complete support for donald trump, still a party that supports donald trump 95% or 90% depending on the poll. so i think those are the dynamics. the house has turned into a food fight. listen, i will say this one last thing before i stop rambling here. kevin mccarthy is driven right now by one dynamic. he believes that he is going to take back the house of representatives in 2022 based on a wealth of about 100 years of evidence about mid-term elections in the first term of a president. we will have to see if that holds true. he believes that, you know, republicans are only five seats away from that. redistricting helps them, and they believe there are a lot of democrats in soft seats that they could knock off. so everything he is trying to do is based on that goal, straight ahead toward election day and to win back the house of representatives. everything he does is guided by that principle and by that goal. so, donna, i think jake kind of lays out the script for republicans very acc
liz cheney a little bit earlier and how we are seeing her further ostracized from the party. here is what politico is reporting. cheney s decision to move ahead as the sole republican on the panel further solidifies her exceptional status within the capitol, a notorious and increasingly isolated figure in a gop conference that emphasizes trumpism above most else. for several of her republican colleagues, cheney has now committed a sin even more grave than her relentless criticism of the former president, publicly standing with pelosi. some republicans even raise the idea of cheney facing consequences for her decision to stay involved with the panel, though they didn t wade into the topic of what those should be. what do you make of what liz cheney is doing? i, for one, was saying, you go girl when she walked down those steps yesterday and every time she does that. but what is, in your view, having served in the house, the political consequences for that?
writer at-large at the bulwark and an msnbc contributor. also, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary as well as an msnbc political analyst. and jackie, author of washington post s power up newsletter. thank you all for being with us. jackie, let s start with you. has trump s delusion, which was in full display in that clip we just listened to, is his delusion becoming the gospel in the republican party? absolutely, claire. that s what we re seeing really from the loudest voices in the party. yes, you have people like congresswoman liz cheney, who would say, in her opinion, is on the right side of history when it comes to calling out the president for his repeated lies and calling out her members for the propagation of those lies about election fraud. but i think that we heard time
want to make sure that come november next year people are able to freely and fairly cast a vote. so i want to read a little bit more from the brennan center s new report, michelle. they say three states have enacted broad omni bus voter suppression laws this year, georgia, florida, iowa, while arkansas, montana and arizona passed restrictive laws, arkansas and montana passed four such laws each and arizona passed three. this wave of restricts on voting, the most aggressive we have seen in more than a decade of tracking state voting laws, is in large part motivated by false and often misinformation about voting fraud. the most aggressive we have seen in a decade. this is the name of the game in gop politics right now, isn t it? this is their bread and butter and a priority in how they go about playing the game. look, if you are main ort party, a party that hasn t won the presidential election,