And for more on the 2024 race, we turn tonight to the analysis of Brooks and Kpart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington

Post.

Hello. So the 2024 election is officially for the faces a major scandal in a critical battleground state, North Carolina, the state's

Trump-endorced lieutenant governor Mark Robinson is adamantly denying reports

that he had anything to do with racist and sexually explicit online posts.

CNN has published a story and they attribute Robinson, they attribute these messages to

Robinson including one where he characterizes himself as a black Nazi another where he

defends slavery and it just devolves from there. David Brooks what does it say

about the modern GOP that a candidate like Mark Robinson who had a number of known liabilities up till now.

This is not in some ways this is not new.

What does it say that he got this far?

Well we should reassure viewers that was the g-rated version of what he actually...

A super-sanitized version of what...

It's the nastiness, and mind-boggling nastiness.

Well, what it says is the Republican Party used to be a

normal party which had the normal vetting procedures like you were a college

Republican and then you got vetted by your local state assembly and then so

you had a normal like in the industry basically

that there's a whole series of structures that people who are just complete

opportunists and degenerates if I can use that word don't pass through the

system but that whole system was

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