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From driving them out from underneath the rocks they came and exposing them for the horrific human beings they are. >> let's hope so, joe. donald trump made it very clear to all of us that we're not living in a post racial america and many of us knew that for some time. and what donald trump did yesterday he's very aware, he knows exactly what he's doing. basically what you, joe and mika were saying, he's running a base election. he's just doubling down. he basically traded in his racist dog whistle for a racist bullhorn. and a megaphone. this is what he does. just think about this. in the 199...

Will be a base election. there's always a base election. if he can get the people fired up in the right states, it comes down to ten states. how is trump going to do in the ten swing states that decide the election. you look at the recent polls, democrats are writing off florida and ohio and saying wisconsin will be a battleground, maybe the deciding state. i would say look the at ten states, how is he messaging and polling there. i think he's doing pretty well there. >> rashad, can democrats actually overcome this strong economy that works in favor of trump if they start winning over swing vo...

States. i don't remember how many he lost. >> a couple of them twice. >> exactly. >> do you that i is happening? >> i think the danger of that, but what i do want to point out is that there is a sentiment in the party that we sure tried hard at different times to reach out to moderate, to try to accommodate other concerns and it didn't work out. so now, look, here's the deal. we have a base election possibly coming up in 2020. i think there is a dispair and resignation and cynicism you can move anybody away from trump. instead, he has a fired up base on crazy -- trump is running on crazy ideas...

>> i got the sense the first night of the can bait the candidates had decided other than julian castro the goal was to introduce themselves to the country and all about kbukz and telling people who they are rather than demonstrating here is what it would look like if i took on donald trump. julian castro did have a smart strategy last night. he understood his lane. only one of those texas candidates can emerge victorious. two of them cannot remain in the race. so he decided to go after beto o'rourke with guns blazing and i think it was a smart strategy. tonight i think the strategy was a lot s...

Pulling hard on it. florida is a state where you have the margin for the top of the ticket races have been decided by 1.2 percentage points. i would not expect that to be any different in 2020. but as we discussed here, what we are looking at is a base election. what the president will be relying on is a very strong white vote. this campaign does see margins with hispanic voters, latino voters. they will be rolling out a latino coalition to further that agenda. >> marc caputo, thank you, my friend. we will see you next week. juana, i ask you to stay where you are. the white house makes the c...