Republican Party Divisions and Strategy

controversial. There is a growing split.

It's not like the Democratic split,

and there's nothing like the antisemitism of the left, but

there is a growing spit- split in the Republican ranks,

and JD is trying to finesse that. And

Rubio is quiet about it, 'cause I think he disagrees with it.

And I don't know to what degree that is going to blossom,

but at some point,

uh, he's going to have to-

Well, I m- it's, it's... Rubio's more popular with the neocons-

Yeah

... but he doesn't wanna lose the support of

the more non-

Right. Yes

... interventionalist wing.

And it's splitting-

And JD's more popular with the non-interventionalists,

but he doesn't wanna lose

the support of the neocons. I mean, no, no Republican...

Whatever, you can get the nomination by just having

one or the other, but you can't

get the presidency with a divided Republican Party.

Yes.

You have to have all the Republican Party and then some in order to win.

And the problem is that, um,

for JD, as I see it, who has made, you know...

He said, "I don't, I can't, I don't wanna be told who I can talk,

to whom I can talk to." Fine. But some of the people, like Marjorie

Taylor Greene or To- Thomas Massie or sometimes Tucker,

they say things,

m- y- when you say you want to impeach Trump,

or he's, he's Satanic,

or Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she prefer- or you prefer El-Sayed,

they say things that are almost as if, I'm not saying they are,

but they're almost

designed to put JD into a dilemma. In

other words, they keep-

Well, I think that faction, that faction that you just mentioned

sees JD as in a dilemma.

Yes. And-

They're, they're not trying to put him in one.

But they're, but-

They genuinely think-

But they w-

... some faction of them, that, that he should have resigned after the war

in Iran.

Y- yes.

Like, that he-

Yes

... he shouldn't have stayed. And that, and that's gonna come back to haunt him

when-

Yes

... when we get into Republican primaries next

season.

Well, it, it depends-

You're right

... it depends on the denouement. So if you had...

I mean, I don't know what's gonna happen. Nobody...

The problem with Iran is nobody knows what's going on inside,

because the first

war, we've had no international media on the

ground.

We've had no ground troops. We've had no embedded reporters.

All we know about is cellphone, people who are calling out.

And when they call out, they're rounded up,

and there's been thousands

killed after the 45,000. S- every day.

So we don't know, but if there were to be a popular dissent,

and they, they go out on the street again, and if this new strategy,

which I don't know why they, it wasn't implemented on day one-

I know

... the economic dis-

I know. The economic pressure-

Yeah, yeah

... seems to be a great-

Yeah, it's really a good-

... a great tactic versus-