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Am making — other issues come, and the point i am making is you simply cannot extrapolate a local government election— extrapolate a local government election into a general election. but there — election into a general election. but there are still questions about the conservative performance and motivating your previous voters to come out, and you might be right, they might be staying at home an they might be staying at home 57"! this occasion, but they also made stay—at—home in a ye...

Afghanistan punctured a hole in the competence argument. you look at the infighting on capitol hill. youve got democrats that knew all along. we have the votes. we dont need republicans for thosenegotiating and attacking each other in front of cameras, in front of reporters, and its just a complete circus there. and they let republicans define them for defunding the police last year. let republicans define them this year for critical race theory. i mean, i love what claire just said, pivot, punc...

Of trump to animate the democratic base, one of the best things that ever happened to the democratic base was donald trump. gets them animated. gets them into it which may be a key going into 2022 when we talk about the mid term elections and the base. i was surprised even when phil was running through this stuff. i was surprised about the extent to which covid drove voters interests, concerns and it was an affirmation of newsoms policies. 63% in favor of a mask mandate. again, some of that is c...

Dont have to work for the federal government. i dont have a right to a job at cnn. but if i dont abide by its health policies at work, i can get fired and thats well within the power of this company. its well within the power as the president as an employer. i think its going to be popular with voters. i think the fact that republican governors and the rnc are taking a point against this is just political morons. with the affordable care act, the contraception case, who sued? the little sisters ...

Clinton made the competence argument. she and all her great surrogates, president obama, they made the case donald trump was not fit for office and he succeeded in achieving an electoral victory. i wonder how you break through, though. if that is the constant din in this media environment, how do you break through as a party with a message about other topics? >> well, again, its local. if you are going to look at a specific district that has about 600,000 people in it and i can tell you weve got...

A good place with this coming into the general election. i think its going to be very tough to make an ideological case against him. >> on that score, could you see the beginnings of a campaign being framed up in his comments last night, where they are edging a bit away from ideology towards the competence argument, where the president of the united states is a nice guy, but he hasnt done the job for you, i can. >> i think when he stepped over the joke line and delivered it harshly, he is not a ...

Chuck four lokos. >> you are or are not? >> i am not. however, he knows how far he can take it and still win, at least the public opinion polls. now, the challenge for him is how do you do that in a way that suits the town hall format? two, how do you do it in a way that allows you to give an affirmative agenda for four years? you talk to any democrat, they say fine, he screwed up the first time. he may not have hurt himself, but he didnt give voters something to attach to. >> and that goes to y...