A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and Panel Discussions hosted by Bret Baier. Ahead but there are about 8,000 provisional votes that need to be counted. Can you believe how close this is . [cheers and applause] we are in a tied a ball game. For Democrat Danny Oconnor to be in a race this tight in the district, no democrat has won this in 38 years and that had him delivering wet sure sounded like a victory speech last night. You believed in us in a race that the pond and said we had no chance even being in. You proved them wrong. By getting close wont be enough to help democrats retake the house this november. They have come close and for other special elections in reliably red districts, but they have only 11 of those. They are banking on a wave of energy. Do you believe that President Trumps support is the reason you wanted . I dont believe its the full reason i want but it was deftly helpful. Our numbers really surged. President trump came in and put Troy B
so here we have a chance to deliver immediately. this is where you see the brilliance of someone like senator warren or katie porter. they want the child tax credit to apply to everybody. they re not trying to divide people. well into the middle class, it s hard to afford these things. are we going to start bringing america together to rebuild a more affordable american dream or do we want to divide people? we know one side wants to divide. but if we can just unite the democratic caucus, we can probably unite america again. the other thing here is, the caucus is pretty united. these are much narrower margins than what you were part of back in the house and the senate, right? those were big, big margins. these are much narrower margins but also higher degrees of consensus. you can see the frustration of bernie sanders who is to the left of that caucus but has been a very practical team player on this, that s there s this holdup. here is what he had to say about manchin today. my con
12 weeks of paid family leave for new parents and people with serious health conditions, a trillion dollars for infrastructure and 1.4 trillion in student loan debt. $32.5 trillion over the next decade, that s on top of the 4.12 trillion deficit. 218 trillion over the next 30 years. may be reality struck for some of those folks last night. if many of them won their primaries, we would be testing those but they didn t. bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez have a really good record at getting press coverage for the candidates they endorse. they have a much poorer record at actually getting some of these candidates over the finish line and a lot of these races where they endorse the candidate, they lost by big, big margins. and we saw a number of democrats and it seemed that those were running away from the progressive agenda. they did better for the most part last night.