good sign for a biden team that hasn t necessarily launched yet for it s the last contest in the 2022 midterms, georgia again because of the runoff law, being the last voice here and it s interesting in that president biden has a huge stake because of his agenda and his nominations and the control of the senate but also point of pride, phil s point about georgia but donald trump does too. the lieutenant governor geoff duncan is a never trumper and believes the pick will cost him the seat. it s striking even the republicans who some would begrudgingly say i want walker to win, geoff duncan says it s not going to happen. we re trying to break this vicious cycle of addiction of donald trump as republicans. we put the wrong candidates in place all over the country. i m sure the folks in arizona wish they could have somebody other than blake masters and kari lake and sure the republicans wish they had somebody other than dr. oz. behindsight is 20/20 and we ll wish we had somebody othe
the senate and being able to poff and in particular nominations through committees, there are procedural and logistical time hurdles that no longer exist and view that as critical. when you talk to white house officials they re cognizant of what georgia means to his win in 2020 and the political future going forward. i ve been fascinated by the president s post-midterm travels. he was kind of allowed in michigan a little bit but one was michigan where democrats have performed, today heading to arizona where he wasn t necessarily welcome and to be completely clear, the president is okay with that. when you his officials take it personally but the president always made clear they don t want me, i don t need to be there. i ve been in the game long enough to understand that. what i m most fascinated about if warnock wins and we need to count the votes if biden is in georgia as well because you re seeing him lock into very critical states that he flipped in 2020 where democrats overperfor
you can t even get enough votes you can t get 218 for yourself and to complicate it since that interview representative andy biggs says he s still going to challenge kevin mccarthy. he tweeted just today i m running for speaker to break the establishment. kevin mccarthy was created by elevated by and maintained by the establishment. so, again, mccarthy has more votes than biggs. mccarthy is in a storonger position. it s embarrassing to kevin mccarthy which is why right now he s saying he s trying to appease the hard-liners by standing up to biden and mcconnell. exactly. i think kevin mccarthy also knows if donald trump or donald trump jr., someone from the trump orbit comes in and says, let s rally behind this guy, which you ve seen trump jr. do in the last couple of days he will probably get the votes so he s very much trying to appeal to that flank to get a big endorsement that will get everyone else in line. you can tell his behavior over the last couple of weeks was kind of o
back into the senate with mitch mcconnell s money. and they ve got a little quih mo pro quo going because she s going to promise mitch mcconnell she ll vote for him for leader, but then she ll vote with biden. 67% of the time. that is that is a disgrace for the people of alaska. foyeah. shr e wears the jersey of. the establishment. we kno w she s pulling for pelosi in our house race.for pe we ve got four candidates.lo she s backing and campaigningra with the one who s goingce to choose nancy pelosi. as our speaker of the house. that s not good for alaska.thats she wears the jersey, biden and pelosi and mcconnell. they flooded our state with million s of dollars in dark money, more than both murkowski and i ve spent combined in our respectiveen campaigns. when mcconnell announced he wast going to do this, she said, mitch, you ve always been there for me. i ll be there for you. been thee we wan t to make this into an ade for to let alaskans know so you cayn donate online, kelly , for aco
lose like 15 seats, 14%, below it could be 35, 40 seats. the mid-terms for the party in power we all know. i think this is in large part to covid fatigue. i think the president understands that. so do a lot of these candidates right now. so that s what you have seen in states that lift covid restrictions, because they understand people are sick of this. also inflation, don t you think. well, i do think inflation plays a big part of this. i think the biggest hurdle for the white house and for democrats right now is how do you what do you do with a disconnect between the poll numbers and what is happening with the economy? the economy is booj right now. you have 6.6 million jobs c created under president biden. and there is, people feel better than they did a year ago. the first year of biden. we all feel better than we did under donald trump how do we reconcile that and tell it to the american people? right now if i were a democrat, i d be saying, we have to spend