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In fact, this is less and less about trump now because the infection has so fully moved inside the bloodstream of the party. trump is not the animating character any longer. >> i gotta go ahead. >> i was gonna say just to the point, assuming that it is all dangerous, they are all dangerous until proven otherwise, because what else do you have to go? on >> thats why thought it was particularly interesting that you had desantis getting on this train. the person who is the most likely seen as the 2...

Willing to do. so fundamentally, all of us have to understand, this is not a donald trump problem. this is a republican base problem. and the longer that goes on and the misinformation and everything that is consumed by that, the more danger it is, in my view, to our democracy. >> weve only got a couple of seconds left, juanita, but do you make anything of the fact that while donald trump continues to raise huge amounts of money, the people who voted for impeachment are raising more money than t...

This. the root causes not excise donald trump. which is what happened. he lost in 2020. its gotten worse since 2020 with the republican party is willing to do. so fundamentally, all of us have to understand, this is not a donald trump problem. this is a republican base problem. and the longer that goes on and the misinformation and everything that is consumed by that, the more danger it is, in my view, to our democracy. >> weve only got a couple of seconds left, juanita, but do you make anything...

Thinks when will we know? do we need to go through the primary campaign in 2022? >> the whole fever breaking analogy needs to go away. rachel is exactly right. mcconnell has a base problem but heres the thing. mcconnells base is the gop caucus, and hes got a really firm grasp on this, even if some of these long shot candidates get in, they wont get a majority of just -- mathematically they wont get a majority. >> the takeaway from that piece as well could have been just as interesting as trump t...

Republican base problem. and that base lets face it will never see him as their leader. susan, youve worked for politicians. since when does the house minority leader have to call you, marge? she says he should have called me like shes his boss. we used to debate back when i was a seminormal republican party. we used to debate about tax policy. people will never believe that. look it up. its all over youtube. now this is a poll by my friends at the public religion research institute. and do you ...

Shutdown. except thats not really true. >> right, its not really true. but theres no question that the president maintained this issue as the dominate issue in washington and in this round got more than the democrats said they were willing to give. its more sort of what he wanted, its far, far short of what he could have gotten as an overall immigration deal last year. but to your point hes so transparent in the way to say, look, ive got a base problem here. ive got people who sold out on this t...

For a resolution deal immediately. amy klobuchar is going to be for the new green deal before she was against it. appallishi elizabeth warrens tax. president trump seized on that to begin to define the party as not an acceptable alternative. >> republicans seem to have a bit of their own base problem. "the washington post" reporting house republican leader kevin mccarthy blames republican loss of house majority on the gop healthcare bill. specifically the post says he told donors behind closed d...

Pressure on. hold on just a second, juan. what he has to do to keep himself level 42020 is do something on health care to help him with the suburbs. this is not a base problem for him. the as to whether republicans right now, we need to make sure that we do something. >> sandra: what republicans unite behind the president if he did go with declaring a national emergency? >> it may be the only option that we have. are we going to have everybody on board? well, nothing is 100% in america. >> bill:...

>> again, it speaks to the complication about immigration in the republican party. polls show that 60% of republicans support immigration broadly conceived. its a minority position in the republican party that immigration legal or illegal should be outlawed. people sent back to where they came from and all this. its just that for the people who care about it, it is a dominating issue. for the people who are totally fine with it, or pretty fine with it, they got other things they think about. thi...

Heller, why is he there? dean heller has a base problem and a swing vote problem. ted cruz has a base problem and a swing vote problem. trump, theres nobody to help you with the swing vote problem, so you go with trump? >> trump knows how to rub a base election, he has that gut connection with his followers. republicans have put themselves in a position where theyre already in danger, if not already have lost the middle. so in order to prevent that blue wave from appearing, in order to prevent t...