Mara Liasson

The thing about the anti-immigrant rhetoric, it's like a Swiss army knife.

It's useful for almost everything that the administration wants to do, foreign policy, domestic policy, undermining faith in American elections.

It's all pervasive.

But also don't ignore the fact that when you live in right-wing media, as the president does, as J.D.

Vance does, the constituency of people who are white nationalists and do respond positively to these messages is not insignificant.

You know, they might be very small compared to the general population, but they're an important part of the Republican constellation.

I'm Odette Youssef.

I cover domestic extremism.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

Well, it's so interesting because Democrats in general this cycle got the recruits they wanted.

And for a long time, Mills was the recruit they wanted.

In other words, they thought she's been a governor.

She's popular.

She had a famous standoff with Donald Trump in the White House.

So usually in the past couple of cycles, it's Republicans who would nominate candidates who are too far right or not –

good enough situated for a general election.

So that was the conventional wisdom for a while, that Mills was the right person to go against Collins.

Now Democrats just aren't sure.

Some of them say she's kind of fumbled the primary.

Even if she wins the primary, she might be so damaged that it will be hard for her to beat Collins.