blame personally, and i assume when he speaks about this tomorrow, he'll echo that statement from the campaign. but we should underscore what a significant loss this is politically for the president. kentucky is not one of those swing states. it's a state that he won handily in 2016 that he's expected to carry with a significant margin in 2020. he flew there last night because he thought he could get bevin over the finish line. that was a rally to get out the vote, to turn out all those trump supporters to vote for the republican incumbent governor, and it was not enough. and so that's an indication that trump's supporters are not necessarily going to follow his lead there and vote for his candidate. that being said, the mcconnell aligned republican nominee for attorney general did prevail. >> yeah. >> down ballot in that state. and bevin, as bob was just saying, is uniquely unpopular there. but it is still a political defeat for the president. >> hey, bob, did we get it about right at the top of the broadcast that the republicans' latest reaction to sondland and