The MAGA base is shrinking, but Trump’s grip is tightening
All In with Chris Hayes
MS NOW, Chris Hayes
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on All-In. |
| 0:04.0 | I always say if you have his endorsement, it's like a fast-passed Disney World. |
| 0:07.6 | You go right to the front. |
| 0:09.3 | Trump tightens his grip on a shrinking minority of voters. |
| 0:14.3 | I don't care about the mid-times. |
| 0:15.9 | Look what happened last night. |
| 0:17.0 | That was the prelude to the midterms. |
| 0:19.9 | Tonight, the unpopular president, the reality for Democrats in Texas on the high stakes |
| 0:24.3 | of this midterm election. |
| 0:27.0 | If we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be, I mean, they'll find a reason to |
| 0:33.6 | impeach me. I'll get impeached. |
| 0:37.6 | Plus, James Clyburn on the failed Trump push to eliminate his congressional district, |
| 0:42.9 | and Senator Chris Van Hollen on Iran and Trump's new casual threat to expand the war. |
| 0:49.4 | Oman will behave just like everybody else, so we'll have to blow them up. |
| 0:54.5 | And all in starts right now. |
| 1:01.3 | Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. |
| 1:03.2 | We are getting a new look this week at just how weak of a strong man Donald Trump is becoming, |
| 1:09.1 | how he's winning ever greater control over an ever-shinking |
| 1:13.4 | political faction. It's a strange, toxic dynamic we've seen play out in autocratic regimes and |
| 1:19.6 | cults through history, and now we're seeing it happen to what remains of the Republican Party. |
| 1:25.7 | We saw it, of course, in Texas last night where |
| 1:27.9 | reliably conservative Senator John Cornyn, I mean, a right-wing dude. Someone who is |
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