That way, he could continue to have his own influence over the direction of the party, meaning mccarthy s, rather than being at trump s whim. and that s what he did after january 6. that s what i covered. interesting thing, joe, when i was interviewing trump, this was in may of last year for in trump s shadow i said, listen, seems like mccarthy is occupied with keeping the peace with you. trump looked at me and rolled his eyes, said, yeah, i know. so, is this a great segue to your poll, sam. i m going to let you lay it out here. explain what you asked voters. so, we noticed there were a number of candidates running for office either accused of sexual abuse or violence. we tested a number of different attributes, whatever you want to call them, negative attributes. like a felony, major crime. sexual misconduct.
Out front about what he meant at the time, why he said what he said what he said. why he apparently changed his mind. we know, because the politics within his conference dictated that he change his mind. and you cannot, as a party leader, in this day and age, lead members where they don t want to go, because they don t need the party fundraising to get ahead. yeah. of course, you re so right about people in the trumpist part of right-wing media starting to attack mccarthy, maybe that will have an impact in districts across the country. that s all begun. david, it s worth noting you ve written about kevin mccarthy s public grudge to make good with trump after the january 6 attack. in your gook in trump s shadow the battle for 2024 and the future of the gop, here s what you wrote. the house minority leader aimed to keep trump focused and in the fold by collaborating with him