wouldn't have -- that's the wedge. he wouldn't have the wedge. so i can't be as optimistic as you are that anything is going to get done. as long as donald trump is president, on immigration. what those numbers don't yet tell us is who connected with independents? i think we're going to talk a lot about that tonight. democrats connected with their case, republicans with their base, but there are a lot of independents. >> the immigration number to me isn't about whether or not it works. it says that donald trump drowned out every republican candidate's message because the republican candidates didn't lead donald trump to a message about immigration. the midterm candidates running under the banner of republicans didn't choose to run on immigration, they followed donald trump there. the democratic candidates running in midterms chose to run on health care, and their surrogates who are normal, like former president obama, biden, followed they said on their issues. the difference on imxwraction is this is not something republicans running for congress chose to run on, this is something trump drowned out