we wanted a reason that trump seemed to take over in context of a so quickly, the republican party wasivided. it has now lost seven out of the last eight elections in terms of the berlin vote. you essentially -- popular vote. he had a war in the parties leadership. remember, there were 17 other candidates. donald trump did not need to win. he did not win a majority of the popular vote of americans either. i think of a conversation we had in the book, with republican senator lindsey graham, which is one of the biggest critics of donald trump. he said he was the most unsuited person to be president. later, he flip-flopped and became one affairs public cheerleaders. he told us trump was a lying -- but a whole lot of fun to hang out with. host: line for democrats. good morning. you are next. caller: my question is, why can trump get by with so much and people know. he is a liar and a cheat. he has done it anything that you can think up. yet, he is still in office when he needs to be in prison. who else in the united states can get by with one thing he has done? he has divided our country.

trump, unlike anyone term resident who was turned out by the voters has maintained at holdover republican party. he has turned his own election -- into a litmus test for republican candidates. the number is actually closer to 400. it is all in direct consequence of his hold on republican party. however the story is, we are in the middle of the story. it is clear that trump -- the takeover of the republican party is going to be part of the historical record. host: the book, as that sentence puts it, a uniter it when it comes to the republican party. guest: it comes in a time when our society is a fracturing. he did not create the positions in our society. we were polarizing already. we as a country is not looking for something to divide us. his chief even said, we do not win this election to bring the country together. that was not their goal. he was a divider, of not only his administration, by his party. i think it is a unique situation. every politician is about dividing weird you have to have ng. division is part of the game. there is a understanding that the responsibility is greater to bri

the republican party. take a listen. >> can i ask a political question? >> sure. >> and that is, looking at this through the lens of a reporter who wants to look at the whole story, you've changed the republican party. you realize that? >> 95% approval rating. nobody's ever been at -- you know, ronald reagan was 87. he was -- >> okay. is this a movement? >> no. that i can't tell you. i can tell you -- >> what do you think? >> it's the party of strength and common sense, both. you know? >> and who's the heir? >> i don't say -- i'll tell you what -- the heir will have to be determined. that's to be determined. but i -- okay, as an example, the republican party has always been known for disloyalty to each other. they always broke up. i will say this, and this isn't a threat, because if it's not a threat. but if they went against me, they'd all their election.

we wanted a reason that trump seemed to take over in context of a so quickly, the republican party was divided. it has now lost seven out of the last eight elections in terms of the berlin vote. you essentially -- popular vote. he had a war in the parties leadership. remember, there were 17 other candidates. donald trump did not need to win. he did not win a majority of the popular vote of americans either. i think of a conversation we had in the book, with republican senator lindsey graham, which is one of the biggest critics of donald trump. he said he was the most unsuited person to be president. later, he flip-flopped and became one affairs public cheerleaders. he told us trump was a lying -- but a whole lot of fun to hang out with. host: line for democrats. good morning. you are next. caller: my question is, why can trump get by with so much and people know. he is a liar and a cheat. he has done it anything that you can think up. yet, he is still in office when he needs to be in prison. who else in the united states can get by with one thing he has done? he has divided our country

. >> and host of pbs' "firing line" and voice of the wing of the republican party that doesn't only speak in tongues, margaret hoover. thanks for joining us, margaret. >> great to be here. >> so margaret, republicans caused a million or so covid deaths, and fast forward, now vaccine skeptic marjorie taylor greene is next in line for house speaker. everything worked out, huh? >> republicans are cautiously optimistic going into the midterms, and that goes for the house republicans, and it goes to the republicans in the senate. of course there are two very different types of republicans. the republicans in the house will be a different set of republicans. if they win the majority, there will be a larger number of republicans who you might agree with, the kind that don't choose to certify elections. >> so rational republicans. >> and that's not great for democracy. but there will be some republicans hopefully returning to the senate who do believe in democracy, voted to hold donald trump accountable, like lisa murkowski in the senate. uh, so you're going to have a mixed bag. >> bonnie, what a

