i don t know if that s laying groundwork saying he s not a great national campaigner. is that going to be enough in a state like iowa where retail politics are so important? well, we don t really know whether he s going to be a good good at national politics or not. obviously there are plenty of people who haven t done it before and have been successful. so i mean, donald trump had never had never held office at all. so i think we have to wait and see, you know, how he does on a national stage, and the fact is i think if the vote was taken today, most of the party is with donald trump, but his numbers are on the down swing. i mean, they re definitely not what they used to be, so there s an opening for a trump plus, not a you know, i think there s this idea of also the people who are a little bit less of the trump piness, i don t think there s much appetite for that in the republican party. they re looking for either a trump or a trump plus. a desantis is a trump plus. you kno
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yes. is anything going to happen anytime soon? no. and, phil, before this all happened, it looked very much as though president biden was going to announce his running for re-election this year for 2024. has this changed that at all? has this changed the calculus? i ve not picked up any change whatsoever. trying to maintain business at usual and a sense of normalcy how the building operates despite the operation ongoing. laying groundwork and prepared for announcement soon as next month, and i don t have a sense that s going to change anytime soon and a big part why you ve seen the president shift focus away from engaging on this issue, explain the issue and focus on his agenda. key initiatives and focus on republicans and of course not just this week but in the weeks ahead. they very much are planning to move in ta dirhat direction.
thomas, gorsism and alito have been looking for. they ve been laying groundwork since 20 as jessica mentioned, some of the lawyers from former donald trump s campaign pushing it back in 2020. those justices at the far right of this bench raising questions about state courts essentially going rogue, in their mind, and second guessing what the legislatures are doing. so it would be radical and i know that justice kagan touched on that in some of her other comments, too. she certainly did. and she laid out a lot of actually, ben, what you laid out in your amicus brief in this case. the reality is you ve got 30 state legislatures in america now controlled by republicans, 17 by democrats. can you explain for people as kagan did in the simplest turns
violence and making it clear that if they re not the ones who actually win these elections, that they re going to you know, be denying their own elections. i think it s important that he call these people out. because, again, there s a big difference between being a conservative republican and being a republican or a maga extremist who is an election denier. there are quite a few election deniers on the ballot this cycle. i think he s calling it what it is. i think he s laying groundwork for what we are going to expect. arizona being ground zero for violence is happening there. we ve got the proud boys who are out in some of these states monitoring absentee ballot boxes with guns, threatening people who are trying to vote. we ve only seen the beginning of this. and i think it s important that the president is making it clear that there are people running for office who are not going to accept the election results if they re not in their favor. let me stay with you, adrian. you