needs to win. if he claims victory even if it s perhaps not as good a deal as they could have gotten, they re going to listen to him. even this deal here, you have to look at what he did with nafta, too. republicans were cautioning him against this hard line with tariffs saying, this is going to blow up in our face. it will be interesting to see if the party reorients itself, if he s able to land another deal after renegotiating nafta. i think we ve seen the party more hawkish on china are not getting their way. a lot of trade hawks were happy that john was put in charge of this. but the last week suggests that the president has been a little less sympathetic to that hawkish view. on the hill, people like marco rubio, tom cotton. these are senators that want a tougher line on china. but in the end the president did not listen to them. we ll watch this play out. this is a fascinating moment.
and he s a republican, but certainly no roy moore republican. no. if that is even the right phrase to use. no and that is not something that i think you would find existed within the party. they were at 49% or 48%. i think again the fact of the matter is that i m talking that s the most desolate looking victory platform i have seen in my life. it looks like he is waiting for a bus that hasn t shown up. a number of things happened here tonight that i think are important. a lot of it has to do with how the party reorients itself tomorrow morning and what the president tweets. the tweet tonight was not the president s tweet. it did seem sort of civili d civilized. it s not what he felt. what i m hearing in the white