Jim Acosta
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We're blocking this appointment until the end of Trump's term.
But if the Republicans can hang on to the Senate, then Trump can keep adding people to the Supreme Court.
But my sense of it is that if a Democrat gets out on the campaign trail and is not talking about national health care, abolishing ICE and expanding the Supreme Court, they're going to have a really tough time.
It's going to be some tough sledding out there for those candidates.
Because my sense of it, and I had this town hall event at the National Press Club the other day on January 6, celebrating those police officers who defended the Capitol that day, on a day, by the way, when a lot of the national press wasn't really doing much of that.
And I set up my town hall, you know, real president would have these cops over at the White House and put his arm around them and say, thank you for what you did for our country and defending democracy.
But, you know, to me, what you need right now and what I picked up on at that event is that people are pissed.
And I'm not just talking about Democrats.
I'm talking about even some like left-leaning Republicans, centrist Republicans.
People are getting โ they see a woman getting murdered in Minneapolis by the government.
People are starting to lose their shit.
And if you are not talking to those emotions and where people are right now, you're just going to have to โ it's not going to work out for you.
I remember being on the air and saying, do not take medical advice of the president.
And there were people getting poisoned.