Page 5 - Hardcore Base News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Kornacki. kacie, your very presence there is giving us reminders we'll all be sitting the trail soon for good, still 21 months out before the next general election. let me ask you about bernie sanders. in the first 3 1/2 hours after this announcement became public, his campaign was touting more than a million dollars in donations, most of them coming from small donors here. the bottom line is there's certainly still some energy among bernie's base, as it were, but circumstances are different as bernie sanders enters the race this time around, aren't they? >> they absolutely are, peter. but you...

I let you down on my definitive campaign issue, on these other issues i'm still with you. >> phil rucker, is there any sense that anyone at the white house is sort of, sees a flashing yellow light around just the transactional nature of all these pledges, that if the wall isn't built, have they drawn the calculation that their voters aren't going to leave them? does it represent any sort of hubris or concern among the bannon wing, the people in the president's ear, he's now breaking promises not to the country, not to everyone he's supposed to govern, but to the hardcore base? >> yeah, that's ...

Partial government shutdown continues on. democrats flatly rejecting the president's proposal to reopen government. who would you say has the stronger hand in this present tug of war? >> that's the right question, george. we're in a tug of war. the president has himself between a rock and a hard place. the longer this thing goes on the more he loses support among mainstream america. but if he compromises too much with the democrats he's going to lose the support of his hardcore base, which already is fearful he's going to cut a deal that grants amnesty to illegal aliens. so he's got himself in...

That's just the reality. there may be people coming in who won in republican districts -- >> let him finish. >> i've been here. i've been here when we took the majority and we came in here and we wanted to pass things and we wanted to do things, we won on democratic turf, and we found out there's a hardcore base within our caucus who said we want to do this. and that's what's going to -- they're going to run into this in the democratic caucus in the house. i guarantee it. >> i just -- >> it doesn't matter who came in. it's who's there. >> only thing i want to say -- >> the hardcore left. >> on...

I think lisa murkowski's the one under the most pressure in alaska from the governor and lieutenant governor. but i think that is how you do it. also we know that senator heitkamp. and senator manchin under enormous political pressures in their states. so i think that's how you do it. >> ashley, about that place you cover for a living, if this goes either way, how can this not split us further apart as a country? how can this not increase our tribalism? >> well, it's a great question. it's not one that this white house is particularly concerned with. this is a president who came in and unlike ...