and what's resulted is a kind of hardening of the republican party where trump remains the center of ad of becoming patented i guess you it's after january the six has instead become angry or, more offensive, more performative and more delusional. in the sense that it is embracing in spewing out a succession of lies that have very much affected the republican electorate. >> it seems in that moment after january 6th, the days and to some degree weeks, what you are describing could have happened had started to happen. and then it was a reversal. it became the marjorie taylor greene's of the world to you spent some time interviewing, became ascendant to the point that she told you there was some consideration of her being donald trump's running mate of events in 2024. >> that is right. the first time that greene told me that was in february of this year but she in later conversations i had with her said that those conversations were in fact continuing. to be fair, ali, it is very likely that trump has had this conversation with half a dozen other people to. in a key haley being one, carr

i still hope that the republican party will serve that purpose. certainly, it's gone in a direction that is something that i don't recognize as the party of lincoln or the party of reagan in which i grew up. but i hope that it will return to be that, because i think the country needs a healthy conservative party and a healthy liberal or progressive party and a healthy competition of ideas between them. right now, i don't think that's the case. >> so you don't think the republican party is the healthy conservative party right now. is that what i just heard you say? >> i believe that's the case. in general, i think both parties extremes have become far too influential. speaking of the republican party specifically, yes, it has been led in a direction under former president trump that i believe runs counter to our our ideals as a country and counter to conservatism. conservatism isn't about preserving power for one group or one man at the expense our values and our system of self-government, but rather preserving those things which should be the first

this cycle it's become something even more, ground zero in the battle for the future of the republican party and perhaps a harbinger the future of our democracy. every major republican running for statewide office here has refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, alth although, as you'll see one of them recently backtracked the republican candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general have all signalled they want massive changes to the way arizona conducts its elections. not a small feat in a state that played a central role in the 2020 presidential election and may well again in 2024. this morning, we're going to meet some of the conservative republicans here who are fighting against the trump election deniers in their own party, and we're going to examine the battle for the heart and soul of the republican party in the land of john mccain and barry goldwater. we've been on the ground here for days talking to republicans and democrats, we've spoken to the two candidates for governor. bitterly divided over arizona's future. a race with national reper

marco rubio starts notices jeb bush republican, then he's the king of the tea party, then he's a trump kind of anything he needs to be. it isn't surprising to me that he would be fine with having a white supremacist, white nationalist, who's got the proud boys guarding his hospital room on his team. but i wonder about the bigger picture here, particularly in miami-dade, where you've got the proud boys essentially taking over the republican party there. they are literally in power in the official republican party. how deep is this merger at this point between proud boys, cuban honors, other white nationalists and the republicans in south florida? >> it's a wholesale merged enterprise if you will. what makes it even worse joy is that you have members of congress, republican senators and officials in florida, not a single one, not a single one has denounced the proud boys that have entered the leadership of the local republican party in south florida. let's think about that for a second. the proud boys been classified as a domestic terrorist organization. the leader of the proud boys is i

and if donald trump is the nominee of the republican party, the party will shatter and there will bee party that rises in his place. >> yes, liz cheney is an expert on the republican party. that's why in her primary, she effortlessly sailed to getting completely destroyed. >> right. i mean trump holds power over a mere fraction of the party, that fraction being 4/5. >> if you flip that poll upside down, that's when things get exciting. >> yeah, it sure does. panel, jump in here. >> and just think how big that anti-trump 8% would be if her dad hadn't sent so many good republicans to die in iraq. >> my wager is ultimately the republican party's cooler heads will prevail, specifically the ones that cool off post decapitation. >> the number one rated show on cable news by far is "tucker carlson tonight," and i'm sure every republican is watching it purely out of disgust. >> yes, there are so many good republicans if you know where to look. >> tell us more, ms. sabo. >> i will in our segment called "good republican stories." i heard these mysterious good republicans hide out deep in the f

a lot of college-degree-holders have left the republican party and become independents or even democrats. the percentage of republicans who lack college degrees has exploded over the last 10 years and even especially during t trump years. so that means that the party is going to be more populist. it means that it's going to be more anti-elitist. it's going to be less concerned with limiting government. less concerned with the more traditional conservative issues, say of entitlement reform, of addressing the problems with social security and medicare. it's going to want those benefits. so i think when you look at these candidates, you see them all recognize the fact that the future of the right, the future of the republican party is going to be some uneasy, sometimes complementarysy rs hen eaoferga and trump populism. so that's the future of the right, i think, for the foreseeable years. for conservatives like me, you know, our beliefs are not always going to be reflected by the republican party any longer. and that means -- that doesn't vebe t wdoartiliculaabteanr n ou them and find new

