Page 2 - Base Out News Today

Today, the theory that donald trump needs this release even as he is on summer vacation. >> based on my conversations with white house officials, its evident that the barriers around president trumps conduct, that former chiefs of staff reince priebus, john kelly tried to erect, are no longer there. its the president free form day in and day out. his advisors are at least trying to prod him to go to places like pennsylvania, to go to a manufacturing center, because they know his anti-establishme...

Priebus, john kelly tried to erect, are no longer there. its the president free form day in and day out. his advisors are at least trying to prod him to go to places like pennsylvania, to go to a manufacturing center, because they know his anti-establishment style, his free wheeling speeches, his racist tweets, these have a whole anti-establishment persona that could help rouse his base in places like western pennsylvania and they know its not going to play in places like the philadelphia suburb...

Stay home or maybe they dont flip to the democrats. so, yeah. its a good pox that hes in. i think they have reason to be happy about it. >> and do you think they can convince him to stick to those economic talking points? because that was an issue in 2018 he had these economic numbers but went a different way in the midterms were much more faif to believe the democrats. do you think he can stick to that? >> right. that wasnt a mistake. at the end -- in the closing weeks of the midterm campaign h...

Election. hoping to get her base and donald trumps base out. thats why they scrambled to set up these two trump events tomorrow, the day before the election. and basically, i think the calculus is if they can get -- doesnt matter about the people with them. they dont have to persuade people in the middle. they need to get their people to the base because its larger than the democratic base. >> well talk about 2020 coming up. demanding answers after police shot and killed a man in a mall on tha...

Thats what were going to get for the two years from here until 2020. and as david mentioned, that does get the presidents base out, but it doesnt expand the electorate. now the question for democrats is can they put up a candidate going forward that expands theirs and eats into some of the obama/trump voters who turn out for the president and are proving extremely loyal to him and who hes very skilled at communicating with. >> donna, was this a referendum on the president? >> i think it was a re...

This 24/7 and then some. he has gone with fear over hope. hes gone with fear and the caravan and coming and giving inaccurate statements about the migrants on the march. instead of talking about the economy. he has a great economy. >> he tried -- i was at his rallies on friday and saturday. he tried to make this switch to talking about the economy more. we could tell stephen miller put in a lot more numbers about the economy in there. >> after the jobs numbers on friday. >> exactly. they thought...

Asylum claims. will fear mongering have an impact when people head to vote next week? >> i think it will help get his base out, but its sad because the president shouldnt engage in fantasy falsehoods and fabrications. thats what hes doing. he cannot by executive order or through legislation change the 14th amendment to the constituti constitution. sending the troops to the border, what a waste. he talked about 15,000 in afghanistan and a cost of $100 million or more that could go to helping peop...

Of yeah, yeah, and dude, get the dumb cap off and pay attention t the. first of all, the 14th amendment is not a policy, but it is the constitution of the united states, and secondly, you cannot amend that constitution with an executive order, so i think that we need to dial back the stupid, and people call can it for what it is, and you put your finger on the point, playing to the white nationalism, and gin up the base and instill the fear in them that is otherwise side tracked by the horrors o...

Give us thoughts on the presidents closing argument because i know yesterday you said it looked like he was losing a little bit of his footing, but what do you think today? >> after the pipe bombs were sent to all of the democrats and to cnn after -- to cnn, after the massacre at the synagogue, it didnt seem what way the president wanted to go or how he was going to get a handle on the whole and steer the narrative into election day. its clear hes got that footing now for himself. he knows he wa...

The administration really deploy the president strategically in north dakota and west virginia. he won those states easily. but nevada, they lost it. theyre sending him to the places where they need to drive that vote. >> the closing message has shifted in recent days, particularly with the backdrop of the migrant caravan, et cetera, taking a real hard-line stance on immigration. how could that and would that, you know, play in nevada? >> well, i think its an opportunity to rally the republican ...