matter here? we expected this to be very close, and likely, it will be. but you know, all of a sudden if you re looking at five points versus three points, it starts to make a bigger statement. it s breaking a bit of tradition here, because usually on election night, virginia, what happens is the republican candidate has a huge lead early on and then northern virginia comes in very late, if the democrats win, it all comes in late in the night. that s not happening now. but it also seems like northern virginia is actually just returning earlier than usual. and so, i mean, i think, look, the democrats, it was just assumed, sort of the default story out of tonight was the democrats are going to win virginia because virginia is now a democratic state. i think the idea in the run-up to the race as it tightened, the democrats one year into trump, and with trump s approval ratings where they are, that the democrats might lose this race and lose it to a candidate who ran on this set of issue
[cheers and applause] greg: the democrats one. won. at least they won something. dana: obviously the congressman, there were 20,000 people in the stands and a lot of those are congressional staffers. i started there in my career in 1995 on the hill. i love that game. i love going to it. all of you show how dedicated you are. zachary barth showing up to work the day after he was shot shows a lot of dedication. our hats are off to you as well. greg: we are slackers, kimberly. kimberly: just you. a nice dinner that the democrats hosted for the republicans ahead of time. juan: they raised three times as much money as that game has ever raised. great to see people come
[cheers and applause] greg: the democrats one. stick a big night the democrats one. thoughts? the congressman shut up the play tonight, but there were 20,000 people in the stands, and a lot of those are congressional staffers. i started there in my career in 1995 on the hill, and i love that game. i love going to it. all of you showed up, shows how dedicated you are, and as greg mentioned earlier, greg barr showing up to work the day after he was shot shows a lot of dedication. our hearts out to you as well. and a nice at dinner that the democrats hosted. they raised three times as much money that that game has ever raised, and it will go to good causes around the city. great to see people come
[cheers and applause] greg: the democrats one. won. at least they won something. dana: obviously the congressman, there were 20,000 people in the stands and a lot of those are congressional staffers. i started there in my career in 1995 on the hill. i love that game. i love going to it. all of you show how dedicated you are. zachary barth showing up to work the day after he was shot shows a lot of dedication. our hats are off to you as well. greg: we are slackers, kimberly. kimberly: just you. a nice dinner that the democrats hosted for the republicans ahead of time. juan: they raised three times as much money as that game has ever raised. great to see people come
from this focus group is pretty darn remarkable. again, sort of a collective yawn. yeah. john heilemann and i talked to one group of democrats one group of republicans. and everybody in the polling, you see jeb bush, people say they have concerns about common core, about immigration. this graup has a totally different concern and it is within the bush campaign their main concern, which is his family name. do you look at this whole republican field all 12 or 14 or 15 or 9 or however many he said up running do you look at that field and think that s a pretty good field, republicans are doing a good group to choose there? i m a little overwhelmed. there s lots of people. hopefully somebody strong will rise to the top and i don t see a really good strong candidate. last week in the media, there was a lot of discussion about jeb about your and hisbush and his views of the iraq war. how much have you heard about