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one, the pure matter of succession. obviously, mitch mcconnell will turn 80 in february. it is widely assumed he will not be in that spot more than the next couple of years. who is going to take over for mcconnell? mainstream conservatives like john thune, do they still want to serve in the congress with president trump as defacto leader of the gop. john, if he does not run again and retires at the age of 60, on the precipice of potentially being a leader, that s an extraordinary choice and would say a lot about the quality of life of serving in congress. and serving in congress with president trump constantly in the shadows. if you just look at recent history, you can go back to 2018. there s now a long roster of mainstream conservatives who have retired rather than faced trump-backed primary. bob corker and jeff flake in 2018 through a longer list
appeals court justices, massive tax cut, massive tax reform and we haven t talked about the bipartisan prison reform on monday, the farm bill on tuesday, jerusalem embassy. he has a long list of accomplishments, but he does always seem to step on his story. and in foreign policy, the massive rebuild is good if you keep secretary pompeo and ambassador john bolton in the room and listen to them. he has a great national security team. he ll get a new good secretary of defense. julian castro, he can t be donald trump. i ll take any bet anybody wants to make, he could not beat donald trump. they re not big enough. they have to go after a long list of achievements and a huge personality. but i go back to can the president keep you know, how much more patience does do sort of mainstream conservatives have? i think mainstream conservatives and far right conservatives, you can see their patience waning thin this week. you had rush limbaugh saying the president s caving. you had laura in
now it s mainstream conservatives. they re all gone and they re not coming back. the path to 2020 now goes through the small town rural america vote which he believes that the wall is a thing to get them motivated on this. but if there s no wall at the end of the day and nothing and he s not selling the other parts of his message because he s so focused on i got to get this done, then what does he have to sell in 2020 to those voters who want to keep voting for him? there is a big picture reminder. this is the end of the republican house. yeah. they came in with a near budget shutdown in the first 100 days, joshua. they leave after three shutdown this year. they ousted a speaker in the middle. in many ways, donald trump is the you could argue, the freedom caucus president. in a way. and this is what it s gotten us. failed to repeal and replace the affordable care act on day one. that changed a little bit. it s still in place. i am beginning to and i think the wall is a se