before we get to the political half of this development, just from a strictly legal strategy perspective, is trump s decision more reichly to help his causes, to hurt them or neither? i think it helps him because of the political sphere that michael is going to talk about, which is his sort of saying that i am a victim, i m a martyr for you, all of these not so vaied illusions to religion and when he s doing for his base and sort of locking that in, and that really is, in many ways, his legal strategy because legally, take the e. jean carroll case. he lost that already. the case that is coming up, the judge has already found liability against him. so much like the rudy giuliani
person really never stood a chance. and his only goal here now i felt from the beginning was just to be the last man standing. can he hang around if something happens to trump and have the nomination handed to him on the platter. if it does not happen, he s going to be scott walker of 2016. i m thinking of this from a strategic standpoint. like desantis was always behind trump in the polls but he kind of started from the bottom and he s still here. he was always down 10, now it s 20. i mean, from a strategy perspective historically, is there an example of someone, you know, bridging or cutting into a 20-point gap in a primary when the public already knows who they are? it s one thing to be down 20 points when nobody knows who you are. everybody in the country knows who ron desantis is.
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so, get ready. there is a lot more of this coming. it is all nonsense. it is all trolling. there is no real policy there. but there is messaging. lots and lots of very loud messaging. how should democrats respond? joining us now is the man who is with all the answers, robert former white house press secretary for president obama. robert, it s so good to see you. i m sorry we have to be talking about the utter insanity here. but what is the careful act that democrats do? on one hand, they have to show their serious about governing. they have to stay above the fray. on the other hand, republicans are going to try and bait them into these symbolic votes, for example, today they had a vote to condemn the horrors of socialism. for real. and 109 democrats voted for it. this is messaging, and it s empty, but it still messaging. what s the right call here? from a strategy perspective? well, look. i think we saw the beginnings of this, the very beginning of the congress getting organized,
robert, so good to see you. i m sorry we need to be talking about the utter insanity here. but what is the careful act that democrats do, on the one hand they need to show they re serious about governing, they need to stay above the fray, but on the other hand republicans are gonna try to beat them into the symbolic. votes for, example condemn the horrors of socialism for real. and 109 democrats voted for, it but this is messaging at its empty, but it s still massive jay. so, what s the right call here from a strategy perspective? wow, look, i think we saw the beginnings of this, at the very beginning of the congress getting organized. we realized there is a norma s personality is now in the republican caucus. the speaker not really in control of those personalities. and a lot of different people s agendas are gonna get pushed through, you re gonna see a lot of hearings like this, we know from the last election to that republicans felt outside the