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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Hill for the president and his party. A republican loss might tell us more. If the gop cant hold this district, which last elected a democrat back in 1980, then its a pretty safe bet democrats will recapture the house in november. That would not only stall any trump legislative agenda but also put investigations, possibly impeachment, on the table. There are longer term questions too. If republicans keep losing in the suburbs s th, is...

Party had another republican at the top of that ticket, but i think paul ryans career trajectory would have been completely different had he had a president that was a little more amenable to the traditional establishment track. >> i would say -- i mean, the one key thing he goes back with is the thing that i think keeps a lot of establishment republicans sort of in line with trump, tax cuts. that was a huge goal for paul ryan. they did get that done. so he goes home with that. he also is leavin...

Add them all up, substantially more than donald trump. so in the case like this, if senator lindsey graham drops out now that he has dropped out, how does that help those establishment candidates coalesce around a single candidate and who gets to vie for rubios -- for lindsey grahams endorsement? >> i think this is really the key to it and mark was starting to get to this. its not so much lindsey graham its a the other name attached to lindsey graham. john mccain. john mccain couldnt do anything...

The difference with donald trump is these are people who rarely take part in any partisan activity. such as a caucus or a primary. even in their state primaries they rarely take part in those things. can donald trump get them to do something theyve never done which is basically say im going to go out there and take a stand against the establishment by sitting in a cold room for two hours in the middle of an iowa winter to hear speeches by local party leaders before i get to say i want to vote fo...

So huckabee will, i think, have as much of a chance this time as he did in 2008. >> i think thats a good way of looking at this. those two separate tracks. call it the social conservative track and whatever label you want to put on it. you look at the social conservative side with mike huckabee. in terms of that establishment track right now. we were talking earlier in the show. the romney noise on hold that jeb bush has made his move and chris christie clearly interested in that thing and that ...

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