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What -- their one accomplishment, the tax plan, has become increasingly unpopular in polls. a large number say they're not sure how they feel about it. they resulted to a base play, a trump-inspired base play, which is not good -- not only is it not good for the country, it's not lood r go-- not good for th long term health of the republican party. their view of the record as you were talking about hawley in missouri and other candidates, that's what is left. and voters are seeing through it. things like health care transcend party lines. i'm not surprised about what karen is seeing because ev...

Sure how they feel about it. they resulted to a base play, a trump-inspired base play, which is not good -- not only is it not good for the country, it's not lood r -- not good for the long term health of the republican party. their view of the record as you were talking about hawley in missouri and other candidates, that's what is left. and voters are seeing through it. things like health care transcend party lines. i'm not surprised about what karen is seeing because everybody has health care challenges for themselves and their family. >> the question, jason, does reality help. can you look ...

Senators so he can inject enthusiasm. it's interesting when you look at the states where the presidential was tighter like wisconsin, if you look at where president trump was going next week, he's going as far away from any major metropolitan areas that have big democratic bases and also swing republican voters, he's going to the sent over the state where you have more rural republican voters and that's a base play to boost enthusiasm, he can't go, though, to these areas where you have the swing independent or moderate republicans that will be important to these candidates. >> the arizona camp...

Moment. >> it seems unnecessary in the moment, it seemed bad, if your target is three undecided republican senators. >> two of which are women. >> yeah. >> last time i checked, right? >> you know, yes, it might be a base play, but maybe there aren't any women left in america to turn off, but i don't think that that's true. so, that's number one, and number two, why be so resistant on the fbi investigation and why once you've been bludgeoned into an fbi investigation by jeff flake, why not do just a little bit of a better job so you can take away that argument from democrats? >> you know, on tr...

Turf that very conservative members of congress will want to fight on. i'm not so sure that it works for members in swing districts where you're really going to need to win voters over on your ideas. i think that making this about a knock-down, drag-out violent fight with the left is not really something that a lot of centrist voters are going to respond to. republicans have seen those numbers and they know that. this is really a base play here. >> charlie, let's talk about where donald trump sort of comes into this thing. because he sort of gets involved when he thinks somebody is going to wi...