miracles. the story, i cannot get enough of it. it is extraordinary. and on that note, i was you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow who it was november 12 of 2020 and was a lot going on at the time. it had been less than a week since the networks had called the 2020 presidential election for joe biden. donald trump was just beginning his campaign to deny that result and to try to overturn it. just a few days prior to trump s lawyer, rudy giuliani, gave his in some vince for seasons landscaping press conference to contest the election results. we all remember that. trump had decided to deny president elect biden access to classified daily briefing as was the custom in presidential transitions. which, in retrospect seems a bit ironic. just one day later, senator lindsey graham would make a phone call to the georgia secretary of state, asking raffe
now goi have to imagine at ts point the trump campaign has created a gif of the ad rhonda sanchez took out when he s running for governor with his baby in the trump whimsy, and alike just have it on hand rapid response every time ron desantis says something to different shame self-about trump. it was november 12 of 2020 and was a lot going on at the time. it had been less than a week since the the time networks had called the spent weeks if not 2020 presidential election for joe biden. donald trump was all anyone just beginning his campaign to deny that result and regionalized to try to overturn of was just it. beginning his campaign to deny that just a few days prior to trump s lawyer, result agitated overturned rudy giuliani, gave just a few his in some days prior to trump vince s lawyer rudy for seasons landscaping press conference to contest the election giuliani gave this in the results. we all remember that. trump had decided to deny president elect biden access to
route. and you look at the polling right now. there is one that came out today, can he pack put out a poll today about the 2024 race, and trump was ahead by 40 points and use over 50% in the polls. and they just taken a poll three weeks ago before the indictment, and was ahead by 31 points. so, it s essentially unchanged. no sign in the polling average, no sign in this particular quinney a packed poll, of any slippage of trump support among republicans. and you see christie is a different case here, because he s kind of got nothing to lose here right. he s trying this new strategy. but for a republican like desantis, you can see those gears turning strategically that have some echoes of 2016, when he had these republicans saying, jeez, our base seems to like, him i don t want to be the guy who takes the first swing, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody will take him down. and we see what happened, steve. you wonder if that s gonna happen all over again. democrats are be
that have some echoes of 2016, when he had these republicans saying, jeez, our base seems to like, him i don t want to be the guy who takes the first swing, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody will take him down. and we see what happened, steve. you wonder if that s gonna happen all over again. democrats are being advised by the dnc not to talk about this. the white house is staying mom on the topic, both political reasons and legal reasons. i mean, we understand it s complicated for republicans. do you feel it s equally complicated for democrats, especially in swing districts? i think for democrats right now, look, just all the news coverage is about this. so, you know, it would almost hurt them to be sort of throwing themselves right there into the fray front and center, because it would only feed trump s idea that this is somehow, you know, a partisan attack on him. if you re a democrat, i think you sit back at this point, strategically, your best move is to just sit ba