david khchalian, thank you s much. joining us now, david gergen. alice stewart, who also is a republican strategy, and symone sanders, who was bernie sanders s press secretary in 2016. thank you all for being here. david, the headline this morning on axios called it a tsunami. this was a wave. was it a tsunami? i think it comes about as close as you get to a tsunami in politics. yes, it was a wave and it overwhelm eed everything else. and it has changed the story line already. i think it sends a clear message, a thunderous message, if you like, to the republicans. they need a serious course correction in washington. that means the president s behavior, a lot of things he says, the crazy things he says and that sort of thing. but they also need to revisit health care and get deeper into the numbers that david chalian was pointing out. it was an important issue, but which way does it cut? do people want to keep obamacare or not? but i would tell you the democrats shouldn t be too
that had been put in place. look, as maine voted for medicare expansion. all right, how about turnout, david chalian? how did that play into the factor here? take a look at virginia by the counties. and you just heard ryan nobles talking about the importance of those. see that little bit of blue up there where it says fairfax? all of those areas right there, that s the d.c. suburbs, guys. so much of what is going to be learned by the results last night is that the suburban vote became even more democratic. this is the democratic strong hold of the state, but in each one of those five counties surrounding washington, d.c., ralph northam overperformed what look did a year ago and she won the state by five plus points. so what that shows us is democrats turned out. republican turnout was a little down. enthusiasm, energy is on the democratic side right now, and we didn t just see it in virginia, we saw it across the country in all of these races, and that s clearly a response to one y
unfavorable rating for democrats. the party as a whole is at 54%. that s the highest it s been since 1992. you scared about that? look, i think that i ve always said that i think we have a branding issue. democrats, we have really great ideas, but for some reason, it s not translating to the people when we go out there and talking to them in the states. i think it s really important that democrats are talking about what we are doing and can do for folks all across america, regardless if they re democrat, republicans, or independents. and brand ourselves in a way that notes that we are the party that s going to for lack of a better term get things done. well, this is your day, that s for sure. see how long that day lasts. david, alice, symone, thank you all very, very much. president trump on the ground in beijing hours after a speech where he talked about north korea and kim jong-un. today i hope i speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized nations when i say
month after the storm. for a second day in a row today the president is expected to take questions from reporters this time as a news conference with the prime minister of greece, and then this evening he is expected to give a speech to the highly conservative heritage foundation, and this audience will be very interested in hearing about the president s plans on tax cuts and other subjects. back to you. thank you. there s a new cnn poll out this morning, and it finds president trump s approval steady, and however more people say the president is leading the country in the wrong direction. dav david chalian, give us the information. we have seen him between 37 and 47% in the last four months,
arms around, and they are still waiting. it s big pharma, and doctors and dumping on the streets from prescriptions. this law that moreno championed did a lot to hurt the law enforcement og enforcement agencies from happening. you can t make it up that this is the guy they wound up looking at. i will ask the white house today why the president still considers him a great congressman where he was weakening the regulatory structure around it. who proposed moreno and why? let s see if they answer that. david chalian, thank you very much. we have more breaking news. two wildfires are raging out of control further south in santa cruz and los angeles county. that s what you are looking at right now.