the white house is excited about. there s no way they can be quited about thquite excited about this. you look at this poll, and trump has done absolutely nothing to change the opinion of people in a positive direction from the day he came into office. the trajectory is not good. and, you know, he has obviously doubled down on this base strategy, but independents matter, and you look at this poll, and you can see that he s not moving them into his camp. yeah. i mean, david, i m wondering if on the democratic side, if they look at this poll and if that has any message for the democratic party about what sort of a candidate i mean the fact that the number among independents is so low, does that make democrats start to think, you know, we need to pick somebody who is going to be able to pick up those independents? you know, it s an interesting question. i don t know that voters make those kinds of strategic decisions. there is a focus on who can beat trump. i don t know if they get
said, these are not numbers that the white house is excited about. there s no way they can be excited about this. you look at this poll, and trump has done absolutely nothing to change the opinion of people in a positive direction from the day he came into office. the trajectory is not good. and, you know, he has obviously doubled down on this base strategy, but independents matter, and you look at this poll, and you can see that he s not moving them into his camp. yeah. i mean, david, i m wondering if on the democratic side, if they look at this poll and if that has any message for the democratic party about what sort of a candidate i mean the fact that the number among independents is so low, does that make democrats start to think, you know, we need to pick somebody who is going to be able to pick up those independents? you know, it s an interesting question. i don t know that voters make those kinds of strategic decisions. there is a focus on who can beat trump. i don t know
indicate what might be happening in 2020. explain. i think what this election could potentially show us for 2020 is if the president s campaign strategy of doubling down on a base strategy only seeking to bring in the true believers within the republican party, if that strategy does not play well in suburban north carolina, then i think that there are some real questions that republicans are going to have to ask if they re going to seek to try and regain the house majority come 2020. along with the president s chances here in a very competitive battleground north carolina. so if this race is not won, by the republican, then does that mean the president can t necessarily grow his base in the ninth district? i don t think the president can grow his base and i don t think we need this particular special election to tell us that. but what i will say is that the
the nra point. precisely. but what could be different now is that the nra that he has been, you know, sort of frankly bowing to since parkland is a little bit weaker, a lot weaker on its leadership level. the grassroots is a different thing. but weaker and chaotic on a leadership level which given the president sees as a potential sign of weakness. that is the only different dynamic. interesting. but we also know from reporting that the white house aides in the white house commissioned a poll and found most of these measures would have no impact on the president s base. this is a base strategy in the election. he s reactive to the needs of his base. you have to wonder if the president does not see this as resonating with the people who he believes will put him back in office, you know, a year-plus from now whether he s going to put his neck out to do it. yep. dana, other news.
long-promised border wall. the move, which was authorized by defense secretary mark esper will impact 127 different construction projects. officials say half of that money will come from planned international projects and the other half f. needed, would come from the domestic side. senate minority sleerd chuck schumer said some of money would come from construction and maintenance money from the u.s. academy at west point. so could donald trump win without the call? the answer must be no to steal from fema during hurricane season and the military. i think the question isn t i think donald trump thinks he can t win without the wall. it s been tall iz matek for him for a long time. his campaign has been a base strategy trying to get a minority of the popular vote to get enthusiastic enough he can win by walking the narrow electoral college path and he