rivals as well. they are constantly asked about it, they re constantly trying to thread the needle, how to talk about it. as we know, most of them have been supportive of him. most of them have been, you know, really echoing his words because they are afraid to taub the charges, with the exception of a few of them, chris christie leading the way. he was on the lead with jake tapper earlier today and had a nuanced discussion about that. i didn t think it was a necessary thing to do. once you saw jack smith was charging him federally for the very same conduct. there s a lot of disturbing conduct here. not just by donald trump but by a number of others named in the indictment. they re now doing an inordinate amount of resources to try to shoehorn this contest over the 2020 election into a rico statute, which was really designed to be able to go after organized crime.
governor whitmer made clear people didn t have to worry about living in a democracy and caring about inflation. governor whitmer tied economic freedoms to economic opportunity. the whole idea that democracy was this luxury issue when you have high inflation was something that, i think, some of the best candidates this cycle on the democratic side made clear was a false choice. it was a construct from the right. it was sort of knocked down. what is the lesson, then, as we sort of continue to, i think, have an electorate that s uneasy and anxious about the cost of things? i think what governor whitmer did really well is she planted a flag early on reproductive and abortion rights. well before the dobbs issue, well before anything happened. in michigan we were proactive instead of reactive. that freed her up to taub about the economy, to talk about inflation. and what she did and democrats have done in places where we ve