people, all these wannabes? at the end of the day i think donald trump right now is saying the more the merrier. if a bunch of people get in i think his chances go up because that 20% of the republican party that is going to be loyal to him in a cultish way, they re not going anywhere, alex. why is mike pence running? mike pence is out there trying to position himself as a culture warrior especially on it topic of abortion, but i feel like ron desantis outranks him as a general in the culture wars each and every time. he s already persona non grata with the trump base. what s the point of someone like mike pence even running at this point? i think there s an unwritten law somewhere if you ve been vice president you re required to run for president. i don t get it. there s a lack of self-awareness there. i don t think he has a warm,
he doesn t believe in running anything other than a campaign full of calling people names, making things up, kicking people emissions, behaving like a bore and an ignoramus. that s what he will do and his base loves it. the question is, what s gonna happen to all these other people? all these wannabes? can they peel votes away from trump? i m not so sure if there s a bunch of them. can peel votes away from desantis. maybe, but at the end of the day, i think donald trump right now is saying the more the merrier. if a bunch of people get in, i think his chances go up because that 20% of the republican party, there s gonna be loyal to him in a cultish way, they are not going anywhere alex. why is mike pence running? mike pence is out there trying to position himself as a culture war warrior especially on the topic of abortion, but i feel that ron desantis is winning out in the culture wars each and every time. he s already persona non grata with the trump base. what s the point of someo
sorry uncomfortable things in a primary process that will be dominated by a person who will make no bones about saying the most inappropriate and be be very plainspoken in a republican primary in a way that can be prove to be very inconvenient for everyone else and in the field. here is what s gonna happen. you re gonna have snow white and the seven dwarfs, and if desantis gains more steam he might have two big gladiators going after each other with a cast of thousands around them. so it s gonna get ugly. you know it s gonna get ugly if trump is running. he doesn t believe in running anything other than a campaign full of calling people names, making things up, kicking people emissions, behaving like a bore and an ignoramus. that s what he will do and his base loves it. the question is, what s gonna happen to all these other people? all these wannabes?
wannabes. and why i think this turn that she has taken is such an important test to people rally behind this because there is an appetite for this. or does she go down as a loser. you know? i think that is really an open question sure, we are talking about individual candidates. what happens if you have a rogue legislature? that is the more dangerous proposition. individual candidates,, one that does want to concede, that is bad. you know, that is bad form. eventually they re gonna have a backlash for that person. politically. what do you do if a handful of people in a swing state decided they don t want election to go that way it actually went. jelani cobb with the columbia school of university a great to have you. little in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. od evening, rachel the transgender day of remembrance, which remembers americans who have been killed for being transgender. a shooter carrying a long gun as well asre a h
someone other than donald trump. sure, i think the thing is that, irrespective of what you might think about him, you know, politically or what he stood for. trump possessed a certain kind of charisma. like, malignant charisma. you know, as it may be. but a certain kind of unquestionable. right, the flare to do what he did. he was a salesman for all of those years. simply being belligerent, simply being antagonistic towards various ethnic groups or various religions, whatever. that is not the entirety of trump s sauce. so i think that s why people have not succeeded with it. people cannot replicate, no one s really down in the way he has done it. so i think that and of itself doesn t mean a threat to democracy is over. because it just means you can t really replicate trump in that way. yeah, it is such an important point. it is also i think what kari lake sticks out. right? because she does have this background in she is obviously an effective communicator, far more effec