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Susan and jimmy. how do you interpret what the president is doing, susan? >> he made an official stop on this fundraising tour hes doing, so i guess this works, and thats unfortunately what people are seeing. when he came out for energy quality, people responded in saying its political. everything hes doing now is being viewed as political. >> but isnt, jimmy, what everybody does at this point? isnt that the base issue, that the gap between the optics of behaving politically, whether its somethi...

White house politically is that it doesnt really hurt him with other swing voters. its mostly a base issue. it will excite the liberal base and the conservatives who are upset about immigration, they werent going to vote for him anyway. so it excites his base and helps with those swing -- potential swing voters right in the middle there. not just hispanics, but there are other communities in which there are big immigration presences in which it helps him and could help him at the margins win vot...