this op-ed was written by three different former chairs of the maine republican party. d our party at a time when candidates of both parties were not only civil and believed in the rule of law but we believe had the best interests. state and entire nation foremost in their hearts, even when we disagree on policies. we see these same positive characteristics are on full display in vice president harris and her candidacy. sadly, they are completely lacking in her opponent, former president donald trump. each of us has had the honor of traveling the state of maine to recruit and support candidates and to talk about the values that a big-tent republican party once stood for. trump's maga republican party is unrecognizable to us. much of the leadership of the republican party has joined the cult of trump and we know they will care little for what we have to say. we know that the republican party in may have been is still home to many honest, hard-working principled people want what is best for our state and nation. we hope they will join us. that's the former chairs of the st

that endorsement for harris from those republican party chairman, it is the latest and what has just been this long string of man bites dog unexpected company endorsements for kamala harris and her campaign and not just the former republican vice president addict cheney endorsing harris and is very conservative former republican congresswoman daughter liz cheney and not just the big group of former reagan administration officials endorsing kamala harris. it isn't just the trump administration officials who spoke on the behalf of kamala harris at the convention but also now more than 700 military and national security leaders were just this weekend find onto a mass endorsement for harris. the national security and retired military endorsements for harris coming at a particularly fraught time in the international news with israel of course launching something to look very much like it could be a full-scale new war against hezbollah targets with hundreds of people killed in lebanon by the strikes. this is simultaneous with israel's ongoing bombardment of gaza were tens of thousands of pe

right now, republican party members are voting on who will now lead the state party. 9 news reporter lauren scafiti has been there all day. >> reporter: it's 2 1/2 months until election day and colorado republican party members are still fighting their own leader. >> and to those who say, you know, don't change a rider in the middle of a race -- that's -- that's a valid argument, unless, of course, the rider is trying to kill the horse. >> that was a valid argument, unless the rider is trying to kill the horse. so, that was this weekend, saturday. as colorado republican party officials met to vote out their state party chairman who they said was destroying the party. now, for his part, it's a little bit like what happened in michigan. the republican party chair in colorado is refusing to recognize the validity of the vote to remove him. because of course he is. he says the meeting this saturday in colorado, where they voted to fire him, he says it was, quote, a sham and illegitimate and illegal. as of sunday, the day after they voted to fire him, he at least still had custody of the

fear is governing the republican party. fear is the tonic of authoritarianism. it is a party based on patronage, on loyalty, on punishment. that is the situation we have now. so it is going to take some kind of change in the culture of the republican party to stand up to this phenomenon. rather than the other alternative that some other person comes and rolls and eventually end replaces trump with the same culture of fear and intimidation. >> donald trump jr.? >> right. >> when you think about that, though, joking aside from moment, the role that he has assumed within the party, if you will. the decision making. he was a huge advocate for j.d. vance to get the vice presidential nod. trump's daughter-in-law is now heading the rnc. the nepotism, again the co- opting of the republican party. you see this in middle eastern dictatorships where the heir apparent emerges and takes over. it is now happening in america slowly. >> given that trump has been president, anything is possible. so we have a system, we have a party that is entirely designed around one person. and

so the nepotism, the coopting of the republican party. the heir apparent emerges and takes over. >> given that trump has already been president, everything is possible. we have a party that is entirely designed, a personalist party designed around one person. and of course, the situation with that is what happens when that person goes? so, presumably, some other person emerged to play that role. that is why you have democracy to avoid the replacement of the leader. >> potentially if trump loses you are arguing that he would be cast aside? some republicans would say you are not winning, you have been losing now several times but would that just mean the next iteration of trumpism whether it is a jd vance, maybe not a desantis, because he lost this round, but certainly a don jr. maybe a hard core trumpet? >> i think if we had to guess. that's the one place where there is some tension in the party. trump has such a charismatic hold over the voters that he can get away with deviations from the ideology of some of the party's activists. i think

he acted as if the republican party was some normalcy in it that was going to at some point return. le years of his presidency if we don't recall that he finally understood what the republican the party had become and what isn't. somebody as experienced as joe biden still thought there was some seblance of an existing republican party that one could deal with and grow or rejuvenate and create into something more. yes, john is right to say it's recovery and haven't hit rock bottom. that's true. i think it's more like they are a person in a battered relationship that doesn't know how to see themselves outside of the battered relationship. that they think that's their only home. they think there's not something more out there for them to go to. they think this is what i know, this is the folks that i know, the staff people i know, the consultants i know, whatever. even though i'm getting abused every day and even though my kids are getting kicked around and the dog is getting thrown against the wall and the the house is getting knocked down, this is a relationship i know even though it'

