and when you when he gets out more with noncollege educated white people, doesn t do as well. and not doing well with the hispanic community. that s probably his biggest problem. i talked to a democratic pollster this morning. you know, it s not going to be the presidential turnout. can beto o rourke generator a presidential type turnout among voters and younger voters? i guess i was in texas for one day. these annetecdotes are worth wh you re paying for them. it is kind of amazing. feels obama-like of t. to see the activity going on around betto. i don t rule out an upset. democrats have shown they are turn enthusiasm into very competent, get out the vote efforts. so that is part of the calculus, as well. not just enthusiasm. although kirsten points out, the latest poll had ted cruz
this is a solution looking for a problem. there is no problem with legal immigration. in fact donald trump during the campaign said that he didn t want to stop legal immigration. so this is just this is just something that he s doing to appeal to his base. people who are nativists. he just said he didn t want to lower it. he s looking for an issue because he hasn t had one that he can succeed on with his base, as kirsten points out. most of congress is trying to figure out what to do with 11 million illegal immigrants into this country, and there is legislation proposed about legal immigration, but there are lots of republicans i would argue who aren t who aren t interested in this particular approach. i mean jeff flake just told you before that he believes in a certain merit-based immigration but he doesn t want to hurt the economy. there are economists who are saying why would you do this? we have 4.4% unemployment. if you keep these people from coming into this country, you
even true what he was saying. but kirsten, just to clarify, you re saying, to borrow from stephen s argument, that if, say, a million people were allowed in, that is not nativist, but it s nativist if 900,000 were in or 800,000? how did i say that? that was in the clip earlier, where he got into this back and forth with jim about how many people come in and where do you draw the line and what is nativist. what s nativist about it is this is a solution looking for a problem. there is no problem with legal immigration. in fact donald trump during the campaign said that he didn t want to stop legal immigration. so this is just this is just something that he s doing to appeal to his base. people who are nativists. he just said he didn t want to lower it. he s looking for an issue because he hasn t had one that he can succeed on with his base, as kirsten points out. most of congress is trying to figure out what to do with 11
you mean to visit? to visit. all right. i think the president s in iowa. he s running again. he s got a fund-raiser next week. i know as a woman candidate, kirsten, we d love to see her in the oval office, right? paul begala, you the hand slam. in point of fact, trump was not litigated in that special election in georgia. perhaps he should have been. although he had i talked to pollsters who were working that race. he had a 52% approval rating in the very republican district as kirsten points out. they didn t debate russia, didn t debate trump, didn t debate the republican health care bill which is toxic. it s about popular as a yellow jacket in an outhouse. what i do like about the speech, let me start with something good. the president, his side won. he engaged. this is a guy, he s got pretty low approval rating. he tweeted. he did robocalls. i loved president obama. he was very careful to husband his political capital, even though it was much larger than donald trump
definitively, i think, and that is what kellyanne conway clearly wants to do because they understand that right now he has to be kind of slow and steady on he s got one single issue, one single message, he has to drive it home and every time he goes off message, whether it was as kirsten points out, the katy tur callout last night, which i agree with kirsten was uncalled for and terrible and can have consequences in a rally. they need to kind of set him straight and either you believe melania or you don t. he s called out our own sara murray. did you want to jump in on that? it s gotten to the point where in the last two weeks of the campaign we ought to hit the mute button and stop listening on both sides. all of this is just froth. it hasn t changed any realities. people are saying things they don t believe and everybody knows that, on both sides. let s end with the supreme