showed up to vote in traditionally a democratic leaning district in north carolina, and there was no one there. can you take these anecdotes to the bank ever? in your experience? are these just kind of one-off s that don t really set a trend. bret: ever since 2010, those are usually individual stories about this race. i think broadly, we can look at numbers on the early vote and actually have the numbers, but as far as the anecdotal whose showing up, you know you get stories all over the place. i think you are going to see in a place like missouri that doesn t have early voting, a lot of turnout, long lines, and i bet you re going to have some people voting late into the night and polls staying open. martha: what we are definitely all picking up on is just a general enthusiasm and an interest in this election. the likes of which the only time we thought was in the presidential election back in 2016. so there s clearly enthusiasm.
devoted to a message of culture wars and issues that divide people, especially in virginia where there was that horrific murder by a white supremacist of a protesters in charlottesville riot. it s a democratic leaning state, this is not the entire nation but it s a good night for democrats and i think a rejection to a degree of trump and perhaps more trumpism. actually. that s exactly what was going to say. i m not sure how much of a message to say it was trump per se since it is one of those blue state of late that he didn t turn red. but the question that you and i started talking about going into this evening is whether or not a gillespie win would allow and really propel other republicans
democrats are voicing concerns the party hasn t figured out its message or a strategy. i sat down with five voters from wisconsin, a democratic leaning state, that flipped for donald trump, so get their take. if there s one message you could get to the national democratic leadership that they would hear, what would it be? you re going to have to give up the match up and dpo back to grass roots or you ll become irreleva irrelevant. focus your message. if you don t come to our opportunities and see what we re dealing with and who our choices are on the local level, then you have no idea how to reach us. we can t get anywhere. we can t get anywhere if we re battling one another. we just came off the postmost e election in history and you all feel ignored? i don t. i don t. i see our representatives staying up all night on the senate floor on the house floor trying desperately to keep, to
cox, it always reflects ideology. so on the scalia question, i think that somebody who is looking at the constitution would say, we don t have an exact answer here but we have to look at structure of the constitution. the structure of the constitution provides one way to deal with the president. provides the pardon power. but does seem to involve a concept that a man can t sit, or woman, can t sit in judgment of his own case. i think the better answer is no. on the situational question, if you re a conservative council or investigating democratic president or democratic leaning independent council investigating republican president. if you are a pros dutor you think that president cannot be indicted and if you are the president s lawyers you think a president can t be indicted. i think he is talking about it. i believe the people in the room who said he was talking about it are accurate. why else would he say it? it is a brilliant strategy.
a third of people poled are open to a third party candidate from democratic leaning states. bill wells from massachusetts made it on the ballot in all 50 states. meet the press in june, gary johnson said his adopted party philosophy aligned with the average american voter and they didn t know it yet. you believe the great middle of the country is libertarian. and most people i think recognize that our military interventions for the most part of having the unintended consequence of making things worse, not better.