i would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win. chris christie drops out with no endorsement. anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be president of the united states is unfit themselves to be president of the united states. as the rest of the field panders to maga. don t just build the wall. bill both walls. anthony, you are fired. tonight, what christie s departure means to the race in our party led by an indicted front runner. sits here with a smug look on his face and runs away when it s my turn to talk. how the tent collapsed on the margaret circus, with congresswoman jasmine crockett, and george conway on how trump attorneys walk into a trap at a d.c. courtroom. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a major development tonight in the race for the republican nomination. chris christie, the only candidate telling the truth about trump from the republican side and his attempted coup was
their own voters. that s the key. they re scared of them and don t understand them. it s an important dynamic taking shape in this primary. and you know jamelle, i was taking a look at this, i ve covered more closely in some ways, the democrats are very heterogeneous coalition. we ve got old white politicians who go to barbecues in black neighborhoods in urban environments and black churches when they have to do code switching. that s when it gets cringey. you get the senate candidate who shows up at four latinos. that s part of politics, doing that stuff. but there is at least an authentic connection to black voters, to latino voters, to the different voters in the fabric of the party. there is just a missing piece in republican politics right now. i think that s right. i think also one of the key differences between the two
base, is this transformation of the base of the party towards the discontented white working class, predominantly white voters, white conservative voters without college degrees. that base of the party as the kind of bedrock for electoral success in republican primaries has created a weird dynamic. you see it everywhere. what it has done is made it increasingly difficult for republican politicians, who themselves are not part of that bass, to connect to their own voters. so they are playing this kind of game of translation all the time. we see it playing out all the time. it is a big part, i submit, and why republican politicians in the trump era sound soul weirdly cringey. just off. and you re like, what did he say? here is the ultimate example. that guy. ron desantis.