WMAL Interview - LANNY DAVIS - 11.10.17

INTERVIEW - LANNY DAVIS - former Special counsel to President Clinton, columnist for The Hill newspaper and author of forthcoming book to be published early next year: “The Unmaking of the President 2016: How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency”

TOPIC: Democrats have been doing a victory dance after the Virginia election

Lanny writes in his latest column in The Hill that President Trump's base is shrinking: "The latest polls show that Trump and his core political advisors who celebrate how well he is doing with his “base” are wrong. His base is shrinking – every week, every month.

The big Democratic win Tuesday night by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, rejecting the Ed Gillespie campaign, which tried to out-Trump Trump in its hateful, fear-mongering, misleading ads, means Trumpism without Trump has been repudiated. The Democratic win was statewide – not only lieutenant governor and attorney general, but also, substantial gains in the state legislature.

Donald Trump can lie to himself and everyone else that this wasn’t a personal repudiation of his presidency. But alternative facts won’t work here. Turn out among Trump base voters was down."