here s the thing. even if he were to drop out of the race, it s like a huge thing. if something were to happen, trump is still defining this cohort of candidates in terms of their policy positions, those that have policy positions on things like an immigration, on america first, as they married imagine america s place when it comes to foreign policy. the way in which they have taken trump non-issues to the supreme court and used that as an opportunity to move even further in the direction of limiting reproductive rights and freedoms. trump s mark is on these candidates, and it s on this race whether he is in it or not. alicia, i m glad you brought that up, and you ve lead into this tonight with the floods in l.a., and then on the wildfires, what happened in maui. to me, there s a similarity here. the similarity is that we ll talk a lot in other platforms, there s a lot of conversation about floods, about heat waves,
last night now for the past few months his position on the conflict of russia and ukraine was tagged as extreme and unpopular by the typical establishment types in the media. but as usual they were lying to you. it s on america first to give him more power. to ignore the problems of out your own country and focus instead on ukraine and us on america first to allow our sons and daughters to dina ward that is not in our national interest. enough of the war mongering enough with the escalation was focused on our own citizens our own problems. laura: bingo, people do not want war with russia. what they do want is government focus on helping americans. that was donald trump s whole point that s wake up behind j.d. van. not borrowing untold billions from china and other countries to fight a proxy war against china s ally, it makes no sense.
asking actual questions. laura: back to jd s point very quickly, what type of republican are people rallying to? america first or the old dinosaur establishment pro-china, pro-open borders that was an excellent point and i hope that resonates with people all across america throughout the weekend in this midterm election cycle, thank you both. we have something exciting for your coming up next, instead of friday follies, raymond and i are going to be joined by a live audience of floridians. we have a raucous focus group coming up. it s a new segment and it is next.
numbers like this, i don t know if i ve ever seen numbers like this, your reaction. we are in for a really good year as republicans which is why republican primaries like mine are so important because are we going to send it establishment terry and republicans, are vacant to send people who are good to push for stronger trade policies and for reasonable foreign policy, that is the question i think we are going to get a republican congress, joe biden s mismanagement is terrible, i really think the question is what kind of republican government are we going to get in 2022. on america first government, or the same old thing that just sits on his hands and doesn t do anything to fight back against the radicalism of the left, that to me is the big question. sean: today, politico published an article called the rise and fall of the star white house reporter.
cascading effect kimberly: we have talked about it a lot. just before they can go back and forth, there has to be a decision. on america first, it depends on how you do find it. every president, the most important oath that they take is to defend the united states of america. everybody is trying to put america first. some people have different ways of doing that, wanting a multilateral agreement on trade, the ppp that resident trump took. or the paris accord made a lot of sense, it does not toe president trump. that does not mean that they were not thinking that america should be first. but i do also think that the parade of horrible that they anticipated because of president trump has not materialized, and so the protestations that they rights in these papers and sometimes they on background or put out on twitter, leaving people a little bit flat. kimberly: brian, how did you see that it s? brian: you guys covered a lot of it, susan rice, not great timing given that the politi