party, they want to ostracize more moderate democrats who may have cost hillary clinton the election? absolutely. the republicans would prefer keith ellison, they think he is more an advocate on the left so they can paint the whole party on the left. one of the tells that recently occurred yesterday, the rnc put out an oppo hit against tom perez, one of the front runners for the dnc and ellison s opponent. they would rather it be ellison than perez. then again, i think trump sort of getting behind ellison, if you re a dnc member, that probably does not help ellison in the end. maybe he should you have said tom perez is the bomb or something, right? he has some labor roots, maybe that s someone donald trump doesn t want to be dealing with as well. david, molly, thank you so much, really appreciate it. and we do have a reminder that the democratic leadership debate is on tonight. that s going to be live at 10:00 eastern here on cnn. in just minutes, president
donald trump tweeting this morning, one thing i will say about keith ellison in his fight who predicted early i would ne win. how does that endorsement ring foreith ellison as he s trying to head up the dnc? donald trump is not wrong. i think we ve all seen the clip where keith ellison predicted donald trump would win the republican nomination and people laughed at him. republicans obviously want keith ellison to be the leader, they think that would be good for them, they think he s so extreme, his trouble with various anti-jewish situations they think they can exploit. david, when you look at that, is part of this in line with what we re seeing from for instance mitch mcconnell and congressional republicans who say, yeah, elizabeth warren is the voice of the democratic