she s lauded to this president the more i wanted her out of office. reporter: and the obamacare repeal debate convinced majority leader lisa brown to return to lisa brown to return to politics and challenge rogers. after that healthcare vote i realized that we needed voices really speaking up for affordable healthcare. we knocked on doors with brown in spokane and joined her on a tour of a cattle ranch, more traditionally republican turf. a lot of people would be surprised to find a democrat standing at a cattle ranch in eastern washington. there are a lot of rural democrats, not as many tlas used to. for there to be one more rural dplat, brown must outpoll rogers. you sound pretty confident. i believe that if i am able to really share my story and share my story of getting results for eastern washington,
that s the question the party is putting to the test in washington state. the fourth-ranked house republican cathy mcmorris rodgers is expected to face the most challenging race of her career against lisa brown. garrett hague hit the campaign trail with rodgers and brown, garrett, i want to bring in mark and rick as well. walk us through what you learned in spokane. yeah, stephanie, democrats think rogers is vulnerable in part because she s perceived to be an ally of donald trump in mostly what is a bleue state. he s also not been in that state before. with a challenger. i m kathy. reporter: in the checkout line in the spokane home depot, a reminder for cathy mcmorris
now focused on rogers. i woke up the morning after the trump election and i said i have got do something, this is nuts. the more i watched it and the more she has lauded this president, the more i ve wanted her out of office. reporter: and the obamacare repeal debate convinced this former state state in majority leader lisa brown to return to politics and you challenge rogers. after that health care vote i realized that we needed voices really speaking up for affordable health care. reporter: we knocked on doors with brown in spokane and joined her on a tour of a cattle ranch, more traditionally republican turf. a lot of people would be surprised to find a democrat standing at a cattle ranch in eastern washington. there are a lot of rural democrats not as many as there used to be. reporter: brown must outcampaign rogers, who polling from both parties shows is vulnerable but who won t be caught off guard. you sound pretty confident? i believe that if i am able