>> so i findi find it fascinati well o'connor did in franklin. he outperformed obama and clinton by 5 points there. in delaware county, balderson underperformed romney and mccain by 7 and 5 points. if you had told me that beforehand and said that he would even be in the race or let alone be winning it, i would have told you you'd be crazy. so i think it's a little disheartening for democrats how well o'connor did in his base and didn't win. >> right. jeremy peters, how much of this do you think is due to the strategy that cory bliss and his congressional leadership fund were running anti-immigration ads basically aimed at driving out base turnout. it seems that work. >> that worked, trump's visit probably helped. the fact that chris matthews got involved and had danny o'connor flip-flopping or seeming to hedge on -- i'm serious, people told me that that was -- republicans felt like that was a make-or-break moment for them.