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american experiment. thats also why democrats, particularly the president, need to be more focused on persuasion, rather than just condemnation. naming the problem we face is important, but it is not sufficient. why you cant reason people out of something they werent reasoned into, you can appeal to shared values and you can honor the republicans who protected the peaceful transfer of power. but the big picture is what we really need to keep in mind. defending democracy is a top concer...

Of people, border crime, inflation, are not good issues for the democrats, but some things are getting better. the presidents approval rating, were trying to do things relevant for you, who can win the tug of war over what matters most. >> it is interesting our friend scott jennings with me last night, he said there are two people who really want to be talking about donald trump right now. joe biden, and donald trump. and to an extent, you know, joe biden has created this opening for donald trum...

Id add one more thought to that. not only has he not reached out to broadier his base, as you say, he is the only press had the support. and can you win a second term if enough neff po stwrchl and as we all know, the lek tras expands out during the presidential years. and so in midterms voters are always older, theyre always more conservative and republicans get tutsily swm. got shellacked in 2018. so this strategy makes even less

Carry over. bill clinton got his butt kicked in 94 and pretty easily won reelection. president obama got shellacked, pretty easily won reelection. but the president lost republicans. the president was not on the ballot. the republican vote, they lost in the suburbs, their african-american numbers went down from the presidential election, latino numbers went down from the presidential election, the asian numbers went down from the presidential election, the white educated women number went down f...

Of these illegal aliens voting, theres illegal votes. remember, thats why he lost the popular vote to hillary clinton? millions of illegals -- they didnt. theres no such thing. thats a fraud and a farce. the presidents already saying that, planting the seeds that theres illegal voting out there. so hes making excuses, so somebody is telling him tomorrow is not going to be a good day. most republicans if you talk to them today, they say, were going to loose the house. the question is by how much....

Committee, this group that he founded with president obama, theyre fighting that battle. theyre trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolinas gerrymandered congressional map got ruled unconstitutional ...

Group who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22, but that 22, by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010, barack obamas first midterm, democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of pure retirements in 2010? it was 11. so, half the number we had now. go back to 2006, bushs second midterm. republicans got shellacked then, how many did you have? you had eight. so, if you w...

>> and thereby the president of the united states singlehandily revived the vernacular use of the word "shellacking," for all of us. but president obama was right about a real hazard of early presidencies. the same thing did happen to ronald reagan and to bill clinton in the first midterms of their presidencies. in reagans first midterm, republicans lost 26 seats in the house. >> ronald reagan was trying to be as upbeat as possible. still, it was a conciliatory president who met with reporters, ...

Time for this years midterm elections in november. and thats just one part of the multi-pronged strategy that eric holders group is working on this year. steve kornacki got the groups executive director to explain what that effort looks like now and what to expect next. >> so, when you look at the map, democrats trying to take, i think, 23 seats right now to get control of the house, where is gerrymandering, the gerrymandering you say republicans have done, where is that most prevalent on that s...

The seats that are up and analyzing the increase in disposable income in those areas of the country where the seats are up, the donald j. trump tax cut. in the senate, its a little different because the seats better up there, we will have to see what happens. senator corker as an example. but i still think they maintain their lead in the senate but they really do keep the house. by a reasonable margin. if you go to 2006, to use president obamas words, got shellacked. in this case i dont think th...