it s probably not coming. he is offering sort of a on r a smorgs board of options for folks to try to appeal to his base on all of the factors from the economy to health care to immigration. although he did say yesterday that he doesn t really want to talk about the economy because he said it s not as kpielgt. it s boring. i believe, scott. would you rather him be talking about the economy, or would you rather him be firing at people talking about immigration and really speaking mistruths about the issue? well, i mean, the economy is amazing, and i think it s thanks to republican policies that he signed into law. i mean, if you pick up any newspaper in the english-speaking world today, there s, like, five paragraphs about this wage growth and job growth that look like they were written by republican ad makers. if i were running a campaign right now, i would be grabbing those things, sticking them out there and saying don t take my word for it. look what the news media is saying
legal significance. every time they talk about this they are talking about the 2016 election. and so we don t want to talk about the 2016 election. we work here, the president is focused on the 2018 election assembling a team for 2020 but every single day he is passing things that help american lives. sandra: instead of helping americans right now she says the democrats are focusing on 2016. what do you think, brad, does she have a point? no, not at all. this reminds me of what she says in the beginning of the add min traition that they have an alternative set of facts. i have met with dozens of candidates, campaigns, elected officials, democratic pollsters, ad makers. democrats are focused on the issues going into the 2018. sandra: what s the message? i ll tell you what they are focused on. the fact that the president has
he doesn t grow his base. hit doesn t shrink particularly, becau but it s not a great place to be. doesn t seem to impact on him. i don t know what he responds to. i do wonder whether some of the things in the last week that have seemed particularly strange are a result of some of the hoof beats of these investigations, you know, louder in his ears is. but, by and large, you know, now, on the tax thing, i have a particular view on this, which is, it s a little bit like roy moore. the republicans may win the roy moore race in alabama. i suspect they will, but i m not sure that s a gift they want. this tax bill is something that the you know, the republican donors, big corporate donors, wealthy donors want. i think politically, it s a gift to democratic ad makers in 2018, because it so plays to the stereotype of the republican party, as a party that creators to t
things in the last week that have seemed particularly strange are a result of some of the hoof beats of these investigations, you know, louder in his ears. but by and large, you know now, on the tax thing, i have a particular view on this, which is, it s a little bit like roy moore. the republicans may win the roy moore race in alabama. i suspect they will, but i m not sure that s a gift they want. this tax bill is something that the you know, the republican donors, big corporate donors, wealthy donors want. i think politically, it s a gift to democratic ad makers in 2018, because it so plays to the stereotype of the republican party as a party that caters to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and who elected someone who was accused of, right yeah, exactly. i mean, he s this bill helps does not help the people who donald trump who donald trump drew his greatest
maintain the high wire act that abby is talking about. also allows them to say, look, we re moving this forward, we passed this, we re doing the best we can. this has been i have to say, i mean, i m embarrassed for these people. you should be. this has been an absolutely abysmal performance here. seven years of saying they were going to do this. just give us the house. they get the house. give us the senate. they got the senate. gave us the white house. they got them all now. this is what s going on? this is atrocious political behavior here. and i just i just think they ve lost their backbone here. and if the skinny bill does become law which we talked about how there is definitely a possibility that becomes law, there are so many awful quotes from today s press conference, democratic ad makers are already writing these ads. they re going to urge if republicans pass this bill or anything else that repeals and replaces obamacare that has millions of people losing their he