president and he will be the republican nominee for the presidency despite all the other people running is to make a decision they re going to flood social media with ads in the way they re trying to define elizabeth warren in the way he s defining joe biden now. it gives him a leg up on all this. in case there was any justifiable criticism on the trump machine at this point, they haven t done a good job raising money for donors. this impeachment probe is tailor-made dollar pitches the trump campaign makes. it s a sign of not any move in the middle, but it s definitely going to be about the base. it was true two weeks ago, and more so now. thanks for joining us on inside politics. brianna keilar starts after a very quick break. take care.
welcome back to hardball. president trump got officially a third challenger this weekend as former south carolina mark sanford announced his candidacy. he joins bill weld and illinois congressman joe welsh in challenging president trump for the republican nomination. the the face tough odds against the trump machine. according to a recent gallup poll the president has an approval rating of 88%. that s nine out of ten republicans are marching. the gop is working to make it as hard as possible for his challenger s outright canceling public caucuses. do you believe this, in nevada, arizona and kansas killed the primaries. that s how they operate in a real democracy, the republicans.
outright or blatantly false or racist or sexist but also focus on the issues when it pertains to the economy and i do think if they find a middle ground there can have a winning message against the trump machine. is the economic message that part for the democratic candidates about how wage growth continues to be relatively week and the economy isn t good for everyone. we heard that from some candidates like warren. absolutely. i think, you know, one thing to remember is that in november of 2020 there s certainly a presidential election that s consuming a lot of the energy. but there s also an election for control of congress. and a real likelihood that democrats could retain control of both the house and capture control of the senate. so, while there s a lot of conversation and sometimes noise around the national landscape, it s really important to also remember what that means for
this is rudy giuliani saying that the prosecutors were looking for a specific sentence. we know they weren t but as savannah laid out, one-fifth of the lowest sentence and that means prosecutors would be angry and you described in the courtroom they looked gaunt and angry once the sentence was read. we have this trump machine going and getting around paul manafort saying he s a good guy and that is being picked on because of his relationship with trump. and it is important to note that paul manafort might not have been in the trouble had he never gotten involved in the trump campaign, that is very true if that he was just one of the other people in d.c. that might be doing the same thing he might have been able to get away with this for another 20 years. the white-collar criminals we don t go after them. savannah, at the beginning of the hearing the judge said this has nothing to do with russian collusion and then afterward paul manafort s lawyer said the same thing. take a listen.
offered the best line. remember locker room talk? the author of american governor , also reporter for nyc public radio. matt, interesting to have all of these little tid bits in the book. were you surprised at all that he included that particular ep soed? no, because the whole book is about how christie himself was in the room during these very important moments. christie presents himself as a critical cog in the trump machine, particularly during the campaign. he also presents himself as the adult in the room. so with the access hollywood situation, he s talking about batting down all the damage control ideas from jared kushner and steve bannon and instead he gives trump all tultimately the advice about how to deal with the situation and then following the tape s release, he does this debate with hillary clinton