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Through the presidents embattled supreme court pick brett kavanaugh now facing two allegations of sexual misconduct ahead of this thursdays public testimony. and there might be a third according to an attorney for a woman who has yet to come forward. but folks, it has been 24 hours of what you might cause a shock and awe strategy from the judge mt himself, the president, and white house communications team and senate seemingly trying to shore up the base which didnt make kavanaugh more confirmab...

Is unpopular any time you deal with taxes its going to be unpopular also has to do with the president at 35% lowest hes been in our polling. why with a booming stock market, a strong economy, hes going to have a win when it comes to taxes, whys he have numbers that are so bad? >> i think a lot of it has to do with the chaos. >> the rhetoric. >> oh, sure. its rhetoric and hes been communicating to his core base of constituentcys not broadly to the middle or democrats and people feel hes been very...

The african-american growth but a marked decline of the number of whites who turned out. we are talking about the gop base, this gop base strategy is completely not the way to get these voters to turn out. its white working class somewhat rural voters in the north kind of perot voters turned off by both candidates in 2012 -- >> these are older voters, if theyre perot voters theyve been around for awhile. a lot, its been interpreted by people on the right. limbaughs and hannitys saying this is fu...

Some way or casual, what does this say about mitt romneys judgment? >> not very good things. >> not very good things? >> i want to take issue a little bit with what weve just heard. not in my condemnation of this actually quite pathetic comment. but in terms of whether there was a strategic motive behind it. i dont believe there was. i think you can sort of see from a statement from the headquarters they were not thrilled this got in the way of the message they were trying to convey today. they ...

And i think the question is, do we want a government that is the side of helping people help themselves? or do we want a philosophy which the national republican party has been pushing anyway, which says that everybodys on his or her own? i think at the end of the day, the american people are going to choose a partnership with leadership in the form of president obama, which is about helping people help themselves. and the jobs bill is just the most recent. and i think very important -- >> what ...

Representatives. >> msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com, chris cillizza joins us with the daily fix. hey, chris. the president seems to be pointedly ignoring the republican charllengers in the presidential race, but going by name after these house leaders. he really is taking them on. >> no question, andrea. i think its part of a broader, fire up the base strategy. most people dont know who eric cantor is, but many people in the democratic base, activist types, do know who ...

>> you worky jimmy carter. is this different in the way of public sentiment or right will ultimately triumph. >> was the guy saying no, no, we cant do this. but this is a little bit more pernicious because this is aimed at dividing. this president was elected to night the country -- unite the country, he represented change and hes going to the most divisive element. as badly as i thought the bush people, their base strategy was a terrible mistake in dividing the country. i think this one is. you...