geoff: all right, tamara keith and amy walter, thank you both. welcome. ♪ amna: in texas, lgbtq rights are under attack everywhere from the halls of the capitol to the streets of small towns. on friday, republican governor greg abbott signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. republican lawmakers have also targeted drag performers. laura barron-lopez is back with her report from one texas town where a fight over drag has exposed deep divisions. laura: once a month in taylor, texas, lgbtq families and supporters gather to make art, watch movies, and show off their talents. it is a space for members of the taylor pride group to connect. but wherever they go, the taylor area ministerial alliance follows. >> i know you know that, and you suppress that truth and unrighteousness. laura: known here as tama, the group of orthodox christian churches protest these events, in their words, to evangelize. and so they have, every month, says denise rodgers, who founded taylor pride in 2020. denise: we are just trying to exist and they show up w

that is amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter, and tamara keith of npr. thanks for being here. the 2024 race is certainly heating up on both republican and democratic sides. i want to play of what we have seen from president biden this weekend. here he is delivering his message to voters in pennsylvania over the weekend. pres. biden: under my predecessor, infrastructure became a punchline. on my watch, we are making infrastructure a decade headline. amna: tam, you got the first broadcast interview with mr. biden's campaign manager, julie chavez rodriguez, since she took on that role. what did you learn about the reelection strategy at this point in the campaign? tamara: they are working hand-in-hand with the democratic national committee in a way that past democratic campaigns, and even the obama campaign, certainly did not. and that goes all the way down to, literally, i interviewed julie chavez rodriguez in her office, which was sparsely decorated in dnc headquarters. the way it was described to me is the d&c is the chassis and then the biden campaign w

that's amy walter of the cook political report, with amy walter, and tamara keith of npr.o. let's start our conversation about the 2024 raise with more about the politician says he will not get into this, new hampshire governor chris sununu. he wrote an op-ed which i will read. he says, if trump is the nominee, republicans will lose again as we did in 2018, 2020, and 2022. this is indisputable and i'm not willing to let it happen without a fight. he argues he will have more power and influence as a kingmaker in new hampshire. is he right about that? amy: i do not think so. i think there is about 10% to 15% of the republican electorate interested in a non-trump -- not just a non-trump candidate, but an anti-trump candidate. they appeal to those voters, very narrow. for the rest of republican voters, they are looking for maybe an alternative, maybe 50% to 60% looking for an alternative. . to donald trump they are not looking for an anti-trump. that is why governor sununu had a narrow lane. his ability in new hampshire, i would put a question mark next to in terms of being a

he quotes amy walter as saying, younger voters have not automatically been liberal. in 1984, those under 30 strongly backed ronald reagan's reelection. in 2000, they split almost evenly. but for four straight national elections democrats have won 60% of the vote among 18 to 29-year-olds and that is the longest run of success for a party since the 1970's. that was today's new york times. this is clayton in indiana. go ahead. caller: first off, the guy that says kids who are going to school and afraid of school shootings that they should vote? what about all of those getting shot by the gang bangers? the age should not be changed. i was forced to sign up to the draft when i was 18, it should not be lowered because a 16 or 17-year-old should not be drafted into the military. the draft may be active but it is not being called upon. no, the voting age should not be changed. thank you and have a good day. host: ken in michigan those 18 to 25. caller: i'm 25. thank you for having me on. people around me -- we are mad. we are mad at what we are being handed. but i do not thi

>> the answer to that is yes, very likely amy walter is on to something and i'll tell you why.ome president you as a third party candidate spoiler can decide who is the president. it happened in 1992 when we had bush 41 as the incumbent and bill clinton, the arkansas governor got elected with 43 1/2% of the both. because ross porro got some of the vote. if you play to win and you are west and you are still not satisfied with the trajectory of the democratic party being progressive enough for you under a biden/harris administration you'll run to the left of them. number one. number two, he will make a play for people who fell forgotten and abandon by the democratic party and nobody is listening them and including them. i think he can do it from the left. last point on this, jimmy carter in 1980 won 36 contests but ted kennedy won 12 including california. ted kennedy did not concede the nomination to jimmy carter until august or so at the convention. carter came out of that very damaged and lost to ronald reagan. we have some precedent there that cornell west can point to as to w

ben domenech on fox news radio and amy walter publisher and editor and chief of the cook political reportshows governor ron desantis the importance of delivering a speech capturing live television at the beginning of an announcement. but it took a while. we actually didn't get the official. >> we didn't get the official announcement. we think we know where he is headed he would like to make this race about character in that obviously we know one person he is aiming at which he does in his opening moments there, donald trump saying he is the one that divided us but saying biden did as well. the challenge that the former governor has is this: he starts with very high name recognition among republicans but he is also the most disliked of all the candidates among republicans. so he is going to have to find a way as a messenger to deliver this message saying he is the right candidate for the time to a group of people who don't particularly want to hear what he has to say. >> bret: guy, is he really good on extemporaneous and on the fly. look back live still talking at town hall seems like it's

