Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
when were 60 days out and i will be
elizabeth: jim jordan s run for house speaker pits him against what he calls the establishment republicans. it s the town, it s washington the swamp is the swamp. they don t like someone like donald trump coming in and changing the swamp, changing the way the town works. there s reluctance to ever change. elizabeth: they re both running. they re both republicans. they re running on different platforms. let s bring in our political panel more insight. josh kimball and kevin whaling, thank you for joining me. kevin, i think i know where you stand on this. we re going to get to nancy pelosi. josh, i want to start with you. these are two very different i guess you could say fractions of factions of the republican party. will they be splitting the vote? they ll split the vote until we agree on somebody that s going to h beat nancy pelosi or whoever the democrats put forward. i like what jim jordan is
house. so what if kevin mccarthy looks like a likely person to replace paul ryan. what is jim jordan in particular trying to do here in terms of leverage? well, here s the thing. kevin mccarthy is certainly a friend of president trump s, peter, but he s viewed as being suspect by at least some certain members of the far right conservative wing, of which jim jordan is a part. so jim jordan s run really is the latest play by conservative members of congress here to really push for more leeway should republicans keep control of the house come november. now, we re not entirely sure that will happen yet, but jordan s run really gives members of the conservative freedom caucus more room to push for committee positions and leadership roles. percolating in the background is this scandal, this controversy that when he was an assistant wrestling coach decades ago that