the president talks about rej t rejecting the warnings of the republican that they could lose the house, it says, quote, if mr. mcconnell s warning was not enough, mark short, the white house s legislative liaison, used the denver inner to offer starker assessment. the gop s house majority is all but doomed, he said, but mr. trump was not not going to happen, he said at different points during the evening, shrugging off the grim prognosis according to multiple fisk mult department of the republican challenges in what is likely to be a punishing campaign year. congresswoman, do you think the president doesn t understand how his presidency has possibly motivated his opponents to head to the polls in november? i would encourage the president to maintain that