party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health 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 in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna 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. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
breather and we re gonna put up the guy who tried it again. it s not a trump problem. it is a republican party problem. this is what they want. other right wingers who have charismatic leaders like trump around the world don t necessarily get behind them when they try violence to stay in power. our republicans do. and so, this is how we get to the first two speeches of the president joe biden reelection effort for 2024. friday at valley forge in pennsylvania, and today at the mother emmanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina. the two speeches kick off his 2024 reelection campaign, speeches about our status as a democracy, establishing ourselves as a democracy, the fight to keep our democracy in the civil war, the threat to end democracy today by the republican party and trump. and i don t know and i don t have insider information but i