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Reform, the president is not on the ballot until 2020. elcontinue to run against them any way, meaning republicans in congress, not democrats. it has worked for him. theyre on the ballot in 2018. they are in desperate need of this tax reform bill or their entire base and their donor base could go south on them, wash their hands of them and be done. and what they worry about the most is in these tax reform negotiations theyll reach a deal with the president, theyll reach agreements and hell chang...

He will continue to run against them any way, meaning republicans in congress, not democrats. it has worked for him. theyre on the ballot in 2018. they are in desperate need of this tax reform bill or their entire base and their donor base could go south on them, wash their hands of them and be done. and what they worry about the most is in these tax reform negotiations theyll reach a deal with the president, theyll reach agreements and hell change his mind. and so i think what you saw from bob ...

And i think a lot of his critics failed to hiv up to that. the -- the live up to that. the white house has probably learned its lesson moving forward. kelly: i hear you loud and clear, but some people would say thats not the case at all, that more healing needs to take place and that the president should become consoler in chief and try to bring this country or move this country forward. let me go back to the list of people who are there among the donor base. they included robert mercer, joseph ...

What he did. >> truth be told, you need him for fund raising support, right? ive read an analysis that says in the first six months of the trump administration, the rnc has doubled that which the dnc has raised and that theyre beating you among small donors. >> well, i dont know what the rnc has raised. heres what i can tell you, though. we had our best small donor quarter ever the first quarter of this year. we raised over $5 million, average increment $22. when democrats took over the house in...

The ballot in 2020, and little doubt that others in the party are engaged in barely veiled contingency planning. chris, call it what you want, contingency planning. look, given the investigation thats going on, given the approval ratings of the president at 33% in the q poll, people think hes not honest, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and just given what rick has rightly pointed out, where the donor base is, could you imagine a situation where people wouldnt be looking at it? >> no. i mean, to...

And other corporate executive types over to the vice presidents residence understand every few weeks. small group dinners. a setting hes comfortable in. sort of smoozing donors in an intimate one on one basis. he works the room, sits down at every table, talks through the concerns of the donors, and its sort of paying dividends. theres a lot of loyalty in the republican donor base for mike pence. strong bands with him in a way we dont necessarily see with the president. pences people are very ca...

Investigation into the sitting president of the united states, people are going to question whether hes going to get there. and heres where it gets interesting. the donors are beginning to worry. the donors are worried that donald trump, with his support, his approval ratings are so low, that it will be very difficult for him to get re-elected. and unless hes running against hillary again, they believe that he may not get re-elected, despite not knowing who the democratic nominee will be. and so...

Perhaps, perhaps, may wise up and realize that they dont really need him either. mike pence can sign these bills just as much as donald trump can. >> well, well go to you on that, amy. is there finally a sense among republicans that this one-way loyalty isnt useful to them in their reelections? >> they are loyal to him and hes not loyal to them at all. >> yeah. if they need it to be mutual, they dont feel like its there. and health care should have been the number one example for what happens wh...

Think, in the disappointment from republicans on the hill, his donor base. im curious and i think its going to get even worse. >> indeed. its a strange strategy. you dont want to work with any party. you dont like anybody. you cant be 535 people, donald trump. you can be only one. thank you very much. well have you back. and coming up, a big passed in the senate and the house. what? nowadays, thats huge news. well tell you all about this very wildly popular bill next. oscar mayer is making big c...

Republican coalition against each other. on the one hand tax cuts in the bill affect only families of 250 ,000 or above, individuals 200,000 or above. 60% of all the tax benefits in this bill go to the top 10% of earners. and, so, this is something that is important to the kind of the republican donor class, the donor base. on the other hand, the bulk of their votes now come from older and blue collar whites. a majority of trumps votes came from whites over 45. blue collar provided half of his v...