how rattles are republicans that oh, well if democrats really work hard it would decide they don t want to be that attack doesn t work. i don t think we re worried about because there is no sense that pelosi and hoyer and clyburn are moving on. they are clinging to their positions what we re seeing is the flip side of what democrats dealt with under president obama, where popularity doesn t translate but unpopularity does. and will we start to see more democrats in the reddish districts brag about not supporting nancy pelosi? absolutely. and at the same time, i think nancy pelosi probably appreciates that and likes that. because she knows that that would help her chances of becoming speaker again. but i m telling you, i m meeting with the democratic candidates by the dozen who are running in a lot of these competitive districts, they don t like her and i think she s going to be very hard pressed to keep her job even if democrats do retake the majority.
difference. but how nervous are you. they ve seen this coming. most of the members got elukted running against obama and now they have to defend they ve run in a year like this before. they ve never seen this before and i said this at the republican conference, they would weather the storm and some there are nothing they can do but they have to run good campaigns and open seats are vulnerable in this environment as we saw yesterday. so what i think has to be a problem is that this is this is the type of district that you thought, well trump could help. i think he did help. i think had he not gone in, it would have okay. but he could help a little bit. he helps a little bit with turnout. but you still have a swing voter problem. you have the problem that trump voters are loyal to trump. and they re not necessarily republicans obama had the same problem. they were obama central voters and republicans have that problem. they have the additional problem of controlli
on the ticket? well, you re right. there are a hundred districts that republicans hold that are less republican than this one. and yet not all of them are going to be k competitive in the fall. conor lamb was a uniquely strong candidate. his life story resonated with the district and a young marine and prosecutor. republicans aren t going to have that problem of running against basically a perfect candidate everywhere. so their only strategy or hope for winning and holding on to the house majority is to disqualify their democratic opponent with opposition research and make them unacceptable. it is going to be a scorched earth fall campaign. and democrats now take away from this which is they ve they ve been saying this. they feel as if they want to find more candidates fit the district and i ve seen this movie before in 2006. it worked but does create governing problems down the road. it absolutely does. and, look, conor lamb could be in congress for a while. because the redra
interview was him saying nancy pelosi needs to go. i will say and continue to say, that i think we need new leadership at the top of both parties in the house and so i would like to see someone besides nancy pelosi run and that is who i would support so i think we need to sweep new people in there. that is nothing new for lamb. and a notable part of the campaign was opposing pelosi and he won. what signal does that send to other democrat running in the now swing-ish red districts. what signal does that send before pelosi s future if democrats want their blue wave to wash through trump country and take back the house? so here is the dilemma for the democrats. republicans right now are reassuring their ranks that they can hold the house because there won t be many anti-pelosi centralist democrats like conor lamb running against them. are they right? right now there is less of a purity test for democratic candidates in the competitive districts than the republican opponents. you can r