election candidate, the president, who is taking this kind of tone and creates these kinds of distractions that the democrats have to engage to some extent, i think it s a tricky position for them to be in. and that he keeps doing it. he thinks it s fertile ground for him, for bad reasons maybe, but he thinks it s fertile ground. he finds this to be an effective strategy. this is something that he engaged in in 2016 with the build the wall chants. we saw it in the lead up to the 2018 midterm with him tweeting out the racist ad about the migrant caravan and mexicans. now we re seeing it with his repeated attacks on black and brown members of congress and with the send her back chant. so this is very much a part of his motive when it comes to running for the presidency. it s going to be throughout. again, as m.j. said, democrats have to find a way to respond to this and we have seen more and more of them explicitly talk about racial identity. i m old enough to remember when some
them on your instagram account. you wereig supporter of barack obama. i was. hillary clinton, you re going to vote for her? i am. with enthusiasm? no. you know, i think the immigration problem is probably laid at the feet of barack obama. because in 2008, you know, we campaigned based on, you know, helping them create a pathway to citizenship and in 08, it didn t happened, and in 12 he mentioned it and didn t do anything. my only beef with him would be, you know, we were the deciding fact factor, maybe, in 12 and didn t see not that we were expecting to benefit frit, but this whole, i m sure some of them are great people, we re going to build a wall. build that wall chants and all of that. he s responsible for, i think, a large portion of that. he, barack obama? yeah. his failure to yeah. and he s deported a lot of