liberals are embracing session. i asked richard blumenthal about that. he said that he believe me, he s about as right wing as they get. in this day and age, stranger things have happened. for a president that takes pride in taking no one s advice, why did he wait until after the midterm? if he was so mad at sessions and he really wanted to get this done, this seems entirely calculated because of the timing to be changing the conversation from bad news, you had a bad night. terrible night and you could see he had a terrible night just looking at him today. we didn t have a terrible night. i think it s part of it is changing the news cycle quickly, yes, i do, but also that we have a better and more conservative and more trumpian senate on the way. so that is the key. he couldn t have gotten if he had fired sessions under the previous senate, he couldn t have gotten a replacement approved, confirmed. now he can. the senate got better, from my perspective, got better, more t
people and told working people in that district, working people which can be black, white, latino, native american, asian-american and otherwise, by the way, what he would do for them and how he would support them because that was the faction that, you know, could get him elected. the last thing i want to note is i worked a governor s race in 2014 when we couldn t even utter the words obama or obamacare. and i was in nebraska. i say that to say donald trump matters in 2018. you re going to see republican candidates who are going to have to run away from the president to avoid getting swept up in this wave, this wave that is not necessarily anti-trump in some respects but a wave of folks that they just want to elect officials that are going to go to washington and get to work and do something for them. donald trump is not actively demonstrating that he can do that and neither are republicans on the hill for that matter. which brings me to my next point because you have all this upheav