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The Playbook Podcast

Nov. 21, 2022: The 2024 jockeying jumble

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and deputy editor Zack Stanton break down the weekend in politics, including the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas, NV.  “2024 Republican rivals put Trump on notice,” by Alex Isenstadt in Las Vegas: “If former President Donald Trump thought his early 2024 announcement would cow prospective Republican primary rivals into submission, he clearly miscalculated. “At this weekend’s Republican Jewish Coalition conference, a parade of ambitious Republicans hit all the notes that politicians eyeing future campaigns for the White House typically do. Their tones and messages varied — few called out Trump by name — but collectively they made clear they are not going to back down to the former president after a third consecutive poor election with him at the helm. What the contenders sound like: “Mike Pompeo, Trump’s hand-picked secretary of State and CIA director, warned that for Republicans to win elections, they can’t simply ‘go on Fox News or send tweets.’ Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ran Trump’s transition, said Republicans were losing because ‘Donald Trump has put himself before everybody else.’ “Nikki Haley, Trump’s U.N. ambassador who said last year she wouldn’t run if her former boss did, has apparently changed her mind. She used her Saturday evening speech here to say she was looking at running in a ‘serious way,’ and to call for ‘a younger generation to lead across the board.’ … “‘He’s not going to have the financial support he had anymore, he’s not going to have the internal support that he had before,’ said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, whose state hosts the first-in-the-nation GOP primary. ‘And so therefore, there’s opportunity there. That political weakness is blood in the water for some folks.’” Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host and Senior Editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's Playbook editor Mike Debonis. Something a little different today to start the week.

0:06.2

Playbook deputy editor, Zach Stanton is here for today's Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:15.8

Okay, Zach, you are joining us from the frigid shores of Lake St. Clair in Macomb County, Michigan.

0:22.2

Indeed.

0:23.3

Let's talk about a place where the weather's probably a little bit better, Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:28.8

This past weekend, the Republican Jewish Coalition had its annual meeting in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel, the house that Sheldon Adelson built.

0:38.8

This was basically the I'm Not Trump Republican primary beauty contest.

0:43.4

We had a whole raft of potential Republican presidential candidates show up and basically give various spins on the same message, which is, even though Donald Trump

0:57.0

may have entered this race earlier this week or last week, this is not fade accompli.

1:02.7

There is going to be a legit Republican primary, and they all sort of made their cases, why they

1:10.5

should be taken seriously. And what did you

1:13.1

make of it, Zach? Well, it's really interesting. You know, there's this full spectrum among the

1:17.8

prospective 2024 candidates, this spectrum of their willingness to actually talk about Trump

1:23.4

by name. You know, some of them, like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, sort of obliquely talked about him.

1:30.6

You know, Nikki Haley talked about the need for a new generation of leadership. And Pompeo talked

1:36.2

about, you know, this need on Republicans' parts to start winning again and that we needed to move

1:43.5

past celebrity as a party and push conservative

1:47.2

ideas. You know, we Republicans need to do this. And then on the sort of the other end of the

1:52.0

spectrum, you had Chris Christie, who was pretty willing to take on Trump by name, you know,

1:58.1

said that just straight up said that we keep losing and losing, and the

2:02.8

reason we're losing is because Donald Trump has put himself before everybody else. So those are

2:07.8

the two ends of the spectrum, more or less. And one of those candidates in between them is Ron DeSantis,

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