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Montana is certainly in reach. and also republicans nominated a candidate who is a very out of touch 1 percenter, while the democrat is this very popular folk musician running a populist campaign. it's almost the perfect matchup that you would want in state like that. and it could definitely be in play. >> david, the last time you and i talked, one of the things we discussed was the discussion of whether or not there is a split between the democratic party and its activist base as personified more than anybody. i think by daily coast, by your community there is this a fight on the democratic s...

Follow the small money. that's where stuff is really happening and republicans should be afraid. >> montana, it's interesting. montana is not one congressional district but its whole state. montana has been very happy to elect statewide democratic candidates. they've had a democratic governor for more than a decade. jon tester has been reelected more than twice, been reelected for the senate seat. you can look at montana and say donald trump won there by a lot. but it seems very much a reachable goal for the democrats if they can sort of come up with a big push for it. >> i definitely agree wi...

It was not reassuring at all a. we looked at his record and his decisions. hobby lobby, where all of a sudden, very expanded rights for corporation to have religious rights over the rights of thousands of employees, female employees of hobby lobby who suddenly were not going to get this kind of insurance coverage. >> so respond to an alternate thee theory of what happened. this is a substantive decision i've come to and my colleagues have come ton the merits. it's about his judicial philosophynd another way of viewing this, he's tremendous organized pressure to put on democratic by the activis...

And make it more like the house of representatives, where everything is a simple majority. is the opposition that democrats show to neil gorsuch, rebecca, is it genuine, or is it revenge for the way merrick garland was treated in the final year of the obama presidency? >> if you take them at their word, wolf, it's genuine. senator warner just said gorsuch was too extreme, he didn't answer questions to the satisfaction of democrats. okay, that's fair enough, we can take democrats at their word there. but part of this is definitely about merrick garland. and part of this is about politics. democ...

Trump. i think that what you see with the press conference today as well as the rally coming up in florida. he is borrowing a page from the reagan strategy. taking his message outside of the beltway audience which is not very sympathetic to him. either tait's capitol hill, the press corps. k-street. that's not where he's going to do great. he'll go back to the activist base of the republican party and activate them to drive the narrative for the next few days. i think you saw the two things working together in concert either by design or not. that's what's happening. he is taking the message o...