MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell August 21, 2019 05:11:00
Republican turnout surged even though there was no real catalyst to make it surge. and that's what i talk about in my 2020 forecast, learning from 2018 that trump was able to actually artificially inflate or, you know, manifest that negative partisanship emotion in the republican electorate and unbeknownst to most people, that's what the campaign strategy is. so when you look at what trump is doing, when he seems to be working at cross purposes, you know, talking about the squad, what he's trying to do is keep that republican emotion really high and it certainly did work for him in 2018. even ...