Bob Casey: Trump’s Doing Well Because He’s Been Running Against Washington 24 Hours a Day

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CASEY: "Well, Mike, part of the -- part of the reason why the president has done fairly well lately in — and I think there a lot of people just don’t want to admit this but he’s been running against Washington 24 hours a day. The only institution in our country which is more unpopular than any politician is Washington. That’s always going to give him a lift in the economic realities I mentioned earlier. But to win our state, I’ve won six statewide elections. I’ve been doing this a while. You got to able to compete in those communities in the middle of the state which are more red. Increasingly southwestern Pennsylvania has become an area where it used to be overwhelmingly Democratic, now it’s not. But I think it’s entirely possible to do that and I’m living proof of that. In the last election we had a record turn out and a record performance numbers in both I did and Governor Wolf did in those communities that are suburban and urban for an off year election but we were also able to compete in those other communities. Part of that is the economic message, but part of it also I think on the issue of immigration is reminding people in those communities that when Democrats talk about broad immigration reform, part of that and a fundamental part of it is border security. I do think the latest debate we had over the last two months or so reminded people that Democrats have a strong position on effective border security. I think if you do that I think  you will be able to compete in addition to having that very, strong economic message which the president’s tax bill, I think, undermines."