hot button social issues, republican congressman nancy mace will join us with her take. but first correspondent matt finn with the latest hi matt. mike: the house voted to amend the annual defense spending bill by overturning policy that reimbursing service members for abortion-related expenses. the house also voted to ban transgender health services in the military. in a bitter debate republicans have been arguing in part that the abortion reis burstment is a piece of the democrats woke military agenda that republicans are trying to end. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy says democrats are trying to change the course of history. and for decades in america, from the most proceed-life to the most pro choice person in congress they believed in the hide amendment and that is simply what it s saying. do not use taxpayer money on abortion. and the other part would be is, what they re looking at, should we allow wokism in our military. now democrats allege republicans a
president, i don t think joe manchin would have a chance. when you talk about joe biden s age, certainly age is a consideration but last time i looked donald trump wasn t pushing 30. and in addition to that, if you re going to look at popularity, i can t believe all the polls, mike, and not just because they don t say what i like because of what happened in the midterm. we had the president showing he wasn t popular, we had polls showing that i would be drowned by this red tsunami and it just didn t happen. we see a very slim majority by republicans in the house, no majority by republicans but rather majority by democrats in the senate. so the popularity number has not affected joe biden. and i don t think it will even though it s a long time until the election next time around. mike: all right senator brian says quote i think it is worth freaking out about because i think this elections likely to be close and even if these idiots get 3% that could be 3% that throws the electoral col
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early on? i think to a certain extent, it s a lot better to be making these direct attacks in may or june than it will be in october and november. so i think the calculation is do it now so you don t have to do it later. right, but i guess what i would respond to that, andrea, by saying is that the best thing, politically speaking, that the president has going for him is his likeability. you know, even some folks who won t vote for him think he s a pretty decent guy, doesn t he run the risk of driving down that popularity number if he s the attack dog? no, he does, and he does need to worry about the independent voters and losing the independent voters, and some of the bain attacks, frankly, have cost him support not only with the voters but with the business community. so when you look at where there is so much less enthusiasm on the democratic base for president obama compared to the enthusiasm on the part of the republican base for mitt romney, then you have to really figure
better to make these direct attacks in may and june than in october and november. i think the calculation is do it now so you don t have to do it later. right, but i guess what i would respond to that, andrea, is by saying the best thing politically speaking that the president has going for him is his likability. even folk that s will not vote for him thinks he is a decent guy. doesn t he run the risk of driving down that popularity number if he is the attack dog? he does and he needs to worry about the independent voters and losing them. some of the bain attacks have lost him support in the business community. that said, if you look at the enthusiasm gap we now see where there is so much less enthusiasm on the part of the democratic base for president obama compared to the enthusiasm on the part of the republican base for mitt romney, then you have to really figure you are going to fire up that base and you