it was rural pennsylvania but parts of the pittsburgh suburbs and exurbs that a lot stretch across different kinds of terrain with constituencies that might be differently motivated. that s exactly right. but what you saw in conner lamb is you saw a great example. you saw him win record numbers of older women who wanted to protect their health care, want to protect their social security, wanted to have good schools in rural areas. so it is the year of the woman, the woman voter, the woman candidate, and women will determine what happens in this election. and also sometimes it s going to be either or but it s not. that s exactly right. you need to mobilize voters into your base of votes but you need to cut down your margin in the rural areas. a democrat is not going to win the rural counties. but there is a big difference between being caught by 25 and losing by 12. in the columbus area in ohio. another great example. big, you is a two things there. very similar to this ke
of reasons. you know, when everybody was counting out west virginia and places leak that oh, democrats are going to lose those seats, no, they re not. and i think what s caught up now is that reality, the internal numbers are showing these races that should not be close are close. and the races that we should pick up we re not. i think that s what mcconnell is basically, i love mitch, what he does is, he s like, let me all let you know what i know so you can all go prepare to do what you can do to change this. that itself what that signal was. donna, conner lamb won a district trump had won by 20 points. we all kept saying, oh, this is more sign the house is in play. okay. well, that also means, indiana senate, missouri senate, west virginia senate, north dakota senate, let s take those red, the four of the reddest here, i will set aside florida in a minute. those were anywhere from 10 to
i like it confidence, i hope he stays confident. i think that kind of confidence is what keeps republican voters at home. i think you should think twice about that. and try to motivate his people and tell them about a blue wave rather than saying no, leave nothing to worry about. molly: christopher, bring you back in, only talk about what we seen on the map. 8/9, greater republicans for the one seat they got the democratic victory, the upset was in their corner, southwest pennsylvania where conner lamb, were actually during the course of his campaign agree with some of the donald trump policy, especially on tariffs. is that will be looking at here?if you can find the candidates that really match their district, be it democrat or republican. especially in the areas where the fight is so hardware the president was making statements about the economy. is that part of what we are watching? that economy? it is in fact part of what we are watching with the issues. but to the extent of the
lamb called it a complete portrayal. pelosi says this is arm armageden. joining me now, our former director of the new york state, baas si basil. all those that race is too close to call. there was this reason nbc and wall street journal poll, nearly half of us are less likely to support a congressional candidate who backs pelosi for house speaker. is this a real problem? it is definitely a problem if you are running and you saw what happened to joe crowley and you are like all of what we thought was happening could happen, the paradigm have shifted now. if i am nancy pelosi, i would say you can run against me if
mentioned, it worked. a lot of people believe that nancy pelosi is some what detached from many of their values and a lot of republicans go back to the affordable care act and if we pass a bill, we ll fine out what s in it. let me ask you this, does it matter what the person they are running against thinks of new eastern span nancy pelosi? does that stop you from running against her? well, no, i personally don t think so, i think on the democratic side, they have to do what conner lamb did in pennsylvania. they have to run races that are targeted of their congressional district. as we saw with cortez, that message does no t resonate with a lot of portions of america. pelosi, she s well-liked. people think she s a good organizer and she s been in the