Evan McMullin: Trump Learned in 2016 He ‘Could Fire Up His Base with an Anti-Immigrant Message’

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MCMULLIN: "Well, yeah. Sadly, I think they do work to a degree with his base. And I think he learned this lesson in 2016 that he could fire up his base with an anti-immigrant message, with a bigoted message. Not everyone in the Republican Party was onboard for that, but a lot of people were. Other decided to turn a blind eye towards it. He learned that another point of leverage was, of course, the Supreme Court. He has leverages that once again. So he's going to back to this old playbook. And I wish I could tell you, Don that it is not going to work with his base this time, but I think it is. The important difference that I hope for, that I and my organizations are fighting for is to hold on to people in the Republican Party who are not -- who are opposed to Trump. And it may only be 10, 15, 20 percent. But we want to keep them from being pulled into the partisan tribe again in this context. They sort of have exited it in recent months, and Trump is trying to pull them back with this. We want to bring them into a cross partisan coalition of them, independents, and Democrats to defeat, you know, bigots like Steve King and to restore the separation of powers in Congress."