towns, no town , the district,r over eighty five thousand people. we own small parts of modesto. and we we have represent small parts of modesto, a small part of turlock. but then, you know, towns you may or may not have heard of dust. palos benos, chowchilla, madera, mersa, okay, but john , we got the territory. tell me how you did it. how did you break through here? in te spoke to the working families in the district.d these are these families thatni work very, very hard. it s a it don highly hispanic district. it s a district of farmers thats don t have water on theird farms. it s a district of far om workee who can t afford food on their t table and gas in their tank atw the same time. and we jusg t talked about costt of living. we re going to drill american oil. we r water farme to get water on the farms. and we re going to make their life affordable again. sand going to thanksgiving, i think that s a particularly resonating message right now. john , how confident are you that
there are still two house races that have yet to be called. one of them is california s 13th district, where four farmer john dewart is leading democrat adam gray by about six hundred votes. and if the party wins, the los angeles times says it will be the gop s most success. push this cycle into d blue territory in the state. john dougherty joins me now. john , how did you make such a a change in this heavy democratic district? this was a piece of barbara lee s district. well, it really wasn t, actually . that s one district. it was. and it was a positive for their districts, including josh hadas, david valadares, a bit of jim costas, a lot of jim costas, district. and but it wasn t it wasn t any part of the old district 13 , which is over in alameda county , yeah. centra ofis is a rural working families district here in the central valley ccludes of i california. n it includes a lot of small
to keep. yes. dance for the v.p.. dance, you little wretches. joe everywhere the poor woman goes, she alienates everybody. you know, that was my favorite clip of the week. you know? i mean, you can t make it up. you and i know you were with jason and that the people from the philippine village with the fish, you know, in their heads, she thanking them as they walked by , you know,nss but, you know, honestly, the the vice president , because she is our vice president , like it or not, who s her handler? who s favorite? who said you go toe the philippines, they ll talk about general macarthur. they don t talk about how we rescued the philippines. hein the horror of the second world war. they re talking about dancing. and everybody stopped a little , a little a little cringe. it s remarkable. you re right. get r it s really her handlers fault more than anybody else. finally, o i ve got to get your take on senator elect john letterman s wife. jazelle making news duringwife. the membe
she tweeted out this photo. her husband s arm was cut off in another one . his head is missing. jazelle explains, this is an inside joke between the two of them. there s been criticism. when asked about it, she said, quote, a the right wing hates women. they especially hate strong women and i think that s what you re seeing now. joe , i know you ve been sympathetic to john, but maybe they just hate bad photography. yeah, it s true. and , you know, the conservatives don t hate women. the margaret thatcher wrote the book in that regard. buset i havelle to tellsa you, i called it when i saw fetterman at the debate with mehmet oz, i felt sorry fel for betterment. and if i felt sorry for him,t raymond, then, you know, i m aed softy. saidhe s kind of a bleeding hee a little bit. i said, look at out there.d an and he came out and you know what? i would leave her alone.e leave him alone? yeah. just chill. i ve got to go. hard break. happy thanksgiving. we ll see you soon, my friend. he
the counties, especially t the counties that favor my opponent, have already certifiehewod their votes inverc the last two days. we are very confident we ve wond this. david wasserman called it last night. and so w wase expectse some ofat the media outlets in the next week to to make a final call ine this race. bu t we cannot see a path wheret we do not win this race.now. right now. back and we feel it s very important. i ll be going back .c congressional orientation in washington, d.c. next week. and we need to start getting set up to serve this district,e to serve the needs ofmoving the constituents in this district. so we re moving forwar od on the assumption that we ve won this race and that we needn to we need to be readyn to on january 3rd when we re sworn in to represent the district y john . you o our ted , thank you for the time. happfoy thanksgiving. ooking and we ll be looking for you on capitol hill. this is a big win, a big win one for the republican party, one that i don