Michael Steele

He did what the president didn't do last week and that was to prosecute the Obama-Biden administration on a number of fronts.

The one thing about Pence, knowing him as I do and having worked with him... is killer in a debate because it pulls you into conversations that has nothing to do with the question that is asked.

You still need to prosecute the case. You still need to make the case to the American people about why the direction of the country matters and why who's leading that direction, to Chairman Dean's point, also matters.

I'm telling you, Joy, America emphasis not the America of 2009 and 2012, it is the America of Trump and 2016, and there's a lot more votes there for picking for Trump than you believe or may want to believe.

Well, I think there's validity to the point you just made, but I also think you have to look at it from the calculation of the Trump campaign and the RNC, and they see Judge Barrett as someone who will also galvanize the right for them.

It strikes me as very shortsighted politically.

The notion that the rest of the world is looking at us and saying, you know, that they think this is third world, you know, operation going on, well, this is what -- when you're a puppet of Putin, this is what it looks like.

I think the Biden campaign and the Democrats need to be smart about how they approach this nominee and how they narrate around it.

The pro-life community has waited for this moment, and I can attest to this with a lot of truth for 30 plus years.

The objective now as McConnell has made clear from the very beginning, was to put a conservative on the judiciary and every vacancy at every opportunity, and this vacancy presents that opportunity.

This is a clean slate. So I think everybody has to understand politically how Republicans are looking at this.

The only thing we've got left to do is vote. The only thing we've got left now to do is vote.

You know he's not a real president, right? You know that, because a real president wouldn't do this. A real president would care a little bit more about his people.

The tie goes to the incumbent.

America at this point, you have a stark choice in the face of everything that's going on.

You could live your whole life and not hear a president without a sense of stewardship over the country.

There is a positive political strategy to actually being out in public right now.

That's pretty strong language. I mean, that -- look, you you're calling out the president of the United States for being weak and scared on something that is very obvious, where you should not show weakness, nor be scared.

When he looked at us and he said, you know, why -- you know, we love America. Why can't America love us back?

This was a defining step and we hope that the other sports franchises and owners and players around the United States take note of this moment.

This is a war of attrition and deluge. They want you to flip out over what they're doing to our national monuments and how they're staging the white house grounds, because that is energy -- by the time you get into the game you're tired…

They see two different Americas. And I guess a little bit in response to Claire's point, Claire, they really don't want to do anything more than just focus on these two visions of America.

And I want to stand with my country on that principle right through this November election. And while I'm at it, get you behind that folks, get your absentee ballot and start voting, because that's where this thing will come to its head.

Do we really think it's OK to put kids in cages? Do we really believe it's OK to look at 170,000 dead Americans died because of miscalculations and bad policy decisions and say, well, it is what it is?

At some point, we as a citizen, have to confront our own truth about ourselves and the kind of leaders who are sensibly, Brian, we put out there as an extension of ourselves.