>> you don't want the republican party of mitch republican and mitt romney. we want the trump republican party. we want the american first part republican party. >> tonight robert draper on his new book and new reporting. why he says the republican party lost its mind in pursuit of power. then, another desantis political stunt cottontail. >> i know you're caught off guard, i understand. it's voter fraud okay? >> and dystopian footage of florida's election security force. plus-- >> if care about the right to choose then you've got to vote. >> the new white house promised to legalize abortion if dense grunting control. and steve kornacki on exactly what the election landscape looks like weeks out. when all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes, we are three week away from the midterm elections. frankly, we have no idea which party will control the house or the senate. but what we do know is that there will be enormous consequences for the country either way. elections are run on rhetoric and issues personalities, adds vibes,

republicans. the radical side won. they took over the party.f the party. >> just look at the number of establishment republican lawmakers leaving office. election officials quitting. the number of republicans who believe an election was stolen and who don't believe that this -- [ screaming ] -- was carried out by trump supporters. >> i want to know the truth of what happened that day. >> show me the footage. >> yeah. >> i've seen the windows being broken and the people jumping through the windows. >> and who were the people breaking the windows? >> proud boys. >> do we know that? could they have been antifa? >> we know the names of them, actually. >> could neff been antifa? >> no, they weren't antifa. we know names of them. >> when the january 6th committee subpoenaed steve bannon to find out just what he knows about that day, he refused to comply and was indicted. >> breaking news. another trump ally possibly going to jail. but he won't have to go to jail immediately. a judge saying he can wait until his appeal goes through. >> today was my ju

part of the voters of the republican party was published so quite recently so important puresenter survey and we see that the number of republican voters who believe that aid is given too much is growing and it is growing quite strongly if we see that in march only 9% of republican voters believed that aid is given too much and in may it was 17%, and now it is already 32%, although again this is smaller, that is, the majority believe that either enough assistance is provided 16%, or as much as is needed 30%. and democrats, mostly democratic voters, mostly believe that aid is what it should be, 45% believe that it is provided only as much as necessary, only 11 believe that it is provided much much much much more than necessary, that is, this sentiment, as they say, actually exists exists in american society, it reflects such a certain part of the voter in of the republican party, as well as, as we can see, 11% of the voters are the democratic party, but here we must note a couple of important points regarding when we talk specifically about aid to ukraine, and first of all, when on

democratic party and they stole the election for a hundred years down south but there still doing the mississippi plan even today in a people say when they start into vote for the republicans of the democratic party in 1960 and i said no, is called the civil rights. in 1956, in 1957, the republicans passed in 1957. in 1960 the best 1960s civil rights act basically designed for black people down south and vote predict eisenhower also said the hundred first ever down and then they got into in little rock arkansas he also is a first oval office address in the civil rights in the history of the nation so people whoeo want to talkn' about this, they would nt have voted for johnson that would've voted for eisenhower nixon. and so, what happened, eisenhower nixon, and civile rights of come about four or 5 million black people registered about down south and protected until the story my grandfather, they kicked him off the cotton plantation and 60 in tennessee and the fbi came down told him not to go anywhere printed in eisenhower said them down to say they pass this law so they cannot intimidate you or hurt them anymore you going to vote my grandfatherer voted, the democrats. and

the fact that the far extreme, wing of the republican parties become so normalized, they go on sundayng shows, evening shows, they spit out the rhetoric and talking points of the party without any real pushback. it's actually part of the larger problem as well. >> mike, why is it the same that so few republicans are willing to condemn this heinous act, just for what it is, and not try to equate it to anything else. why can't they just condemn it on the terms of what we're learning about a? >> eamonn, great question, thank you for having me. and jason, dr. greer i love you guys do and arrest back to platforms. listen, all of us agree here on this panel condemning violence against any city member of congress, republican or democrat, against their families as well as wrong. listen, i worked on another network once upon a time. the one that's responsible for some of this, probably. there was a primetime show in the 7 pm hour on that network, it leads into an 8 pm show. for the last couple of months, it's run staff about paul pelosi and the dui charge he had. so, when you have rhetoric in

