all its good and bad or do you back removing him because that is what pelosi and these guys want. president s former chief stratjuist putting a real political spin on wars that percolated this week. for trump to succeed it is about us versus them in politics and pop culture. my panel is with me now. senator santorum. the president is adept at using culture wars to his advantage. he started out with being the birther guy. do you think this is a strategy that would work in november? i think that white house is very concerned about the base. they look at the election results in my home state of pennsylvania and the fact is that voter turnout in a lot of trump areas has been very low among republicans and they are saying this is really about the guy you voted for and not about
can start in the colon constiand may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it provides four-in-one symptom defense. it s your daily probiotic. well, the eagles super bowl win is not the only news making headlines in my home state of pennsylvania this week. something else happened that carried big time electoral implications for both parties. the u.s. supreme court says it s not going to stop pennsylvania from drawing new congressional maps after a state supreme court ruled the existing maps were excessively partisan in republicans favor. get this the deadline for those new maps is only days away. our own steve kornacki has agreed to join us with the big board at the big-picture look with this critical story. why does this matter? break it down. we think of presidential presidential race. trump won by 40,000 votes. always talk about it like a
you re not going to have a lot of republicans that want him campaigning on the trail for him. this article adds, here is the quote in 2018 s governor s race the white house is interested in three states that will be battle grounds in 2020, florida, ohio and pennsylvania. how much of this campaign is looking beyond 2018 and looking to 2020? laying the groundwork there? absolutely. it s all about 2020 for the president. clearly, he wants 2018 to be maintaining the house and senate and that s important but the reality is he s running for e reelection in 2020 and those are interesting states that the president flipped, right? those are the states that were supposed to be part of that solid blue wall for hillary clinton. my home state of pennsylvania has about a million more registered democrats than republicans but they are moderate. these are democrats that are blue collar, folks out there god-fearing and law-abiding but feel the country is moving in the direction they are in the comf
democrats are fiscally conscientio conscientious. you just nailed it, the economy has slowed down, something happened in march and april where the economy had been picking up since election day and hit a wall and i think partly that was when the healthcare bill failed investors and businesses got very nervous about whether trump could pull off this tax cut. the business community, workers, investors want this tax cut to happen. i think it s a must for trump to happen and i think it will create the kind of jobs that americans want and it s the reason that one of the big reasons donald trump got elected. austin, i want to show you a quote from senator pat toomey of my home state of pennsylvania, a fiscal conservative, someone who came out of the club for growth. rather than conforming to arbitrary budget constraints the president s plan rightfully aims to jump start investment which will produce significantly more revenue for the treasury over the long-term than any revenue neutral t
so i yet wondered if there isn t some buyer s remorse she did it at 3:30 in the morning given that we re now going to see her end up win big more than seven people who became president with a smaller margin jeffrey lord, are you now prepared to say the united states should switch to a popular vote to elect this president. definitely not. definitely not. we are the united states of america. and the states elect the president. that is the way this was designed. otherwise we might as well get rid of the united states senate. that are supposed to represent states. no, definitely not. and one other thing about my home state of pennsylvania where i am talking to from this evening. we have a democratic governor here. and i assure you if he felt there was something seriously amiss he d have pounced and he hasn t. and the margin of error there in pennsylvania is bigger than wisconsin and michigan to begin with. thank you so much. we re going to talk more about this in the next hour. j