Rachel Maddow looks at the electoral challenge the Republican Party faces with the damaged Donald Trump as their most promising candidate and cartoonishly regressive and unpopular policy achievements, and considers that crashing the economy with a debt default and blaming the fallout on President Biden might appeal to them as a means of clinging to power. ...

President Joe Biden is facing sagging public approval numbers across a host of sectors as he prepares to launch his 2024 reelection campaign. ...