ballot. that s true. but he is casting a pretty big shadow as he continues to endorse some, it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, more on that in just a moment. and the timing will be pretty interesting here. it isn t just post january 6th. it s post the first series of january 6th hearings. we ll see whether it impacted voters and which way it did. it hasn t seemed to impact the platforms, though, of candidates in several swing states. some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims and there is a whole slate of them in arizona who are running for top positions like governor and attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential office holders for those who run elections. also closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed an eric. okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt both claim trump meant them and trump for his part has yet to clarify, now, on election night. it s
republicans, yet again. no, donald trump is not on the ballot, that is true, but he is casting a big shadow, as he continues to endorse some, and it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, but more of that in just a moment. the timing is going to be interesting here. it is not just post january six, it is post the first series of january six hearings. whether they see it impacted voters and which way it did. it has not seemed to impact the platforms of candidates in several swing states, some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims. there is a whole slate of them running for top positions like governor, attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential officeholders who may be over running elections. also being closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed a erik, okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt, they both claim that trump met them. trump has yet to clarify it,
Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
when somebody comes in that people trust or think they trust and says this is my person, it can make a big difference. i have a very serious question for you, ron. i want to know which eric do we think he was endorsing. i think these are the different people who it possibly could be and i m wondering which of these people do you think. it must be is it eric holder? it could be any one. clapton? eric church? we re doing them all. he hedged his bets. the point, to scott s point, looking at trump s personal win/loss record is the long metric, because it s not only his like tap on the shoulder. it s the fact that he has reconfigured the republican coalition over these last six years in a direction that makes it more likely for trump to style candidates to win. the party is more dependent on the kind of voters who respond to a trump appeal, culturally conservative, nonurban, noncollege, older, evangelical