she is a very polished presence on the campaign trail. very polished presence. of course, the other side that vaughn just mentioned, being with steve pan bannon. so very polished presence. she has campaigned more with blake masters and what happens is voters start to make up their minds and the question is why isn t that election denial piece the trump connection, the threat to democracy, making an impact, and i ll say above that, hold on, wait a minute, because let s see what voters actually say, and one more thing voters may not know, republicans have a built-in 8 point advantage, turnout advantage in midterm elections. it could be higher this time given the energy on the republican side. that s a very good point. let s wait and see how it has an effect. but let s also talk about another arizona candidate, brahm, mark finchim running for secretary of state, which is a powerful position in arizona, over elections, he is an election denier, but his
white house dynamic way better than i, can but i can tell you here on capitol hill, this majority was built and bolstered in republican districts. remember, abigail spanberger beat dave brat who beat eric cantor, that is the heart of the previous republican world. that res seats that republicans held for 30 and 40 years. elaine luria, another virginia democrat, in the new portnews area, and the seat that republicans held, yet this congress, they spent a ton of time dealing with progressives who are large in number but not the majority makers and moderates were forced to wrestle with these progressives over policies, you know, and they would say, making perfect the enemy of the good, for months and months on end. and they ended up fighting each other and we wrote this this morning, more than they were fighting republicans, and i think when you look back to this congress, that s going to be a major take-away that democrats think about. well, ashley, talk about that. and again, i want t
campaign is virtually nonexistent, he has done hardly any media or public interviews. not very much advertising either. what s going on with this race? so it s a clear down ballot race that doesn t get much attention and i would argue mark finchem is getting a lot of attention with fontez with millions of advertising that we ve not seen in the race. the energy, you re seeing republicans go for the base, this is a totally about turning out the base for them, they re hitting it really hard. harder than i ve ever seen. and also i would add this that many folks might not know, according to the alliance for security and democracy, and mark minchem has the highest social media presence among all politicians in the midterms. it is really striking. so he s speaking to people we never see. brahn resnick, vaughn
congress ever, so what is abigail spanberger frustrated about? they re saying it did pass. i think she s frustrated, i m just saying, it was not me as the reporter but channeling many house democrats, they feel if they did it earlier, if they had two years, people might start feeling the effects of these things, these pieces of legislation, the chips bill is going to create lots of jobs, republicans and democrats voted for it, many of these chips fabs, these plants that they re going to build u.s. made chip aren t going to be online, aren t going to be built, aren t going to be activated, until later down the road, and that s a problem for a lot of house democrats, who want to say look what i passed, and look what it is going to do for this community, this economy, this neighborhood, and your jobs. i think that s difficult. but again, you can t overemphasize just the barrage of ads that democrats are feeling across the country, and you re seeing democrats by the way, you re seeing re
expand the map into areas they never thought they would be able to get into, and democrats having to defend seats they have no business defending. seats that joe biden won by 19 and 20 points. so i mean it s a pretty grim picture out there. new york alone could give back the house to republicans. new york races alone that are super tight. new york races that are super tight for the house. but jake, going back to spanberger and your reporter max, she was complaining about progressives and said that the progressives were forcing these issues to be better than they were on paper already, that they wanted it to be perfect, instead of good, and that it delayed things even further, and it underscores the democratic party i think has had and ashley could probably speak to this after, with trying to unify a party that has very disparate elements and very disparate ideals. ashley could talk about the