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>> his comments today courteous and positive toward santorum were good. he needs to, in order to bring the people aboard he needs to keep it focused on obama. the thing that unites all the people there. gingrich people, you know, bachmann people, santorum people. they want obama out of there. it's aimed at the swing voters will motivate. >> bob: but the demographics of the race play themselves out consistently throughout. romney had his particular people who were if you want to call it establishment, i don't like that word. but nonetheless, very conservative base voted against him consistently...

Needle. i know you collect the numbers, but what is behind it? >> first of all he had a good night and trying to carve out a unique niche. but jon hunts man tried to compete in the establishment primary and there is it establishment and outsider's wing. and mitt romney just ran a campaign jugar naught. he wrapped up that vote and anything huns man can do mitt romney does better and there was not enough oxygen for the hunts man campaign and hard to see what would change for that. and geraldo, there is not a big ceiling for mitt romney. his support stays about the same. >> and it stays kelly ann...

It? >> first of all he had a good night and trying to carve out a unique niche. but jon hunts man tried to compete in the establishment primary and there is it establishment and outsider's wing. and mitt romney just ran a campaign jugar naught. he wrapped up that vote and anything huns man can do mitt romney does better and there was not enough oxygen for the hunts man campaign and hard to see what would change for that. and geraldo, there is not a big ceiling for mitt romney. his support stays about the same. >> and it stays kelly ann 1-5th of the republicans that are polled and he's not movi...

Base out, inward out. that's what they're going to pivot off of in 2018. even though trump has proved himself to be unpopular with democrats and a lot of swing voters, he has given establishment republicans what they want in the form of the tax cut bill. and he's giving his hard core base what they want in terms of the right enemies. he's put his finger in the eye of it establishment, political correctness and been a spokesman or tribune for a base that wanted to quote, unquote, make america great again, i e, bring america back to a pastime. and people have stuck with him even though his base ...

>> that's the central question and context of all of this matters. doing it on a day not when washington was quiet, not when nothing was going on. the central thing happening in washington around the country and indeed around the world which he knows because he consumes media were all these other protests so i think he wanted to, you know, sort of game the refs a little bit by talking about his crowd sizes. an interesting window into how we all sort of assess this new president came from a friend of his last night on cnn, tom barrett, who came on and said he said the way he interacts is differ...