by. everybody has a right to their own opinion. on history, i would want to be here with this bill today. this hour, chris christie ready for another white house run, moving his blistering public feud with former president trump to primary states and debate stages. it comes as ron desantis is barnstorming across iowa, making four more stops today in his push to win over those iowa trump voters. now he is attacking me over some of these disagreements. i think he is doing it in a way that voters will side with me. i will counterpunch, fight back on it. i will focus my fire on biden. he should do the same. coming up, steve kornacki will break it all down. i will be joined by a congressman to talk about a frightening new warning from science and tech experts on the threats to humanity s future presented by artificial intelligence. good day to you. i m peter alexander in for andrea mitchell. she s on assignment. in washington, there s a critical numbers game playing out on
When you are just asking republican voters now about him as a nominee, that s not where their minds are. when you ask this basic question, do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of these republicans, from the monmouth poll, look at his negative number. it s nearly 50%. 21% positive. nobody maybe pence here at 35% unfavorable. nobody is in this league in terms of being underwater this far among republicans as chris christie is. the question, can he get traction, win the nomination? these numbers suggest, as you are saying, a steep climb. the other question that s what vaughn got at and what the sound bite coming in gets at is in 2016 when he ran, numbers were better than this. he never really was a major factor in the polls in 2016, but he ended up being a major factor in the outcome, not just because