the republican party used to be to say well, we want to push some of this power down. ocal administration is going to be more effective, to answer the some of these questions. the democratic party used to be the one that started with a goal in mind and work backwards on means. then you have a republican party who looks at democrats who have seized institutions and they say instead of saying we should have those institutions be partisan, fine, we expect them to be partisan, meanwhile the democrats are taking that approach where they start with the rhetoric and they work backwards to the legislation. so we have two aimless parties. frankly, the way we get out of that, and some of that's going to be political reform, but some of it needs to be investing in what's tangible in our communities and focusing there. that's my focus going forward, is on west michigan, is on ensuring that we are fixing some of those administration and governmental policy problems that create the space for political dysfunction to arise. >> all right, congressman peter meijer of michigan, hope to s

host: 40% for republicans and 45% for democrats the gallup to pull of party affiliation 43% of those y they are independent. where did they fall? guest: all independents are sort of closet partisans. this a yearly more democratic relay more for republicans. you leave the number it will be reduced significantly. however, independents are still important there are people who swing between the two parties. democrats have been holding up ok with independents in senate races the question is what continues to the finish line? host: that's hear from ted. ted in boston. independent line go ahead. caller: i was just sitting here remarking, you know, after i see this guy on tv i'm saying while we have to deal with this. like i used to call into c-span and it used to be higher-quality because we were presented with higher quality topics of discussion and candidates. i'm sitting here wondering at one point does your guest take a stand with respect to the really low quality here that we have on america in terms of political discussion what would it take for that guy to stand against the other, i d

people down there that have heard nothing but lies and he said they are slaves you barely know, republican party existed except the lies you tell about us. >> for both parties. i want to come back. , part of this interview on "afterwards". race, you can find racism in african in america today. would you say when you look at trayvon martin, breonna taylor? everything is about race when it involves a white officer and someone who's black and it doesn't tell the whole story. how do you get black america and whites to another extend to see it's not always about race? you talkok about this in you book, the obsession, is it that they are -- controlled by a larger one there in? >> they know in order to keep our, they know they cannot lose, they will bring this down before they do it. trayvon martin, they tried to put ahi crime on their children. it was wrong but couldn't prove it was racial. they said this country and fight. >> but race or not was irrelevant, it's behavior, it was immoral. >> exactly right and that's what i thought and they made it racial and told black america. lord have mercy, they a

years, nothing but lies, like lincoln said in the state of the union address, the only -- the republican party existed except for the lies you tell about us. >> guest: both parties what they did. i want to come back, your voice is so important, that is why -- to be a part of this interview on afterwords. race, you can find race in everything in america today, what do you say when you look at trave on martin, george floyd, everything is about race to the mainstream media when it involves a white officer and someone who's black and it doesn't tell the whole story. how do you get black americans, and whites to another extent to see that it is not always about race, and you talk about this in your book, obsession, is that it sells? what is it? they are controlled by larger interests we are unaware of? >> they have an agenda to keep their power, black people have to vote, they know it. they know they cannot lose the black vote, they will burn the country down before they do it. they tried to put hate crime on derek shove and he will be in jail the rest of his life. it was wrong but couldn't prove i

lee, a right worker, also talks about that the republican party cannot serve us and that the democratic party can serve us. and so people have black people have consistently voted in this bloc in service of our community. but what happens when we think that it's no longer serving and or what happens when people don't necessarily feel an obligation of linked fate. know, i think pew's i did a research a couple of years ago that said that black people are far and away. were the group most likely to feel linked to fate by a significant margin? it was like 73% and i think the next closest group was in the mid sixties. i think it was like americans but that number starting to go down over time. i think people are starting for a number of reasons and i speculate why in the book aren't necessarily feeling as tethered to black culture. black people are, community. and so then how does that manifest in terms of how voting looks in a number of other different signs? and so that's that's part of what i'm unpacking in the book. it raises to me an interesting question. well, as we think about other m

