donald trump. they want him to be the guy in whose hands all this power is concentrated. they say they would plan to do this with any republican president. the plan is to change the structure of the u.s. government so the next president, the next republican president will take direct control of all state ct power. he would, for example, take over all federal law enforcement and run that directly for his own benefit through the doj. there would be no more independence of federal law pe enforcement. the next president would take em control of private business in e this country for his own benefi through the powers of the ftc.ou the federal trade commission. the next president would revivet an old and i should say illegal practice call impoundment whichi would basically take away the fundamental powers of congress m and put that power, too, in trump s hands. again, identify the pockets of independents and seize them. instead of checks and balances, we would have more of a strong
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specific on some policy things, because he takes questions at essentially every event. we ve heard a lot more about dem control, we have to have universal background checks banning assault weapons. he s been more specific about how he would get to health care coverage for all, after saying he likes the idea of medicare for all, but doesn t think it moves fast enough. so we re watching o rourke, much like the hillary clinton listening tour that led up to 2016, go around the country, talk to voters, but he s letting that inform his ideas. so the folks that i m talking to are willing to give him a little bit of a grace period on that, even though i think the other contenders, democrats, if we had a debate tomorrow, would probably try to eat him alive on these things. the fact is, we don t have a debate tomorrow. it s march. correct. the debate, first one, by the way, on nbc in june. adrian, there is something that s been dubbed and garrett knows this since being on the road, that beptom
husband s disappearance. in a new survey, voters gave congress a c-minus. republicans score even worse, they score d plus, another d plus went to the federal government as a whole. president obama, he s just about average. voters say he deserves a c. mike viqueira this morning. seriously, what are some of the other findings here. reporter: it s no wonder they left for home early. they wanted to steal the report card out of the mailbox before their parents got home. when does disgust turn into enthusiasm for the other side. i think it s a washington post poll that s out this morning. let s have a look at other results. preferred voters. they asked registered voters, would you prefer dem control.
47% said yes. prefer gop control, 43% said no. when they asked very interested voters, preferred dem control, only 40%. gop shoots way up to 52%. and that is what the president and other democrats have been fighting all along over the last few months. right track/prong track, up 59%. up 12 points from ten years ago. 63% said that it is getting better. that sounds okay, but when you look at it as compared to 2000, that s down. they re fighting this enthusiasm gap. it s real, alex. the president has had a rally. he held one two weeks ago in madison, wisconsin. people were trying to recreate that old campaign magic from back in 2008 trying to get the young people to the polls. they re disaffect, discouraged. the president leaves today for