different from president trump if he was elected to the senate. the most rank-and-file house members are sticking with the president because they're not sure where their voters are unless they get the trump support and trump base. >> george will, you and i, at least, are old enough to remember -- i guess i'll throw howard dean in on this one as well. >> definitely. >> what happened to the republican party in california when they went for the short term win with pete wilson. it's like somebody dropped a political neutron bomb on the state and there haven't been republican elected leaders since unless you talk about arnold schwarzenegger for a couple years. what is the long-term impact of this for reagan's party? for lincoln's party? >> well, tip o'neill tunnel famously said all politics is local but as the years roll by that becomes decreasingly true and this year i think it is