picking fights with individuals that before this presidency were considered off limits for good reason. gold star families and say at the end of the year think who we want to be off limits and not be normalized. joy reid, i m going to say it again. it s what we do on tv, tim. drive things into the ground. yes. joy just said, so everyone heard, yes, you do, ari. more life, more joy. joy, tim, thank you very much. thank you, friend. coming up, even trump supporters experiencing something that s called trump exhaustion. democrats think it could help next year. to design the leesa mattress we asked, if sleep is essential to happiness, what s essential to sleep? the answer, three premium whoooo.
voters in red america have had enough. in a new interview, joe trippy to lead doug jones to the improbable victory in alabama this month talks about what voters including republicans were saying about trump exhaustion. i think what s going on is trump, even with his own supporters who like him, he s created enough hostility and chaos that they don t want more of it. they can tolerate it with him but they don t want more. they really want people to work together. and that feeling of potential exhaustion or fed up with the chaos also evident not just in joe trippi s theory but trump voter who is spoke to emery university researchers in august. take a listen. remember. everything you re hearing from people who voted for trump. he has got to be his own worst enemy. he he he couldn t be any
do you think this trump exhaustion actually can win people over? i mean, it s clearly that s part of what took place in alabama, ari, that, you know, folks are exhausted with the chaotic sort of coverage of the trump presidency. but also, the chaotic actions of this administration. that s everything from the russia investigation to the ways in which he interacts with the media, to the ways in which he tries to generate and or create policy. we have to remember that part of the big story in alabama is african-americans coming out to vote. so it s actually both of those things that i think are really, really important for 2018 midterm election that is there s a base and men and women, a combination of that paired with trying to appeal to folk who is are absolutely exhausted. w the trump administration at this time. larry? look. alabama was an extreme case because of an extreme candidate.
drive things into the ground. yes. joy just said, so everyone heard, yes, you do, ari. more life, more joy. joy, tim, thank you very much. thank you, friend. coming up, even trump supporters experiencing something that s called trump exhaustion. democrats think it could help next year. get awesomely fast wifi
that republicans who would never ordinarily vote for a democrat, i ll vote for somebody who wants to try to find common ground and get things done for me even if they re a democrat. and trust me. a lot of people in alabama had to do that. right? that s, i think, a winning message in a lot of these swing districts. there aren t that many swing districts that are plus 28 trump out there. i m joined by larry sabato of university of virginia center for politics and james peterson at lehigh university and host of the podcast the remix and a msnbc contributor. james peterson, remix the facts for us. do you think this trump exhaustion actually can win people over? i mean, it s clearly that s part of what took place in alabama, ari, that, you know, folks are exhausted with the