red counties and they re rural. i kept thinking there aren t enough people in those counties to make up the difference and put bevin ahead. i think republicans really need to reflect, a lot of the news coverage, republicans are losing suburban voters. that means the republican party has a problem connecting to the middle class. it has a problem connecting to people who live among different demographics where old and young, black, white, hispanic all live together in the same place. it is it s just devastating to think that republicans are willing to write that off and just say, well, we re just going to go for rural white voters. i mean, it s just not a winning viable coalition. brendan, can we talk about this moment from trump s rally tonight, louisiana senator john kennedy talking about the speaker of the house. watch this. i don t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that
formally launches his reelection campaign at a rally in orlando, florida, on the eve of the speech, overnight, the president threatened to deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the united states. he announced what would be a huge round up operation. joining me now to discuss is mark lauder, the director of strategic communications for president trump s 2020 campaign. mark, great to have you with us. listen, the president announced this huge operation overnight. we re trying to get confirmation from the white house or someone in the government. we haven t been able to get it yet. can you confirm there s this huge raid scheduled for next week to go after undocumented immigrants. no and since i work for the campaign, i need to leave the actions to the official government in the white house and others. we re here to get ready for the president s rally tonight, and it s going to be a great scene. sure. we had to ask because so far this morning we have been asking the whit
houses agree to and that he consents to sign. you should also note tonight that el paso is little bit of a weird spot for the president to be holding this campaign rally tonight. it s weird because of the things he s been saying about el paso that s fundamentally is not true. it s also just weird he s there. he does like holding campaign rallies even when it s not election season, but he always holds them in deep red places, very republican places. that is not el paso. in the 2016 election donald trump lost ulpaso by 43 points. to put in perspective just how bad of a loss that is donald trump lost el paso county by a bigger margin than he lost blue blue state california. so el paso was a little bit of a weird place for the president to rally his base around the idea of a border wall. el paso is not a weird place for what s going to go on right across the street from the president s rally tonight, though. the president s rally is, i ll
that fund mentally is not u ttr. he does like holding campaign rallies when it s not election season but always holds them in deep red places, right? very republican friendly places. that is not el paso. in the 2016 election, donald trump lost el paso by 43 points. 43-point win for hillary clinton in el paso county. to put into perspective how bad of a loss, donald trump lost by a bigger margin than blue blue state california. so el paso is a weird place for the president to rally his base around the idea of a border wall. el paso is not a weird place for what will go on across the street from the president s rally tonight, though. the president s rally is, we ll show you here, see that red dot? the el paso county coliseum, the location for the president s rally tonight. now, show the other thing here, go on. other red dot across the parking lot there.
it gets to the core of what the democrats are saying is a major issue for them and whether they have can or have communicated it to the voters is the next question. that is right, andrea, and this is an issue that the people are impacted by personally. so you can see that we are in lebanon, ohio, ahead of the president s rally tonight, and hours before the president has come, people are lined up with the maga hats and flags, and so you can see kind of the sup oport that he has in this area, and we have been talking to the voters, andrea, and asked them what was the most important issues they cared about and most people said health care, and a lot of the republican supporters said they believe the president or take him at his word that he is going to protect the people with pre-existing condition, and that on the other hand, we talked to the other voters last night, and they said that they cannot afford the have this issue in dep jeopardy. and you heard from colleen who said is that h