This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you from New York.

Today on the program, a Russian-made missile lands in Poland and Biden and she meet for three hours.

I explore what we learn from NATO's would-be crisis and what we can glean from talks between

the world's two most powerful leaders with Richard Haas and Tim Neftali. Also,

is China ready to seize Taiwan? That is the question the reporter Dexter Filkin sought to answer

in a new story for the New Yorker. What did he learn from his trip to the embattled island?

And it's now been more than two months since Mahza Mini died after being arrested by Iran's

morality police. What do we need to know about Iran's Gen Z? The young people leading the protests.

I'll talk to the Atlantic Council's Holly Douglas.

But first, here's my take. It is hardening to see some important Republican figures come out

against Donald Trump. But it's worth noting that many of them embraced him when he proposed a

Muslim ban. Strong armed Ukraine's president was impeached and then tried to overturn an election.

His real sin in their eyes is that now he is losing popularity. However, Trump's slump among

Republicans could change. Imagine that during the 2024 campaign, the Republican party runs a

large and varied field. Ronda Santos, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Larry Hogan,

and Liz Cheney among other possible candidates. Trump would start with a shrunken base but would

generate enormous publicity and would likely win the single largest vote share in the early

primaries. He might not get past 50% of the vote in any state, but most Republican state primary

systems favor the frontrunner. And in state after state, he would just do better than anyone else.

As Ronda Brownstein reminds us, that is how Trump became the presumptive nominee in 2016,

while only garnering around 40% of total votes. Voters did deliver a powerful

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