politician. a candidate like tulsi gabbard is somewhat interesting. leland: the daily beast said, the favorite democrat announces for 2020, was there headline, but she s been unique how she s gone after the president, even for a democrat. uniquely tough. we ll put what of her tweet we can put up on the screen when she talked about how president trump being saudi arabia s i won t use this word is not america first. that resonates in a way with a certain group of democrats, but it has a little bit of crossover appeal and rand paul says the same thing. that s true and even in the language, you see democrats trying to play donald trump. the trouble is that you can t play donald trump. there s only one and he s an american original. it hasn t worked out for other candidates when they ve tried. right now the democrats have an intersection problem, an ideology opposed in all ways to
americans didn t like him. nonetheless, preferred him to the alternative. he may be gambling on that, the idea that, look, people may only have 33% support for certain policies of mine, but let s see who the democrats put up. let s make nancy pelosi, these other guys the enemy. donald trump does not view this in a conventional way. he views this as my supporters sent me here to do something. if anything the wall is the clearest campaign promise he made. if he doesn t do that the idea he would not have won over the middle and his base would fall out is the primary concern. i think you saw in the midterms how badly it turned out to be the party of trump s base without that crossover appeal. i think trump is assuming when my name is on the ballot i want my supporters to know that means
overwhelming your schools, depleting your resources and endangering your community. let s bring in susan dell parsio, msnbc political analyst. susan you were listening to vaughn in arizona, the two candidates on opposite sides of the aisle but together, and that might be the most, if you will, bipartisan campaign we have seen. which is shocking. if i can use that word. what does that mean for issues related to immigration, that s important in a state like arizona. latinos an important conversation. it depends how you look at it. campaigns are looking at internal polls. they are looking to see where we are, and who else can we get. if you re a republican in a reddish state right now, you re seeing that you don t have the appeal to get across, you don t have the crossover appeal. so you re going to go to your base and what drives your base,
susan is exactly right. what you re seeing right now is the fact that donald trump is campaigning around the concerned in deep red areas where he can generate support among his base, some of whom may not come out for the midterm election, so he s going to them, trying to, you know, deliver red meat to those people, but by doing so, he s alienating independents, he s alienating moderate republicans who are going to our democrats. we just saw that man interviewed there. there s a lot of folks like that in arizona, and the more that donald trump digs in on some of these immigration issues, the more he turns off independent and potential swing voters. there is one group no one is talking about that donald trump does appeal to in his base, and that s people who are sick of washington. they could be democrats, and they voted for donald trump because they don t like left or right, and it s hard to get them to vote for anybody but a presidential candidate like donald trump. so he s tryin
go democratic. so this is new terrain for anyone following texas politics. the joke is he has a bigger national following than a texas following. but he has a big texas following too. what representative o rourk is inspected voters and the question is how many of those he can get out to vote. because texas as you know, it s a very red state, it s a very conservative state so he s really got to have some cross over appeal. are there swing voters or is this a margin race, or is it all about running up the margin where is he s going to be strong and hope they can tamp down the enthusiasm. these are people who either never vote or only vote in the