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President obama, very popular, not so great with midterms. >> and that issue was, to some extent, that president obamas core base was not a regularly voting base, right? donald trumps core base is a regular voting base, which plays to his and his partys advantage. >> are they entirely? >> yes, he has this core base of people -- >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> the democrats have so many more places to prospect voters versus the republicans. >> thats hard. >> it is hard, but people are on the groun...

Couple of different reasons. women have been deeply underrepresented in electoral politics. >> it is nuts. >> its crazy. and therefore -- and were at it and were at a point in the country where the country is going in the wrong direction. when youre the people who grow the berries, put it in the pie and put the pie in the oven, you think you should be able to decide what kind of pie youre baking. the country is going in the wrong direction on a wide range of issues. women are being much more and...

Bankers, door -- like that is where the energys coming from. >> completely true. and not that surprising for a couple of different reasons. women have been deeply underrepresented in electoral politics. >> it is nuts. >> its crazy. and therefore -- and were at i. and were at a point in the country where the country is going in the wrong direction. when youre the people who grow the berries, put it in the pie and put the pie in the oven, you think you should be able to decide what kind of pie you...

Everybodys focused on the president and on whats happening in washington. so that ron desantis was responding to that. how intentional was his strategy, his campaign seems to make it appear that their focus was on fox and trump. thats where they understood primary voters are. did it look intentional to you covering the race. >> it didnt matter whether -- it looked intentional, because it was intentional. they basically acknowledged that, they kind of scoffed a little disdainfully at the suggesti...

Was on fox and trump. thats where they understood primary voters are. did it look intentional to you covering the race. >> it didnt matter whether -- it looked intentional, because it was intentional. they basically acknowledged that, they kind of scoffed a little disdainfully at the suggestion that one could win an election in florida by doing a lot of rotary meetings and meet and greets. and bbqs, this was very much about reaching that fox audience. >> putnam was out there doing that. >> there...

Parties, most importantly its an incredible deal, and my farmers have stuck with me as i said we were going to do this. and they will work on that very hard. >> that goes right to the voting base. the farmers who have been hurt with retaliatory tariffs from the likes of china. >> they talked about the tariffs on seafood, and as far as looking towards the midterms, the interesting thing about this is there will be turned over in mexico. they have a new president-elect and it takes 90 days to go t...

If an illegal alien doesnt, we have an establishment that wants to excuse it. the fact is he got into this country. he shouldnt have. we should be able to secure our borders. thats the most basic -- these are the most basic drops of any government. to secure a countrys borders, protect its people. we are feeling that thats a choice of a significant number of the members of our establishment. a choice not to enforce these laws because many of them want illegal immigration. >> shannon: is that fai...

Individuals in the hispanic and latino communities. making the assumption that there can a blanket they put on one issue. you have many other nuances, including faith. many of them are catholic. they are not a monolithic voting base. there are a number of us who respect the job that is done by our law enforcement and i.c.e., that want to see some kind of conference of immigration reform that includes strengthening the borders. is it abolish i.c.e. or build a wall? we need to find a middle ground...

Narrative the democrats want to flood the country with illegal immigrants because somehow this is going to become our voting base in 2020. of the grant amnesty to these people we get a new voting base. >> that is making the assumption immigrants of any stripe particularly usually in this context talking about individuals from the hispanic and latino communities is going to blankly vote on one issue. many other nuances include faith, many of them are catholic, they are not a monolithic voting bas...

Taken place. what does it show? >> this week we asked about foreign relations. whether they think president trumps actions abroad are preventing countries from pushing us around or damaging potential alliances. found majority of americans think trump is going too far. 56%, doing too much damaging alliances. breaks these into voting groups, splits amongst party lines. african-american women, young people, never hillary independents voted for trump because they voted against hillary clinton last y...