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Deadline: White House

“Donald Trump skipped Econ 101”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on Trump’s unveiling of expansive new tariffs, including a universal 10% tariff on all imports, and the renewed energy in the democratic base following Senator Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech. Joined by Matt Dowd, Claire McCaskill, Rev. Al Sharpton, David Gura, Vaughn Hillyard, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Everett Kelley, Basil Smikle, Mini Timmaraju, Andrew Weissmann, and Graydon Carter.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's Fort Clark in New York. You hear that? Countless Americans in the pro-democracy

0:13.9

anti-Trump coalition woke up today to the sound of hope. The signs of opposition to Donald

0:20.2

Trump and his administration were everywhere

0:22.1

you looked last night from Capitol Hill, where Senator Cory Booker made history

0:26.2

with a speech taking on Donald Trump and everything he has done,

0:30.7

to Florida, where election results set up alarm bells for Republicans in a state that

0:34.9

have been very much trending their way for years now, to Wisconsin,

0:39.2

where voters resoundingly rejected the chainsaw-wielding billionaire who has spent the last 71 days

0:44.7

gutting the federal government, firing veterans with glee, as well as cancer researchers and aid workers,

0:51.2

and the president who stands by his side day after day.

0:54.5

And they gave a shot in the arm to Democrats.

0:57.9

The liberal candidate winning by 10 points over her Musk and Trump approved opponent for a seat on the highest court in Swing State Wisconsin.

1:07.1

Susan Crawford's win cementing a liberal majority on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court at a time when it is poised to hear cases about abortion rights, labor rights, and potentially congressional maps, which could make a difference in the midterms next year, given the narrow majority Republicans holding the House right now.

1:26.5

But Crawford's win last night in Wisconsin is,

1:28.9

of course, about so much more than that. New York Times reports this, quote, the night's results

1:34.3

demonstrated with Democratic officials have been saying in recent weeks that their voters are fired

1:39.4

up to fight back against a Trump administration set on tearing down large chunks of the federal government.

1:46.4

Judge Crawford's commanding victory could give the party reason to believe that it is on the

1:51.4

verge of coming out of its collective shell and might even have a recipe for winning elections

1:56.2

in the new Trump age. And the key ingredient in that recipe is opposition to the agenda of Donald Trump

2:02.9

and the world's richest man. Elon Musk is deeply unpopular, according to poll after poll after poll.

2:09.7

Here's how Susan Crawford herself put it last night. Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy.

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