out of the market based on risk exposure in the hurricane-prone state. florida s also facing a different type of heat. it is now america s inflation hot spot. with rates skyrocketing, despite inflation rapidly cooling in the 49 other states. its agricultural and construction industry are facing labor shortages too due to the inhumane immigration law governor ron desantis pushed that cracks down on the very migrant lane they re helps his state prosper. but there is a trend with republican leaders. they tend to go awol when their states are suffering. and desantis is the latest example. he is not focused on these disasters. he is focused on the disaster of his presidential campaign. his paid campaign staff has been slashed by more than a third. that includes a staffer who over the weekend promoted an online video that superimposed nazi imagery over desantis face. good times. joining me now is juanita tolliver, msnbc political analyst and host of the what a
closest to at the state level is senator tim scott. he is surging in the polls, double digits in iowa and new hampshire, and i feel like that s the person that the gop voter base is going to turn to next. we will see, because sean trendy who was there, republican pollster who said there s too much racial anger in that party to elect a black candidate. so i don t know. i believe it when i see. it juanita tolliver, flank you. when we come back next, some sad and maybe puzzling news for the pop world. the pop world.
the way that they ve treated your daughter? my daughter can take care of herself. meanwhile, a group of former trump administration s officials is behind an effort to block their former boss from winning office again. one member of this group is the former white house press secretary stephanie grisham, who says that about 15 former officials are of all. she is not cooperating with the house committee investigating january six. and she met with them on wednesday. all i know about that day is that he was in the dining room gleefully watching on his tv as he often did look at all of the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that is what i know. with that let s bring in our lead off guests on this thursday night. peter baker i, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. , pulitzer prize-winning writer with the washington post. co-writer of the new york times bestseller, i alone can fix. it juanita tolliver, and daniel
midterm election say, oh heavens to betsy. this election was rigged. i won the dog catcher election. and it was unfairly robbed from me. and if dozens of people start to do that, that is an erosion that you can t imagine finding a enough sandbags to repair. juanita, democrats are seeming to understand for those who didn t understand. everyone seems to understand that this issue about the legitimacy of elections around voting rights is the primary issue. and it probably needs to come ahead of other issues as desirable of those other matters. and as you pointed out if this continues through the next election elections may just not before in this country after that. that is exactly right. and to curls point, i just keep coming back to the reality that this is why accountability matters so much so that the person who does take a page from trump s book, doesn t try
divided nation. in that article one of our guests, peter baker, writes quote, while mr. biden and the democrats describe the dangers to the constitutional order from what amounted to an anti democratic insurrection, mr. trump and his allies railed against the congressional investigating committee. and they seek to rewrite history by repeating wild and false claims about a supposedly salute election and asserting that the ryan was born out of justified anger. still with it before mentioned, peter baker, carol leonnig, juanita tolliver, and daniel goldman. tell me, this you write about the idea that just has become another partisan went. but to juanita s point, if it continues down that road we are going to have elections that could potentially become less democratic as we go all along if americans accept the premise that you presented today. yes, there was a stealing for about a day, maybe a week after january six. there is something that might have changed as a result. the top of the