party's nominee. where was the republican convention that year and what was the reaction among the republican party voters to that high stakes, high profile matchup between a former and current president so that the republican convention took place in june in chicago and it party was pretty divided between taft supporters and roosevelt supporters. so there were fights on the floor. erwere people who we shouting. there were delegates outs for roosevelt re clashing with delegates for taft. there was a lot of energy in the party around this nomination because there was such a big division in the party and that does play out over the course of the convention. there's wild excitement for roosevelt when he shows up, but there's also still, again, that division. and when the vote ultimately happens and taft wins the nomination, roosevelt says he's leaving the party. so that split that was already visible in the convention become a real party. split after this june convention, because roosevelt basically says, if you're not going to nominate me, i'm going to take my ideas, are going to take my platform and i'm go

the republican party has become a far-right party in many ways is its opponents are sidelined, and the now in trumpist hands, and likely will be for the foreseeable future. the danger from right-wing populism is greater in the united states than in many european countries. donald trump is extremely mean. it has changed being a republican, and one of the things that i am really worried about, and of course it has nothing to do with politics and things like spending taxes and america's position in the world, is how we treat each other and how we resolve domestic political differences. to do at the level or social layer of the american country with the concept of border republic faced the border republic is an interpretation that refers to the republics on the border. deterioration is said to have occurred by looking at the completely radical behavior of the current president, who happened to be the organizer of the election, violent behavior by the people of the american society, which has grown up in a party system , and it can be concluded that the american political and social system

the republican party of the united states, one of two major parties, the party has won the popular vote one time since the fall of the berlin wall. say it again. only one time since the collapse of the iron curtain have republicans managed a national majority in a presidential election. so it is incumbent on democrats to win by such a large margin that overcomes the structural advantages against them. even some republicans know this is the case, like former congresswoman liz cheney who spoke in north carolina. >> as a conservative, someone who believes in and cares about the constitution, i have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that donald trump poses not only am i not voting for donald trump but i will be voting for kamala harris. >> the maga movement needs to lose over and over and over again point democracy will not be on secure footing in this country until republicans -- the lesson happens, understandably because happens, understandably because we focused the electoral college . because that is the way the system works. is to ignore how much the gravity of that p

, as a thank you, maybe not to start with it, or to invite a representative of the republican partyhow that bipartisan support is just right for us the key thing, and we will focus on this, as they say, and from the very beginning it was announced that we, that ukraine wants to meet with two candidates, present a vision, and therefore i think that certain conclusions must be... drawn, i i strongly urge the president of ukraine finally, hold a meeting with the expert environment, with veterans, volunteers, public organizations that carry out advocacy. on the international arena, because one task now, when biden is still the current president, is to get the maximum amount of aid, and we see that the ramstein coalition meeting in germany has been announced, we hear that there will be a list of necessary weapons in the new aid packages , although there is a question of lifting restrictions on deep strikes, well, on... long-range strikes deep into russia, that is, it is very important now to get to the maximum and also to build such a policy so that regardless of who will become the new

that is not some outlandish, crazy idea to think of a universe in which some version of the republican party went to the polls on election day for the presidential election and got 5 million more votes. that is a plausible world, it is just not the world of the trump era party in any way, shape, or form. >> the idea of a permanent national majority with the whole thinking behind george bush and karl rove's moderation of immigration. to bring in enough latino voters to get a national majority. obviously that did not work out. here is the problem though, chris. the people trying to put any durable national majority aren't really in charge. these guys talking to politico about how they can get a bank shot victory sometime in the future, but they are too shameful and cowardly to say it on the record, these guys aren't running the party. the voters are running the party and the primary voters want the crazy and they got the taste of it in the trump era and they are not going back. to coin a phrase from kamala harris. that is why they put up guys like mark robinson who if you owned a pizza franchi

