erred. they have looking like saccone will have to run in the new 14th district and lamb in the new 17th district. no more mention of this 18th district. alisyn, chris, there is a possibility that both of these men could be in congress after november. okay. thank you very much, alex. we will keep checking back as the numbers tick up. we have john avlon and ed brownstein. great to see both of you. let s assume conor lamb is the winner. if it s just mostly symbolic, what does this say? does it say more about how republicans are feeling today or are democrats activated? this is a wild night. showing every vote matters. but the reason it really matters, it s a question of whether we have a cryst crystallization of the blue wave that the democrats are hoping and praying for, the long ball the take back the house in 18.
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democrats in red states seem to be more tolerant of their candidates coming out against pelosi than the republicans in blue districts are about coming out against trump. so democrats are basically accepting the fact that, hey, some of these districts and races, our candidates have to say they re against pelosi because that s what gets you elected. and maybe pro guns or whatever else. i don t see that same kind of tolerance on the republican side of, okay, against trump here. a lot of consultants saying you got to convince your candidate you re running for mayor. make it about the jobs in the district. make it seem like you re not going to washington in the end. not sure how that works. as we head to break, the british prime minister is blaming the kremlin for the poisoning of an ex-british spy.
is possible we re going to see, even more from republicans. already we ve seen 38 house republicans say, i m out of here, i d rather leave than be involved in a very tough race that i m probably likely to lose. even with the power of incumbency. so that really tells you a lot. and the notion that we re hearing from republicans, including the house speaker today, that this is a one-off, that this is a unique district, a unique candidate, it s just not true. it s not. this is more potentially and historically a lot less competitive than a lot of the races we re looking forward to in november. and there are other conor lambs out there. that s the thing. that s why i think this is a larger problem for republicans. there have been a swath of retirements and now open seats for republicans. they have an enormous recruitment problem. this is a clear case where
republicans. some of those you were talking about the senate earlier jason. some of the senate democrats red state democrats running in places that donald trump won they are seeing tonight that guy conor lamb won a trump plus 20 district. what lessons can i earn as a learn from a trump plus 20 district that i can fort fie ran on sanctuary cities and conor lamb being soft on crime, that stuff didn t work quite enough. we ll see what the returns are but they ve got to figure out you re going to be on the radio in pennsylvania early in the morning. yes, thank you for that reminder, and a 5:50 train. the message is, the house is on fire for republicans. in each one of these races, regardless of whether there was a pickup, the democrats have