effort underway to take control at a local level, a state level, and fundamentally turn the republican partynto something that is anti-american. i think those of us who love the ideals and believe in the ideals of the party it stood for have to be engaged on the ground in that battle to challenge them, fill those seats, to make sure at a state level we don't watch this slip away. again, i go back to the choice arizona voters have this election cycle. i say this as somebody who is first photo i ever cast, i was 18 and voted for ronald reagan. 40 years now, i have been voting republican. i don't know that i have ever voted for a democrat, but i felt lived -- if i lived in arizona now, i would. for governor and secretary of state, we cannot be in a position where we elect people who will not fundamentally uphold the sanctity of elections. that's got to be more important than anything else. i also think it's important as republicans to demand from our republican leaders that they not accept this unraveling of the democracy. people should not come here, glenn youngkin should not come here and cam

the latter seems to be where the republican party has decided they are. no one is condemning the former president who they talk about like he is president, for attacking the sitting minority leader of the united states senate. even mitch mcconnell isn't attacking him for that. marjorie taylor greene. thomas zimmer had a tweet, he talked about marjorie taylor greene and put her in the context, it's always they define their attacks on the other side by saying we're the victims. we have to do whatever it takes because the other side is trying to hurt us. here's marjorie taylor greene. >> we're all targets now for daring to push back against the regime, and it doesn't stop at a weaponized legal system. i'm not going to mince words with you all, democrats want republicans dead. and they've already started the killings. >> they've already started the kylings, michael steel, and so when you frame it that way, anything goes. anything you have to do to stop these people that are doing the killings. >> that's the point. you grease the skids as much as you can. you

and republican party, unfortunately what happens if one party giveslittle bit, they'll say, you're just like us. there's no difference. we're trying to defend democracy the same way you are. >> dixon is one of nine candidates on the ballot in michigan that questioned the outcome of the election, including nominees for secretary state and attorney general. i know you, and i thought you were an interesting legislator. you're successor, peter meyer, the same. what's going on in the republican party in michigan in i guess it's the same thing that's going on nationally. >> it's the same thing everywhere. when you look at peter meyer's recent race, he came close to winning, right? it wasn't like a blowout by the trump backed candidate. so i think there is a possibility, an opening for people to move this back in the right direction in select places in the country. no everywhere -- maybe west michigan is very different from a loft other places in the country. but i don't think it's a wholesale everywhere trump backed candidates are going to win, and you saw

black people under the heel. >> host: and you lay all the blame under democratic party, no responsibility corrupted republicans in the jew become just the democratic party traffic when i look at the democratic party i always look at what they've done to the black community, the evil they've done to our people. i look at it from slavery up until now. armstrong be killed nearly 60 may black people from slavery to abortion and all this come from jim crow. jim crow was horrible for even though we had laws on the book 13, 14 the tenth tenth amt to vote, equal protection under the law could in the slavery. they castrated, killed, murdered the first naacp officer get killed in the field. i got by the name of albert williams. he worked in haywood county kimsey and it was 1940s. ku klux klan killed him. that was then. they were a murderous, thieving, perverted lot since inception 1800 and they have changed. it's like the mafia. if you set up, if you set up the mafia inside of the city who's coming to it? the pimps, the drug dealers, the murderers, because that's what they do. when you set up a democrat party in a state

and black people under their view. >> and you lay all the blame on the democratic party , no responsibility for republicans and the gop, just the democratic party western mark. >> always look at what they've done for the black community. i look at the evil in terms of our people. i look at slavery untilnow . through slavery, through la abortion the middle passage and jim crow. jim crow was harsh even though we had lawson the books , the right to vote people free intention under the law, they castrated, killed, murder first officers get killed in the field was a guy by the name of eldridge williams in tennessee and this was in 1940, the clan killed him. that was them. they were would have been a murderer clot and since then in 1800 and they haven't changed. it's like the mafia. if you set up the mafia in the south of the city was coming to it? the pimps, the drug dealer, the murder, the thieves because that's what they do. when you send party and state and say we're going to support abortion, keep been in terrible school and try to destroy religion comes bl through west and mark not good people. >> is like

