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That broad base coalition inside the democratic party and the challenge for everyone else running against him is can they match that >> joe biden has also endured more negative coverage than anyone else running in this primary. and i think -- i think axios had analysis of his coverage and just largely negative and his lead is enduring and it is definitive nationally and i think hes still ahead in most battleground state polls what do you make of sort of this -- its not a collision but this sort ...

I dont get that argument. maybe im missing something and im willing to be proven wrong, but i do not get what former rnc chair michael steele, i still cant believe hes the rnc chair thinking that way, says. >> i live in california, i dont think the republican party wants any part of us. they should let the democrats have us, were so messed up out here. seriously, theol electoral colle just forces you to campaign in regions and states. you actually cant write off the states and go to where -- if ...

Pretty much all chance of capturing california these days. i dont get that argument. maybe im missing something and im willing to be proven wrong, but i do not get what former rnc chair michael steele, i still cant believe hes the rnc chair thinking that way, says. >> i live in california, i dont think the republican party wants any part of us. were so messed up out here. seriously, the electoral college just forces you to campaign in regions and states. you actually cant write off the states an...

Election, but won the electoral college. bradley smith is a law professor and the former chairman of the federal election commission. thank you for being with us. lets talk about whats the main defense for keeping the electoral college in place. most people say its starting to not make sense. maybe it did once and it doesnt now. >> the proposition that we have about one in 10 elections that go against the popular vote. you have to have a lot of popular support to win the electoral college. nobod...

A different electorate in 2020. >> so cory booker is saying resign. do you agree? >> hes in active leadership. you dont get to pass on an issue like this, and hes making the kind of decision that i think others are going to make. look, this is an example among other things. you strip away the hot button of race, this is somebody who is found to have been disrespectful and to have denigrated an important part of the base coalition of his party. he doesnt have enough friends out there, close frien...

Of the aisle as you, but some of these people share this ideology with ralph northam. i think these are conversations well have to have as we go into a different electorate in 2020. >> so cory booker is saying resign. do you agree? >> hes in active leadership. you dont get to pass on an issue like this, and hes making the kind of decision that i think others are going to make. look, this is an example among other things. you strip away the hot button of race, this is somebody who is found to hav...

Progressives that are signing on. not like you have a broad base coalition. im not totally bought into the concept. steve: well, she is brand new to how washington works. nancy pelosi has been about a very long time. "the washington post" did a poll who should be the next speaker of the house. and nancy pelosi finished on top but only with a plurality, 49%. another democrat finished with 40% and then 10 percent said i dont know. ainsley: they also asked republicans and 76 percent said they would...

White house and the presidents team is quite deliberate, its that especially in midterm elections where generally less people turn out, if the president can help recreate some of that coalition, that base coalition who maybe showed up and voted for him but maybe hadnt voted as frequently before, as regularly before, that he could be incredibly helpful. theres a sense that every midterm, and this is correct generally, is a referendum on this sitting president. he has an ability to insert himself ...

Of sorts and have china therefore be left on their own. what was odd then about the exemptions that the administration added in, all of which were good news stories with canada and mexico and the eu, is that at least as of now, it excludes japan. so that seems to be a disconnect if you truly wanted to have this allied base coalition, but beyond that, you know, i dont think any of us have any great sense of what the next steps are going to be from the trump administration. especially with the mov...

Spray gator welcome christopher six months of political hide playing now shes back in everybody must be breathing a sigh of relief over the bow in the stock very much so on the government benches smiles everywhere chancellor merkel herself beaming as she was sworn in. some of her new ministers absolutely and clearly thrilled to finally be taking up their posts it has after all taken one hundred seventy one days i dont know whether you know this phil double the previous record i mean i mean if yo...