would actually kill the bill. frank, that s a good point about how senator moran has been approaching this. i ve been trying to keep an eye, and my staff, we ve been trying to keep an eye on what s happening in the states, what s happening in these senators home district offices, what s happening when they re facing their own constituents about these things and kansas is one of those places that you think of as a very conservative state. a lot of red state voters with the red state mind-set. but there are been tons and tons of protests and demonstrations and town halls and mock town halls and a lot of home-state pressure on a senator live jerry moran to vote no on this. and if you re looking at it from a national perspective, you wouldn t expect. but that has got to be part of what s in his mind and he s approaching this. frank, do you know if senator mitch mcconnell has a plan around these traffic cones that have just been put in his way? is this a temporary problem, something he m
he came out saying he wants to basically start this process over. notably, jerry moran was one of the republican senators to actually have town halls during the 4th of july recess. i don t think there was an expectation that this was going to happen so early. but i also think that it did it needed to be at least two senators to come out to get this number to over the two that would actually kill the bill. frank, that s a good point about how senator moran has been approaching this. i ve been trying to keep an eye, and my staff, we ve been trying to keep an eye on what s happening in the states, what s happening in these senators home offices, what s happening when they re facing their constituents about this. and kansas is one of the states that is a conservative state. a lot of red state voters with the red state mind-set. but there are been tons and tons of demonstrations and town
and maybe it s a minority of democratic voters. how do you pull them back? is it possible to pull them back to the center? tom perez is on a bus tour with bernie sanders trying to win over red state voters. someone understands there s a demographic that they have to make a noble attempt. i know they called dianne feinstein a sell-out. we were laughing during the break. she s an extremely liberal poll situation. if she s not left enough for you, you should redefine yourself of the socialist party. if that s what you want to be, be honest about your agenda. i think again, i understand the anger and the rage of these bernie sanders reporters, especially after the wikileaks came out and the debby wasserman schultz that there was colluding to get hillary clinton in and she lost in spectacular fashion. but if your message is we hate donald trump, that is not a recipe for success. poor tom perez.
how much time do we give them. it literally march. on that subject. did this debate over obamacare chang anything fundamentally? you did see a lot of red state voters discover that the health care they had was obamacare and decided they wanted to keep it? i really hope that s the case. we need to see polling a week from now. what if this sort of suicide by the republican administration and leadership in washington did actually did cause some intractable voters to look and reconsider and look at the facts? we ll see. or is there still going to be 3% defect from trump. keep your government hands off my medicare. thank you so much for being here. it is such a treat. thank you very much. up next, who won the week? stay with us.
u.s. senate seats up in 2018. the fundraising is already started. they have the opportunity to do a lot of methods. i agree with the other panelists. i can t tell you what the other message is. i can tell you there s an open congressional seat coming in south carolina that we ve pulled into the base to see. our base is overwhelmingly supportive of donald trump. when you practice base politics, you avoid primaries where there are contested primaries. donald trump won overwhelmingly in those seats coming up. the first concern the democratic party better have is how to protect 25 u.s. senate seats with donald trump getting stronger in his base right now. scott, that is the reason that you see a lot of democrats become cuddly with donald trump and are afraid to oppose him openly. they re afraid of losing their seats because they ve got red state voters in their state especially in the senate. you run trump leaks where you re going hard after donald trump