he could have struck these deals, and again, the enduring mystery is why does he choose the 37% when he could get 50%. i ve been asking that question from january the 20th, 2017. i ask it again. i brought up, he could have had an immigration deal, gotten over $20 billion for his wall. supported a dreamers fix that 75% of americans supported and boom, his full numbers would have gone up, chose not to. listen to steven miller, stayed down. i don t have a ground unified field theory of the trump psyche. when trump decided to become a political figure, the first thing he did was run a racist campaign to delegitimize the first african-american president. he got convinced that the donald trump who was a pragmatic deal
half of the time we were like had our mouths wide open, just staring at the spectacle before us and the other half of the time we were like when s this campaign going to collapse? it s teetering on the brink of collapse, of course it never did. four years later, i think if you re a showman like donald trump, if you re the pt barnham of american politics, the greatest show on earth, you can afford to be many things but the one thing you can t afford to be is dull and predictable and i think 12 minutes in, that s the bigger point here this morning. what are your thoughts as you sit in, well, as you report from one of the most important states in america going into the 2020 campaign? you know, i m back to where i was four years ago. this is a guy in an era of celebrity, in an era of grievance when voters are agreed the secret to his success is he
group of select committee members, my best messengers, my best politicians and staff them up with pollsters, focus group runners, message makers, lawyers who can run the same kind of compartmentalized campaign, and same kind of politically ruthless campaign as bill clinton did from the white house, a campaign that, to your point mika would illustrate for american voters what it is the president did, while the rest of the house and the rest of the democratic party, including the presidential candidates are focussed on the people s business. in effect, it s flipping the script, donald trump played newt gingrich s role, a guy worried about himself, and filled with grievances, that was his problem. do as the first article in the constitution. helping the public understand what s going on is one challenge, and it is a challenge in the age of the president
hannit sean hannity. it is the same black guy. but for the 2020 signs, that was his 2016 campaign, which explains why the times and others reporting at the end there were empty seats. people have heard this. it was just old. he has nothing new to offer after hundreds and hundreds of rallies. three hours later, i can understand, 3 1/2 hours later, i can understand folks walking out. folks still bought tickets to elvis when he was old and sweating because he was elvis. it was entertainment. and for the free drinks. what i m saying is that even though it s old and repeated, we heard a lot of screaming, a lot of yelling, a lot of excitement. folks were there. ron is also here with us. good morning. an elvis impersonator. i would say let s restore