John B. King Jr.: “The divide in the Republican Party is not healing, it is growing. And the distrust in the leadership is growing.”

Trump has persuaded his base, his voters, this is nothing. They're after me. They're out to get me and when they get me, they'll come for you.

It was a very strong speech. It was a forcefully delivered speech. It was in the president's wheelhouse, which is building alliances, which is a big contrast he wants to make with Donald Trump.

The majority of the Democrats I have spoken to by far, the vast majority thinks the president is in trouble.

Trump has changed the Republican Party and changed the electoral map in some ways as that has trended over.