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>> again, joe biden shows himself to be a security blanket. >> that's so negative. >> is it? everybody loves a security blanket. >> when you're 1 year old you do. >> no, many people wrap themselves in that and move forward with it. but the idea is this, that he's not offering anything that is a spark. >> i agree. >> that is different than donald trump. he is -- he is offering the other side of the coin, which is problematic to me. he is still talking to the white working class, right, in a way that they are the only people that we need to be getting a vote from, and i'm saying to myself, why? ...

Congresswomen that president trump described as anti-american. democrats did, indeed, defend them, but because the resolution used the term "racist," republicans seized the opportunity to complain about decorum rather than having to answer for the president's comments directly. watch this. >> this institution, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president's racist tweets. >> we shouldn't get into personality conflicts on this floor. we shouldn't be trying to accuse people of one thing or another disparagingly on this floor. >> there is racism coming out of the white hou...

Racism. >> in the end, speaker pelosi was found to have broken the house rules, but the measure passed. the first house resolution to condemn a u.s. president in more than 100 years. but the vote was split, 240 to 187, with only four republicans and one independent voting for it. and that, according to the president, was enough for him to declare victory. let's bring in nbc's peter alexander at the white house, kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. peter, the president, what is he saying today? >> reporter: we're going to see the president a little later today when he heads off to north carolina wh...

Republican-leaning district just north of minneapolis, and she has voted with the president 97% of the time. indiana voted for trump by 19 points in 2016, and we've really seen that margin decay over the last several years. his approval rating here is just plus 1 positive, so roughly 18 points he's dropped by, and i think republican representative susan brooks, her vote to condemn the president was really a sign of that fracturing. again, like the other states mentioned, all the other hoosier republicans in the delegation did not vote to condemn the president. so he still has a grip on republi...

With people who support him already. >> he always gets negative news coverage. why is it so many republicans are united in defending the president? is it you look at those poll numbers, and they go up? are constituents, all those members of the gop, saying they, too, share these values that the president puts forward? >> it's the nature of our politics these days, stephanie, and it's unfortunate. we have about 40% of the country that's firmly with the president that's going to excuse just about anything he does, another 40% that rejects everything about the president. it's that 20% that's goin...