even seniors which has become a base vote. it s the democrats that are up four and among all white voters, only down two. that s why it doesn t look like a couple of good economic quarters change things. that s the best thing republicans could have going for them is robust growth to take the edge off of this, but my fear is that this isn t a condition s based reaction, it s not an agenda-based reaction so much. it is a profound personal reaction to trump himself. and there is no way to change that. the white house says the opposite. they say that candidates are knocking down their doors to get an endorsement from president trump and he s eager to get out by the way, there probably are some candidates knocking on their doors for an endorsement. their door is not being answered when they knock on mitch mcconnell s. that s right. they look at ed gillespie and say he tried to walk a fine line and it backfired. the white house saying you should embrace trump. we saw that that does
and to your point, does bannon take a look at that race and say hey, it was the candidate? no, he says we need to work harder. we re now emboldened, energized, we know what we need to do in the next race. i think the challenge is he obviously divides resources and messaging and continues to have this internal war. go back to 2008 when barack obama won. this so radicalized, i mean, the conservatives, republicans despised him so much that it effectively radicalized a large element of the republican party, i think it led to the tea party movement. it ultimately led to the election of donald trump. but it led to the this nomination or this attraction of these exotic candidates that are just more exotic than can win general elections. and i think republicans are paying a price. and if i were democrats, i would worry about the loathing that they have for president trump, whether it radicalizes an element of the democratic party and we start seeing that happening in coming years. well,
support for mr. trump. trump junior replied, if it s what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer, and set up the meeting. after yet another primary victory four days later, candidate trump made this promise. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. on june 8th, trump junior forwarded the e-mail to jared kushner and paul man fort. on june 9th, they met with the women, and a russian lobbyist and a man who worked for a russian billionaire and was the subject of a federal report on foreign money moving through u.s. banks and a russian translat translator. weeks later, trump denied it. what s happening with the
on thoughtfulness, right, but he was not boring. but we hadn t had a donald trump before either. has he changed the game? let me close with this. i think trump will get a primary challenge just for the sport of it. the question is who is the most effective primary challenger to a trump? rich, let s start with you. this is what national review may be covering a lot of. yeah, it s really hard to see how this would work unless trump totally craters, otherwise, you ll get some symbolic challenge from someone like john kasich who if you ve got 25, 30% in places, but if you ran against him at this juncture, he wouldn t even win ohio. you don t buy ben sass, mitt romney? ben sass or mitt romney will be the two names that would come up. mitt romney probably has a better chance because he s done it before, he knows the access to the money and he has more name recognition, but it s a tough call. it is. somebody s going to do it just for the coverage. i think jeff flake could be i
an trump playbook. i spoke with the democratic strategist who said we re looking at a tidal wave. and i said, wait a minute, don t you run the risk of overplaying your hand? if you go into 2018 with that type of thinking. i think that s the real concern. the economy is a big unknown. that could i think shift the outlook. you know what s interesting is that you look historically and there s this very clear pattern. i mean, all but three midterm elections since the end of the civil war, but we re now seeing a more explosiveness. i mean, the last six midterm elections, either the house or the senate or both have flipped in four that hasn t happened in 100 years. yeah, yeah, yeah, and so it s people are voting, it s not more parliamentary, but it s more by party and we re seeing big, big explosive results and that s got to be scary for republicans. katty, the challenge for democrats, on the senate side at least, is the red state democrats. and you could argue, how they handle r