it s going to look like the trump faction because president trump is not going to win some these high profile races. brian kemp is well ahead in the polls of david purdue. president trump endorsed the lieutenant governor against the very popular governor of idaho brad little i think brad little is going to win were going to see races like this around the country just like we saw last year in texas special election and congressional districts six in which the former president endorsed somebody and somebody else won the nomination. in that case now congressman jake elzie. the president is diminishing himself as to why he is doing this i don t know except to make certain he is copyable in office that he feels are personally obligated to him. but is not going to win as many contest particular the general election i think is going to have problems. last weekend there was a convention in michigan which two of his people were nominated for
for the other side, you can have a real electoral effect and influence the course of that election. that s who we re reaching out to is the rational republicans across this country who want an alternative. miles taylor, thank you for sticking with us. i appreciate it. good to see you. i want to bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times and an msnbc political analyst. peter, good to see you. talk to me about what we just heard from miles, right, this strategy in a way of engaging center right candidates, leading up to the midterms, he talked a lot about as we all know and we ve discussed on numerous occasions, these extremist candidates, qanon believers, folks that are promoting the big lie, running in the midterm elections. is this something that you think could actually resonate or are republicans just too darn scared of the former president? yeah, that s a good question. i mean, i think miles taylor understands perfectly well that the trump fa
the russian president? i how to define the wire and defined the russian president? the russian president? i hope so. the trump the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has had - the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has had this . the trump faction has had this altogether wrong. you ve heard so many altogether wrong. you ve heard so many republicans saying we need to put boots many republicans saying we need to put boots to the ground and consider going put boots to the ground and consider going over put boots to the ground and consider going over it to europe and strengthening european we need to recognise if you are talking about two nuclear powers. america talking about two nuclear powers. america and the russian federation. do we america and the russian federation. do we want america and the russian federation. do we want to do some
accommodating, then they are going to keep talking, and the more they keep talking the worse it gets for them. this marshall blackburn who is just questioning, i mean, really? the children s books? talk about your faith. none of those things are ingratiating these guys to voters that they need to become president of the united states. they may win the race for the trump faction, but they are not going to win a race of most americans, who see what they are doing as terribly off-topic, distortion, distraction, from the incredible qualifications of this woman. they couldn t touch those. they couldn t touch her legal mind, her knowledge of the law. and i think durban took the attitude, i m not going to get accused of trying to shut anybody down, and was going to let them get in the hole and
about mandates coming down from washington d.c. it s rich but it is a political play. he s trying to line himself up as the great hope for the trump faction of the republican party. totally. i ll say, joe, you know, interestingly you had ann applebaum on in the last hour. she was talking about it yesterday on our air, and she made a point which i thought was really smart and made me go back and look at what desantis has been saying the last couple days. pay attention to it closely from the standpoint that you guys are talking about the misinformation and disinformation problem in that segment. you know, he is really he is complaining for sure but the aggressiveness and the assertiveness that he s showing in running this play, in making this argument, inside that his complaints about biden, he s