take the weaknesses and turn those into wins in 2020. and if kentucky sint the message very clearly, don t come for obamacare, people like having health careent the message very clearly, don t come for obamacare, people like having health care, that could make you unpopular. in virginia, the message was clear. americans want common sense gun reform. but you showed that it is just a myth that you can t win running openly on reform. post election polling showed this was the most important issue, the issue of gun safety, to the swing voters. and also by a 2:1 margin, voters in the swing districts voted for candidates who made gun sense a priority in their campaigns. so this is a winning issue, we show that definitively in the election. and now we will take those wins and replicate them in the 2020 election up and down the ballot
innocent? they thought they were rubbing it in. it was a very, very emotional and hard-fought fight and they felt that the president did not take the high road but again they almost always feel that way about president trump. it was clearly a moment of intense victory not just for kavanaugh, not just for president trump but also for mitch mcconnell and senate republicans who hung together to make this happen. and the effects of this confirmation, he will be on the supreme court a long time but the near-term effects are starting to show in some of the election polling. the question has been what effect will this have on the mid-term elections. republicans have been saying look, we were having a hard time motivating our base in the last few weeks and months but this has really done it. this has gotten a lot of republican voters fired up. we re beginning to maybe see some evidence of that. there are a few new polls out
here s what he said yesterday about the suddenly close senate races that republicans were supposed to win like texas where ted cruz is now running scared against democrat beto o rork. all of them too close to call and everyone just a brawl in every one of those places. i hope when the smoke clears we ll still have a majority in the senate. there s a historical perspective that i for one always go back to when i look at congressional election polling and what looks like a wave, and it s the 1994 congressional election two years into bill clinton s presidency. i was working in the senate then on the democrat side, so i had a strong professional interest in the outcome. we had 57 democrats in the senate going into that election, and we thought we might lose a couple or maybe even pick up a
all of them too close to call and everyone just a brawl in every one of those places. i hope when the smoke clears we ll still have a majority in the senate. there s a historical perspective that i for one always go back to when i look at congressional election polling and what looks like a wave, and it s the 1994 congressional election two years into bill clinton s presidency. i was working in the senate then on the democrat side, so i had a strong professional interest in the outcome. we had 57 democrats in the senate going into that election, and we thought we might lose a couple or maybe even pick up a couple of democratic seats. no big deal, no big change. the house of representatives had actually been under democratic control for my entire life at that point. there was no possibility of losing the house of representatives, and there