uncomfortable question, it makes me uncomfortable asking. 82% of people who trust fox news say the election was stolen. 97% who watch farther right i guess that s own and news max and stuff like that believe the election was stolen. it s the a litmus test question, do you believe the election was stolen? the election wasn t stolen. bill barr said it was not. you shhh it be a litmus test question for american institutions like the fbi and d.o.j. for the answer under a polygraph to be no, the election wasn t stolen? i mean, are the people in charge of protecting the rule of law definitely not in the 82% or the 97%? so, here s where i will take this. i can tell you encouraging that you mention the word polygraph. with regard to sensitive
is donald trump a white supremacist, going from racist to white supremacist and a lot of them are saying yes at in point. it s become the new litmus test questions and you have bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg and beto o rourke and kirsten gillibrand saying on the record, on camera, the president is a white supremacist. you have some demurring like joe biden and kamala harris and others. but it has become the new litmus test question. based on our reporting, what we re hearing and what i expect to see from the trump campaign and people associated with the president is for them to try to turn this as you re calling his supporters racist. so almost a revival of the deplorables comment in 2016. and karine, i guess as jonathan is reporting the trump white house doesn t mind this because they say if you re saying who anybody that supports
associates and others in the broader trump world try to broaden this into you re calling us supporters racist, reliving the deplorables situation and we have five prominent 2020 candidates calling him literally saying that the president is a white supremacist. so this is a new litmus test question in the democratic field. and i expect that you re going to see based on our reporting the trump campaign try to weaponize it. yeah. i think we have heard elizabeth warren, buttigieg, bernie sanders to name a few calling him a white supremacist. thanks, jonathan. happy belated birthday, i believe. yeah. we will see you coming up on morning joe. stay strong. inspiring such confidence. we ll be reading axios a.m. a bit. you can go to signup.axios.com.
approach to working with the working republican majority in the state senate. ultimately i don t think this is terribly healthy. hillary clinton never saw bernie sanders coming. harris: it s interesting. the dcc and the dnc are having a hard time raising national funds. locally it s different. you have to have a message. if there s not a message and you re fighting among each other, it s an opportunity for somebody to come in maybe. and back to the litmus test question. when we saw that play out on the issue of abortion where you had tom perez say that only candidates that support abortion the democratic party would support and the dccc head came in and said there s congressional districts where that won t play well, so they re quit split. harris: i wonder if dianne feinstein call that coming. an eye roll from michael. you never saw the spanish acquisition coming. thank you, harris.
that s a tough situation. by the way, it s the exact margin is 28. so he can afford to lose only 28 members before he d have to start going to nancy pelosi for votes. so, is his problem still the same problem? it s a similar problem. they re not always going to be against him but for the most part, they won t be with him. the incoming freshmen ran on a litmus test question would you vote for john boehner as speaker? they said no. i will be interested once this shakes out, once we have the names, how many went back on their campaign pledge and how many stuck to it. two years, right out of the gate you lied to your constituents? that might be a problem. interesting point. angela, for the democrats, now you re in the position of knowing there are 246 potential votes out there, with 28 to give, how do democrats now strategize on how they re going to be able to have an impact? just like with the republican party that is becoming increasingly diverse, there are some call extremists.