president, along with ryan and some of the others. their endorsement means nothing to me. it s not good how easily when congressional leaders names are on the lips of constituents not from their home states. that s usually not a good sign for said kong leader. if moore minutes, mcconnell s life in washington gets each harder. i m sure folks in his office are going how can it get harder. whipping votes, and finding consensus. corker s announcement today, does that foreshadow the retirement of sort of mcconne mcconnell-like senators. moore is a flame thrower. if he wins by double digits mitch mcconnell s as the ultimate political survivor may be tested bike never before. rank and file republican members aren t happy with mcmonthly because they think he runs the senate in a two partisan way. ironry, grassroots think he is not using the party s majority
antiestablishment candidate here. look, and you saw me in the way i asked the question, hugh, i did it almost for you. we were having a discussion before the show, you didn t buy the idea that mcconnell s naming are anything was this high. and no, no, we have seen it in the national polling and you heard it from our reporter. mitch mcconnell saved the supreme court by going with no hearings, no votes. he is the most competent republican leader of my lifetime. why aren t they giving him credit for this? they blame him. president trump has rebrandsed mitch mcconnell as the swamp as opposed to the warrior that saved rinchism for the united states supreme court. i don t think grassroots feel loyalty to the republican party and its leadership in washington. what about trump? i don t think trump feels loyalty to the republican party or its leadership and that s why his voters who are backing moore
republicans on the one hand and democrats are fighting versus democrats. and i really think trump was a symptom of a totally broken party on the right. and bernie sanders is a symptom of a totally broken party on the left. while republicans are having this dispute, democrat are arguing about nationalized health care on their side. so i do think this is about trump in that it shows how broken the party is internally. i would argue democrats are more unified than republicans are. always easy to be unified in the minority. of course. as the republican party found out. one thing we shouldn t underestimate. strange got this senate seat in bizarre ways, a governor that was facing potential impeachment appoints the guy that was investigating him. luther strange arguably was damaged goods coming into this. maybe i am helping out poor steven law s spin here a let. they didn t want luther strange but this is what they were dealt with. i believe that judge moore, justice moore if he win
establishment senator. bob corker said he will not seek re-election in 2018. and mitch mcconnell declared the latest version of the gop health care bill officially dead. good luck getting out the vote today for luther change. and the senate republican primary runoff in alabama is going. yet it s election day. polls are set to close in less than three hours. what is being decided may be more than just who the republican nominee will be in the race to fill jeff sessions vacant seat. the battle is between luther strange, and roy moore. mitch mcconnell is backing strange. you might have heard about that. so is, technically, the president and vice president pence. sarah palin, steve bannon and sebastian gorka are backing moore. that means this race is essentially trump versus
be defeated in the general because republicans don t want to be branded with that. i asked our colleague with that. robert costa. he diplomat think it will be that close of a race. there is strategic republicans who think that moore could be a terrible brand for the republicans to have to vote under. i buy that the race can get competitive because i buy that national money will come in. i buy the fact he has a nice resume, doug jones does, former prosecutor, you know, a hero to many in the african-american community because he prosecuted the church bombing suspects, reprosecuted them, got them convicted. same time, he s white, and maybe less polarizing to some swing voter there in alabama that may look at politics flew a racial prism. but i roy moore has won statewide a number of times, even under circumstances arguably worse than this.