6th. textbook examples of how the candidates feel like they are put in a straitjacket by the fact that they don t like donald trump, don t believe donald trump should be president again, and many don t back here think he is eligible to be president again, but only way they improve their numbers are to draw supporters away from donald trump and they don t want to insult and challenge those voters. so the vice president just said there, again, donald trump asked me to break the law and i wouldn t do it. he doesn t say it that plainly. if you translate, that s what he said. donald trump sasked me to break the law and break my oath and i wouldn t do it. then he won t say this man shouldn t be near the white house. his only chance is iowa. ten years ago, he is a textbook iowa candidate. mid-western governor, mid-western governor, evangelical christian. the party has changed so much, they need those votes and all of these candidates are wrestling how do i convince the voters
I think oning that s interesting, trump will be the focus today. mark meadows has to turn himself in because a judge said, no, no, no, you re not special and you don t get special treatment here and same with the doj official jeffrey clark. we will have a very interesting day as the parade of co-defendants have come through. some people just go in, go out unseen. as much as they can be. what we saw with rudy giuliani yesterday was, you know, he came out, did his defiant press conference, and they got back on a private plane. what will be interesting today with mark meadows, i think we will see the low-profile approach when that happens. but donald trump is going to be the critical one today because when he goes in there, we are in the face of a judge s admonishment about making statements that could be considered threatening to witnesses, co-defendants, so on, which is a habit of his.
They are talking about whether to have a press pool in the moder cade going to the jail. talking about doing a statement at the airport on the way back. so the question today will be, is there a shift in tone? is there an adjustment in his rhetoric based on the judge s order and the urging of his lawyers, which donald trump will we are going to go into this with potentially a mugshot coming out of it and both sides are going to hold that up to show to their supporters. it will be on t-shirts of maga supporters, those who support democrats, and we are on a day where an american president gets a mugshot and everybody is going to use it as a meme. absolutely. without question. that s speaks to the uniqueness of this moment. before that maga base, this has been they have been careening i remember after the first indictment i was outside the courthouse in new york city and trump supporters were expected three to four indictments, to help him rise in
Much pressure applied to him and now he is saying even if donald trump is convicted i would still support him? mike pence is a victim in that case. they were chanting to hang mike pence. the court will consider mike pence a victim if it comes time for sentencing. i guess i get it now. our political experts make perfect sense why he is trying to thread in impossible needle. and walking this impossible line. one of the most gracious people in politics, we saw some of that last night. i briefed him on trifrm matters when he cake to new york and i was at the nypd. when you look at this impossible line, he starts with indictments by saying no one is above the law. but donald trump shouldn t have been indicted. he last night was saying, you know, pushing back against trump but then taking credit for the trump/pence administration accomplishments. he is trying to thread a needle where you are going to get stuck at some point. gentlemen, thank you. thanks, guys.
Loyal to donald trump give it up. puts you at a political ceiling in the republican electorate. there is a question can he break out to get to double digits. if you are branded against the trump movement and lack of fact in that january 6th moment set in for 30, 40% of that electorate, that makes it harder to cobble together a coalition. i think pence did himself a lot of favors, his legacy favors, it this kind of message favors, that k-9 kind of clarity of voice is helpful. the clarity of voice is at odds with the motivating factor of a large section of the republican base. someone like ramaswamy with inexperience, is still speaking in the wink of that base. when i am on the road, when you talk to the trump supporters they sound more like ramaswamy than mike pence. i can t make sense of mike pence. i didn t mean for that to rhyme. he stood strong on january 6th, did the right thing against so