biden 12, in some cases 15 points ahead, and he is trying he understands that for him to win re-election, he needs to destroy his opponent, and he s tried to begin this process in this way. the thing that, you know, in the process he clearly has created a huge vulnerability for himself and may put the house in a position where impeachment is unavoidable. well, i mean, yes, i mean, it does sound like things are definitely moving on the impeachment front. in terms of a huge vulnerability for himself, he famously said he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and his base would stay with him. do you think this is making him politically vulnerable? i think it s a good question. my guess is that a lot of people among his base say, you know, embrace the trump equation, which is that everybody does this stuff. this is just the way the world works, and so and may buy into some of the stories that
independent or independent leaning democrat, no matter what your republican member of congress would say as a rebuttal or as an objection to that, it almost didn t matter. criorrect. what are you going to do? it s a slippery slope. that s why that s the challenge. i might also add, we re talking about the retirements. now we re going into august where everybody gets to go home, and these questions multiply over and over and over again. your group focuses on mobilizing voters that are on the other side of the trump equation, right? largely people of color, black and brown voters. and that s part of the story here too. there is some alienation among white voters in the suburbs and elsewhere, all through the country. we should be clear. it s not geographically limited. there are white people in rural areas who find it gross the president is doing this. what effect do you think it has on mobilization and your ability to organize? look at the numbers that we have on the ground, righ
before the first votes were cast, people were fired up. are you more upset than you used to be? i m boiling. you watch the tv and something else is screwed up. so how do you cool off? just keep watching tv. because something else good comes on. exactly. and that was the next part of the equation, anger with washington and it seemed to translate into a hunger for outsider candidates. he s a spectacle in itself. but i m not sure it s calm enough to be it president, you knoe. so i m leaning towards bernie sanders. the donald. and if it wasn t donald, it would be the bernie. that s what you get when you knock on doors. she was good. coming up next, one of the most important variables in the trump equation. fl they re shipping us electronics, furniture and this is what we re shipping china.
working or middle class. now more come from china than mexico. making trump s appeal or lack of it a key part of the trump equation. so i hung out with an early advocate to see how well his message play snd. we re close to 2,000. so did you start the group? yeah. why? i love this guy. i mean, trump, he s for real. because you like what he has to say or how he says it? both. what do people say? they love me. i m like a panda bear there because there isn t that many chinese americans there. like a panda bear in the zoo. there aren t that many. i m jacob from msnbc. what do you think of david s shirt? is it serious? it s serious. i think it s kind of creepy.
less than one week after the election i got an email who cracked the trump equation early on. i m the trucker you road with in hubbard, ohio. i told you a lot of people would be surprised when trump won. take care, my friend. it showed how people are going to judge his had efforts. he certainly made cable news great again but what about the rest of the economy? i decided to go back to one of the places i first started to desiefer the trump equation qua. this was the main topic of election 2016. exporting? trade. one thing i think a lot of it watched is the boxed inventory. if they re making new boxes,