Steve Schmidt: 2020 Is ‘the Most Significant’ Election Since 1864 When the Question Was ‘Whether We Would Prevail in the Civil War’

SCHMIDT: “This is a big moment in the history of the country. I think this is the most significant midterm election in American history. And we’re heading into a presidential election, which is the most significant since the election of 1864, when the question that was really on the ballot was whether we were going to continue to be one country, whether we would prevail in the civil war. So this is a big moment. And if the Democratic strategists are sitting around, all this other stuff doesn’t matter. I think they’re missing the larger point. The attacks on America’s institutions, the assaults on the rule of law, the personal degeneracy of Donald Trump, we look at the meanness, the corruption, the cruelty, the ability to call this out for what it is. I think it’s fundamental for the Democratic Party achieving what I think would be a very significant wave. And by the way, to say explicitly and directly to Republican college educated women, for example, 'we know that you don’t agree with us on every issue.' But on these big things, the couple of things that matter most to us as Americans transcend any partisan difference. And we must join together in this country to put a check on this. That, to me, is the compelling message.”