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president trump needs people he can count on in the senate. he needs mo brooks. someone who has worked harder than anyone else in congress. a proven conservative, brooks will never compromise on election integrity. there s liz cheney trashing trump again. why didn t she say that when she was running before just like katie brit? she might not say it but she s a lobbyist. it s been interesting. nancy pelosi used to be name that republicans would use to sometimes attack other republicans if they were there. now it s liz cheney. just moments ago, trump endorsed another primary challenger taking on a house member who impreached him. he backed russell frey against south carolina congressman tom rice. up next, new developments on the crisis in ukraine. as russian president vladimir putin says his security demands were, quote, ignored by the west. but he still has not responded ....
Faith argument from some conservative this is nominee, whoever she is, will be picked mainly on her race and her gender and less so on her qualifications. they don t want to even give the appearance of that being true. part of the reason they might settle on a slower, more deliberate process is to make it clear to the american people this is a measured, a well informed, well choreographed process. it won t take two to three months most likely and it won t take 30 days. there will be something in the middle of that. if they re trying to push this from a 50/50 vote with vice president harris being the tiebreaker and maybe pick up two or three republicans, a longer process helps them do that. senator collins voted against justice barrett, not based on her qualifications but she didn t like how quickly the process moved. a slower process might also bring along some other republicans. ....
Bipartisan way, and that s important for a couple of reasons. first of all, he could perhaps get back to this messaging that he campaigned on as being the uniier and bringing republicans and democrats together, but he also wants this confirmation to perhaps be bipartisan and that s why it s important. secondly, we do not yet know how republicans are going to react and how they re going to responsibility to this potential nominee. senator grass lee and republican members just huddled in leader mcconnell s office before they went to the what s for this meeting. there is some strategy session in that. if mcconnell says we re not going to don t culture war this, there will be a couple people that will culture war this up, but you don t do it, grassley. it wouldn t shock me if that was ....
mark caputo, the politics of covid is fascinating to watch. if you look at the 2020 campaign, it was mostly democratic campaigns up and down the ballot talking about the ones being scared of covid and that seems pretty good politics because we saw in polls the red/blue divide was there, but independents seemed to tilt towards the dems. a year and a half later, it is the red/blue divide, you re seeing more democrats are feeling are more divided on this, but it really is independents that are shifting, and suddenly i guess republicans think this is something to run on. they don t think that they, they re doing it. dr. oz is running three add alds in arizona. there s a senate candidate like durant in alabama, lindy ....
Blanchard in alabama running for governor, hillen running for governor in nebraska. and of course desantis, he has a minute-long web ad that calls fauci a flip-flopper, plays different clips of him saying one thing on masks then another, and the shot widens out into a beach and a pair of flip floms in the sand and he tells fauci to pound sand. if you think this isn t effective politics, there s a poll today showing desantis has a relatively comfortable lead for florida, that is, over his possible democratic opponent. it s early on, as you have discussed. the virus gets a vote. charles frankel from wisconsin pollster told us that for our story today. so things change, but the trend is with republicans. some case the top line, like mask mandates, still slightly popular than unpopular, but ....