election in a deep red district? arizona s 8th district was open when a republican resigned due to a weird surrogacy scandal, and this is a district that trump won by 20 points. it should not be in play. the special election is april 24th. and the republicans did get their favorite candidate through the primary. they have now reported spending nearly $300,000 in this district sign signaling that they may be feeling the heat. the democrats didn t expect this to be competitive at all, but who knows? the other issue is having spent more than $10 million in the pennsylvania election, they are burning through kooscash, the republican party, in a year donors are not super excited. maybe a preview of what it will look like heading into november. phil. it doesn t mean personnel is done. that s why mitch mcconnell has a
today he filed for the 17th congressional district. is that the suburban one, the good one for him near pittsburgh? yes, so his chances are better because of the redrawing of the map. what about the loser, where s he s going? i think the 18th district turns into the 14th district which will be more conservative. the new york times extensive study out yesterday done by stanford and harvard shows that inequality can be explained pie what s happening between our black boys and our white boys. much of the inequality cannot be explained by traits or what s happening in the household. race matters. even kids of millionaires. even kids of millionaires. race matters most. for men, not women. for men, not women. what did that tell you as an expert? is it prejudice? that tells you that your bias that you have against black men is different. it s fundamentally different and it s a burden that i have to in 2010 the democrats wanted to create havoc in the republican prim
that s more speed than at&t s comparable bundle, for less. call today. some news organizations are declaring a winner in the incredibly tight race tonight in pennsylvania s 18th congressional district. cnn is not, not yet. however, with election day and absentee blots fully counted, conor lamb leads saccone by 627 votes in a district that candidate donald trump won by 20 points. the saccone campaign today took preliminary steps to prepare for a potential recount. recounts in this case are not mandated by pennsylvania law. however, there is a process to request one. as part of that, the saccone campaign today asked the four counties comprising the 18th district to preserve ballots and voting machines in the event of a recount if it happens. back now with the panel. paul, is there a message, assuming lamb wins, for democrats nationwide for
maternal grandmother. irish catholic democrat who loved fdr and jfk. the democratic party left that kind of voter clearly from the 1960s onward. conor lamb is an attempt to try to get that kind of voter back. but on a national level to try to fix this to trump, this is the point i want to make. i m worried about the fall quite frankly. i think history tells you you should be. because of trump? no, more because of history, because of what happens generally in the first midterm. i m not at all worried about 2020 with donald trump. the reason i say that is if fru trump were running in the 18th district, he would have run again because of the way he excites that very base that lamb what about jeff zeleny s argument that some people are concerned donald trump appearing that he can energize the base but also energize the opposition. that s the problem. not just the opposition. the people who voted for trump and now are disappointed in him. we do these endless stories and i read the
rallies, he also energizes the other side, the democratic base here. so that is something we re going to be watching with much interest to see if this president is not in as high of demand as he hopes he might be. thanks very much. joining us, two political veterans, paul begala and steve cortes. paul, you wrote in a column for cnn, you said republicans are going to need a bigger yacht, using the old line from jaws, because of the results. why should this send them into a panic? that s what you seem to be because although president trump is still reasonably popular in this district which he won by 20 points, he s still above water there. that is to say more popular than not. he couldn t save rick saccone. a lot of democrats are saying he sunk him. i don t believe that, but he couldn t save him. it means if you re a congressional republican, even if a district like this, which is 94% white, it s the seventh whitest congressional district in america. three out of five of those wh