anything that has hillary on it is automatically going to separate us again. i just think her time is done. i think it s been it s done. we do need something new. do you feel the same way about president obama? should he campaign for yes, he should campaign. he is a great campaigner, he s very beloved and he also has a tremendous connection to all the people that love him. he has a base still and that base is very strong and he has, i think, an authoritative voice against trump that we re going to need in this campaign. wow. there was a lot that s interesting there. you know, first of all, one of the things we hear from iowa voters, highest priority voters, democratic voters is they are in the sampling season and clearly that group of eight people is in the sample season. absolutely, but there s a lot that they like so far. they re cautiously optimistic because they really like the field. what was notable and perhaps frightening to some people is
forever. keep in mind we now know an estimated 3,000 of our fellow americans were killed in had a hurricane, most in its after matt. but trump praised the government s disaster response as, quote, one of the best. he also compared maria to hurricane cath in a calling that storm in which more than 1,800 people died a recan a stast fee. the president managed to get into hurricane maria death toll denial, attack the mayor of an juan and blame the democrats for it all while accusing elected officials without evidence of scamming the federal government and trying to use relief funds to pay off his debt. so what might make a president take a different instinctive tact towards puerto rico, california and the families in lee county, alabama. sad to say it just might be politics. back in november the washington post noted the stark differences, for trump even disaster response is colored in red and blue. trump won alabama by nearly a two to one margin over hillary clinton but lost california
i don t disagree with anything he wrote except for his characterization of trade policy, which i think he s absolutely wrong about. look, if mitt romney was recently elected the senator from arizona or the senator from tennessee, he would not have written this op-ed. he s fortunate to have come from the state of utah, which is very conservative. he enjoys support there, but it s a state that doesn t like trump as much. so he s pretty safe in putting it out there. joe, your thoughts also on mitt romney s op-ed? well, mitt romney of course is going to try to remain a national player and a national spokesperson for republicans who might not be satisfied with the things that the president is doing, so i m not surprised to see this. he s been on both sides of the trump issue. he s been a supporter, and then vocally against trump in the past. i m not surprised. thank you, guys. good to see you all.
much of promises made, promises kept. there is a lot of voters out there who will compartmentalize and say i don t like this guy, i don t like how he expresses himself but i like the stuff that s going on in the country and i think we have to hold out room for those people to show up. for sure. that s the part that we just don t know. this is the wild card. as we ve seen in 2016, wild cards come to play sometimes and so in all the voter panels that i ve done people are torn between exactly what david is saying, is my life better and can i live with the character issues that have made me uncomfortable? and that s the tension that they re voting on today. usually during midterms all politics are local and but the president has tried to nation nationalize the election and make it all about himself. i talked to a voter in florida who doesn t like trump, republican woman and she s looking at the candidates in front of her and doesn t know who to vote for. was just going into this, you
have every right to be african-american conservative. every right to like donald trump if they want to. i have a right to be centrist moderate republican who doesn t like trump who is a never trumper and proudly so. that s what makes our country great. i have no problem them being there and believing what they believe in. we just need to respect the differences and do so in a civil manner. you take on the argument there that the teenagers made and sofia s point there. look, i agree with sofia. we need to have more tolerance for different political viewpoints. at the same time, with all due respect to young african-american teens and young people, i don t understand how an african-american in this country can be like so strongly supportive of donald trump given the fact he is tried to use raci