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Gets on board. we're not even talking about any democratic defection. >> like the deb fischers and john thunes of the world who said i'm not going to support him, i think he should step aside, but he didn't so i'm going to vote for him? >> if you suddenly decided not to support donald trump, you would have a hard problem with your base. if you assume donald trump is going to lose in november and lose by a big margin, history is not going to look very kindly on where you were on this. so, again, there are a lot of cross-pressures. i think some are just deciding i'm still going to vet with the p...

>> well, certainly off of the eventual nominee, it takes pressure off, because that deal would ensure that we don't have a debt crisis and we don't have a government shutdown between now and the next presidential election. i would expect that we are going to see some of the candidates on the stage come out very hard against it. don't know if anybody will defend it. that will be a key marker. somebody could actually stand out by saying hey, government's averting crisis and calming the financial markets, that's a good thing, i'm for it. it tests a lot of the cross-pressures within the current re...

At the polls? >> it very well -- it probably will. i mean, you know, the polls are what they are, but there's a lot of people are angry and upset at the obama administration policies and what it's doing to coal. listen, there's a -- the southwest part of the state, a very coal-dependent economy. now, cross-cutting against that is, as you know, the obama campaign has been really forceful in portraying mitt romney as like this rich, you know, out of touch plutocrat -- gregg: right. >> -- private equity guy, so there's cross-pressures on a lot of these guys between, you know, like, anger over wha...