that s exactly. they think donald trump s an easy win for democrats. i thin tk you see that ron desantis is a far more challenging opponent for that. joe biden. so they want to take him out early. but listen, they re going to do that to the top twotry to and republican candidates are going to try to take them all t out. could there be another persones that emerges? i mean, it doesn t look like glenn young is going to get ineh and doesn t i mean, my sense now is has told people and i think the pump news, recent news is is indicative that if he gets int if h the he s going to clear the field, okay? he has said that to donors.the t sohe that s in the other thing is , is that, yes, the donors think that trump can t win. right. because they look at the recent losses, but then they listen to joe biden five minutes and they want to wall street. wanted, but nobody got wante. oh, my god.n ma ifke you listen to biden, you don t think he can make it. that s alreadyha wt.e already cd knew that.
it was trump that got jeb bush kicked out of the republican party, so he s gonna do try to do the same thing with desantis. what do you think of jeb bush being a fan of desantis. i think he knows sees the writing on the wall, he knows that trump can t win, and you think that desantis can t. trump is the human hindenburg floating over the republican party. and they all know, people have half a brain in the republican party know that trump is a loser. not only lost in the presidential elect, but he lost in the house and the senate for the first time in 100 years. let s talk about another candidate, that s joe biden. there s an interesting piece in the atlantic, and the headline is a case for the primary challenge for joe biden. we must be some free thinking democratic was to get in the race. and he? thoughts i love that i,
obama was winning. and trump is already falling significantly. he s even behind some of the opponents right now. so, frank, listen, i feel like we re falling back on 2016. we just talk about trump to be talking about trump. these are hypothetical matchups. this is not the first time that chris sununu said trump can t win. he said he s not stopping anyone from joining the race. chris christie said he doesn t believe trump can win. if we can talk about something that is going to happen, several polls have shown a drop in president biden s principle of law rating ahead of next week s statest of the union address. at principle of law rating is 46% among registered voters. there is a new marquette university law school poll that shows biden down by 44%. at principle of law there. what does that data tell you?
expose him as an expert level grifter, but there s something at the level of the psyche that s speaking to this sense of grievance and this sense of resentment that trumpism that trumpism attracts, and so i wonder how the lincoln project will get at that, even as they expose this grifting component of trumpism itself. sure. rick, you want to show some cards there? sure. of course. you know, eddie, first off, i couldn t love you more now that you re also a d&d guy. but i will say this. what we ve been doing for a long time is splitting off small amounts of trump s vote. we all it the bannon line. it was named by steve bannon. he said, if they split off 3% to 8% of the gop, trump can t win. we said, hold my beer. so, we re splitting off fractions at a time in the effort to weaken his base, weaken his fund-raising, to disrupt his operations, to make it harder and harder for him to be the only fish in the pond because, you know, we view donald trump still as the presumptive nominee
ago where the conventional wisdom was, no one could sfamd up and attempt to challenge trump in 2024. we re seeing his former vice president might speak openly. we ve seen nikki haley tweet about the possibility of running. ron desantis not taking his name out of the ring. sara, do you see a fairly wide open race for the republican nomination? and does a trump-like candidate help or hurt republicans in a general election? i m not sure i would call it wide open. i think that trump still absolutely has, you know, a hard core base. he has an advantage. but one of the things i ve seen in the focus groups lately since the january 6th committee happened is that a lot of these republican voters are worried that trump can t win. i think that, you know, people ask do the january 6th hearings break through, it s more that