he has the president s backing. how decisive that win will tell us about how deep trump s control is in south carolina. that s an important fire wall for him in 2020. ed: absolutely. that may be why mike pence will be in south carolina this weekend. talk about his role in the mid-terms. he s doing the traditional role of vice presidents, rally the base. in this case, he and the president take that in two different pieces. the president s job is to go to minnesota where you have people that are traditional democrat but are trump voters. pence s job is to talk to traditional republicans, the usual republican coalition and saying we re getting the things done that you want, even if you have discomfort with the way the president does it, we re achieving policy ames and this is a conservative administration. ed: thanks, chris. have a good weekend. american military pilots reportedly target by lasers over
general election where you have a multiplicity of seats you have to focus on. now you talk about the money that s been sunk into this, charlie, the money spent by the rnc, that s a good amount that they re sinking into this candidate that many say isn t as strong. some members of the gop already slamming him. what is the strategy when it comes to putting money behind. they are clearly sinking a huge amount of resources trying to push him over the finish line. we re not seeing that much money come from the national democratic controlled fund raised for by nancy pelosi who conor lamb distanced himself from. it s just i think clearly the republicans don t want the take away headline that in deep trump country a seat got flipped even if it won t have that much significance on the ground in congresss the next fau months. they want to suppress the mouning enthusiasm among the democratic base and whip up some degree of enthusiasm among republicaning heading into what
we see and the alt-right is a lot of very public criticism from some of the president s strongest supporters alex jones and others complaining about that military action. we ll there s this irony in that donald trump ran for president not as an ideologue. he was pretty clear during the campaign he was willing to be flexible on a lot of policy positions particularly some of his more controversial ones he put out as a candidate. now he comes into office and problems he is flexible when it comes to foreign policy at least military action in syria. and yet, you are seeing a really harsh response from some of his really core supporters who have a lot of influence and have a big voice. and he had feel betrayed like this is exactly the kind of action that they would have opposed op his part if he were a candidate, pushing the u.s. deeper into a really intractable and stubborn conflict in the middle east. we don t know the how deep trump