we ll make sure this never happens in virginia. the bill s fate is uncertain at this point, but the question remains will the democrats message resonate with voters and change the gop s future? let s continue the conversation, bringing back cnn politics reporter eugene scott and political reporter for the washington post political blog, the fix, amber phillips. as we admire mr. perriello s ability to get that in one take because you have one ambulance, let s talk about the message here, eugene. democrats believe that this will be in part the ticket to taking some advantages at least in 2018 in congress. they do. i was reading the cook political report, and 20 republican lawmakers are currently in districts that they believe now could go to the democrats in 2018. democrats are on a high because of this vote and really believe that things look well in their favor in addition to the fact that obamacare is now enjoying high favorability ratings.
jim demint on his way out. overseas, pope francis overseas, on a today mission to urge persecuted christians and their torturers to stop, holding meetings in cairo with religious and political leaders. he says he wants to bring a message of peace to a country that has endured an emboldened insurgency led by a local #specialreport affiliate paid president trump is rejecting a push to help bail out puerto rico from its $70 billion debt. correspondent steve harrigan has the latest on the story. health care funding for failed to agree to a final spending package this week, punting until next week. the island of 3.4 million people, almost half of whom rely on medicaid, is asking for another $900 million to pay for health care through the end of 2018. democrats are trying to rescue
jim demint on his way out. overseas, pope francis overseas, on a today mission to urge persecuted christians and their torturers to stop, holding meetings in cairo with religious and political leaders. he says he wants to bring a message of peace to a country that has endured an emboldened insurgency led by a local #specialreport affiliate paid president trump is rejecting a push to help bail out puerto rico from its $70 billion debt. correspondent steve harrigan has the latest on the story. health care funding for failed to agree to a final spending package this week, punting until next week. the island of 3.4 million people, almost half of whom rely on medicaid, is asking for another $900 million to pay for health care through the end of 2018.
up for re-election in 2018. democrats have been pretty good at keeping together opposing repealing and replacing obamacare and that sort of thing. do you think they ll have a tougher time voting against tax cuts? i think the same problems that faced those democrats in the health care fight are going to show up again. what they re dealing with is a situation where they risk losing their base if they fall in line with trump too quickly. so they have to do this balancing act and we saw them really side with the base early on in fights on gorsuch, on the affordable care act, and i think we re likely to see this again. this tax plan is a little bit of wishful thinking on some of these ideas. they re very vague and also a little bit ambitious. they re going to get refined. i think there are definitely some things in here the democrats might be okay with, but there are some problems like getting rid of incentives for homeowners to buy homes the democrats are going to bring up and those chan
and protecting western civilization last year during the republican national convention. made national news for it. and it does not affect him during his re-election campaigns. the governor of iowa yesterday said, oh, that s just steve king. you know, we don t agree with what he says, but, you know, he s been good for the state, because he s for ethanol and other things that the governor does agree with. so it is, you know, i think that for republicans in iowa, it s kind of a balancing act. i mean, steve king is very popular in his district. that is the most republican district in the state. you don t want to upset his constituency. on the other hand, people who have to run statewide are also dealing with republicans who think that steve king is an embarrassment. so they have to walk a very narrow line and it will be interesting to see how this plays in and out 2018. democrats are energized and they want to get the statehouse back. one point of fact in question to you, we all spend a