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and could a conviction in any of these cases be a tipping point for voters? scheduling nightmare aside in all of this, the former president might not even get on the republican ballot in some states. we ve got a wave of new developments in the effort to disqualify trump ahead of the primaries. where it s working and where it s getting kind of messy. meanwhile, in d.c., another motion has been filed by jack smith in donald trump s election interference case. what the special counsel is now asking the judge to block the former president from doing during trial proceedings. let s dive right in. joining us now is washington post senior political reporter aaron blake, former congresswoman and msnbc political analyst donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst, democratic strategist, and pollster cornell belcher. thanks for being here. aaron, let s start with you. as we approach the new year, paint a picture of this, if you could, of just how chaotic this could get. only one ....
hour of ayman. donald trump s obsession with the patient becomes a focus of the 2024 campaign. but will it be enough to draw voters towards joe biden. plus, house oversight chairman james comer s desperate your went fishing expedition into the biden family. and the worst of the year. a tough matchup between two republican house speakers. i m paola ramos in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. dictatorship, autocracy, revenge. those were just some of the terms included in that word cloud former president donald trump posted to his truth social account this week without comment or context. within hours, journalists connected it to a poll that asked voters what word they associate with trump and a second term. earlier this month, at a fox news town hall, trump declined to say he would not use power to seek retribution. he said, i would not be a dictator except for day one. that wasn t a top whistle. it was a focal. and perhaps the only thing monitoring and the t ....
as we begin a new hour, a breaking news on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent urging an appeals court to dismiss former president trump s immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get a ruling. plus, nikki haley s campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what her answer says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, but look at how the polls have shifted over the course of 2023 and what that means for 2024. and why and immigration law in texas is drawing the attention of the justice department. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa, where several gop presidential candidates are spending the weekend in hopes of dismantling donald trump s hold over that republican party. that includes former south carolina governor nikki haley. but as she works to capture momentum from a surge and the polls, her campaign is also cleaning ....
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