joining me now, sara longwell republican strategist and national chairwoman of the log cabin republicans, and alexander hefner, host of "open mind" on pbs. sara, the fox news poll says he's losing to the top four democrats. he has a 57% negative approval rating. how do republicans win with this if this holds to be true? this is, again, a fox news poll. >> yeah. it has been a bad few weeks for the president and really starting to show up in the polling. but the polling is not what's going make them the most nervous. what they are the most nervous about is this softening in the economy because if this economy goes south on him, trump's chances for re-election in 2020 are doomed and they know that. that's why you see this week the kind of panicking, all the going after jerome powell and harbor ranging the federal reserve demanding they need to cut interest rates because they have to juice this economy going into 2020 or trump doesn't stand a chance. >> when you look at the global economic picture it's not encouraging because we're seeing some recessions or moving towards recessions in major