she can. but here s the other thing. this works both ways. in the ohio district 12, remember, o connor s campaign was saying hey, is balderson going to vote for jim jordan if he runs for a leadership position with the controversy going on with ohio state right now. there are lots of different things that can come into play. if the democrats win the house by a reasonable margin, nancy pelosi will initially step aside. dealing with donald trump is not the same thing as george bush. it s not the same thing as barack obama. the democrats need a wartime consigliere, younger more aggressive kind of leadership in order to keep pace with the excitement and enthusiasm of their base. i don t know if nancy pelosi and james clyburn can continue doing that. you got a name in mind? so i have said for a long time, i think tim ryan will try something.
matter. ohio 12 shouldn t even be a nail biter for the gop. even with two solid candidates running. talk about the ohio race, whether you agree with your colleague that a nail biter in ohio 12 is a bad sign for republicans generally. yeah, look. i agree with sean. let s use the sports analogy since it s columbus, let s say this is like ohio state, okay, they re playing a team they play every year and win by four, five touchdowns. last night they won in overtime by one point. if you re an ohio state fan, you re happy they won but you re saying oh my god, what does this mean for my team for the season that s coming up. i think that s where the republicans are. they spent $3.5 million in this district. they brought in all the big guns to drag balderson across the line. they re not going to be able to do that in the 50 competitive tossup and lean republican districts that are in play in november. they re just not going to be able to cover that much ground.
and it s slim and 20 or 30 candidates show up in washington pledging not to vote for nancy pelosi, can she be the democratic leader? she can. but here s the other thing. this works both ways. in the ohio district 12, remember, o connor s campaign was saying hey, is balderson going to vote for jim jordan if he runs for a leadership position with the controversy going on with ohio state right now. there are lots of different things that can come into play. if the democrats win the house by a reasonable margin, nancy pelosi will initially step aside. dealing with donald trump is not the same thing as george bush. it s not the same thing as barack obama. the democrats need a wartime consigliere, younger more aggressive kind of leadership in order to keep pace with the excitement and enthusiasm of their base. i don t know if nancy pelosi and james clyburn can continue doing
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help but watch because we live in a television april, these two events in ohio tonight. backdrops were not word class or ready for live national television coverage. everybody looked the way you d expect everybody to look. but there was televised live because we re in the trump era. and there s now a laser beam of attention everywhere two people are on a ballot. that s exactly right. this is the first time this particular district has had this kind you have national attention in decades. this is not a competitive district for the most part. you don t see a lot of media attention or attention by the national committees. you don t see the kind of money flowing in they ve had. suddenly they re the focus of the political word. not because this one race matters that much. that one vote isn t going to change anything between now and the election whether he it cops to the house. what it did have was the potential for a big embarrassment for the president.