donations came in before he began pushing cuts to the social security, medicare, medicaid benefits we depend on. he will lose million ins donations and millions of volunteer hours from people who once passionately supported him. two things about that, no evidence president was pushing any such cuts. according to mitch mcconnell s own account was the president was sitting there faking some kind of possible agreement that he never reached on those things. but what do you make of adam s point in general? guantanamo, public option, all those things were already present in our politics and had already been used as predictors for a weaker base of support. this is the closest thing we re seeing on the left to a pledge or grover norquist style accountability movement. i think it s an interesting tactic. i interviewed adam today as well, but i think it s misplaced to argue in the face of these numbers that there s a significant that s tens of thousands of grassroots donors
they believe he can effectively turn this into a cause. because of all of the pressure that s been put on him, all of the criticism from an extreme number of elected officials and conservative voices that he can now become a figure for grassroots activism, that he can be an inspiring figure, they say, and they believe he can even win this race and he would look back on this experience as a blessing to help him fight for the causes he believes in. that gives you a sense of some of the conversations that are happening around congressman akin, as he tries to plan a way forward. they say he s not stressed by all of the criticism, because he had not been given the support of the party anyway. he does acknowledge he needs money, hopes donors who might support his views, grassroots donors would help him, saying publicly they re ignoring all headwinds against him. they say the only deadline that counts is november. kelly, thank you. joining me now, nationally ci y