this entire republican party that we see in north carolina right now from donald trump at the top of lle morrow and dan bishop and the republicans' slate that's been nominated statewide by the republican party this year. is something that would just take north carolina backwards and we're seeing it in terms of when voters right now are coming out and van casing with us you know, we have more people that are turning out to knock on doors with us. than we've ever had before and we know it's because they're seeing this play out in the court of public opinion and folks are not liking it. >> yeah. i mean, a little motivational. with north carolina i mean, you have been -- you are a rock star as i said ten times but it's a state that felt kind of a little out of reach a couple of months ago. now trump is visiting and spending a ton of money there and you are on the ground. are arsenalsing -- you sensing fear from republican organizers there about what's going on? and about momentum on the democratic side? >> well, i appreciate the compliments but i also think it is definitely all of the org

the heart of the pro-putin elements in american politics is in the republican party. really do not think it's functioning as a normal, traditional american political party. so all of this, while i'd really like to -- i hate to see donald ump but maybe i'm not going to vote for him or something, i just don't buy it. i think if epublicans have proven themselves as the party has, to ca about nothing but power and i think they are terrified of where the country is going and they see this as one of the last chances they have to stop that. >> if you're really terrified about where things are going, stick around for the next segment because when we come back we're going talabout how countries like russia, china, and i oreign adversaries, are trying to manipulats of american voters and the department of justice's plan to stop them. we are going to dig in when the 11th hour content is. a perfect day for a family outing! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects. only shingrix is proven over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and ol

analysis right after. >> and with officially fewer than 40 days until election day, california republican party leaders, they're not wasting any time. capitol correspondent eytan wallace spoke one-on-one with the party chair about new efforts to reach voters. >> knocking on doors and making phone calls and turning out the vote. that's exactly what california republican party chair jessica millan patterson says the state gop has been doing and we'll continue to do to reach voters. now less than 40 days until election day in just a week and a half until ballots go out in the mail to every registered voter in the state. >> the republican party, it's here and we're here to help. it's a message she hopes resonates with every voter, but especially with specific demographics of voters. >> who historically have largely not registered with the republican party, including many in the latino community of the work that you've done had a son who is the first latina to ever lead the california republican party says the state gop has increased efforts to reach latino voters among those efforts. this very even

the heart of the pro-putin element of american ethics is in the republican party. think it is functioning as a normal, traditional, american political party. so,ll of this -- i hate to see donald trump -- maybe i am not going to vote for him or something -- i just don't buy it. i think republicans have proven themselves, as the party has, to care about nothing but power. i think they're terrified of where the country is going, and they see this as one of the last chances they have to stop that. >> really terrified about where things are going, stick around for the next segment, gentlemen. stuart, max, thank you both. when we come back, we will talk about how countries like russia, china, and iran, foreign adversaries, are trying to manipulate the opinions of american voters. the department of justice eye plan to stop them. we will dig in when "the 11th hour" continues. announcer>>> what if you could whiten your teeth by simply brushing your teeth? now you can with smileactives, the teeth whitening breakthrough that safely gets your teeth white and keeps them white

this is a story about the corner the republican party has backed itself into. as i'm sure you have heard by now are probably wish you good on here or see. mark robinson, the republican nominee for governor north carolina posted a lot of stephanie porn say. he called himself a black porn t and supported reinstating slavery. that's according to a thorough report from cnn that came out last week. now, surprise surprise, ever since then robinson has repeatedly denied making those comments. what we heard from him today is just about as trumping as you can get. >> we are in talks right now, everything up to legal counsel to take cnn to task for what they have done. we are going after them. we are going to go after them for what they have done. >> threatening to sue a media organization for reporting on something you actually did. i wonder who he learned that from? that is mark robinson's response. when it comes to the republican party, not all of them but many republican leaders, we are seeing flashes of what you would expect to see in the wake of a scandal like that.

