Dan oconnor and state senator Troy Balderson are neck in in this case neck in a district donald trump won by 11 points. A district that has been red since 1939. Aside from a twoyear blip in the 80s. Now it is a district that could easily turn blue. Not just women, i think men are as well a little confused Whats Going On in the Republican Party and everybody is kind of looking to support the best candidate rather than be more a partisan issue. Do you normally vote for republicans or democrats . I tend to be a conservative testimony i wou democrat i would say. Was it something about oconnor. It is more about sending a message. I mean, the republicans have to wake up. If they are not going to be a
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arm pits in alligators to remember you came here to drawn the swamp. it s a slogan president trump has fully embraced. we ought to change it from the sword swamp to the board ses pool. though actually ridding d.c. of the swampy krit ters, that s proven elusive, chris collins this week arrested for insider trading in the president s own backyard. also this week the trial of former campaign chair paul n manafort with key testimony from rick gates. not to mention the law enforcement investigation into trump lawyer michael cohen and that s to say nothing of ethics concerns about jared kushner or tom price or scott pruitt. the president initially did not want to use the slogan at first. they had this expression drain the swamp. i hated it. in retrospect, that might have been smart. thanks to all of you for watching fareed zakaria
jr. s legal team, that s the one i would be most concerned about. as well as a related charge potentially of lying to congress when he told the senate judiciary committee last september that he was unaware of any other foreign government offering to help the trump campaign when we know he was talking to people representing saudi arabia and united arab emirates and their desires to help the trump campaign. i do also believe that conspiracy to defraud the united states was one of the superse superseding indictments for paul manafort as well. it could have come up twice. the president and don jr. have said this is all political opposition research. john, that s their defense, everybody does this. this is nothing new. also, nothing came of it. right. they are shifting the definition of what collusion is. we keep hearing president say over and over again no
that has befallen them, mike flynn, et cetera, et cetera, paul manafort, rick gates. this is not quite the narrative of your book. if donald trump is putting his blessing on these candidates that are not going on to win and say the republicans don t win in a special election, do you think that s going to be a turning point for the republican party to start to change their strategy? i don t think this special will change the strategy. these guys are way locked in and the ones that secretly don t love trump, they are terrified of him tweeting or getting angry at them. the ones who do love trump, they ll ride in pony until it falls over dead. if there s a significant democratic sweep in november, there will be a lot of folks who make get to an understanding that the endorsement in the primary was great and incredibly helpful and desisive but in the
stepped out of the courtroom where they were talking about 2016 when the business had collapsed and they had no clients and trying to lie and prop up income to get loans from a bank. gates testified that manafort directed him to essentially help fake documents. there was one case manafort wanted a pdf converted into microsoft word to change inflate his income. very powerful testimony. the defense does want to cross-examination gates and that s going to happen today but it s hard it s going to be hard to overcome these documents in black and white with paul n manafort. there was one change a document the jury was shown where manafort had shown his 2014 income tax projection. and he says, i just wtf and manafort, being blindsided like this.