Chuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Decline Is Obvious…But Republicans Refuse To Acknowledge It + The 60 Minutes Story Isn’t About Scott Pelley… It’s About The Ellisons

About this episode

Chuck Todd discusses the visible decline of Donald Trump and the Republican Party's refusal to acknowledge it, while also previewing upcoming primaries in Maine and South Carolina.

Chuck Todd opens with an uncomfortable truth Republicans are doing everything possible to avoid acknowledging: Trump turns 80 next week, his physical and mental decline is increasingly visible to anyone paying attention, and the GOP is now repeating exactly the same mistake Democrats made by ignoring Joe Biden's obvious deterioration. The cruelest irony: Trump literally built his entire 2024 campaign on the premise that his opponent was too old and too sleepy to do the job, but Biden's catastrophic debate finally broke the Democratic silence in a way the GOP shows no signs of replicating. Chuck argues Trump's behavior isn't unusual for an 80-year-old — it's deeply unusual for an American president. He warns that Senate Republicans made an enormous mistake by not killing the weaponization fund, that every GOP incumbent up for reelection is now vulnerable to extremely effective attack ads, and that acting DNI Bill Pulte is almost certainly holding that position illegally — the courts will probably step in to declare him ineligible. He previews Tuesday's primaries in Maine and South Carolina, where Lindsey Graham looks genuinely vulnerable, and notes that if Graham gets…

People in this episode

Host: Chuck Todd

Topics covered

• Trump's decline
• Republican Party
• 2024 campaign
• political commentary
• Maine primaries
• South Carolina primaries
• election vulnerabilities

Keywords

• Trump
• Republicans
• Biden
• Lindsey Graham
• Janet Mills
• politics
• 2024 election
• decline
• primaries
• commentary

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Organizations: GOP, Democrats, 60 Minutes, iHeartPodcasts

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