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From the root.com and msbc contributor. john podder ritz and jason. the president will try to find a way to declare victory with any of these. he's doing it in ohio tonight. maybe the republican party will be happy with that one. in can is if kobach were to win this thing, that is something the republican establishment doesn't want to see. >> the president is still the biggest loudest voice for the republican party. he can claim victories tonight and he has proven he can be successful in moving people in primaries. apparently trumpism only works for donald trump. people who push that kind of a...

Working on making a platform other than we are not for trump. it is meant to focus on fighting corruption, lowering prescription drug costs to name a few of the items. a big question is, does the message even matter? will the race be fought entirely on the margins of enthusiasm? and how do democrats stoke and maintain that? joining me now, jason john, msnbc political contributor and politics editor at the root.com. here's what i thought was interesting. you followed, warner is running for her first re-election in her state of massachusetts where she is not expected to have too hard a time. she...

Politics editor at the root.com. here's what i thought was interesting. you followed, warner is running for her first re-election in her state of massachusetts where she is not expected to have too hard a time. she is traveling around the country and engaging in day to day, this is what our message is, and what is that? >> it is about a fight. it is trying to pull in the masses who are trying to see her. whether she is going to fundraising events, to conventions, whether she is giving her own town halls in massachusetts or at protests which is an important thing she's been doing. she's been ch...

Congress that he supports the so-called immigration compromise bill between republicans and the slightly less extremist wing of congressional republicans. the compromised bill was not a compromise between republicans and democrats. it was a compromise between republicans and republicans. and donald trump backed down and changed positions three times on that one bill, which is to say he backed down three times on this bill before it failed in the house. how is that for backing down? we have never seen anything like it. donald trump is the weakest president we have ever seen because no president...

The root.com and msnbc contributor. jason, how did it happen? bob corker complaining about his republican senate colleagues as a cult at this point. >> you know, the republican branding to cult 45 has been going for a couple of years now, this idea that you can get elected, that you can be in power, that you can push through policy, not because of some long existing principle, but because personality that people like. and the republican party has been pushing for this for years, right? this goes back to reagan. there was a cult we were talking about all the way up to romney. a couple of years ...