the republican party would rally around donald trump no matter what he said no matter what he did or indicted, because, let's face it. this is a party that has just decided that winning is all that matters. that -- that even if herschel walker in his messy, reighed personal life actually paid to, in their minds, murder an unborn child, it's okay, because it's all about getting control of the united states senate. you know, it wasn't that long ago that, know, had you candidates in missouri and in indiana who were essentially, you know, whose candidacies were tanked by saying stupid things about abortion. that's like the before time. so now we have, we have herschel walker and a republican party that is absolutely all-in, despite the hypocrisy and abortion and despite the fact he is so manifestly unfit to be a u.s. senator. >> yeah. and claire mccaskill, let's just -- just so people don't think all of this blurs together and it's been the same, i would like to suggest that things have actually gotten far worse in the republican party and let's just, we'll make this personal just for pu

recent episode that highlighted the roots of christian nationalism and how that changed the republican party. another recent episode highlighted the meaning of democracy for groups like black voters. he did an interview with jeff clyburn and grassroots republicans and folks in arizona who do not believe democracy should be one of america's goals. we are trying to take some of the big the magic questions in the midterms and give people the language to understand the ahead of the election. host: you giphy a lot there. i want to ask you about some of that. a caller from our last question was talking about how christians were fighting each other. you mentioned you did a podcast on the idea of christian nationalism and the impact of evangelicals on the republican party. what did you find out? guest: we talked to a times political reporter and dr. al mohler. what we found was you can the changes in the -- can track the changes in the republican party back to the foundations of the invalid gel goal -- the evangelical church. we really start to see a story of this change in both trumpcare and leadin

and the republican party apparently had no appetite for fighting donald trump's on this one. itch mcconnell got on board with walker's candidacy early on. herschel walker being a republican nominee for senate, this with a group effort. >> of course, the truly, truly gobs not camping about all of this is that it may not matter, any of it. herschel walker may very well win this senate race, despite being such a disaster of a candidate. that is the bet that donald trump and the rest of the republican party have gone all in on. that in the end, having an r after his name, it's the only thing herschel walker will need to claim victory in the state of georgia. joining us now is greg booty, politics reporter at the atlanta journal-constitution. greg, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> so, first tell me how this is all playing out in the state of georgia. we have those fundraising numbers, half 1 million dollar raised by the walker campaign. is there a sense that voters may be softening in terms of their support for walker heading into the final stretch of the election

and the republican party >> so now answering these questions in his new book exposing democrats other dimmable and destructive lies and he joins us now. welcome. >> what you say to black americans who are skeptical when his looking for explosive cover? so as the back story my father was aco sharecropper. and he brought us out on the conclusion in tennessee. and he was so thankful that we started a gospel singing group. this is how have such intimate knowledge of the black church and he went to the college and university in memphis and then i worked at the correctional institution in south carolina. i was supposed to supervise over 100 hard-core felons every day. most the time i was by myself. had understand they were lying to me wanted to beat me up or kill me but i thought a lot of black men thinking why were they locked up like this? they told me was a bunch of rich white republicans that hated black people. that you would see a leprechaun before you would see a republican here in the ghetto. and in the most black politicians and then we call them the iron triangle this is a sequel

we can't say this is a fringe movement of the republican party. what's really frightening is the silence of so many republican leaders when we hear this type of rhetoric, when republican leaders are saying strap up, get ready, when they're not trying to denounce people who tried to kidnap the governor of michigan. we're not seeing republican leaders condemning this in the most serious ways. and they're just either complicit, silent, or actually encouraging it, which is really dangerous, just as rick said as we get closer to november of 2022, and definitely as we get closer to november of 2024. >> christina, staying with you. a poll showing 54% of republicans, 54%, see a civil war likely in the next decade. is that why the leaders of the party are just checking out and saying if the numbers are that high, we might as well deliver what the popular vote wants? >> yeah, i think that's part of it, katie. i think so many of them just want to stay in office. they recognize that the primaries are where all the action is. so they're looking out for themselv

