well, first i feel like you should be given the opportunity to take a little bit of the victory lap. as the sun majority leader now. with a 51 to 49. what do you chalk this up to? you hit the nail on the head. two things chris. first, we passed a whole lot of legislation that mattered to people. at the bottom line, people cared for years. people, the congress couldn t take on the prescription drug industry. for 30 years, the author of the brady law and assault weapons. we ve passed significant laws there. we are bringing our ships industry back to america. good paying jobs here, not in china or overseas. we passed the most significant climate change legislation every, we pass the most major infrastructure bill ever, someone like raphael warnock, who as you say, extremely talented, at a lot to campaign on, and people said, gee, his democratic party is talking about things like karabakh! but at the same time, people understood that the republican party was not the republican party of t
are acknowledging that the spending on airwaves on those two issues is flaying a role. spending, if you bring that up let s come here. if you look, democrats have spent a boatload more money on abortion ads. republicans have an advantage narrowing on crime because democrats came in late realizing they need to counter. republican ads on crime, that is. a big edge on the issue of inflation and taxation essentially democratic spending, more traditional republican messages there. the question is it s a lot of money and we re watching it shift in key races as we get across it. the question is, would wings the ad war in the end? yeah, i mean, look, it ultimately comes down as many midterms do base turnout so democrats clearly view based on what you just showed there, john, that abortion is what is going to motivate the key pieces of their base whether young voters or voters color as well as women. we ve seen women, particularly white women kind of go back and forth between the republica
so, christine, you get first go this hour. in so many ways, these two candidates cannot be more different if they tried. it seems though that chris is trying to get motivate the bays, trying to stop desantis from making this run for the white house. is that a strategy that s going to work? well, i mean, here s what i think the reality is. midterm elections are different and save presidential year election. it really is a base turnout, you have to turn out a lot of people who either self identify as democrats or republicans. for him, he s got to have that mass among democrats. and then try to win over as many of those independents as he can. it is a tough state to be really brutally frank about it. florida is not what i would consider kind of a purplish swing state. it s definitely trending more and more conservative. and desantis has you know, advantages. the current governor obviously,
will divide republicans, drive base turnout and turn swing voters, suburban women in particular from a focus on the economy to the fight over reproductive rights. one of the states with a trigger law was arkansas, and the supreme court released the decision, the state official banned all except to save the life of a mother. no exception for rape or incest. governor hutchinson, welcome back to meet the press. great to be with you, chuck. thank you. let me start with what the arkansas law does. no exception for rape or incest. do you believe that s a mistake? well, first of all, this is a day that those in the pro-life movement worked for over 40 years. i didn t think it would come this quickly, and the decision of the supreme court was really something that will save lives. in arkansas, we immediately followed the direction of the
forget, joe biden accused republicans of being segregationists and actual racists like george wallace and bull conner who were democrats by the way because they wouldn t get on board with a piece of legislation pushed by the far left to eliminate voter i.d. across the country and to federalize elections. so this piece in politico is really about joe biden trying to get out there in the ways that he can with his low approval rating and get his democratic base worked up for the midterm election. midterm elections are base elections. they are all about base turnout. that s what he is trying to do here. joe biden came into the white house and was wanting to be a transformational president. he wanted to push through all these enormous spending bills like build back better for example which started as a $6 trillion bill. wasn t able to get it through the democratic side of the senate and became a dame duck and the truth is he doesn t need republicans in washington to get anything done. the d