moderate republicans who are college educated, white collar, upscale, they live in diverse communities and they don t like this kind of stuff. and we know from the exit polling that in 2016 a lot of these republican voters, traditionally republican voters, whether it was because they wanted tax cuts or deregulation or supreme court justiceors whatev justices or whatever, they held their nose and voted for donald trump. but two years later they voted for democrats. that s why democrats retook the house because they took dozens of seats in suburban metro areas in dozens of states around the country. and while donald trump is galvanizing his core base of supporters with this rhetoric, he s unwittingly alienating this other half of the coalition that he needs to win re-election. thank you, jake, anna, donna, congressman, thank you, congresswoman, thank you. and tim alberta, that book is american carnage on the front lines of the american civil war and the rise of president donald
listening to karen bass, head of the congressional black caucus. when it comes to black people in america and people of color in america, donald trump is nothing new. that s the thing we have to remember. he s nothing new. especially when i talk to people from jim crow and especially with the birtherism. i don t want to skip over this point, when you look at the exit polling, black women were the smallest group, none voted for donald trump. if you ask them after the election, the antidotal evidence was we all knew someone like donald trump. exactly. the reason biden does so well in
counterveiling effect, does it turn off people who are not quite on board with the president and motivate suburban swing voters we were talking about. and look to aaron s point, i agree with that. and i have said this to republican strategists and friends, if you re still fretting about the base, you re shaking in your boots. isn t the base locked up with gorsuch, with kavanaugh? isn t why is he so worried about the base? to piggy back on aaron s point, it s actually very fascinating. we all move so quickly it s hard to remember what happened yesterday much less a couple days ago. in 2016 in the republican nominating season, in every single state where they did exit polling, they asked a question, what do you do with the undocumented population? do you prefer to see mass numbers deported or would you prefer to see them put on a path to legal status, if not citizenship? in the total of states, only two states said, yes, mass deportation. the rest of the states 33, 34
you talk to anyone around the president, he talks about the base. how do we fire these people up and keep them mobilized? is it important if you look at the data and exit polling and micro targeting figures we have at our disposal, there are a lot of folks who voted for the president in 2016, who voted democrat in 2018, and by and large they are living in the suburbs, upscale, wealthy, traditionally republican voters who on these culture issues we have been talking so much about, they re beginning to take a step away from this republican party. so for all of the talk of how this can help the president engage that core base of voters that he has, he s not going to be able to win re-election without that broader coalition, including a lot of these suburbanites who were not going to pull the lever for hillary clinton. they cared about tax cuts and supreme court, they cared about obama care, but when they see things like this, there s an old adage how mitt romney or john
president trump but this is part of her greater pitch about prosecuting the case against history and prosecuting the case of what is needed now. this was kamala harris a few moments ago here in myrtle beach, south carolina. this is a person who came in office on a campaign that was about make america great again. well, again for whom. again to what? to before the voting rights act, to before the ziccivil rights a before roe v. wade? to before the fair housing act? well, we re not going back. we re not going back. we re not going back. reporter: in 2016, exit polling showed that here in south carolina, and that south carolina democratic primary, 70%