there's a big problem for the republicans in that you are a party divided right now, aren't you? are some extraordinarily senior, influential republicans who simply will not vote for donald trump. they think he is too dangerous to the republic, the latest of which is former vice president dick cheney. yeah. when he says that, it matters. i'm not so sure. i think that's sort of built into the cake. you know... dick cheney? yeah, i like dick cheney. yeah. one of the most staunch conservatives in the united states of america who says he cannot, will not vote for trump because he is a danger. i can't think of any other republican that i know of who will change their vote. you got the brother of walz saying he's100% against tim walz. i don't think that matters a whole lot. dick cheney... you got high profile... like, robert f kenneder is now supporting trump. i didn't see that coming. and that may matter some. so time will tell. yeah, i mean, on the republican side... it's a strange election where you have the kennedys supporting trump, and the cheneys supporting harris. it's a bit of

it is what the republican party has become. i mean the anti-trump element of the republican party is just tiny and when trump loses, which i think he is, they are not going to rush to solve this. they're going to continue to try to use it as a hot button issue in campaigns and that is a real tragedy. >> the republican position on immigration was never this. as recently as the 2015 2016 republican primary, you had candidates including jeb bush and others who were discussing immigration in a much more traditional sense. despite that this had been a bipartisan failure to reform immigration, there were normal conversations going on about immigration within the republican party. as recently as that. that seems to be gone. >> it really doesn't remember in 2013 when they passed that bill, it actually passed overwhelmingly in the senate. but good all paul ryan who everyone thinks is a pro- business, moderate guy, did not have the nerve to put it on the floor. basically the democrats in the house chickened out. the republicans chickened

it is really just a larger indication of how the republican party has really collapsed as a governing party. >> it's interesting, jennifer, because the republican party has emphasized border strength, but in fact, we have seen historically, the republicans been very understanding of the economic imperatives of immigration, the economic dangers of sounding like an anti-immigrant country. that all seems to be out the window right now. ti the border security issue has become one republicans have latched onto and yet will not solve. >> that's absolutely right. it used to be that legal immigration, reforming the legal immigration system, increasingat the visas that go highly skilled workers was a bipartisan issue, but republicans have simply become reflexively anti-immigrant. it doesn't matter whether they are legally here, on vacations in springfield, whether they are illegal here, they are against them because this is essentially coming down to a racial issue and by the way, they don't talk about immigration from asia were people overstay their visas. they're talking about black and brow

but _ have a future in the republican party. but they are also wrong. for six — party. trump is like a tornado or a storm, and it will pass, then— or a storm, and it will pass, then we _ or a storm, and it will pass, then we will get back to the republican party we once had. bull clap! it's not coming back, _ bull clap! it's not coming back, this is a bigger problem than — back, this is a bigger problem than trump. this is where republican voters are — they are wrong. republican voters are - they are wrong-— republican voters are - they are wronu. . , ~' ~ are wrong. let that sink in. we will no are wrong. let that sink in. we will go to _ are wrong. let that sink in. we will go to a _ are wrong. let that sink in. we will go to a break, _ are wrong. let that sink in. we will go to a break, we'll- are wrong. let that sink in. we will go to a break, we'll talk i will go to a break, we'll talk plenty more politics on the other side of the break, do stay with us, we'll be right back. hello there. look out for contrasting weather conditions across the country over the next f

lincoln leaves the republican party. he is a member of that party anymore because there is a new party that he forms called the national union party. the national union party is made up of people who had been in the republican party and also people who had been in the democratic party and the constitutional union party and people who had not been in either of those parties. this is a group of people who is very much in favor of the union during the union and the united states during the civil war. and these people are thinking long term. they're thinking about the future of the united states, not just during the civil war, but after the civil war. so already you have a major shift during the war in what the parties look like. they're facing off against the democrats. these are one portion of the democrats often known as the copperheads or the peace democrats. and there were real differences in the way that people operated as a result of this shift in parties. lincoln was quite lucky to have had a very important military v

p let's take a closer look at what the cult of the republican party has become. aced isolationism and turned backs on allies, they were once the party of law and order as well. then, the republicans nominee ated a convicted felon for president who fell short of disrupting the peaceful transfer of power not even four years agoch and then they say themself as the party of being good for business and economic issues. while they are not that either. because today cnbc was first to report that 88 current and former top executives from all across corporate america have endorsed kamala harris for president in a brand-new letter. signed by leaders of some huge high-profile companies like yelp, box and snap. and james murdoch, the former ceo of fox and the heir to the empire and that they would get the biggest boost from democrats and kamala harris in the white house. from reuters reporting on that story, quote, under a republican sweep or even with a divided government led by donald trump, economic output would take a hit next year, mostly from increased tariffs on import

