if they had done that, none of these conversations would have been had. republicans wouldn t be running for the hills on the issue of abortion. but, again, no touch. they take the extreme position. that will lead to democrats winning more elections and more pro choice justices going on the supreme court. it s self-defeating. yeah, there may be republicans like that out there, joe, but they re not in positions of prominence here in washington. they re not on the 2024 campaign trail, at least not at least not yet. instead, you have a party that is continually shifting to the right and putting itself in extreme positions on issues like abortion, certainly, and also guns and others that are out of step from where the american people are. right now, there are two leaders in the primary field, trump and desantis. we often see this from trump, following him so closely for so many years, where he takes his biggest vulnerability and tries
ball. that s what i don t lemire, i just, there has to be a republican out there. swear to god, there has to be a republican out there that cares about the things that i care about, that cares about the things that americans care about. we have a $31 trillion national debt. we ve got republicans talking about retreating and appeasing vladimir putin. we ve got republicans talking about six-week abortion bans. if they had just if all of this would have been for naught, republicans would have the high ground on abortion. democrats won t like this, but this is the reality. if john roberts had been able to convince kavanaugh or amy coney barrett, just come with me, sign onto the 15-week mississippi abortion ban with exceptions, that s where the majority of americans are right now.
candidate right now they re breaking away from donald trump and when i look at actions that make them breakaway, that suddenly makes a big difference. when i look at because i can tell you, when i won in 94, it was a huge shock that we took over the house of representatives. but if you had looked where republicans had won in 93, you would have said, oh, well, i can connect those dots and see. you look at the huge democratic wins in 18, you know, i remember reading stories in 17 about democrats winning delaware county, pennsylvania, county commissioner races for the first time in 100 years. you go, well, that s something. democrats winning an incredible turnaround in the virginia assembly. nobody believed it. it was a shock? 2017. i kept seeing the women waiting
stop and think about that moment in which you were in congress. even given the fraught political climate that ultimately led to the impeachment of a president in bill clinton, you still balanced the nation s budget. you paid its bills. now even reformed some long, sacrosanct institutions like welfare and the social safety net. this idea of getting big things done for the country mattered, even in the midst of political back and forth. that is not where we are now. it is performative b.s. in large measure. it is a lot of not even really good smoke and mirrors. it is sort of setting up these political narratives that basically push agendas that have nothing to do with solving the problem. now, republicans are acting like, you know, this is the hill
saying he s the leader the country needs. these public endorsements are expected to serve as the starting point for a wave of support from rank and file republicans in florida. former president trump, however, has already secured the endorsement of ten florida members of congress. joining us now, national political correspondent for time, molly ball, who has a new piece published just moments ago on, quote, the desantis project. you write, in part, this, from school board meetings to the walt disney corp, the shelves of elementary libraries and face masks, it s a florida governor. any of these might represent a signature achievement. for desantis, they re the latest line items in an agenda he calls the florida blueprint. by operationalizing the culture war into a set of concrete