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let's bring back senior msnbc political analyst matthew dowd. w, seven in ten is a big number, but is this just the usual grumpiness that can often affect voters a year out from election day, or do you think it's a real sign that they don't like these folks, maybe they won't vote at all, or if a new candidate were to move fast, there's an opportunity to catch fire. >> well, we enter in these phases a lot, this mythic third-party person, this thing that we've gone through so many times. i think to answer your question, it's probably all of that. i think there's general grumpiness. we're at the point in time where there's a dissatisfaction, and at some point in time there's going to have to be a choice made next year in the aftermath of the primaries and all of that, which look like right now it will be a choice between donald trump and joe biden. the problem is we have two very, very unpopular candidates that are likely to lead their parties. donald trump and joe biden. we've had -- we've faced that before, this reminds me a little bit of 2016 whe

right now i'm joined by matthew dowd, msnbc political analyst, with me in studio, nbc's vaughn hillyard's been covering donald trump, and jen palmieri, an msnbc political analyst. welcome all of you, jennifer, why don't at least more people seem to care? what is it about politics today that what was disqualifying 50 years ago in some ways barely registers a blip. >> the problem for trump supporters, and i was in hialeah wednesday night at trump's rally. hialeah is a largely hispanic community. i talked to a lot of hispanic supporters. they think what we fear that having a president who is willing to, you know, end democracy as we know it, by using -- by weaponizing the justice department, they believe that's already happened, and part of -- i talked to somebody who was organizing hispanics for republicans, he felt that his trump support in south florida was growing because people who had left venezuela or cuba because of concerns about authoritarian leaders, this is very familiar to them, for a political -- for a political opponent to go after them and try to, you know, put them in jail

and matthew dowd, political strategist and msnbc senior political analyst. thank you for being here. barb, the question of a comma, a comma, this is why i love language, because there's a big difference between, you know, i don't have this authority. and you know i don't have this authority. so what do you make of these sort of details which are emerging from what pence has told jack smith's team? >> yeah, it's like my dearest angelica, is there a comma or not? it changes everything about the meaning. here, is it a throw away line of just, you know, i don't have authority. or you know i don't have authority. i think that matters. because it is an acknowledgment between pence and trump that pence never had the authority to do what donald trump claimed that he did. so i think it's a really important point. and it's refreshing, i think, that mike pence is providing helpful, sounds like truthful information that can be helpful to the prosecution in this case. i imagine when this trial ultimately happens, joy, we're going to hear details we have never heard befor

and msnbc senior political analyst matthew dowd. he's also a former george w. bush's strategist and founder of country over party. all right mr. dowd, joe manchin says this was one of the toughest decisions of his life. was it the toughest decision or was he about to face the toughest race of his life against jim justice? is that why he's dropping out? >> well, if you had to weigh tough decisions, a tough decision would be attempting to win west virginia one more time. that would've been the tough decision. i actually find it quite a musing that we're having this conversation about joe manchin 's election prospects less than two days after democrats won in blue areas, purple areas, and red areas, including a place like kentucky, where the democratic governor won again. two days later, joe manchin is making the statement. the other thing i find amazing is, and i think this keeps -- this narrative keeps getting pushed about like there's some centrist party out there that somehow nobody represents. the funny thing about that is, almost on every single issue, the d

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joining us now, msnbc political contributors, matthew dowd and victoria defrancesco soto, dean of theol of public school at the university of arkansas. i thank you both for being with us. matthew, let's start with you. the impact that the war in between israel and hamas is having politically here at home, what has that impact been for the president? >> well, i think the honest answer is we don't know fully yet. a lot will depend what impact it has on president biden positive or negative about what the end result of this will be. but i think all of us have to acknowledge that the american public has had a level of exhaustion related to all of the different conflicts and wars that we've been involved in. we take the present circumstances in the middle east where millions are being spent. you take ukraine, which has now gone on a few years where billions have been spent, and then you take 20 years of afghanistan and iraq where trillions were spent, and i think that we -- i don't think we can properly gauge the level of the united -- the u.s. citizens' desire to sort of get through this a

. >> joining me now, msnbc political analyst matthew dowd., this will have a bit of a shorter length of conversation than i had anticipated because of breaking news in israel. i'm curious what you make of christie's comments and the other candidates pretty much staying mute on this. >> first, i'm glad to be shortened by the hostage release. anytime that happens is a good thing. i think the situation is most americans will not look at, oh, how many were given, how many were not, i think the american public will sit there and say, hostages were released, there's actually a pause in the fighting and what's going on. all of that is a good thing. so move on. i think the biden administration is going to get lauded for this by the american public. without all the details, it was a good thing. >> yeah. let me ask you about the rise of nikki haley specifically. as you know, the new york times writes the big dollars are gravitating towards her, saying this. several donors and advisers scribed two groups taking shape among the major top dollar donors. f

an msnbc senior political analyst, matthew dowd. is also a former george w.ush's strategist and founder of country over party. juanita, what is your reaction to the presidents speech? in lauren boebert's backyard. someone barely got reelected in 2022. >> this is the type of naming and shaming that i want more of stephanie. i appreciated that he crossed himself for protection, when he started. but also that he went in on the successes that democrats deliver, calling boebert out by name and how unhelpful she was in all of. this and, the best part about him being on the ground and district, is that this is going to have local uphill. it's gonna be on local news stations. it's gonna be on local papers. and in local conversations, for weeks to come. of president biden directly called out lauren boebert. and, i think that's where the stickiness of the message is going to have an impact in 2024. because, as you mention, stephanie, boebert barely won reelection. i think the margin was 0. 2%. it went to a recount, and we know she's facing a challenge again in 2024. an

. >> matthew dowd, sahil kapur, thank you very much. we'll hear from liz cheney on the rachel maddow show at 9 on msnbc. you will not want to miss that . >>> former first lady, rosalynn carter, made her way home through the small georgia town she lived for most of her 96 years. those closest to her, including 99-year-old former president gymny carter came together for a private funeral at the maranatha baptist church. this was her son at the funeral today. >> dad got used to mom disagreeing with him because she was really good at it. and she became a partner in a true sense of the word where they had equal footing. >> rosalynn carter is set to be buried in view of the front porch of the home that she and her husband of 77 years have shared since 1961. >>> coming up in our next hour, i'll talk to congressman jared moskowitz about the rise in anti-semitism that senate majority leader chuck schumer just called a five-alarm fire in a major address, and i'll get his response to calls from his own party about putting conditions on aid to isra