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you can have an urban/suburban base majority for gun control in the house. the problem is the small state bias in the senate gives a disproportionate incident to the rural states. if you go back to 2013 when president obama opposed the universal background checks after sandy hook, there were 55 senators who voted for it, 45 against it. if you get half the population to each senator, the senators who voted for it represent 190 million people. the senators who voted against it represent 120 million people. and yet it was blocked by a filibuster. so that hurdle is still out there that you re going to need some senators from either party, from states more marginal in the end to accept more limits to pass this than they have been willing to do so far. but it is possible to see where after 2018 there could be a majority in the house supporting these kind of measures. rod brownstein, julian belzer, thank you for joining us. and fears of a trade war are

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