and so now, of course, willie he s evolved from that to wearing tight black baby gap t-shirts. so quite an evolution p.m. so let me, john heilemann, let me go to you. we had the great steve kornacki, the legendary steve kornacki who has become a national icon, appearing on murphy brown and kids dressing like him on halloween. donald trump s polls going down 41%. beto, after being mocked by relentless now only three points behind ted cruz. don young who has been in congress in alaska forever now down by a point. you got in pennsylvania bob casey up by 15 points. it s hard to find a florida poll that bill nelson is not ahead in. gillum doing very well.
little bit of trouble gaining transaction. and oprah went down and had a massive rally in north carolina. i m not going to say that wases the turning point, but that was one of those markers where oprah winfrey actually, in that rally, helped barack obama in ways that i think stayed with him through the next couple of contests. donald trump was thrown a softball about oprah winfrey last night and he said, i love oprah. i was on the last week of her show. i love oprah. i think she s great. that s how you know how powerful oprah is right there. that was impressive that he was on the last week of the oprah show. no question. willie, that s kind of like what fight doctor freddie perchuko said about riddick bo during the olympics. riddick had spasms of liucidity.
general of joint chiefs he says a wasteful of deployment of overstretched marines would be made much worse if they use force. the general say those troops will not fire on them. what did you make of the president s performance yesterday? let me say this. willie asked elise why is the president doing this? we know why. it worked in 2016. race is the number one issue for his hard core base. there s data to back this up. three political scientists actually studied this and found that the overwhelming majority of people who voted for barack obama and switched to trump voters were people who held hostile views on race and lesser degree on women. so you have racism and sexism driving this president s voter base. president trump has redefined what electability means. we have to start changing our
other things that are humerus or would be humerus if the stakes weren t so high. donald trump just making things up left and right and he s not even good at it. everybody knows he s lying. and apparently, if you look at some of these polls, he s doing nothing but damaging the republicans who need him to stay out of the way and be quiet the most, which is, again, i think one of the great insights and we re going to have steve schmidt on today was when steve said earlier this week, hey, you know, donald trump won in part in 2016 because he knew he had to stay out of the way the last ten days. when people were talking about hillary clinton, when people were talking about the letter, donald trump is doing well. when they talk about donald trump, his numbers are going down. willie, i think he s forgotten that strategy. yeah. what s the opposite of staying out of the way? that s what the president is doing right now. he s doing two rallies a day going forward.
legendary title away from barnacle, donnie deutsch. the man has had a busy life. former aide to the white house alesse jordan, former editor of the washington post eugene robinson. and mika has the morning off and, willie, that is a good thing because there are some things you none of us want mika to see. before we go furg, there s something we need to disclose to our viewers. there s a photograph, maybe you ve seen it right now posted yesterday by donnie deutsch. donnie deutsch put this on an instagram page. that is a young donnie deutsch in the match game with gene rayburn. explain yourself. donnie, first, is this one of