pole position. two days from new hampshire s primary and new cnn poll finds trump leading the pack. we need big margins because we have to send real unity as a message. as his rivals pile on. we can t have someone else that we question whether their mentally fit to do this. could anyone knock trump off his path to the nomination? plus reluctant rematch. democratic leaders worry if 2024 is a rerun, voters will tune out. as republicans face a familiar dilemma on trump. i would support him. even if he s convicted? new reporting on the fears in both parties. and house of cards. the november is house speaker squeezed by his own party. i think it is a nonstarter. i don t see what the problem is. let s fix it. has mike johnson backed himself into a corner. inside politics starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. right now a brand-new snapshot of the republican presidential contest less than 48 hours away from whe
the daily global war will be bringing you the top stories from around the world. we start in ukraine were military sources there and told the bbc their forces are tearing out would be described as a series of small scale armoured attacks against russian positions. this comes amid reports of fighting in many parts of southern and eastern ukraine what appears to be a significant escalation. the ukrainian army releases these images that they say are attacking russian troops in the area of bakhmut in the eastern region of donetsk. moscow claims it has repelled armoured attacks and inflicted heavy losses but there s been no independent confirmation. the point is not a source to be trusted. kyiv is posted this video calling for soldiers to have silence for their long full scale counteroffensive. report on social media since ukrainian forces have made several probing attacks along the south and eastern south line. also in the western part of this region in the eastern part of this r
debate and others. plus, concern for house democrats in several races. they should have, they believe, locked up by now, including the seat of their campaign chief. we ll have that new reporting. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, october 26th. along with joe and me, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico and author best seller the big lie jonathan lemire and eddie glaude jr., a professor and punch bowl news jake sherman, msnbc political contributor. mika is under the weather this morning and hope to see her tomorrow. joe, we ll start it in pennsylvania just your first impressions what you saw there from john fetterman and dr. oz. first of all, mika under the weather, actually means she s going to probably only run seven miles this morning instead of nine. so her devgs of under the weather is a little bit different than ours. you know, it s v
core conservatives learn to love mitt? you, the economy and the election with alex riff lin, douglas holt aiken and ron brownstein. and then israel, iran and the u.s., what we know with house intelligence chairman mike rogers. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a gallup poll shows president obama beating every republican comer except one, mitt romney. after months of pounding by republican rivals and the president s team romney is up a point over the president, a dead heat. 35% of republicans are extremely enthusiastic to vote this year, compared to 23% of democrats, 20% of independents. that s called an enthusiasm gap. also troublesome for the president s prospects, four of the 12 swing states have jobless rates over 9%, and four are in the top ten for highest foreclosure rates. joining us now, bob mcdonnell, head of the republican governors association, and his counterpart at the democratic governors association martin o malley. gentlemen thank you bot
today with different messages. a few hour agos al rai tv broadcast the message, claiming his father and closest followers are hiding in tripoli s suburbs and their morale is high, listen. translator: the leadership is fine, the leader is fine, and we are fighting and we re drinking tea and coffee and we are sitting with our families. saif gadhafi had a message for people he called his brethren in tripoli and across libya. trnti translator: we are saying to everyone, everyone has to move from now. to attack all this gangsters of the rats. the people he s calling rats are the rebels who drove the gadhafis from power. just a few hours before that fire and brimstone message, another of gadhafi s sons contacted cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson, he joins us from tripoli, a city by the way dangerously close to running out of water. nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? reporter: this was a completely opposite message to saif s m