i mean, the republicans spent $65 million in ad campaigns attacking nancy pelosi. they had a banner hanging on rnc headquarters saying fire pelosi for a year. they have been attacking her nonstop for well over a decade and despite the fact that this was a focus each in very conservative districts like dave brats, pelosi prevailed. democrats had their largest win since watergate. i mean, there are members going into congress that weren t even alive, democrats that even alive the last time democrats had this good of a midterm election. so i m just confused, why do they think it s time to get rid of her now? well, also that s tantamount to having the republicans decide who the democratic leader would be, which is confusing in and of itself. you re right, joe, it would seem to be the case that this has been the all too familiar playbook for the republicans to
trumpian ground, and so they will be tempted to go after the other issue, but they need to be discipline odd on this. and you are seeing particularly in the swing races, peter, great discipline. this week, alison spanberger debated dave brats in a republican debate in virginia and she attack ed him for runnig up the deficit and explaining for stronger voter security, and from virginia. yes, and so democrats are playing the middle where they need to and really emphasizing the health care, and it is a winning issue. but bill is bringing up the potential of the democrats they overplay the hand, and start to talk about things like impeachment and the republicans say, and ted cruz said this when he was fighting with beto o rourke in texas, you put them in charge, it is going to shut down government for the next two years. and sheer a colleague of your, and joe biden and how he addressed the issue. take a listen.
in our polling, in early january, late december, good idea overtook bad idea for the first time. now part of it is my executive producer likes to say, it s the first time democrats have made a positive argument in a long time for it, instead of them being defensive about it. but what should the dave brats, darrell issa, swing districts, how should they look at this? they should not look at the protests and say that s just a tro turf, it s not, people don t get this worked up over something just because they get an e-mail you can organize one town hall, maybe two, when you re seeing it this way right. it s very similar to 2009. you know, now what they do with it, by the way, sean spicer is not representative of the district, but same tim it doesn t matter. history is grabbing us republicans by the lapels and saying you have to learn from 2009. and one of the lessons is, the