interact with the party, to have a reelection campaign based upon your ideology. you re either for president trump or against president trump. it s a referendum on trump but not about his policies but something more vague, broad, more visceral and emotional and that is for many traditional republicans a challenge. it seems all you have to do is look to the deep south which has been solidly republican for the past quarter century. you have a senator, democratic senator in alabama and tennessee you have a democratic senatorial candidate who is a favorite who smart money to written that thing and then mississippi. if those primaries end a certain way in mississippi you have the opportunity for democrats to make that race competitive. i talked to republicans high up in that organization saying we
that it s unacceptable to us and millionsing of americans suffer under obamacare. heller is now standing with pelosi. unacceptable. if you re opposed to this bill, we are opposed to you. all right. so, becky, errol, is it effective? make sense for republicans to go after republicans? someone in such a vulnerable seat? dean heller probably had a past going into the whole debate. he s the most vulnerable. out there up for re-election next year. they need to have him for all of their supreme court hopes and tax reform cuts and everything that, everything else they want to do. no. this is an outside pact that is not in-line i think with the legislative leadership strategy here. i m sure the democratic senatorial committee who attacks republicans is happy the pact is spending money for them, and the republican counterparts are not happy about this. republican strategists across d.c. and everywheralser looking at this saying, look at the end
reversed himself announcing a run for re-election. he s been polling ahead of his democratic challenger congressman patrick murphy ever since. averaging a four-point lead. that may sound close when you look at the eight most likely senate seats for democrats to pick up based just on polling averages, rubio s seat would be eighth which helps to explain why last monday the democratic senatorial campaign canceled the remainder of their ad. the florida sun sentinel which endorsed murphy strongly criticized the dscc. if rubio wins this by a percentage point or two and goes on to become a top presidential contender in 2020 dscc leaders will have no one to blame by themselves. joining me now is robert costa so tre s some reporting that this has been the subject of very intense dispute behind the
why does marco rubio still plan to vote for donald trump? why is he supporting donald trump? there has to be a point where you stand for something more than just party or more than just your own career. there was a time when marco rubio s seat was a prime target in the democratic party s hopes of gaining control of the u.s. senate especially because soon after rubio ended his presidential bid he said he would not run for re-election to the senate leaving his seat wide open. within a few months rubio reversed himself announcing a run for re-election. he s been polling ahead of his democratic challenger congressman patrick murphy ever since. averaging a four-point lead. that may sound close when you look at the eight most likely senate seats for democrats to pick up based just on polling averages, rubio s seat would be eighth which helps to explain why last monday the democratic
cruz counterpunched hard today. they want to change the subject because remember, marco rubio joined with chuck schumer and barack obama in proposing a massive amnesty plan. a self-described evangelical who quotes skrikt tur, cruz is banking on a surge in south carolina and iowa where christian conservatives make up more than half the gop vote. trump said he prefers no the to discuss religion or the bible. are you a bigot? not at all. probably the least of anybody you ve ever met. because? because i m not. republicans have reason to worry that trump s proposed muslim moratorium and other controversies could jeopardize their control of congress. a democratic senatorial campaign press rooi release says endangered republican senators are in major trouble and identifies five swing state republican senators facing tough fights next year, being peppered with questions about trump s views. president obama called for an end to bigotry and added emphasis when referencing the