often how these things are. there s a washington reality and on the ground reality. which is why it s important to talk to voters and party officials. but that doesn t mean people aren t nervous about this because the unknown power of bannon is sort of a an uncertainty and mish mcconnell is radioactive. he could also be gaming the refs early on getting barrasso and deb fisher to think how close do i want to get to mcconnell here. it s something to keep an eye on but it s important to keep the entire scenario in mind. mitch mcconnell has won many more of these than the outside. to your point, if we go back to 2010, a lot of people on the ground in these states didn t understand the tea party was coming either. bannon said he s going to be better than that, but candidates that can go on to win in a general election. they knocked people off in primary buzz weren t good enough candidates to get to the finish line. bannon says he s going to get it right this time.
person than this, i took that as a personal intervention because he knows how to get the president s attention. you go to the newspaper saying we ve seen this before from people it the president might not listen to, mish mcconnell going to the new york times, bob corker going to the times recently to all of this intervention to get the president to be a different person, to care less about his base and care more as barrack said about the world. the key is, you imagine he s had these private conversations with the president all along and other people too, but the president feels most comfortable playing to his base. it s sort of an echo chamber. he watches fox news and gets the talking points from the base and sort of has an ongoing conversation with them. that s what you see on his twitter account most definitely. but i think you know, he s tweet bth stock market and fake news, he s tweeting about the nfl. it s sort of a broken record but it would for the base and it s also i thin
votes on a health care plan. the problem was they couldn t even get 50 votes on a promise they have been making for many, many years. one thing to point out about mcconnell and why this is so tough for him, in the next couple of months, he has to decide is he actually going to spend money to boost roy moore? is he going to actually talk to him and campaign for him when there s already so much bad blood there because he went all out. rand paul is an example he will. he opposed rand paul in the primary in his home state of kentucky. mitch mcconnell understands he needs the republican. he will bite his tongue, swallow his pride and do what he has to do to keep that seat in republican hands. roy moore is likely to win the see the. doug jones is the democratic candidate. dan ma makes a key point. we ll get to moore s history later in the program. there s a lot to the motivate democrats. center right voters have thought about the race. mish mcconnell, listen to ron johnson, republican of w
to the deep irritation, the agreement they reached last week of several, a lot of republicans. that s right. this was very much unexpected. you saw mitch mcconnell s face there in the oval office after that deal was struck. was very much struck by surprise by what the president did there. this comes really i think after the president has had really one of his lowest moments last month around charlottesville around pardoning sheriff joe arpaio. he s reaching across the aisle, striking a deal. we ll see what comes out of the meetings. republicans very much worried. threw in the dark about some of these meetings growing out what has been lingering tension between donald trump, paul ryan as well as mish mcconnell. i reached out to a conservative radio host to get a sense how folks he s hearing from are looking at this new kind of phase of donald trump s presidency. he said that almost you know all of the callers he s hearing from are liking this new phase of the donald trump presidency.
president. isn t that the reality, they have to try to get it done, no matter if they want to do it with him or not? largely speaking, they have a similar agenda. this is how they justified getting backing him in the first place. alex is exactly right. mish mcconnell and donald trump are oil and water politically speaking. i know they re in the same party, but that s about where the similarities end. the theory of the case was, look, he has an agenda much more similar to ours than hillary clinton does. you re right, chris, tax reform, immigration of some sort. maybe they try health care reform again. sure. but in your question of who wins, i think mitch mcconnell probably wins. mitch mcconnell is not going anywhere. he doesn t have a serious challenge as leader. john cornyn who is second to him from texas has already said he s for him. mcconnell is up in 2020. i don t think he s going to lose there. donald trump has a lot more chance of losing in 2020 than does mitch mcconnell. so