Democrats map a new path to the White House.

The previous president's third run gets off to a sluggish start, and DeBaloon raises

tensions between world superpowers.

For analysis of the week's news, Brooks and K-Part, that's New York Times columnist David

Brooks and Jonathan K-Part, associate editor for The Washington Post.

It's great to see you both.

And let's start with the race for the White House.

Donald Trump's third presidential campaign appears to be off to a slow start.

His fundraising hall is less than what he certainly expected.

His support among a key part of his base, white evangelicals, has splintered.

Still, he's a known quantity.

His base of support is larger than his prospective GOP rivals.

What's your assessment of his standing right now?

I think right now he's thinking the polls are all over the place, but the higher-quality

polls show significant slippage.

If you look at how many times he's mentioned on places like Fox News, it's plummeting.

If you listen to talk radio, friends of mine who listen more to conservative talk radio

than I do, say there's hostility.

When he said he wouldn't necessarily endure the Republican candidate, there was bitterness

and hostility toward Trump, which you don't often see in that quarter.

He's running a much more conventional campaign, you know, in 2016, he was sort of the witty

outsider.

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