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The president said over and over we have a strong economy. but based on this reporting in these counties, that's the same economy obama gave us. a strong economy for some but not for others. >> mostly demographic counties. if you look at the counties gaining population, it is overwhelmingly democratic which voted for obama and hillary clinton. the counties which losing voters are these flip marginal counties. and the republican counties are kind of in the middle. so the strong republican base is doing okay. the democratic base is actually doing extremely well. and it's the middle base, the fli...

Wasn't even close. wasn't even close. how does that happen? that's one of the lessons that joe biden is trying to learnings bun of the messages he's trying to sell. one other quick look where he'll be. he'll be down here as well in henry county. look at the side of the president's victory here in 2016. i'm going to go back and show you 2012. obama lost, one of the places obama lost but margins here, in a close race the margins matter and obama runs relatively close, six points there to mitt romney. hillary clinton 30 points there, so biden going to the places that flipped, going to the places ...

Embarrassing, the changing story is stupid, the changing story is a mistake, but until the story changes into a specific fact, that makes it a violation. it looks horrible, but it is still not a violation of rule, regulation, laws, statutes. >> bret: you look at those bulls and of course trump supporters may save polls didn't work in the election, why do they work now? but i found those counties really interesting. if the flip counties, the search counties. if there is still strong support for the president even this environment where he is under siege. >> you can't say his poll numbers are go...

You can see the change from september 2016. approval of 39%, 52%. interesting poll from "the wall street journal" ." for the counties that voted for donald trump and the approval, disapproval. the flip counties, these are counties that went for president obama and flipped to president trump in this election. you see the disapprove, 51-44 and the search counties, these are ones that surged to big numbers for donald trump. you can see he's holding strong mayor, 56-40. let's bring in our panel, look at all the elements today. michael crowley, julie pace, white house correspondent for the associat...

Trump's approval rating in those counties is 56%. enthose flip counties, wilkes-barre, lucerne county that went for obama in 2012 but ended up breaking for donald trump in 2016, his approval rating is at 44%. so a bit of a difference in those two divot types of trump counties. here is one other story line, ali. there's been an erosion in support in both of these types of counties. in the surge counties won by the margin, 69% he won now approval rating at 56%, similarly in the flip areas he was able to win combined 51-43% against hillary clinton. that 50% winning margin his approval rating at 4...