i ve got to say, i really wonder as you look back, the voters who were energized in these rallies, they will be there for the republicans anyway. they can be so they can be sent e-mails, can be communicated with and told you need to get out and vote to help support the president. i should think with the economy as strong as it is, unemployment low, wage growth moving up, with no obvious nuclear no obvious foreign policy disasters, you know, happening, i would think a little more of an oval office strategy by the president might have been sensible, sit back, have meetings on economic policy, meet with workers who have gotten pay increases, sort of slightly low key. you can t even imagine donald trump doing this, of course, but a low key, stay the course, don t risk the economic recovery message i think might have minimized losses more than amping it up on immigration which appeals to his base. but i really wonder about swing voters, certainly suburban
report apartment economy doesn t stay as strong as it has been, i think you get real questioning going forward of do we want to tie ourselves to donald trump. it s one thing in the first few years to defend trump. what s the choice? he s not goingnaire. you re up for re-election. it s too complicated to try to distance yourself. going forward, do you want to nominate him or carry the banner going forward. then they start to say, i m not sure this is the way to go. in 30 seconds or less, do you think a part of nikki haley would be receptive in meeting with bill kristol to hear you out? i think she will be having lunch of coffee, i will let you recommend the place to meet, brian. i think people will look and have to raise the question, do they want to renominate donald trump in 2020 and we ll see what happens next year. i personally like to lay the
groundwork for a primary challenge. i don t know whether nikki haly or someone else will pick up the mountaintle. one else that ll pick it up. it has been done before. tuesday will be an important moment where people start to look forward and asking do we want an additional four years of donald trump defining the republican party. i m going to straight to the my zagat s guide of dark restaurants in the city of new york. bill kristol is always a pleasure. as we run to our final break. there will be a special midterms coverage all weekend long as you may imagine. tomorrow, joy reid and ari mel ber, steph knew rhule, lawrence o donnell and others starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. then on sunday night, i ll be back here with rachel maddow, nicolle wallace, steve kornacki, all of us in one place if the big studio. for now, the 11th hour on a
the cost of voters outside of his base meaning democrats, meaning independents, meaning loosely affiliated republican voters particularly those changed suburban women that we ve been talking so much about. and top top it all off, you know, if you have a senate majority that is less than 60 votes, you know, it doesn t matter whether it s 51 or 53 or 54. but losing the house majority means the house democrats would be in control of investigations. this means they costop anything trump wants to do in terms of agenda. it means they will have an opportunity to do messaging bills to set up for 2020 basically to help whoever their candidate is in that election against donald trump. if you were him and you were picking you know, a chamber to affect the outcome of certainly the house would have been the one to go for. brian, as you know, jonathan is the co-author of a book opt hillary clinton campaign. if such a book were to be written treating these midterms
should take, we ll play this and we ll talk about it on the other side. we re better off as republicans sticking to what works, i think, and we have a good record on regulation and jobs and the economy. that s a good message right now. but to see the fear mongering going on, particularly with regard to immigration, is just unseemly. well, bill, regulation, jobs and economy would be one way of campaigning, the other way is to say there s an invading army of brown people coming from the southern border with vague middle easterners mixed in, they re going to come and invade our country and live in your house and take all your stuff. which do you think would be more effective? and we re going to send 5,000 or maybe more troops to deal with them and raise the issue of birthright citizenship out of the blue. i don t know. people like me have been critical of donald trump. he s proven us wrong before, at least once in 2016. maybe he knows what he s doing.