analyst marcia coyle -- and redistricting expert, david wasserman of the cook political report with amy walteroth. marsha, we will start with you. the chief justice wrote there were legitimate concerns the voting rights act may impermissibly elevated race and the allocation of political power within the states but added our opinion today does not diminish or disregard these concerns. it simply holds a faithful application of art precedents and fair reading of the record do not bear them out here. what is the court saying with this ruling? >> i think the chief justice is saying the majority is aware that whenever you deal with racial classifications, whether it is in redistricting or other contacts, there is that concern that race may dominate, and so he is reassuring everyone there really is a totality of circumstances, test for section 2, and the court's precedents have imposed limitations that protect against race actually dominating into redistricting, and that is been the case for some 40 years. section 2 claims are extremely hard to win and federal courts and they have not been awaiting.

this and more with toluse olorunnipa, and leigh ann caldwell from the post and alayna treene and amy walterthanks for spending your father's day morning with us. let's talk about how these candidates are trying to deal with the trump indictment or not deal with it or try to ignore it. amy, what do you think is the strategy for how these candidates should deal with it? should they take it head on and step aside from it. w what is the effective way to do that. >> one person that knows what he wants to do is chris christie which is come right at it consistently. chris christie is also the least liked republican in the field among republicans. so, his strategy, while it may be effective at hurting donald trump, it is probably not going to be helpful in elevating him. as for everybody else, it seems like the strategy is let the weight of this start to sink in with voters. and instead of making it about, boy, donald trump is unelectable, because he has all of these legal challenges, and they're serious to say, look, two things could be true at same time. department of justice has politicized what

analyst marcia coyle and redistricting expert david wasserman of the cook political report with amy walter welcome to you both, marcia, we will start with you. the chief justice in the opinion wrote that there were legitimate concerns that the voting rights act -- quote -- “may impermissibly elevate race and the allocation of political power within the states,” but he added, “our opinion today does not diminish or disregard these concerns. it simply holds that a faithful application of our precedents and a fair reading of the record before us do not bear them out here.” what is the court saying with this ruling? marcia: i think the chief justice is saying that the majority is aware that, whenever you deal with racial classifications, whether it's in redistricting or in other contexts, there is that concern that race may dominate. and so he's reassuring everyone that there really is a totality of circumstances test for section two, and that the court's precedents in this area have imposed limitations that protect against race actually dominating in redistricting. and that has been the case

back with our elections and surveys director anthony and we're also joined by political reports amy walteruse and political correspondent ed o'keefe. good to be with all of you. anthony, i'll start with you, more numbers, give us the top line of the republi coortabl and in two important wane sily, he's at 61% when people say who they would support right now. in another important way, in consideration, that's when people can pick multiple candidates, one more if they like, because this is a point in the campaign where they're evaluating things generally and >>'s not a special second candidate that's hiding in the wings courting consideration, but don't answer that, because i want to ask you in terms of what the former president is talking about, is it what people want to hear? >> no. in a short answer. they don't want to hear him talk about 2020. they don't want to hear him talk about himself or the past. they want to hear him talk about plans for the country. and yet, he's still leading. >> amy, what do you make of that? in this current context where there's the first federal indictment? >

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he quotes amy walter as saying, younger voters have not automatically been liberal.n 1984, those under 30 strongly backed ronald reagan's reelection. in 2000, they split almost evenly. but for four straight national elections democrats have won 60% of the vote among 18 to 29-year-olds and that is the longest run of success for a party since the 1970's. that was today's new york times. this is clayton in indiana. go ahead. caller: first off, the guy that says kids who are going to school and afraid of school shootings that they should vote? what about all of those getting shot by the gang bangers? the age should not be changed. i was forced to sign up to the draft when i was 18, it should not be lowered because a 16 or 17-year-old should not be drafted into the military. the draft may be active but it is not being called upon. no, the voting age should not be changed. thank you and have a good day. host: ken in michigan those 18 to 25. caller: i'm 25. thank you for having me on. people around me -- we are mad. we are mad at what we are being handed. but i do not think

amy walter rights, quote, it paints a worrisome picture for democrats who may be hoping that increaseders, especially if they put a full court persuasion press on them while democrats only engage these voters at the very end of the campaign. joining us now, communications director of the le bray initiative, a national advocacy group for latino americans. thank you so much for being on. so what is the state of latino support for democrats? are democrats losing latino voters? >> yes, they definitely are. i mean, the reality is i think many democrats thought that that voting demographic was baked in in their favor, and what we're see is that more latinos are identifying as independent, as swing voters. they're really willing to hear from both parties. it's important for democrats to understand this is a loss in the sense that before they could sort of count at these voters and these universities as sort of a get out the vote demographic, that towards the end of the election they could make that call and they would show up. the reality is that is not the case. they're going to have to cour