New Jersey Democratic congressman Donald Norcross and New York Times' columnist Brett Stephens told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle that while Trump may be denying everything said in both Bob Woodward's book and the anonymous New York Time's op-ed, the series of leaks only "reconfirms what we've been hearing literally for years now." Neither expected the new revelations to have any impact on Republican voters or leadership.
"My colleagues, privately, I hear them say 'the guy's nuts, but why would we throw him out,'" said Norcross. "'We're getting everything we ever dreamt of'. And now the Holy Grail, the Supreme Court decision of bringing in Kavanaugh. They've hit the lottery."
Stephens agreed, saying, "the heart of the book simply confirms what anyone who has spent any time with Donald Trump, met him in any sort of setting, should know right away. The sense of the lack of principle. The extraordinary lack of basic information. The inability to reason his way through any argument."
Stephens predicted that both the growing number of exposés will have "a decisive effect on the midterms", arguing that that the Republican party doesn't need to worry about faithful Trump supporters so much as marginal voters. "You are going to convince the people who struggled really hard in 2016 between Hillary Clinton, not liking her, and Donald Trump, not liking him and suddenly saying, 'you know what, this guy, we've been in Crazytown for too long,'" Stephens said.
That number of voters, Stephens warned, was vanishingly small. "That's not that many voters. That's the thing that ought to worry Republicans," he said. "We're talking about maybe 100,000 or 200,000 voters could create a wave election."
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