there is a path for conservatives to distance themselves from donald trump and win elections. yeah, but the thing is republicans are boxed in now because their base wants very trump candidates in the primaries but get candidates you can t win general elections and the gap between the base voters and what general election swing voters and soft republican voter wills accept is just getting bigger and bigger for the republicans but i don t want to take anything away from democrats but i will say in part of that coalition, the defeated included a lot of republicans. in arizona, 11% of the people that voted for katie hobbs over kari lake were republicans so republicans are rejecting these candidates at significant chunks and that s a big part of what is making the difference. can i say one thing on that? you re absolutely right there were republicans crossing over but look at the democrats that ran from start to finish, they didn t have to change their messaging. look at arizona, look a
i talk about it on the 5 constantly. third wave shared the memo, what may be for your party, jessica, if the democrats manage to hold on to the house and senate, which is not a likely s scenario, if the brand problem persists democrats will face an uphill climb in 2024 and beyond, katie. after the dobbs decision, democrats thought they had something to run on. look at the culmination of polling, republicans and independents kept focusing on the economy and inflation but democrats made a hard turn toward abortion and never made the pivot back. and when this was an issue on the campaign trail after labor day when people start paying attention to elections, the question about abortion was asked, and it was democrats did not have any answers on limits on abortion. when 70% of the country believes in the 15-week limit, an answer a lot of republican candidates gave. the other issues that democrats
as a moment of real change in american history. the white house has their theory has been all along that what matters to the midterms and the president s prospects is what s happening at home. can they make this pivot back? they re trying. it s clear the white house and president has to do more than one thing at a time, which all must do. they cannot set their agenda. what they cannot do, as we head into the spring here, almost into the summer, the president can t only talk about ukraine. you have seen a shift. it s always key to watch his schedule. what s he saying and doing? since he came back from europe, the president, he has not given any major addresses on ukraine and russia. we will see the president traveling this week for the first time in several weeks, going to iowa on tuesday, talking about infrastructure, trying to remind voters what they have done. go to north carolina later in the week. it s a tough lift.
more that it is really just about the lobbying efforts of this organization, that they are in bed with social media companies that seek to squash down legitimate questions and criticisms and lift up these false narrative so she can always fall back on instagram post like this and cry a certain way, which to tammy s point, deletes others that have legitimate fears and concerns. when those of us who just come from america and have questions about tax dollars in donations and above board to real transactions and the like have questions. what is wrong with that? the constant pivot back to this tired, sad narrative. guy: you are telling me that a black lives matter activist as calling accountability journalism racist and sexist. knock me over with a feather. what a novel approach to argument in modern society. this is so predictable. it is eye rolling, i would say, for many people, because she needs to address the actual
accident. we spoke and you say there are other indications that perhaps beijing may be moving more towards a position of seeking a middle ground and trying to help russia and ukraine and the west out of this war. yes, there are other pieces that are circulating. academicians do we have audio on richard? with a bit of state backing. i don t think they re that. i don t think china is there. i think they like the idea that the united states finds itself strategically focused on russia and europe, so instead of a pivot to asia we are seeing a pivot back to europe. but china can t be happy with this crisis, joe. this is bad for their economy. this is bad for them as they try to get out of covid. i think, you know, with jake sullivan, the national security advisor meeting his chinese counterpart today it is a real