Page 12 - Base Strategy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Democrats have historically not made this place look like the supreme court and those kinds of appointments. the number one test of voting. donald trump didn't win democrat in his election for presidency. he won independent. and i think what we saw with independents in november was that his comments on charlottesville, on immigration, his activities around the divisiveness went too far. i think we're going to see that again in this next election. that democrats and independents are going to reject the social war that the president and his alus have started. >> go ahead. >> this whole base stra...

Of the national emergency. among republicans, 85% approve of the president's majority of independents, 63% that disapprove of this. considering the lack of partisan backlash for the president here, politically does he have that much to lose here if he ends up losing in court? >> in some ways he might be better off losing in court because of his base, an important caveat, because of the various fighting. he doesn't want to be the dog that catches the car, have to implement this. and the independent numbers remind me of this, it is a base strategy. once again he is going after his base. taking w...

Sean hannity trying to tell them, this is what we're going to do, how i feel about it and why you should back it. >> his pride is not the only thing on the line. his political capital is on the line. the idea he'd come out of this fight with basically a worse deal than he started with, that $1.6 billion that was on the table coming out of the senate committee in november. the idea that he would actually have taken a step back after all of this is the kind of thing that would lead us to believe that this is a weakened president. and so, you know, it seems somewhat thin-skinned and petty to be r...

Center to the rest of the nation. he was clear about where he wanted to go with this speech and he hit those areas well. particularly the abortion piece. the way he laid down the message on abortion on the heels of what was coming out of virginia i thought was expert. i saw the effect online, i got did in e-mails -- >> the base strategy, i get it. >> it resonated like you will not believe. >> but that is still not 50% of the country. >> here is the calculation. donald trump if he gets that 38, 42, 45 in the next few months into the year, he feels that independent vote that is up for grabs will...

That's something they talked about. we'll see if he mentions it tomorrow in the state of the union address. in some ways, this is what americans wanted when they voted in 2018, they wanted to put a check on the president. and those 40 folks who flooded into the house and flipped it in nancy pelosi's favor, this is, in some ways, what they wanted. >> what do you make of what nia and errol are saying here. as we head into the state of the union and what the president chooses to say and if high chooses to try to reach across the aisle or expand beyond his 40%, what do you think it says about what...