general election without joe biden s their best chance for that. the problem he has, and i know you re talking about tulsi gabbard here, but these guys are attacking kamala harris over being a prosecutor, frankly. leland: you and i used to laugh about reagan s 11th commandment in the republican party. if democrats ever had one, it is gone, real gone. it seems as though democrats attacking barack obama, his policies, his legacy is relatively the political equivalent of republicans attacking ronald reagan and saying, gee, he wasn t conservative enough, and he wasn t tough enough on the russians. that s exactly right. that s an excellent comparison. i mean, barack obama is to democrats what ronald reagan was to my party. and the one thing we haven t done is cannibalize reagan yet, nor do i plan to do that. he s still ronald the great. on the democratic side they re already fracturing only three years after the obama
keeps going down this path? i think the implications are sowing the seeds. a bitter harvest. if he keeps going, 20 odd days before the election. there will be a massive amount of finger pointing. and what he is doing now is going to exacerbate the tension and the acrimony ten fold. you saw after mitt romney s loss in 2012. there were divergent schools of thought. he wasn t conservative enough. he didn t have the base. with trump, once again there will be litigation. because the break has happened before the election. the notion that the wagons can circle and there can be a sort of tribal gathering that will result in a new reshaped, better stronger republican party, that is a fallacy at this point. you went to poetry and the big picture.
half. half don t and about half do. and trump right now feels as if he s solidifying that half of the party that had sympathy and good feelings about the tea party from back then. so the question is do they stay with him, can somebody peel him off and, you know, i think that it s the staying power question that still remains unanswered. we re seeing all different types of responses to donald trump. jeb bush has now been playing on trump s field, i would say, trying to show that he is a man of energy after being critiqued as being a low-energy guy. went to virginia today, rolled out the endorsement of eric cantor, the former house that jority leader who lost in a primary because of the immigration issue, because he wasn t conservative enough. our friends at bright bart writing a headline, kiss of death, eric cantor endorses jeb bush. can jeb bush afford to get an endorsement like that in the current makeup?
safe here and all around the world. we re going to pay for this. good morning. welcome back to new day. we start with a political earthquake. really pick your negative metaphor because this was a big deal. one of the country s most powerful, conservative republicans going down in a defeat in a primary. huge. he lost huge. what was his crime? that he wasn t conservative enough. house majority leader eric cantor losing to little known tea party challenger david brat an economics professor in virginia. brat hammered cantor on his push for immigration reform. the headline in the richmond times dispatch says it all, cantor out. what does this mean for the midterm elections and immigration policy going for ward? we have complete coverage and analysis of what is is a huge upset any spis way you want to measure it. let s start with chief congressional correspondent dana bash live in washington.
that is would republicans learn that same lesson that he hadn t been conservative enough despite the fact that on every issue he raised his hand and said no i wouldn t take the 16-1 deal spending cuts to revenue increases. i m for self-deportation. he was as far to the right as you possibly could be. the idea he wasn t conservative enough is sort of bizarre. but that s apparently where glenn beck has taken this. but abby with all the side becking going on, pun intended, david brooks on a more serious side says gop should just completely start over. in his column in new york times today he says people almost never change their unyielding narratives or unconscious frameworks. it s probably futile to try to change current b republicans. it s smarter to build a new wing of the republican party. i really like this idea.