even in these places, even if the numbers are down and the folks that want to vote for a democrat because they re angry about the president will do so anyway. connor lamb doesn t have to the connor lamb nominee doesn t have to lead a rally to get those votes. he can talk about other things. he s talked about shepard: i didn t mean to interrupt. i want to say this idea no matter what party you re in, you need a candidate matches the districts. all politics are local. in allegheny county and across that 18th district that will go away in a few months, but in that district, connor lamb was like a cut-out for what that district seems to be seeking right now. yes. he s from the district, he s of the district. shepard: he had the accent. all politics are identity politics. they saw connor lamb as one of them. he embraced organized labor. he spoke in the language of the old democratic politics that once carried the day here. shepard: unions were there
2006. more competitive than the district yesterday. senator flake said it was a 20-point margin for donald trump. if i am a republican, i am worried. democrats are fired up. we are organizing everywhere. we are talking about the issues people care the most about. bret: if democrats win the house, is nancy pelosi the speaker? that will be up to the democrats. bret: don t these candidates, like conor lamb, ran away from nancy pelosi have to say they wouldn t vote for her. that s exactly what conor lamb said, that s correct. here s the thing about the 18th district, when your only argument, this is when it came down to for conor lamb s opponent, he is going to support nancy pelosi which he said he wasn t, that s a weak argument. what voters want to know in pennsylvania is, are you going to help fight for health care? are you going to help fight for my pension security and good
internal review about his conduct at the fbi. one of the things the inspector general has been looking into is a decision by mccabe to allow fbi officials to talk to reporters about the clinton investigation, the inspector general we re told has decided that somebody cake wasn t particularly forth coming in that process. so now there s the recommendation to terminate him. if he s terminated by friday, he will lose his pension. so he s got a lot riding on the line here. shepard: i ll say. john, democrats are close to pulling off an unset, as you know, in a district that president trump won by 20 points in 2016. here s the the latest numbers. in a special election for the house seat, pennsylvania s 18th far southwestern part of the state, south and west of pittsburgh. moon township and the rest. connor lamb is leading republican rick saccone by less than 600 votes. less than 1 percentage point.
lemons out of lemonade. raj shaw said don t forget rick saccone was 6 points behind on saturday as well, pointing out that connor lamb ran basically as a republican saying he was not going to vote with the policies of nancy pelosi. so if he gets to congress, we ll see if he holds to that. the president can t escape the fact that the president won this district by 20 points in november of 2016. anything short of an outright win is a bit of a slap in the face to the republican party. it s interesting to point out, too, this is a district that won t exist next year. it s being redistricted out of existence. if connor lamb prevails, democrats will have bragging rights for the next nine months. shepard: john roberts on the north lawn. breaking news. i mentioned they were voting
the associated press reports that the race is too close to call. lamb has declared victory. the former marine promising his supporters he s not giving up. it took a little longer than we thought but we did it. we re still fighting the fight. it s not over yet. don t give up. we re going to win it! shepard: it s about the numbers now. political analysts say a democrat is in any way close in this particular district that is voted republican the last 15 years could spell enormous trouble for the gop ahead of this year s mid-term elections. they have a spin for that. democrats need to flip 24 seats to take control of the house. back to john roberts at the white house. there s no question, you know, if there s somebody that is perfect for the district, it s probably connor lamb. but suggests that it doesn t have a sign of anything else, it s disingenuous. as brit hume pointed out, he cute, too. the white house trying to make