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How effective is the president without a foil, dana? >> i think thats a very important point, craig, and that is it is all about donald trump now. its not donald trump or an alternative. you know, part of its because hes so visible in the interviews and on the campaign trail, but even if he werent out there at all, you know, theyve looked at polling going back to the great depression, and there has never been a stronger correlation between your view of the president and your intention of voting ...

Better than hillary clinton could have. i feel like thats a safe haven for them at this point in part because they dont know whos going to be raised out of their field. >> theres nobody thats really fashioned themselves as enough of a foil to president trump that they could actually challenge president trump or actually would. kamcamilla harris, cory booker, they dont have an overwhelming coalition of democrats that theyre the guaranteed shoe in and the democratic party has not really had that s...

Quarter for all of 2018, more than $121 million. >> i think the republicans risk is the republicans like to have a foil, everyone likes to have a foil. part of the problem is their voil is always women. its hillary clinton, nancy pelo pelosi, die an feinstein. it might be good as youre trying to attract suburban female voters to not always have that foil be a woman. >> i want to thank steve kornac kornacki, we will be right back. kornacki, we will be right back. have the craziest job, the riskie...

That will cost $26 trillion in its first ten years. >> president trump: republicans want to protect medicare, we are protecting it for our great seniors who have earned this and paid for it all of their lives. >> president trump has also found a political foil, democratic senator dianne feinstein kept secret for six weeks allegations against justice brett kavanaugh. the crowd in council bluffs, iowa, last night, chanting the freeze of previously reserved for hillary clinton. >> how about senator...

Approval rating has improved. >> five points. >> since we started going through the supreme court back and forth. is this the kind of thing which is sustainable for the president? again, using democrats as a foil? >> christine and i talk often about the economy being so red hot right now. maybe too hot in some regards in terms of interest rates and dollar. sure, that helps the president. you know, i still think the house goes to the democrats. this tidal wave of 45-seat gain that the democrats w...

Senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and what he thinks this moment post kavanaugh means for the midterms. >> what i think this has done for us is provide the kind of adrenaline shot that we had not been able to figure out how to achieve in any other way. we see that movement. >> do you agree? will there be a brett bounce? can they sustain it for the next 29 days? >> it is good this morning, christine. i think the republicans have a foil. it is george soros and michael avenatti. not that they ...

Can candidates running for office. were seeing it, time again the trump is such an ever present part of our lives hes a foil for these democrats, for the liberals, gives them something to run against. its harder for the republicans, yes, kavanaugh gives them a boost, but for so many republicans, the trump administration has been, you know, perhaps a mixed bag. yes, you have two supreme court justices but you have day after day of drama. you have what happened in helsinki, what happened with the ...

Left, right, and middle. look at the mob-like tactics you played at the beginning and they reject that. >> the president likes a foil. he seems to find one in the mob of angry democrats as we call it. >> i think what we found is this whole kavanaugh episode has re-energized republicans. what its done is closed the gap between enthused democrats and enthused republicans. its not that one side is surging over the other. its just that both sides are pumped up. i think the question is will that enth...

Clearly its making a difference. >> it absolutely is. just as president trump is trying to create this foil and energize the party on the right, the democrats are completely fired up as kristen and jeff said with the idea that someone was put on the supreme court and theres a sense we dont know the full scope of his background. >> jeff. >> also interesting that the republican spokeswoman you were talking about the senate and not the house. maybe it is tighter for the democrats to have much hope ...

Ive been talking to, the protesters that ive been reporting on over the course of the last week, they dont really care that theres a backlash. theyre not so concerned that theres a backlash or purported backlash against what theyve been doing. yes, ted cruz and mitch mcconnell need a foil. both sides need a foil. weve heard the president and mitch mcconnell and lind a graham use harsh language to try to portray some of the pro fest testers as being out of line. they like to cast the contrast. th...