cornered by the far-right. in order to have their votes on things that he really cares about, he may have to put on the floor items that make the republican party look out of touch or in orbit around mars. one of the problems for the republicans, the candidates they put up a lot of the candidates were backed by former president donald trump and they just went up to the job. this also feels 2010-ish. the only time an american had to reassure voters that. i m not a witch. i m nothing you ve heard. i am you. yes, christine o donnell is not a wish. by the tea party favorite nominated for a delaware senate seat. health care plan included paying doctors and chickens at the made house calls. my point is, republicans have been to crazy town before nominated guaranteed losers.
reporter: 57d and defiance. i m not going to back down. this seat is too important to the georgian people for me to back down. reporter: but in an interview with cnn s manu raju, mitch mcconnell acknowledged that walker s struggles bring back memories of 2012, when abortion controversies helped sink the campaigns of republican todd aiken if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down. reporter: and richard murdock. that is something that god intended to happen. derailing the gop s path to the senate majority. i dabbled in witchcraft. i never joined a coven. or in 2010, when christine o donnell put a new spin on the old adage, if you re explain sh i m not a witch. reporter: you re losing. but after four years of donald trump. very fine people on both sides. that call was a great call.
it s a lie. reporter: walker is rolling out a very modern play, firm denial she s lying. she, she s lying. i m not going to back down. this seat is too important to the georgian people for me to back down. reporter: but in an interview with cnn s manu raju, mitch mcconnell acknowledged that walker s struggles bring back memories of 2012, when abortion controversies helped sink the campaigns of republican todd ir aiken if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut it down. that is something that god intended to happen. derailing the gop s path to the senate majority. i dabbled in witchcraft. or in 2010, when christine o donnell put a new spin on the old adage, if you re explain sh i m not a witch.
control, not just of the house, but of the senate as well. and as the patrick maloney said, my job is to elect democrats. that s the job the democrats. what they want to ensure they have chuck schumer as majority leader. they want whoever would be the speaker of the house, if it s not nancy pelosi, that s the job. so, is this the idea here, the ends justify the means? you support before, the argument you often hear people say before this has been democrats, they don t play the right game. they ve got the republicans who are more cohesive, they re playing dirty, they think the republicans are, and they talk about that. why are the democrats so concerned with the moral high ground? this is, do you think, it s ceding that in an effective way? well, i just think there s political problems more than a moral problem. but the moral problem is some of the might win. some of them will win. and that s playing with fire. it s not the same as the very nice lady in delaware, christine o donnell
political outsider in the vein of john mccain. let s be honest, if john mccain as a child had been dropped on his head and into a vat of acid, and you see why republican trying to change the conversation. mitch mcconnell knows that candidate quality really does matter. even when the political winds should be in his party s favor. look at the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. maybe remember delaware republican senate candidate christine o donnell, who after confessing she dabbled in witchcraft has aired a campaign ad saying she wasn t a rich. or caught todd aiken, whose lead in the polls came to a halt when he said there were legitimate forms of rape. when house democrats got walked and lost dozens of seats in couldn t win the senate for republican, and i couldn t do it in 2012 even. mitch mcconnell knows political losers when he sees them. and it s clear he doesn t have a lot of hope for his crop of