Charlie Cook: Trump’s GOP honeymoon is over before it began

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Chuck talks to Charlie Cook, founder of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Endowed Chair in Political Communication at the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU. In his latest column for National Journal, Charlie writes about President-elect Trump’s power play to force Republican senators into compliance over his cabinet choices.

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0:00.0	Hello from Dallas. I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Toddcast. My guest today is Charlie Cook. He's, of course, the founder of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. His latest column from National Journal, Charlie writes about President-elect Trump's power play to force Republican senators into compliance over his cabinet choices.
0:24.5	Charlie and I are going to get into that.
0:26.2	Plus, he's got some specific views about what the 2024 election was really about.
0:31.4	Hint, hint, it's Joe Biden.
0:32.9	So we're going to delve through all of that.
0:35.0	I happen to actually write this week a column about overreach.
0:39.3	So I think Charlie and I are in a similar situation.
0:42.9	Charlie, by the way, is coming from the Manship School of Mass Communications at lovely Louisiana State University.
0:49.8	They're based in Baton Rouge.
0:51.9	Go Tigers.
0:53.4	There you go. Go Tigers. There you go.
0:54.7	Go Tigers.
0:58.9	And always spell your go with six letters, right? Yes.
0:59.3	Yeah.
0:59.5	Make sure, yeah.
1:00.5	I don't know if you count at LSU, but I can do the UX, right?
1:03.6	Don't do that.
1:04.2	Don't do that.
1:04.7	I don't do that.
1:04.7	I don't do that.
1:05.8	I know.
1:06.7	I tease, ITs. But it's, Charlie,
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