election is, what? he s a sugar high, he s a cyanide-laced cocktail? what is he? s what the calculation how involved you want him to be in your general election? though it may be astonishing to somebody who woke up from a coma 25 years after going into it, it has come to pass in america that donald trump of queens was the president of the united states for four years and he did catastrophic damage to america s democracy and to our global standing. weakened the american government and created mass death where otherwise it would not have occurred with his pathological lying culminating in this murderous insurrection where he will not yield power n. that moment and in that instant and for everybody who followed him
with politicians who repel independent voters i mean, i want to put up some of the poll numbers for the covid announced by president biden. 61% support requiring federal employees to be vaccinated. 60% of all americans. 62% of independents support requiring businesses with 100 or more employees. gun safety legislation up to 85% of all americans. the right to choose in all or most instances in this country. the republicans have landed comfortably in the 28% to 40%, living with that. and it worked for donald trump one time. he lost in a calamitous margin in the general election in 2016. as steve said that is the hole
in what should serve as a more alarming sign for republicans top challenger larry elder parroting donald trump s baseless points about a rigged election, governor newsom and president biden framed the race in even starker terms stressing that a win for newsom would represent a repudiation of trumpism. you either keep gavin newsom as your governor or you ll get donald trump. it s not a joke. republican governor blocking progress on covid-19 who is also anti-woman, anti-worker, climate denier. who doesn t believe in choice. the choice should be absolutely clear. we may have defeated donald trump but we have not defeated
even at a margin greater than he was elected. i think we just need to keep moving forward, continue to find out what went right and wrong in the case of afghanistan and never go into one of these endless wars again. i hope as we saw in california and saw in virginia and a few weeks when we have our gubernatorial election that will be a mandate on trumpism. i can tell you so many of my republican friends i think would be happy to see donald trump fade away and time will be one of the components of that happening. i take your point about the committee s reports on ties to russia. it was the only one, i believe, that included an addendum on compromise.
that s the case and i suspect they look at california and say, yeah, we made the right call here. a.b., the closing message, literally what was on the front pages of today s newspapers in california, was this message that governor newsom made very clear to my colleague that democracy is on the line. that has felt abstract, i think, for a while. i wonder if having someone in a blue state like california say if either republican lose it will only be because it was rigged is nonsensical. i worked for california republicans. you re almost a little more cautiously dubious if you win. it s so ludicrous. i wonder if that helped crystallize the delusions on the attacks of the vote itself. i wondered about that because larry elder then decided to concede and not pursue a donald