happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the orga
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
republican party s website tonight. that s migop.org. i am still the general counsel for the michigan republican party. but maybe that s not the michigan republican party anymore. maybe the michigan republican party is no longer at migop.org. maybe the real michigan republican party is at mi-gop.org. the punctuation is sometimes everything. ask the armed panda near you. eats shoots and leaves. if you put a dash between the mi and the gop at mi-gop.org, you find yourself at a totally different michigan republican party website, one where the chair is not kristina karamo but rather this other person, a totally different person. how can both of these people be the chair of the michigan republican party? how can both of these things be the michigan republican party? well, you could try to click through, but it turns out
what might be the michigan republican party s website tonight. that s migop.org. i am still the general counsel for the michigan republican party.ch but maybe that s not the michigan republican party anymore. maybe the michigan republican party is no longer at migop.org. maybe the real michigan republican party is at mi-gop.org. the punctuation is sometimes everything. ask the armed panda near you. eats shoots and leaves. if you put a dash between the mi and the gop at mi-gop.org, you find yourself at a totally different michigan republican party website, one where the chair is not kristina karamo but rather this other person, a totally different person. how can both of these people be the chair of the michigan republican party? p how can both of these things be the michigan republican party? well, you could try to click