retaliation. senator tom cotton calling on the white house to take a stronger stand against china in support of taiwan. president biden and the white house is going out of their way to minimize this visit, to say it s merely a private visit, not to defend the rights of senators and congressmen. not only are we going to continue this practice, but we ll stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse l live in si valley. with many western countries angry for china right now for a variety of reasons, this is an opportunity and pivotal moment for taiwan, which is about the size of maryland with a population of florida. taiwan is david. china is goliath. that s one reason president tsai needs support not just from the white house, but members of congress, including speaker pelosi, formerly, of course, and speaker mccarthy to counter that threat. china claims the island as i
got 44% of the vote. he was outspent by a huge margin from $14 million to $2 million. and that issue, in that race, really came down to abortion. so we had rona mcdaniel on. she had a point. she was basically saying i say a problem the republicans need to deal with it. let s listen to her here. when you re losing by 10 points, there s a messaging issue. abortion is still an issue. we can t allow the democrats to define republicans and put millions of dollars up in lies and have it go unanswered. so what happens next? 100%. we saw what happened in the midterms. republican candidates chose to basically ignore what had happened at the supreme court with abortion, to not articulate it, to not talk about it, to not say, you know, this is what a growing baby looks like at 14 weeks. do you want to be in line with where europe is or in line with where north korea is? i think there was a fear of talking about it, but i think it s quite clear there will be a