you had an interesting exchange with hugh hewitt, and i don t know where you stand on this. where do you stand on this? i think it s silly because it s not going to happen. we already said president trump said numerous time he refuses. so if he refuses, why shouldn t you. he said, well, if you won t be on the debate stage, then president trump won t be on the debate stage, and i don t think anybody believes that that s going to happen, but look, i think i m a lifelong republican who wants to support the nominee of the party whoever that is, however, i ve said before i didn t support trump. i wouldn t support trump and i put country ahead of party and not put someone in that should not be the president. if you thought your candidacy would contribute to inadvertently not to run? that would be a pretty good reason not to run. i don t care that much about my
specifically is the republicans in her state, 90% of what donald trump did, but hated 90% of what trump said. so perhaps it s safe not to save anything in terms of policy when she spoke to sean hannity this week and just to be a different representative of the party. i think it was interesting that governor hogan admitted that he thought his candidacy would contribute to donald trump, that it would be a reason not to run. that was a gentlemanly thing to say. you don t see a lot of that in politics and gentlemen tend not to finish first in politics. i think what s interesting about all of this is that you will see a battle for the soul of the republican party, and at least i really hope so. will you? so you know, there s a reason i m sitting here. i m a foreign policy nerd. we weren t talking about foreign policy, and there was a post-trump split on the party now with the isolationists and the tucker carlson wing of the party who are not interested in supporting ukraine and wh
stronger military and who want to cut defense spending. nikki haley is of the old school reagan stuff on that. she s solid on the culture stuff and she s solid on society and good on economics and she s good on foreign policy. i want to see that fight happen inside the party. i think the question, tom, if the fight happened in 16 and trump won? just in one of the things in reading up on nikki haley no, absolutely. she was against trump originally and said we shouldn t have a president that can t denounce the kkk. then she was for trump and then served in his administration. then after january 6th she was against trump, and then she was for trump, and then she was against trump in these coming-out interviews. she describes herself as tough as nails, but in her opening
presidential elections. well, that ends today. [ cheering ] former president trump wasted no time in attacking haley, trying to tie her to hillary clinton and paul ryan. it starts with two clear front-runners, donald trump and former governor ron desantis. trump leads in one recent poll, 46-23 in a wild field, but when it narrows down to two candidates, trump and desantis, trump s lead narrows dramatically. how will the 2024 republican field be? former governor of maryland, larry hogan. welcome back to meet the press. good morning. usually i reserve the questions for the end, but i ll ask up front here. have you made a decision? i haven t. i said i ll take a pretty serious look at this, and i m traveling around the country just trying to get a feel for what republican voters want,
deficits from 2021 through 2031. that group s president told me before the speech the white house deserves credit for the 250 billion of deficit reduction through the inflation reduction act but should also take responsibility for the 5 trillion of deficit increasing policies they signed into law or executive order. biden can take some credit for the economic recovery, which has boosted tax revenues. that helps deep the deficit down. overall, it s made the deficit bigger, not smaller. he claimed that his predecessor accumulated a lot of debt. listen to this. nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone. the last one. fair claim, danielle? more that fair than the last. there is some important context missing. in short, trump won t solely responsible for the debt increasing. under trump the dead raised by a