to go, an apparent reference to the ten republicans who voted to impeach him. is he winning this fight? are we putting too much into it because there doesn t seem to be room for anyone who wants to hold him accountable in the gop lately. yeah. the trump wing is the dominant wing in the party. there s no question about it. when you look at polling, it s between three quarters and four fifths of the party and it makes it difficult for any republicans who want to stand up for things like truth and democracy and the rule of law. i think what may be even more damaging than someone like kinzinger deciding to step down is how much success glenn youngkin is having in virginia at kind of straddling the line where he has not in any way kind of repudiated trump, but he has not given him the full-hearted embrace, and he is finding that balancing act is allowing him to hold on to a lot of republican voters, including many who are probably ambivalent about trump.
well, i did serve in congress for eight years with adam kinzinger. we re very close friends. we co-chaired the tuesday group together. i m very sad about this. i m not surprised. what happening is, again, mainstream, reasonable voices are being pushed out while the most extreme voices are being embraced and uplifted. that s what s so troubling about this, that people like liz cheney and adam kinzinger, who speak truth, who are thoughtful, principled people, find that they re really not welcome in the party. and it s all about creating a new movement so that people, you know, who are, i would say, center right and principled can feel comfortable within the gop, and too many cannot right now. redistricting didn t help, though, right? correct. oh, yeah. he was dumped into the seat with daf darren la hood and we kind of expected that too. ron, former president trump s responded to kinzinger s decision saying two down, eight
that since donald trump was elected president, republicans have been getting clobbered in the suburbs. and that s so significant because you cannot win national elections. you cannot win swing state elections without performing much better in suburban communities. and trump, you know, he has shrunk the base. the base is smaller. it s angrier. and i think you re going to see more defeats. sure, i think house republicans will probably reclaim the majority in 2022. but over time, you know, the party is shrinking, and trump is losing. i mean every republican did pretty well in 2020 whose name wasn t donald trump who were on the ballot. so you have to remember, don, that this is about the suburbs at the end of the day. if youngkin loses, it s going to be because he didn t perform well enough in the d.c. suburbs, richmond suburbs, norfolk suburbs. that s what s going to happen. it s a tight race. go either way. thank you, gentlemen. can i add real quick?
right in. oh, yeah. he was dumped in there with darren lehood. we kind of expected that. so he said two down, eight to go. an apparently reference to the ten republicans who voted to impeach him. is he winning this fight? there doesn t seem to be room for anyone who wants to hold him accountable in the gop lately. yeah. the trump wing is the dominant wing in the party. no question about it. probably between three quarters and 4/5 of the party. and it makes it very difficult for any republicans who want to stand up for things like truth and democracy and the rule of law. i think what may be even more damaging than someone like kin zinger deciding to step down. how much success glen youngkin is having in virginia straddling the line where he has not in any way kind of repudiated trump but
promise that he made and is fulfilling on an ideological and base oriented approach. the way that he has made those decisions, whether they are effective or not at a policy level, and the way that he has conducted himself as u.s. president, the way you talk about the strain on our democracy, do you think that america post-trump goes back and rebuilds the things that he s torn down or do you think that this episode, this era in our politics has changed the way that other countries will view us forever? no, no. we ll always be the country that elected trump. we ll always be the country that elected trump but we have an opportunity in two months to be the country that did a course correction. in two years we can be the country that repudiated trump and sent him on his way. and i am really confident when you look at the real choices before our country look, you know, i m not just responding to president trump because he s the opposite party and because it s a new way of governing