lincoln to change his mind. word is leaked that the president is going to make a big announcement about emancipation. but frederick douglass isn t sure of that. he continues to doubt lincoln s resolve for the cause. mr. president is anything the matter? i just need a moment. the emancipation proclamation is the result of a nearly two-year-long battle to define what the civil war means to the soldiers in uniform to over 3 million enslaved african-americans, and to lincoln himself. when lincoln takes office, he tries to prevent the looming civil war by reaffirming his belief in the south s constitutional right
this is a party who isn t sure who it is and what it s about yet. they have a lot of unresolved issues from 2016. they have a bunch of good candidates and a favorable landscape, politically, from the retirements. but this is not a party who has figured out who it is today and who leads it. its party machinery is weak. its great fund-raising is all in the hands of some candidates, not the party. so it s not clear that voters are sure who the democrats are and why they should vote for them yet. and john heilemann, we ve heard about trends, of the party pow in power in the white house always loses, but not always the case. and also, one of the most consistent trends in modern american politics is americans like divided government. and so, you would think that the democrats would be doing much better than they are right now. i don t want to dismiss the poll that they obviously still have a lead in a generic ballot. but there are a couple of rallies here. one is, historically thinking,
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and that will continue that way unless and until that base erodes. i want to get to your response on this, mark, but let me just read this quote to you. it s from the new york times. he made a cutting observation about the republican party today in the wake of jeff flake s announcement. there is no room for flake, but there s room for a man who isn t sure if gay people should be executed. he s talking about roy moore, the alabama candidate for senate who talked about punishing gays by death. where do you see this party headed? well, it s headed in exactly the direction that donald trump wants it to and steve bannon wants it to, which is to get more roy moors in there. there s a civil war going on in the republican party in a search for its identity. as an example of what happened today and by the way, one of the biggest news events of today
people who are retiring or fighting mortal illnesses. and that s a reflection of his extraordinary popularity among republicans, which sits around 80%. and remember, the first rule of most politicians is to get themselves re-elected. there s an awful lot of fear in the republican party and in the republican base about taking trump on. so for those establishment republicans who want to survive, they seem to be more and more to be making the decision that it s better to join than fight. and that will continue that way unless and until that base erodes. i want to get to your response on this, mark, but let me just read this quote to you. it s from the new york times. he made a cutting observation about the republican party today in the wake of jeff flake s announce. there is no room for flake, but there s room for a man who isn t sure if gay people should be