messaging? well, they have to worry. you are referring to the 19th district in new york where there is good kind of national matchup and the republicans emphasize crime and taxes and so forth. and the democrat emphasize abortion. it was very close, but the democrat won. but my point about all of these people, all of these democrats who are running ads saying i buff my party, it is not true. the test is whether they buff them when it makes a difference. only joe manchin and kyrsten sinema did that and ultimately, they surrendered. all of the other people have voted largely for the biden agenda. and once nancy pelosi has the votes, she doesn t care if they vote no on something she wants
well bellweather district shows the potency of running on abortion rights in a post-roe world. what message does this send for democrats? and do you expect everyone else in the party to follow the pat ryan template and really hammer home the need to protect reproductive rights? i think democrats are certainly going to count this as a win in that column, in that bucket, in that bid to use abortion in that way. and so his ryan s victory was certainly not one that was necessarily 100% expected. it certainly was close. and ryan really showed that just like in kansas, just like in other places around the country, that when you stake your campaign on something like abortion in certain districts, that can be a winning strategy. yeah, pretty remarkable result last night of all of them. bloomberg s shelly banjo, thank you so much for coming and
welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, august 24th. mike barnicle elise jordan still with us and msnbc analyst claire mccaskill. and jeh johnson, who will talk about the secretary s new developments on the search of the fbi search of mar-a-lago. including the national archives rejecting the request from trump s attorneys to block the fbi from reviewing some of the classified material recovered from the former president s resort. but first, the details on that democratic visibility your in upstate new york. democrat pat ryan wins the hotly contested special election in new york s 19th district defeating republican marc molinaro. it s a true swing district, went for trump in 2012, biden in 2016. and attorney general del gad go was appointed lieutenant
we have more election results tonight. and you are going to hear a lot about this race over the next couple of days. cnn is protecting that democrat pat ryan has won the special election in new york s 19th district, defeating republican mark melon our. oh republicans had been optimistic about flipping the district this year. this is a big democratic win in a battleground district that biden won narrowly in 2020. will it mean for the midterms? let s bring in mark mckinnon, who is executive producer of the circus. he is a new article out in vanity fair. and also, a former white house special senior director. thank you both for joining us. mark, before we get to this cool story, i would like to get your take on the democratic victory in the special election
catastrophic effects, we spent billions to sweep it under the rug. man 3: so we re going to be fine. but you might want to start a compost pile, turn down the ac. you got a lot of work to do because your kids are going to need it. it is primary election night in new york and florida, let s go right to steve at the big board. steve, what is the latest? again lawrence, we ve been following this drama in a special election for congress in the 19th district of new york. the democrat pat ryan, again we