tweets are an easy way to get people talking about her as a 2016er. change the subject a little bit and then look at april. let me reverse myself a little bit. the one thing that i thought might push her into running is i bet after yesterday the way this crazy business of politics works, i bet that so much money rolled in to that ready for hillary because that s the way it is. that when you think your candidate is being attacked or something, the money starts rolling. in i bet she got a ton of money last night into that they did not her. the interesting thing is she doesn t really want to get. in she was being encouraged because there wasn t another candidate for a primary out there and her supporters and her donors want her to get in there more than she did. now she is being forced because the democrats around her like senator feinstein saying you need to start talking about the emails. what they mean is you need to get out there. that s a win for republicans. republicans want her
candidates thought they had a winning argument in this idea of religious liberty. religion is popular. turns out birth control is more popular and democrats have become very skilled at putting this argument on their terms and convincing people that republicans are trying to take away your birth control and we have seen republicans from cory gardner in colorado to chris christie becoming very uncomfortable getting anywhere near this subject. this isn t the first time chris christie s used that argument on a social issue. last fall when they declined to move forward with the state challenge to the same-sex marriage in new jersey, he said well this is settled law now, the state supreme court made this decision and it crystallizes the tricky dance that chris christie in particular has like you said navigating iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, florida, wherever, but also maintaining that kind of general election audience. it crystallizes something else. the answer that hillary clinto
cory gardner, joni ernst, monica webbe and tom cotton will fly to tampa. the fund-raising may also benefit the winner of the august 26 republican primary in alaska. this week was not so bright when it comes to jeb bush s iowa prospects. he was tied with christie for the highest negative rating of any republican tested in a new quinnipiac poll. his positive rating was even lower than christie s and he fared the worst against hillary clinton, trailing her by double digits. it s pretty clear, though, that jeb has a tough time. speaking of florida republicans, let s move to marco rubio. it s pretty clear these days that he s putting together the issues section of his presidential website. i d argue no potential 2016er has been more methodical about delivering policy speeches than rubio. started in january, february and march. rubio gave six big foreign policy speeches. in may he laid out his social security plan. this week his focus was economic policy and his pitch wednesday.
door on 2016 pretty effectively with david gregory yesterday. take a listen. i m not running for president. i ve said that so many times. as you know, we just had this conference here in park city, utah. i brought a number of of the 2016 contenders here to meet with my fund-raisers. had i been running, i wouldn t be doing that. look, i want to find the best candidate for us to take our message to the american people. that s the only way he didn t sound like a candidate, though, with david. he s already changed his stump speech to attack hillary more than he attacks obama, which is what a 2016er would do. i think he s definitely interested in running in 2016. i think he would like to run. i think he would like to be the candidate again. what have we found with people who run for president and lose. it s not like they say oh, that was fun. i won t do that again. they never get over it. he could look at this and say barack obama is having a really terrible term. what if i were i
mitch mc connell is in niz own primary fight until may, has a tough re-election. he wants to be senate majority leader. that comes before the 2016er s priority and you won t have agreement on the 2016 message on immigration or taxes until you get 2016 nominee. it might be the smarter, long term thing. i just don t think it s practical in the middle of a midterm. it s also true that voters memories can be short. look at how angry voters were with the government shutdown back in october. now that s all water under the bridge. people have moved on to new and different issues so maybe if you get a republican house elected in 2014, then you can start focussing on different issued for 2016. right. the news cycles moves swiftly and, you know, in three months it could be a different issue. i do think the immigration one