the washington post columnist george will has a new warning to 2020 democrats. in his latest op-ed entitled democrats denial on health care may produce trump s re-election. in it george writes this. as this shabby year with it a dispiriting decade sags to ab end, there is an interesting symmetry. in 2010, passage of the affordable care act had a preoccupation, health care. this year they are defining the political competition that will produce the first new presidency of this country s third decade. in 2019, the democratic presidential candidates debates about health care as in 2020. if trump succeeds, he might owe his tattered success to the other party s combination ignorance and arrogance regarding health care.
sensible, doesn t have to be huge revenue package together, but to go after our infrastructure, people would respond to if tt. because as we ve been saying, you re getting something that affects me. flint, michigan can t get tap water. infrastructure is tangible and something everyone understands immediately and it s a blue collar issues. yeah. and that s from that point of view, it may seem modest compared to medicare fora a all but it s a winner in a lot of the states. there s no such thing as an election poll. on election tday there are 50 elections. talking about national polls isn t what matters. what matters is where do voters in pennsylvania, michigan, florida, north carolina, and wisconsin go in november. you write the winning democrat will need to make trump s presidency seem insignificant rather than monumental. what you to mean by that?
opponents and say let s find avenues where we can work together rather than just blow each other up. i don t think you want a democratic party that comes across in the george mcgovern sense as the party of, you though, it was said in the 70s, amnesty, acid and abortion. it s not pack slope in oakland, it s also ohio, wisconsin, and michigan. that s a point you ve made many times on this show. absolutely. what i m feelings a enough around the country, people want to get out of the trump zone and they also don t want to get into a far left or even progressive zone that s just as uncaring about them. what about me? in the middle of all of this you re giving me the daily outpost on what trump is doing. i m concerned about my health care, my kids education. in that regard i agree with bret, that we really are looking
national emergency. basically what that would mean is it s billed now, decide on the price of the land later. that s something that landowners texas are upset about. it s land that s been in their family sometimes for hundreds of years. most of the land where they want to build in texas is privately owned. and then as my colleague courtney kube and i just reported in the last couple weeks, they ve begun investigations into the contracts that went out for border wall construction. there s a company called fisher sand and gravel out of north dakota that the president has personally touted for. and officials i spoke to said that they had to sit down with the president, say mr. president, you cannot pick a winner when it comes to the procurement process. we need to look at who is the best qualified for this and there are a lot of questions about whether or not fisher sand anderson gravel is qualified to build this wall and whether or not there was outside influence in the process that led
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