scott as we just playe some, nikki haley, mike penc as well had some missteps as well when it came to talking about abortion john kasich s action now a msnbc political analyst said this i think that there is a good possibility of trying to reach some kind of a reasonabl compromise it s a way that frankly they need to resolve this issue i am wondering though who that would play best to, what typ of voter that would play bes to and if that s even somethin that could happen? it could happen in, theory don t see it playing out because we were too close to the primary process. where i would play out, fo example where a compromise could be s on medical abortion t
before this all goes down? or will he try to keep him o his side at this point, do you thin mike pence even cares abou protecting donald trump? because to some extent, th president, the former presiden has already thrown mike penc under the bus. he has called him all kinds of names, after and on january th 6th. i wouldn t say he has been a defender of mike pence, give what mike pence did on that da ending his presidency. right. so we know that mike pence has just been a feckless leader if we can even call him that. but as barbara mentioned donald trump s tactics hav always been to delay and the appeal and that road may have run out so if that is the case, we hav seen donald trump with his bac in the corner. there s absolutely no way he will try to get pence on his side or be conciliatory an appropriate in anyway. i think that he is scared. he is finally facing several crimes
investigating, we ve heard fro the january six committee, o we ve heard the other side o it this is gonna be interesting and new information. and then there are seven mor aides that he is going to hear from is that a fast process or a really slow process are we gonna see this before people have a chance to vote for donald trump oh i think we will. you know, jack smith was appointed in november. he, this thing has picked up speed. very quickly now, when it comes to thos aides testifying, some may tak the fifth. i mean if mark meadows is in any sense, he will be taking the fifth. i mean he is potentially a defendant. so it might not take as long a we think cuccinelli for example is part of those aides, he is ha already testified partially. so i do think it will go relatively quickly jack smith seems like a ma with a foot on the accelerator how big a deal is mik pence s testimony? mostly because it feels like some people who know mike penc that he was waiting for this t
certainly, mike pence mike pence gets to say, - i don t see a wins. that is all true. january 6th, we know mike penc is on the hill, not talking donald trump is not callin mike pence mike pence is talking a lot to donald trump, up until h departs for the capitol. that s the period he has t testify. there s all these conversations that get documented in pence s memoir w talked about the wall street journal, op-ed he s laid out a lot of this story. he hasn t testified in front o a grand jury, under oath, we are gonna have just not anyone but prosecutors probing hi exactly what we are told they re gonna ask anything and everything related to all thes conversations. which is very different than just providing your reflection on those concepts. the fact is, marc short an greg jacobs to have pence closest states have testified, that secondary information there were conversations onl trump and pence are party to, think even believing there s one on january 6th, in fact. and those