While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
occupy over time. i think it s a better time to be a democratic political organizer out of the grassroots than republican organizer at the grassroots. the question is how do you quantify that enthusiasm? do you find the right candidates? let s look again in three or four, six months and see where things stand. right now this is potential there? yeah. the other argument democrats are making mid-terms is the first time they have had a chance to do something about trump since the inauguration. even though you re seeing some enthusiasm decline in protests and numbers a bit smaller when you get to an actual election people feel they can take action that may drive people to the polls. trump s core is solid. the danger for the gop is it might not transfer to the republican party. donald trump won the presidency differentiating himselfom the republican party and similar to his predecessor. barack obama always maintained that gut connection with his
i think it s a better time to be a democratic political organizer out of the grassroots than republican political organizer at the grassroots. the question is how do you quantify that enthusiasm? do you find the right candidates? let s look again in three or four, six months and see where things stand. right now this is potential there? yeah. the other argument democrats are making mid-terms is the first time they have had a chance to do something about trump since the inauguration. even though you re seeing some enthusiasm decline in protests and numbers a bit smaller when you get to an actual election people feel they can take action that may drive people to the polls. trump s core is solid. the danger for the gop is it might not transfer to the republican party. donald trump won the presidency differentiating himself from the republican party and similar to his predecessor. barack obama always maintained that gut connection with his base, his constituency.
some enthusiasm decline in the protests, the numbers are smaller, when you get to an election where people feel they can take action, that may drive people to the polls. trump s core is solid but the danger to the gop is that it might not transfer to the republican party. indeed, donald trump won the presidential differentiating himself from the republican party. and that s similar to his predecessor, right? barack obama always maintained that gut connection with his base, with his constituency. it didn t translate into the democratic party which was devastated over his eight years. and you bring up it gets me to this point. i want to get this charlie sykes new york times op-ed into the discussion here. he talks about this issue of what s happening on the right where there isn t conservative intellectualism, it s just anti-trumpism. he writes the real heart of anti-anti-trumpism is the delight and frustration and anger of his opponents. if liberals hate something it must be wo
mckorm make place convention center. there was hugging, dancing, but the tears were more from relieve than inspired awe. be careful because if you decode this election night on the optics alone, you will believe them to be more different than they really are. despite a two-year halt in legislative accomplishments brought on by a recalcitrant republican party, an anemic economy, and a bruising campaign that lacked the historical fervor of the first, president obama nonetheless won re-election with nearly every state he initially won four years ago. and while turnout was down nationally over the past election, it wasn t fultd by an obama enthusiasm decline. something else was remarkably similar, the man who was elected president, the rock solid steadiness of no drama obama is