GOP's (Bleak) Future with Charlie Sykes
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🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Sykes on Rush Limbaugh, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, House Minority Leader McCarthy and the new litmus test for Republican pols: You may never say Trump lost fair and square. Former conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes is one of the original "Never-Trumpers." An MSNBC contributor and columnist he founded the news site, TheBulwark.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go again. It's the Bill Press Pod. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, Donald Trump refuses to stand on the sidelines, unlike every other president in our lifetime. |
| 0:18.0 | Next Sunday, February 28, he's scheduled to address the annual CPAC gathering in Orlando, |
| 0:24.1 | Florida, where his aides have said he'll do three things. |
| 0:28.9 | One, still insists that he won the November 3rd election, but it was stolen from him. |
| 0:34.1 | Two, attacked Joe Biden for anything he's done his first month in office, and three, |
| 0:39.6 | declare himself ready to head the Republican Party and run for re-election in 2024. But is this what |
| 0:47.7 | the Republican Party really needs or wants? That's got the party split right down the middle today. Many Republicans, led by |
| 0:57.3 | Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy, say that sticking with Trump is the only way for Republicans |
| 1:02.8 | to bounce back in 2022 and 2024. But others, starting with Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, |
| 1:10.0 | Liz Cheney, and others say the party has to move on from Trump. |
| 1:15.3 | One of the leading voices of the Trump opposition is former conservative talk show radio host Charlie Sykes, now editor-in-chief of the new political website, The Bullwark, at the Bullwark.com. |
| 1:28.5 | So, Charlie Sykes, good to talk to you, good to connect with you again. |
| 1:32.1 | Thanks for joining us here on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:34.5 | Well, thanks for the invitation. |
| 1:36.0 | And I want to congratulate you on the Bullwark, your new website. |
| 1:41.4 | Great stuff in it, great people, writing good You, I'm in the lead, of course, |
| 1:46.7 | so congratulations. How can people find you on the bulwark? Just www.theboolwork.com. |
| 1:56.0 | The bulwark.com. You got it. Now, before we get into where the Republican Party is or where is going, Charlie, I'd like to ask you, look, you a very long time radio talk show host, so as I. How do you assess the legacy of the big guy in talk radio, a Rush Limbaugh, whom we lost last week to lung cancer. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah, it's, I mean, it's, it's dramatically split here. And I have to admit when I had to |
| 2:24.9 | write a piece about him the day that he passed away, I still have that residual resistance |
| 2:30.4 | against saying bad things about people the day that they die. So this was tough, but I do think it's important to put his place, I mean, to put him in |
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