answers. she s just deeply up to her elbows in mischief. inflation is surging. stocks are plunging. experts say a recession is coming. can biden shift the blame to the gop? republicans in congress are doing everything they can to stop my plans to bring down the costs on ordinary families. the american people are bracing for a pricey summer and they know who to blame. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. donald trump s plot to hold on to power after the election came dangerously close to work jg that s an inescapable conclusion from the hearings investigating january 6 and trump was told over and over that the election fraud claims just weren t true. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. the theory that vice president pence could basically declare trump the winner wasn t true either. what the president wanted the vice pre
answers. she s just deeply up to her elbows in mischief. inflation is surging. stocks are plunging. experts say a recession is coming. can biden shift the blame to the gop? republicans in congress are doing everything they can to stop my plans to bring down the costs on ordinary families. the american people are bracing for a pricey summer and they know who to blame. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. donald trump s plot to hold on to power after the election came dangerously close to work jg that s an inescapable conclusion from the hearings investigating january 6 and trump was told over and over that the election
trump number one, and i say desantis for vice president. they would be a great team. desantis is in a position now to do things that trump would have done were he really in power now. so, the spotlight is on desantis as a politician. i find that to be so selling because it s almost like the split mind of the trump base voter right now. they like trump but they really kind of like desantis, too. right. that is why trump is so nervous about desantis. our colleague gabby orr reported lately in the last month the polls are fixated on desantis. desantis is building a war chest. he is up for re-election, too, but that s putting trump on notice. one thing for trump would be to freeze the field. we have not seen that. the threat of him running is not put desantis in a corner or pence or some of these other candidates. we won t know unless they get
the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. after all of this trump is unremorseful and undeterred from spreading lies and attacking his former vice president. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. mike did not have the courage to act. as to what happened on january 6, it was a simple protest. it got out of hand. and joining me now with the reporting is jonathan martin, audi cornish, melanie. trump is no stranger to persisting with lies but on this issue he is emboldened. yeah.
he should hold off for at least another year. so, i mean, what is going on here? is it just boredom or any strategic advantage to trump getting in the race very, very early at this point? i think it s no surprise that the former president would like to be in power, given the lengths we heard this week for him to stay in power. i m more interested in who runs against him, who chal he cans him, especially in his own party. we haven t seen mike pence, right, publicly this week, despite the fact it seems like every one of his aides was in that deposition and also speaking publicly. so, who is a challenger in the party of trump in this moment? pence is not even making it a secret that he is interested, for sure, in a 2024 run, but it s really ron desantis that might be causing some of this. take a listen to a voter at the faith and freedom conference who has a bit of a suggestion for what trump should do next.