On “Morning Joe” this very a.m., I held up a book. (No, not my new book The Queen, about Hillary Clinton. I am a shameless promoter — going so far as to ask Donald Trump on air to do a plug, which he did.)

It is a book I predicted to Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, John Heilemann and Steve Schmidt would change the arc of the Republican presidential race: Exceptional: Why the World Needs A Powerful America, by former Vice President Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, the veep’s daughter and longtime senior State Department official.