i think no matter who wins tonight that we will see both parties probably make quite a big deal out of this. if you re an incumbent or somebody thinking about jumping in one these congressional races that are going to be critical to watch in 2018 were you re going to be looking to read the tea leaves here and see what your chances are given as david noted the electoral history. this not been considered a swing district but the numbers were so close in the election. let me put those up and david will discuss in the 2016 election donald trump got 48.3%, hillary clinton got 46.8%. four years earlier, that s 48, 47 you can see he barely squeaked out his win in that district. and 2012 mitt romney, the republican nominee got 60.8%, president obama s 37.5%. . so 23-point swin a lot bicker than a one-point win. it is. and therefore it s the kind of voters that have proven had the the kind of republican voters that have proven elusive for donald trump.
regulations enough. the structure of the tax credit, where they end up on abortion. all of these are issues that they need to finalize within the next fourtd 8 hours. that s the goal, that s where they re head that s why the lunch right now with the vice president is so poirn. the health and human services secretary tom price giving a presentation at this lunch i m told. basically the end game now is mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader informing his members you ve had plenty of space to talk behind the scenes. you ve had a lot of time to talk this how the now you have to come to an agreement. one thing is certain they want to vote next week likely on thursday but they have to get a bill first. they re going to be getting out ever town during the july 4th recess, that s high they want a vote next week. thank you very much. phil mattingly up on capitol hill. for more now on the healthcare bill and other questions the press secretary shawn speightser will likely face in the cours
meeting with the republican senators, that pulled the rug out from some of them. go ahead. no doubt. and just following what david says about explaining his own words, why did he think it s appropriate for him to go out and threaten to release audiotapes he supposely had with a conversation of the fbi director and never provide proof of it, failing do so. best case scenario it s childish. worst case scenario it s reckless and worst case scenario it s both and all molled together antd fear that could be the latter. if i were sitting there i d say what s so complicated there either are recordings or there aren t rordings, high country tell us if there are recordings because it really should not be all that if there are recordings, he could say there are recordings but they re sensitive, we re not going to release them. if you re a republican, how embarrassing is it if somebody comes up to you and says you re a republican, you support the president, how come he can t tell you ther
points since the 100-day mark. let s talk ball of this with our cnn poll politics writer and david chal yen if the david, why is this race today so important potentially? will think it s important because of the terrain that it s being fought on. had is the kind of district that if democrats are going to have a shot at winning back the house of representatives next year, this is the kind of district they need to win, not just the 23 districts where hillary clinton won where republicans were a member, but they ve got to dig into republican held districts but have this kind of makeup. more college-educated voters than is the national average, suburban area, that s very important if you want to win back the house of representatives for the democrats, and where donald trump underperformed mitt romney, which is the case here in this district as well. hillary clinton lost the district by a little bit more than one percentage point. is this race seen as a referendum on trump s presidency?