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From driving them out from underneath the rocks they came and exposing them for the horrific human beings they are. >> lets hope so, joe. donald trump made it very clear to all of us that were not living in a post racial america and many of us knew that for some time. and what donald trump did yesterday hes very aware, he knows exactly what hes doing. basically what you, joe and mika were saying, hes running a base election. hes just doubling down. he basically traded in his racist dog whistle f...

Will be a base election. theres always a base election. if he can get the people fired up in the right states, it comes down to ten states. how is trump going to do in the ten swing states that decide the election. you look at the recent polls, democrats are writing off florida and ohio and saying wisconsin will be a battleground, maybe the deciding state. i would say look the at ten states, how is he messaging and polling there. i think hes doing pretty well there. >> rashad, can democrats actu...

States. i dont remember how many he lost. >> a couple of them twice. >> exactly. >> do you that i is happening? >> i think the danger of that, but what i do want to point out is that there is a sentiment in the party that we sure tried hard at different times to reach out to moderate, to try to accommodate other concerns and it didnt work out. so now, look, heres the deal. we have a base election possibly coming up in 2020. i think there is a dispair and resignation and cynicism you can move any...

>> i got the sense the first night of the can bait the candidates had decided other than julian castro the goal was to introduce themselves to the country and all about kbukz and telling people who they are rather than demonstrating here is what it would look like if i took on donald trump. julian castro did have a smart strategy last night. he understood his lane. only one of those texas candidates can emerge victorious. two of them cannot remain in the race. so he decided to go after beto orou...

Pulling hard on it. florida is a state where you have the margin for the top of the ticket races have been decided by 1.2 percentage points. i would not expect that to be any different in 2020. but as we discussed here, what we are looking at is a base election. what the president will be relying on is a very strong white vote. this campaign does see margins with hispanic voters, latino voters. they will be rolling out a latino coalition to further that agenda. >> marc caputo, thank you, my frie...

Narrative. if not, what do you do? he didnt get penalized to that last time. >> is this going to be a base election or conversion? >> a base election. let me say it one more time. a base election. >> the majority of americans dont like children in cages, they still do it. why are democrats not as passive to their base. do you understand the strategy of saying you need republicans in moderate force but not worried about the base. >> president obama led by moral authority. he went to great pains, ...

By as the president trashes that constitution and wants to step towards authoritarianism, the politics may not be right for the democratic party right now, but in the long arc of history, i swore an oath to do what is right and the right thing to do is when someone wants to violate our constitution and not subject themselves to the checks and balances that we must hold them accountable. >> you say you dont want to get into the politics of it but i want to talk a little bit of politics for just a...

Premise that this is a fight between moderates and progressives. we are going to nominate a progressive, he says. but is this the best strategy? here to debate former democratic member of the ohio state senate can a tri cafaro and progressive commentator and co-founder of run for america david burnstein. thank you both for being here this morning. >> absolutely. pete: i will put my cards on the table. feels like a bit of a catch-22. seems to be with progressive, socialism. open borders. universa...

I guess hes saying it is a small difference. it is not a big difference. so the idea that trump somehow -- his distance from trump on some issues caused the loss. he is representing a pretty big filter. >> thats right. i think this election in particular was a base election. this was about energizing our side or the nancy pelosi/chuck schumer side. especially in the battleground states in the final through days. he was going to run through and energize and kavanaghs stuff got people going. he wa...

Saying it is a small difference -- it is not a big difference. so the idea that trump somehow -- his distance from trump and some issues caused the loss, i mean, he is representing a fairly purpleish district. >> that is right. i think this election was, in particular, a base election. energizing our side or the nancy pelosi/top, chuck schumer side. he showed in those final few days in those battleground states, he was going to energize the base. the kavanaugh stuff got people going, he was talk...