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Rally about being a rally for trump. that was kind of the point. he was trying to transfer his support to the ballot, telling people that a vote for saccone was a vote for the trump agenda. and i've been talking to republicans all day about this, whether that support is in fact transferrable. they say it is going to be district by district. there are going to be districts where the president is going to be welcomed. people are going to wrap their arms around him. but other districts, like colorado for example. the house republican, democratic map runs through california and new york, new jerse...

Trump, but that was also kind of the point. he was trying to transfer his support down the ballot, telling them that a vote for saccone was a vote for the trump agenda, and i've been talking to republicans about their all day. and they're saying it is going to be district by district. there are going to be districts where the president is going to be welcomed. people are going to wrap their arms around him, but other districts like, you know, colorado for example. the house republican, democratic map runs through california and new york, new jersey, those are going to be very different. so rep...

>> of the electoral college. connecticut, everybody knows where connecticut is politically. florida is balanced right on knife point. which makes it a national lesson, a national litmus test here. you've got to look district by district. i'll take you to pittsburgh area, my hometown. that special race coming up march 13th. the democrat conner lamb who is a marine and who is a prosecutor, he's not going to put this at the forefront. >> that tells you what? >> it tells me that he's still got rural counties that he's got to try to win if he's going to pull off that major upset in that area. >> he...

Motivation. all right. dan? as we all know the republicans are facing a very tough year heading into the midterm elections. the republicans that i've been talking to believe that there's an opportunity and they're going to spend millions of dollars trying to do this, making a big bet on convincing people that the tax bill is good for them. every poll we've seen so far, most people think it's tilted toward the wealthy. it's improved a little bit in some of the recent polls but there's still a long way to go. they feel there's a story to tell and they're going to try to do it. if they fail the...

And it runs the risk of repeating some of the mistakes that democrats made in 2016 when they were positioned to take the white house and the senate and they failed to do either because they focused in part so much on their opposition to president trump, then candidate trump, and not enough on what they stood for as a party if impeachment becomes a central focus of the midterms. the democrats do risk falling into that same hole ifto they'r not focusing on their main message. >> let me ask you about how tricky of a spot republicans are findlinging themselves in, particularly those who are runnin...