wouldn t have that s the wedge. he wouldn t have the wedge. so i can t be as optimistic as you are that anything is going to get done. as long as donald trump is president, on immigration. what those numbers don t yet tell us is who connected with independents? i think we re going to talk a lot about that tonight. democrats connected with their case, republicans with their base, but there are a lot of independents. the immigration number to me isn t about whether or not it works. it says that donald trump drowned out every republican candidate s message because the republican candidates didn t lead donald trump to a message about immigration. the midterm candidates running under the banner of republicans didn t choose to run on immigration, they followed donald trump there. the democratic candidates running in midterms chose to run on health care, and their surrogates who are normal, like former president obama, biden, followed they said on their issues. the difference on imxwracti
i think scott walker s victory in the recall indicated that, but you still have to give obama the edge there. tony, what about the latest news, do you think gop strategists right now are feverishly crunching the numbers on the president s immigration number and what this means for the hispanic vote? it s tough. i ve been talking to some of your former earlier guests on the show about this, too. a lot of us will be talking about it for a while. i think it was an important announce. a good strategic move by the president, but in a way it represents or reminds for a lot of hispanic voters also how let down they have been with the president on this particular issue. the president back in 2008 made a lot of promises to the hispanic community that he would go strongly for comprehensive immigration reform. he has not used any political capital over the past three-and-a-half years to try to get that done. they recognize this and are happy with this announcement. a lot of us who are