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PSAKI: “I think it’s probably an effective message for his base. There’s no doubt about that. And clearly, factually, the Kavanaugh hearing and Kavanaugh getting confirmed really rallied his base, and made his base I think the facts are important here. So I’m just going to state them. The job growth has been the case for six years. The job growth was actually better in the last year of the Obama presidency than it was in the first year of the trump presidency. So he’s benefitting from that. The reality is that a good economy is good for politics, for the person in charge. So there’s a lot of factors at play. It may work with his base, but on the democratic side, the big message Democrats are running on very effectively is health care and Republicans taking away health care. That is universally the message for the effective campaigns. They’re continuing to run on that. And that’s not something he has a good answer on.”