. >> carlos, what you make of the state republican party standing behind mark robinson, given the neworting, with his past inflammatory comments that we have on record? >> look, this is the trap that republicans have found themselves in, since donald trump first burst onto the scene here, in 2015. the base of the republican party is willing to go to places and willing to take positions that put the republican party in a very bad place when it comes to swing voters, middle-of-the-road voters, independence, people who actually decide elections. so, here is a candidate, alex, who is likely going to lose this race and in a spectacular fashion, i may add, a guy who is single-handedly turning a pink state into a purple state. he is probably going to lose his race yet, the base of the republican party, which now controls a lot of these establishment instruments of the republican party, is standing by him. 15 years ago, the republican party in north carolina would have said, "no way. we need a different candidate. this man is no longer qualified." that type of instrument in the republican par

the republican party after this election if trump loses, i think it's in a lot of trouble. it's a shrinking party. it's very white, very monolithic, very regional in its demographics of the kind of people that support it. it's not growing, it's not expanding in a nation that is more diverse, more female, and changing. host: taking you to the line for independents. tom, good morning to the land of good -- 10,000 lakes. go ahead. caller: yeah. inside the beltway, what has happened to the -- let's call it the republicans who were the anybody but trumpers. they are all out here in the hinterlands. inside the beltway, had they been pretty much eliminated from the scene? guest: that's a great question and yes, the people who have not fallen in line with trump, i'm one of them, they have been exiled, for lack of a better word. the party has a deep division. you saw it in the primary where nikki haley was the last woman standing. trump didn't even show up for one of the debates, which i thought was disrespectful. you want to win the primary of your party? show up to the debate, the

don't want to be too hopeful but i wonder if we are seeing a tiny tiny semblance of a post trump republican party or a post trump future that republicans are seeing after this second debate. it the first debate showed democrats a joe biden is not up to the job, the second debate showed the entire country but especially republicans who have been willing to bend for trump that this man, the emperor has no clothes. he has no plans. he has no ideas. he lies. the facts are crazy. it's almost as if, he is surrounded by laura loomer and marjorie taylor greene is coming out against him and that association. he's almost losing this party he has built and treated as a toy or accessory for the last eight years to himself. it's almost like they could see whether he loses the election or he is in prison or flees the country because he wants to avoid that. they are almost seeing a potential future without him. >> that's interesting you raise that. i think he loses this election, i don't know. gut knows the future would bring. covering an election with donald trump is a comment to the republican party makes me

the republican party's posture has changed vis a vis russia, which you write about in your new book. you mentioned republican representative mike mccaul, the republican chair of the house foreign affairs committee, saying, quote, "russian propaganda has made its way into the united states, "unfortunately infected a good chunk of my party's base." back in the day when william f. buckley jr. hosted ronald reagan and george h.w. bush on the program, there was a very clear sense that republicans were the party that was strong against the communists. - there is a sense in which when you are dealing with a sworn enemy, in which your relations improve to the extent that that enemy recognizes that he is not going to successfully destroy you. i think that as long as ronald reagan or his successor, george bush, are in the white house, there will not be a nuclear initiative by the soviet union, because there is no doubt what our response would be. - the republicans were the ones who would stand up to the soviets. what has happened, and what is your analysis? is the gop supporting forces that wou

this is the republican party under donald trump. north carolina republicans, i think it will be hard to return your candidate now. you broke it. you bought it. mark robinson is your guy. >> michael steele is former chair the rnc in cohost of msnbc's the weekend. tara setmayer previously worked as a republican communications director on capitol hill and ceo and cofounder the seneca project. a super pac to court moderate women voters for kamala harris and they joined me now. well, well, well, michael. who could've possibly seen it coming. who could've seen it coming? you know what i thought today? i thought of the race in alabama. roy moore was obviously a zealot who had no business being anywhere near a senate seat, and he won the primary because donald trump liked him and backed him. he never should've been close. these revelations the he was hitting on underage women outside the courthouse and stalking them in high school. it blew up and he lost that senate race but there was 1 billion red flags. you chosen because trump liked him a

kim: party, rejecting foreign it ash the republican party, rejecting foreign -- republican party, rejectingoreign interventionism. should be looking after the interest of american manufacturers and workers on the same goes immigration policy. say what you will about whether or not you agree with the content of those policies, it is something that bucked the historical republican consensus. what i see now traveling the country is that what began as a challenge to the system has now become a new system in the conservative movement. we have up-and-down ballots across the republican party things to the effect of we believe in making more things here, we believe in being departed workers that the party of workers we believe in -- the, party of workers would believe in putting america first but without taking about what these phrases mean or why we are saying them. i personally believe that's not a good development for any movement when you start to recite your slogans by muscle memory rather than remembering the why of why we believe what we do. so as a traced intellectual devout men of the cons

