tell united states hs how you t republicans across the country should decipher last night s election results. i haven t had the time to analyze it that you have. we ve had a bit of a busy day here. but i think we ve seen the limits of how we can drill down on the base. we ve got to play addition rather than subtraction and i think that that s the message that we ought to take. and you seem to be suggesting gillespie was only focused on the base and not adding some of the swing voters, the moderate voters in the northern virginia suburbs, for example. i do think that we do better with a more inclusive message. so i think that that is something that we can learn from last night. do you think your party is learning that from last night? well, i don t know. it s just been 24 hours or less. so i hope we do. i think that was the case before. we ll have blips. you can rile up the base and win an election here or there, but in the end you ve got to, you know, appeal to a broader
things to come come politically from donald trump. i would say just a quick follow-up on that. the democrats did what they needed to do. they turned out big numbers. the grassroots, while the party may be completely discombob lated, the base, the grassroots, lots of turnout. did a very face job. in suchen counties that we have lost in the past. democrats picked up seats against republicans. they did a good job to amanda s point, ed gillespie lost to a trump acolyte and i think republicans weren t that excited about turning out. it s turnout. you have to turn out your base and your voters. republicans didn t do that. he wasn t super excited. corey did effectively move the race to the right. corey stewart, the bannon-esque republican candidate. let s just say steve bannon this weekend claimed credit for ed gillespie s campaign. he said this was the kind of campaign that i would run and he