reportedly abandons his struggling pick for governor. just left him in the dust. never would have seen that coming. i know. no loyalty. things go back, and he throws him under the bus. who has ever seen that? that s shocking. other than anyone he s ever dealt with. the latest on the war in ukraine. british intelligence reports russia has been firing high-level commanders over the military s poor performance in ukraine. we ll talk a lot more about that. along with joe, willie, and me on this friday morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. he is white house bureau chief at politico. willie, we re going to get a lot of news here, but i must say, jonathan and i just shocked. a storied night in major league baseball last night, as the little engine that could just went a half notch up the hill and said, i think i can. jonathan, give us a qu
again, it is different in every race and every state, but what is the posture broadly of these state parties toward donald trump, as you look at pennsylvania and you look at georgia? if you look at pennsylvania state party, the person i quoted is gleeson, former chair of the party, there is a lot of disappointment, soul-searching, hand-wringing. should we have gotten involved, the gop is saying, and try to coalesce behind another candidate than mastriano? they don t believe that mastriano can win in the general election. in georgia, it is a different story. it s a very trumpy chair of the gop there. there s been a bit of a georgia civil war within the republican party and kind of within the republican establishment ever since 2020. certainly since the 2020 elections. the chair there is just well-known as wanting to do whatever trump wants to do. trump has endorsed and supported kind of an entire slate of statewide candidates in georgia. trump is going to walk away as a