lincoln leaves the republican party. he is a member of that party anymore because there is a new party that he forms called the national union party. the national union party is made up of people who had been in the republican party and also people who had been in the democratic party and the constitutional union party and people who had not been in either of those parties. this is a group of people who is very much in favor of the union during the union and the united states during the civil war. and these people are thinking long term. they're thinking about the future of the united states, not just during the civil war, but after the civil war. so already you have a major shift during the war in what the parties look like. they're facing off against the democrats. these are one portion of the democrats often known as the copperheads or the peace democrats. and there were real differences in the way that people operated as a result of this shift in parties. lincoln was quite lucky to have had a very important military v

what the republican party stands for, for creating a dynamic republican party. precisely, precisely. do we have. i think i saw some other hand. so we're going to go one, two, three and we'll finish. well, four and five. okay. so, mikey mag, if you can catch all that numbering there. hey, craig, how are you doing? good. how are you? all right. you look the recent polls and they show that joe biden. i got my glasses on. paul. i owe. yeah. you know, joe biden is now one of the greatest presidents to some recent polling and. and ronald reagan seems to have kind hit a hit. hit a ceiling. do you see that changing over the next 5000 years that he will if historians are honest? if historians are honest. i saw a poll the other day by a bunch of political scientists who are notoriously left wing and they had joe biden rated as the ninth greatest president, which has made me gag, you know, is that joe biden is a terrible, terrible president. he is going to go down in history by honest historians as worst president in american history, if not the worst reagan by like token.

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who leads the republican party after that?t think we have any idea the question that people like mitt romney have is, does the fever brake and to use an overused cliche in washington these days when trump finally does disease days, obama was talking about because it may the tea party but no, but look like i think that mitt romney is hopeful that if trump goes away, a lot of the kind of personality cult stuff in the republican party will go away with it, that a lot of the outrageous defenses of everything that trump does and says that will at least go away but the republican party has also ideologically transformed under, yeah, they like tariffs now, it's more isolationist. yes, it's more nationalistic, it's more populist, not very concerned about the size and scope of government anymore that's the stuff that brought mitt romney to the republican party, right and i think that he and publicans like him are going to have a hard time if that ideological transformation stays in place after trump. >> i mean, maybe janie and romney a

era to switch to the republican party. there were democrats back then. but that's never going to be never going to the tilt the clarity and the depth former president as a lady also said former president obama's economy. then came covid. therefore the price went down low. think the money and things of that sort create inflation along with companies and gouging the public. reducing the packaging, making it smaller and raising the prices as well. they are in many areas of the world. not going to tell the truth about the united states policies in this government creating ill among those form communities. copying government, flooded witg with weapons, things of that sort. that also should be brought to light.nf finally with the police and law enforcement agents, is an outrage. many african americans when they were trying to escape the violence of slavery. they brought them back to their masters. many say have domain in the same neighborhoods today. many mistreat t them. averagingg about defending police, i would defend them to

among those whose lives are affected by globalization and industrialization. has flipped the republican partyome a far-right party in many ways. its opponents are sidelined, and the party is now in trumpist hands, and likely will be for the foreseeable future. the danger from right-wing populism is greater in the united states than in many european countries. donald trump has drastically changed the meaning of being a republican, and one of the things that i am really worried about, and of course it has nothing to do with your politics and things like spending taxes and america's position in the world, is how we treat each other and how our differences we will solve the internal politics together. at the level or social layer of the american country , it is faced with the concept of a border republic. a border republic is a term that refers to republics on the verge of decay, looking at the completely radical behavior of the incumbent president, who happened to be the organizer of the elections. violent behavior has taken place on the part of the people of the american society, which has grow

