- - CBN Chief PoliticalAnalyst, David Brody,

is here to talk about Trump's speech.

David, Trump didn't rule outa presidential run in 2024,

and he's certainlyvalued as a GOP kingmaker

or a potential presidential candidate.

What's your take on him?

- Yeah, Pat, here's thebottom line on all of this.

You're absolutely right,he didn't rule out in 2024.

As a matter of fact,

he seemed like he wasencouraging it at the end.

And I gotta tell you,

I think Donald Trump will run in 2024.

However, and this is the asterisk,

let's see how the Republicans do in 2022,

and we'll see how muchDonald Trump is kingmaker.

In other words, if he brings his support

behind many of these primary challengers

to an Adam Kinzinger in the House

and other people around the country,

and he does well, in otherwords those candidates do well,

well then, not only is he kingmaker,

but he's kingmaker on steroids.

And I think at that point,

he'll have the lift togo into 2024 to say,

"Don't mess with Trump."

I will say this, one thingto be careful on here, Pat,

is that Donald Trump alsohinted at, not even hinted,

he actually laid out what election reform

needs to look like.

So I'm sure he's looking

at those battlegroundstates again and saying,

"Look, if they don't gettheir Voter ID act together,

if we start to see state bureaucrats,

many of them Democrats,

start to change some of therules at the last moment

on mail-in voting, likeit happened in 2016,"

then he's not gonna sethimself up for failure again

'cause that's what he thinkswent wrong in the first place.

- You know, I went and watched

an interview with Ron DeSantis,the Governor of Florida,

and he seems to be, if youtook Trump out of the picture,

he got the highest number of votes

in those straw ballots at CPAC,

and they say DeSantis and Kristi Noem

would make sort of a dream ticket.

What do you think?

- Well, I think Ron DeSantis

obviously clearly has theear of the party for sure.

He is loved inside, notjust CPAC this weekend,

but that Trump base, they really like him.

And let's think about whatRon DeSantis did here, right?

I mean, he was going alongthe same route regarding COVID

in terms of lockdowns in March and April,

and then all of a sudden, boom!

He changed focus in themiddle of the summer or so,

and said, "Look, we're done.

We're not gonna lock down the State

for the rest of eternity, forthe next year or two years.

We're done and we're going to not have

a state mask mandate,"and all of the such.

So he was able to change course.

You got Greg Abbott in Texas,who has actually doubled down

and done the exactopposite of Ron DeSantis

and has really been hurtquite a bit politically,

and has fallen out of favora bit with Republicans.

So Ron DeSantis actuallychanged course during COVID

and that clearly hashelped him quite a bit.

- You know, it looks like the two most,

I guess you call themblue states or whatever,

New York and California arehaving serious problems.

The governor of New York

has got a sexual allegations against him.

There's a recall in California.

You reckon those two huge Democrat States

could flip a Republican?

- Well, I think, there's clearly problems

for Newsom and Cuomo, both of them.

I think Cuomo may actuallyhave the tougher road,

believe it or not.

Now, first of all, let'sstart with Gavin Newsom

out in California.

I mean, you know about thisrecall petition obviously.

It's gonna have enough signatures

to have some sort of recallvote at some point in the future

to recall Gavin Newsom andboot him out of office.

That's obviously a problem.

But if you look at Andrew Cuomo,

not only the sexualharassment allegations,

which by the way, now themedia can't ignore it.

There are now a couple,

and who knows how many more potentially?

But you know, it's just amazing

that this whole nursing home controversy

that Andrew Cuomo's had to deal with,

you know, that in andof itself seems to be

a bit of a disqualifier.

The problem for Cuomo,unlike Gavin Newsom,

is Newsom still has to supportthe Democrats in California

compared to Andrew Cuomo.

He's losing Democratssupport in his own party.

That's a problem.

That's a storyline to watch out for.

- Last question.

It looks like it might be a beautiful time

for the Republicans to startreally picking up some Houses.

They might flip the House.

What do you think?

- Yeah, they're five or six away.

Kevin McCarthy's promisedat CPAC this weekend

that they would winthe House back in 2022.

And of course,

as Donald Trump said atthe end of his speech,

"If Republicans win the House

and Republicans win the Senate in 2022,

then a Republican president,"as he said, "would return."

That was the word he used.

"Return to come back andwin the White House."

You don't return if youhaven't been there before.

Donald Trump has been there before.

Donald Trump is the kingmakerof the Republican Party,

no doubt about it.

- That's the words ofMacArthur, "I shall return."

David, thank you very much.