suppressive impact. i think if you look at 2020, one political analysts said that trump didn t expand the base in the sense that he didn t expanding into new demographics. but he did grow the amount of people who are interested, among the white working class base, right? the small towns and rules, the turnout is out. but here s the thing, the turnout went up that times one and a half in the suburbs and the cities, right? the negative effect the, negative partisanship affective trump is so great, and i think combining that with this trying to suppress the vote has really motivated the democratic base. i think it s an open question whether with him off the ballot, and now off on his little blog spot, and just giving these rallies, whether he will continue to be a motivating factor in the midterms. i think that s an important job for democratic campaign strategists. looking at what we ve seen so far, i think the answer is, this can be a motivating factor. both with trump and his
audience, let s point out clearly one of the trump advisers these days is a noted manufacture of chopped foam bed pillows. having laid out that predicate, here it is, jonathan in new york magazine. the main thing to grasp about the trump advisers see pillow money fact sure, the concern about his election lies as no moral component whatsoever. their sole concern is that by emphasizing his message the election was stolen, trump inadvertently discourage the republican base from showing up in the midterm election. of course, mr. gibbs, that s also the democrats fever dream. but is that the fatal flaw in the trump run republican party strategy? well, there is no doubt. it is surprising and you saw this in georgia. when donald trump took the
and robert gives former obama campaign senior adviser, white house press secretary under president obama. gentlemen, great to have you. good evening. tim, what is a republican to do if they come up with an idea, or a policy? that s another way of asking how on earth do they move forward? we should refer to trump as the head of that party as long as he is treated as the head of that party. brian, that s a question that it might be above my pay grade. i don t think this is a governing party right now. i don t think the intend to be one. i noticed in the intro, the concerns are back. the privately concerned have been leach in the republican side for a decade. now it s getting kind of tiresome. it s a groundhog day types an area where they re hoping maybe they got to see the good trump,
whatever that means. something nonexistent. maybe he want to distract them too much. their voters want the raw uncut trump. but not willing to stand up to the voters. there is no option here. the best case you could make for some republicans on the hill is there is a small handful that try to keep their head down, not answer questions about trump. too scary to say what they think. they might work on a narrow niche issue with the democrat, or in our nation issue that matters in their state, and that s how they justify it. that s how they sleep at night. the big name senators, look at, them look at the people i get media tension on the. right there aren t people that trying to advance an idea or policy agenda. it s full on trolling the lid s 100% of the time, 365 days a year. robert, gives before i read this next bit with you and the
show, velshi at 8:00 a.m. eastern. i ll tuck to a reporter who just found out his phone records were secretly seized by the trump administration. plus the one and only bill nye the science guy joins me about the security threats posed by climate change. tomorrow 8:00 to 10:00 eastern on msnbc. the 11th hour with brian williams begins now. well, good evening once again. day 136 of the biden administration. not good enough. that is the latest message from the president to the republicans counteroffer on infrastructure and job creation. as you know he s been trying to work out a bipartisan deal with censure shelly moore capito who s been leading republican in the talks. today she told biden the republicans would be willing to add about $50 billion in new