the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
Now in the republican primary, they kind of flipped and reversed the argument. we re not seeing it break through in terms of republican voters hold donald trump quote/unquote accountable or flee him in polling but we are seeing a republican base that is more hardened against the federal government and using that language as a means to rile up their voting base. so it is having a effect politically on the messaging. i don t think it is having a support effect on donald trump. it is not causing him to lose voters. it is changing the way he s talking about himself and what he ll do if he s elected. and to get back on the e. jean carroll case, because it is pretty stunning testimony in a lot of ways and interesting the way that the trump team has tried to push back against this. this is just an excerpt of back and forth between trump s attorney and e. jean carol. tacopina said you never screamed at donald trump. she said i m not a screamer and i was in too much panic.