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Kind of test. that may be more helpful to somebody like amy klobuchar who is next door in minnesota. look, this is really, really early. and we can have a lot of fun speculating. we actually have no idea how these candidates are going to show up right now. theyre going to be a lot of them. some of them are going to have name recognition. some of them are going to be very exciting and young. we dont even know who is in this field yet. so there is a long, long, long way to go here. >> we know at l...

350 seats we picked up in state legislators. people of color and women, that is our core base, we have to have people who can be really exciting to that base in order to win. if those people come out, just as they did in 2018, and in 2017, in virginia, then were going to win the presidency and maybe the senate, too. >> do you believe bernie sanders and joe biden, both in their 70s, both white men, should stay out of the race? >> no, i dont think anybody should, i think anybody who wants to run f...

Plane straight into the ground and hes not changing course. >> youve noted that before. president obama referred to getting shellacked. you heard president clinton talk about the era of big government is over. he didnt even win the majority in 2016. usually -- i remember george w. bush, after he was awarded the presidency, at least trying to make some entreaties to folks to bring people together. here we have -- its a very curious electoral strategy. you have lost so many parts of your core base...

They seem like they dont know how to learn lessons. we are also seeing this is the limit of being a president who only cares about 30%, your core base and the freedom caucus. if youre trying to please a small group and not thinking about how to expand your base then youll run into other problems. you you have democrats who are accountable to other constituencies than your core 30%. i think part of what we saw are the limits of his power. its in the all about what the fox news crowd wants. >> and...

Analysis which is hes losing support among folks who are traditionally part of his core base. moving into 2020 if i were his team i would look at those numbers. are you optimistic about the economic direction of the country, do you feel better off? >> when they were asked to review better off than a year ago 71% said the same or better. >> it is a mixed bag. people say they are better off economically than they were two years ago, people individually and as families. they dont like the direction...

Support among folks who traditionally are part of his core base. moving into 2020, if i were his team, i would be looking at those numbers. are you optimistic about the economic direction of the country? do you feel better off? >> shannon: interestingly enough, when they were asked do you feel better off now than a year ago, 71% said either the same or better. that would seem to speak in the presidents favor. >> its a mixed bag on that. people say theyre better off now economically than they wer...

We actual saw that donald trump is the one who did blink first. why? because his poll numbers have gone down significantly, with that core base of the 33, 34% of american voters who have stuck with him time and time again through thick and thin, weve now seen that -- weve seen that part of his base start to decline. thats why i think he had to come forward and say, you know what, i know democrats are not going to agree to this, but im going to be the one to at least, you know, try to have some s...

All kinds of ways people are trying to -- >> yeah. >> if you think about how its going to -- i get that bill schein is probably thinking how does this play on tv to the republican core base? >> communications director. >> fox, actually. you may know someone a w.h.o. is a government worker, contractor or whose business is being impacted. >> restaurants and cab drivers are going broke. >> right. >> and for pelosi to say hey maybe this isnt the best time to do a state of the union and by the way th...

Suburban men -- >> ill come back to you. it shows 54% blame the white house, 34% blame others. 55% of americans blame trump, 32% blaming congress. back to you. >> okay. but within those numbers were talking about republicans, were talking about white evangelicals, noneducated white male voters. were talking about this is starting to have an impact on core members of that core base that he has been holding on to and doing all of this for. all of these machinations for. when hes losing like that, ...

Democratic message that will resonate with all of the people or most of the people in america to win the white house for them? >> a couple things. one, its got to be about health care, its got to be about growing the economy for all, if you will. more importantly, its got to be the fact that donald trump has a record to run on right now. and youve got to ask those voters, that electoral base, not the core base, thats 35 to 40, thats who he served in the four years but he hasnt done much with the...