florida is the future for the republican party. >> laura: the florida model that the texas model, where republicans have been working overtime to engage hispanics one issues they care most about. but especially of on the border. the outreach is working. look at what happened in virginia last year. glenn youngkin made a concerted effort to reach the hispanic community including on the school issue, hispanic language radio ads, television ads. turns out hispanics do not want their kids to focus on gender fluidity in the classroom anymore than any other parents do. we are seeing similar efforts all across the country. but we are not yet finished. we have a lot of work to do. but the old canard that somehow populism and hispanic outreach don't mix well, that has been proven wrong. and the vicious like that published republicans don't want to work with hispanic voters has been totally discredited. our populist movement was never limited to rural america because it is designed to improve life for all americans of all ethnic backgrounds and all 50 states. for a long time, to meet it refuse to

this is the republican party that is essentially on the ballot for 2022. to me, intends to get certain things done, and this is not all performative politics. this is a slate that is anti-immigration, abortion, anticlimate control, these are individuals that believe in something, and they are the power figures of the gop. >> mark, help me understand this better, because it's just so fascinating because i can't quite figure out how republicans are duped so easily. let's talk about the two people that right now a lot of people are fascinated by and talking about, and democrats are so concerned about. donald trump. democrat for most of his life. gave millions of dollars to democrat, and, no, it wasn't like back in the 1990s. he contributed to kamala harris's campaign in 2014. right? >> yep. >> and then you have kari lake, a barack who sang obama supporter, right, so she was swept up with hope and change, just like donald trump was a supporter of kamala harris and hillary clinton, and best friends it seemed at times with bill clinton. he loved democrats. he att

they need to continue to tell the truth about who the republican party is. hey are a party that wants to create policy in cruelty and depression. those things need to be clear. if herschel walker can make decisions about his future and his family then why should he rob americans of the opportunity to do the same. why is it okay for republicans to be able to use the access to abortion for their own? and then have the power to block it for millions of people with uterus is. give me a break. i hope the voters recognize that this is not about them caring about what happens to, quote unquote, babies. this is about what happens when they are able to take over the senate and the house and somehow start to begin impeachment here. it is about joe biden. figuring out what other rights they want to take away from the american people. >> at least, aghast, they took care of the babies in gilead after the force them to have them. donald trump handpicked walker to run and -- despite knowing that he was living in texas at the time. and it appears the endorsement allowed him

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he's stirring the big fight within the republican party. >> he is.'s the main chorus, and the lead singer is donald trump in terms of cozying up to putin, in terms of criticizing -- in terms of not criticizing his efforts in ukraine. listen, i think if you look at a lot of the data, trump's approval rating much higher than pence's, and pence's approval rating actually declined after january 6th, right? as much as he tries to push away from donald trump, the republican party is pushing pence away as well. >> that's the fascinating part of it to me. there might be someone else preferred. the question is if you're an anti-trump one, are you u goingo vote for pence. >>> up next, new ads, plusus a rise in restorore for the east d the horizon's make ga force out west. he scheduled at safelite.com. safelite makes it easy. he scheduled at safelite.com. we're the experts at replacing your glass... ...and recalibrating your advanced safety system. >> customer: and they recycled my old glass. now that's a company i can trust. >> tech: don't wait. schedule today

telemundo poll shows democrats have a 21 point lead over republicans in terms of which party they wantecade ago when democrats had a 42 point advantage over republicans. msnbc's series field report hosted by paolo ramos seeks to unpack this shift. >> why are we suddenly seeing a republican having so much momentum. what do you all think? >> we were already conservative. we have conservative values, nobody noticed, they took us for granted. the party, the democratic party left me. i didn't leave the party. >> joining me now is the host of "field report" and msnbc contributor, good to see you. what are you seeing as you're talking to the voters in this very diverse and varied electorate. the messaging cannot just be the same. >> i think it's partly what you saw on the screen. here you have a latino voter that's saying we've always been conservative. the problem is that no one noticed. so in that field report we specifically went to the rio grande valley to understand the case of maya flores, the first republican to win hidalgo county in 100 years. she bet on the idea that latinos are remo