so i think maybe in the republican party, there's not a revamp of maga, maga. saves maga. and then there's a more moderate conservative party, but i also think on the left, green party candidates at run every four years or not. what i'm talking about, but parties like the working families party that worked very hard and have real infrastructure in new york and are doing a different places. i think people are interested in what something different can look like for their future that's an interesting idea. >> i mean, i do think that there's not a whole lot of evidence at the third party or any other party ever gets far in the national system. but at the local level state-level of maybe it does. what other interesting thing, a little bit of a different topic, but maybe it's actually the same topic the party, the republican party today is expanding to include people like tucker carlson and all the things that he represents. and we've talked about this earlier in the show. tucker carlson had this holocaust denier essentially on his show earlier in the week. we also know that j.d

there was always the more nativist part of the republican party. became more pronounced over time. you saw it in the early 2000s when john mccain and other republicans were trying to get a balanced immigration bill. remember, more than a decade ago marco rubio and others were in favor of a legalized bill that recognized undocumented. now it is the far right, populist, nativist right that has taken over the republican party. >> max, certainly that was reagan's political influence, but talk to us about how his life really represents a changing america in the 20th century and the time that he lives. >> it is a fascinating trajectory because, you know, he was born in 1911 in small town, illinois. i like to say he was kind of born on the real main street usa, which became a ride in disneyland. but when he was growing up it was the reality in small towns like tampico and dixon, rural america, very traditional america. you know, his parents only had a grade school education. they were very impoverished. his father was a shoe salesman. he lost one job afte

and so that's where the republican party is today so now there's a question though, and this is where all of a sudden there's backlash in the democratic party from both joe manchin and kyrsten sinema that whatever wing of the that they rep. >> present obviously, one of them is not technically a democrat now, but today, harris reiterated her support for eliminating the filibuster in order to overturn roe versus wade. so joe manchin now independent had signaled he was ready to endorse harris earlier this month. but then once she said that today, he said this know that you've been considering endorsing her. change. >> you're not going to happen. >> you're not going to doors dorsey i think that's basically something that could destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person kyrsten sinema also now an independent she tweeted to say, the supreme leader obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify roe versus wade also enables a future congress to ban all abortion nationwide what an absolutely terrible shortsighted idea, erin, when you saw the

now when it comes to the rest of the republican party. not all of them but many republican leaders, we are seeing some flashes of what you would expect to see in the wake of a scandal like this. i mean, four of robinson's top staffers have resigned. they're cutting his spending, our current media buy expires tomorrow and no further placements have been made. that's all they said. so yeah, robinson is losing staff and he's not getting any more money from the republican's association. none of that is good. he was already losing before this. but as the staff abandons him and the money is drying up no one is speaking forcibly as to why those things are happening even though it's quite obvious as those things are -p happening. there's no denouncement of the self-proclaimed self-nazi comments and there's been no denouncement from far too many leaders of the republican party. donald trump has absolutely zero percent control. and he defends the indefensible every time he could get. that guy did not mention robinson not once in north carolina, of a

i think the democratic party is moving too far to the left, the republican party has become more of a trump party, but i'm not willing to give up and it's why i'm running and stepped up. i got in this race when the bipartisan deal fell apart to secure the border, supply support and funding for israel, ukraine, and taiwan, and people voted against it because they didn't want to give a bipartisan win. my whole emphasis has been about how we find consensus, find common ground for the common good, and that's what i based my whole career on. and so i'm hoping that the voters will actually want that kind of leadership in washington. if they decide another partisan rubber stamp politician they just want to vote based on red or blue i'm not going to be in the senate. if they want to change washington, i think i'm exactly the kind of person that can make a difference. >> if former president donald trump calls you up on the phone in the next few weeks and says larry, i would like to go to an orioles game with you and have a campaign rally would you appear with trump in maryland. >> i don't thin

particularly the house republican party. en he was down and out, kevin mccarthy flew to mar-a-lago and they revived him and they rallied after his various indictments. he has had a huge influence over the party. the caller was talking about the border security bill and that is one example where the house was moving toward consensus, the senate in particular, and trump stepped in and said don't do it. you see it with the current spending showdown. he got up there and said you should shut the government down, unless you get this, what they call the save act. a bit of election legislation in there. which they attempted to do. you've seen again and again on impeachment. he said they did it to me, it's only fair, do it to them. the house went on this 18 month crusade to impeach joe biden. they didn't have anything in terms of impeachable offenses. they wound up with their star witnesses and whistleblowers, one defected to russia and another was tied up to russian intelligence and one was involved with the chinese. it even got pann