other republican members of congress that have weighed in on this. so i think he may not ultimately abandon send them back, go back thing, but the fixture of his messaging is going to be the anti-american thing. it s really two sides of the same coin. the washington post aaron blake, thank you very much, sir. as the president shores up his base for 2020, new analysis shows he could lose by 5 million votes, and still win re-election. all thanks, of course, to the electoral college. let s rewind the 2016. we have three great lake states helped push then candidate trump to victory over hillary clinton. that s, of course, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. three states he won by less than a point. as the cook political reports, david wasserman points out all three of these ageing relatively white states have some of the nation s highest shares of groups without college degrees. the group trending away from democrats over the long term.
press to show how far he was behind seems to be an attempt to shake the president awake saying you can t just sit back and expect the same base to re-elect you in 2020. it seems to be sending a message to the president. perhaps he isn t taking serious enough the polling. i don t know what happened in the room. but there seems to be a concerted effort to send a message to the president maybe they should take the democrats seriously going forward. is even hearing it? wake-up call, john? what do you think? i m sure there s some of that. i think what tal says is quite appropriate. i have to emphasize these polls are more than a wake-up call. they re pretty devastating numbers. we can get excited about a close race in texas or even good numbers out of florida. but remember that for donald trump, the key is the great lake states. and what he s telling us
appeal to people in the middle, he can beat donald trump. so, selena, for biden, will it be, you know, policy, or will it be his personality that allows him to appeal to a wider range, a more diversified range of voters, or both? yeah. i think well, i think joe is right. he wasn t trying to portray himself as inevitable, but i think he was trying to portray himself as electable. that is a unifying thing among democrats. who is the most electable against donald trump? i think that was his first sort of rollout of making that case. i think you re also going to not see him trying to box himself in too much, on too far left. i think that will be difficult for him in those again, those great lake states that i talk about, as well as north carolina and florida. those are the states we kind of sort of have to watch. we have to watch on where his
issues. ohio senator sherrod brown on a three-day visit to iowa exploring a presidential bid. he is urging democrats to consider geographic diversity. do you think your party need a candidate from the middle of the country to beat donald trump? i think that our party needs to nominate somebody that can win the industrial midwest, the heart land, the great lake states. the plains states from pennsylvania to iowa. jeff joins me now the brown was asked about another 2020 hopeful and didn t have the kindest of words. what happened? reporter: one person weighing heavy over all of this race is howard schultz, the ceo of starbucks. a voter was talking about howard schultz.
to nominate somebody that can win the industrial midwest, the heart land, the great lake states. the plains states from pennsylvania to iowa. jeff joins me now the brown was asked about another 2020 hopeful and didn t have the kindest of words. what happened? reporter: one person weighing heavy over all of this race is howard schultz, the ceo of starbucks. a voter was talking about howard schultz. listen to how senator brown answered. reporter: an idiot on not. i don t know if you could hear that. clearly a sense of frustration among democrats that they