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That's not the point. >> well, the issue here is really that, i mean, if you look at 2016 and 2018, a majority of the country rejected this stuff. >> yes. correct. >> trump went hard on it in 2016 and most americans voted for the other candidate. he went even harder on it in 2018. and he lost the house. the problem is is that his coalition is ideally geographically -- >> correct. >> distributed. which makes it difficult because democrats have to appeal not to -- it's not so much that the people on the coasts that they have to win, it's these people in the middle who might be more inclined to f...

The racist invective we see from him is not popular with american voters. a recent poll found that registered voters massively disapprove of his handling of race relations with trump 25 percentage points underwater. last week, anti-racism educator tim wise wrote about his time working to defeat david duke when the former kkk grand wizard was running for senator and governor of louisiana on the gop ticket in the early 1990s. mainstream democratic consultants urged the anti-duke pac that he worked for not to just focus on racism, saying that doing so played into duke's hands, allowed him to set ...

Duke was because he's running his '90 campaign and he's going to do it again in 2020 and he's going to count on the injured feelings of his voters. >> that's a great point. >> he's counting on them feeling under siege from criticisms from democrats on trump's record on race. >> they already do. >> to empower them to the polls. they already do. it's true. i can't tell you whether this strategy is going to work. i can tell you that it's not magic. >> right. >> it's not genius. it is oldest type of politics in american history. >> yeah, it's literally, like, the oldest kind of politics the countr...

That doing so played into duke's hands, allowed him to set the agenda. the lesson that tim drew was focuses on the racism was the best way to beat trump in 2020, the same way he helped beat trump in 1991. tim wise joins me now along with a staff writer at "the atlantic" who has written about the unprecedented danger to the core of america -- it's not a moral choice. i think everyone was very clear about who david duke is, right? so the question is how do you beat david duke in the state of louisiana? what kind of race do you run against him and the sort of tactical decisions that were made whe...

And development in queens that was sanctioned by the justice department for turning away representative tenants of color. they were turned away solely because of their race and not because of their income. most of these people could have afforded to live in the project field being reviewed for. trump comes from a world that was happily segregated and he wants to return to that world. that's where he's most comfortable. >> google it if you have a chance. that was new york when donald trump was coming up in new york when he was making himself a famous man. tim, tiffany, dana and karine and timot...