working class, you know, labor, blue collar vote, right? i like i always say, in 2016, the president won because of the big short voters, right? the book and the movie. that part of america was left behind by wall street. the folks that had their house foreclosed on and the banks kind of took advantage. i think people watched those movies and said, hey, i identify with that. and the president went into those states and he had a message, an economic opportunity that really resonated with those voters. if the president doesn t get back to that, there will be problems. i think when you return to that message, it s the only one you re going to win with in 2020, regardless of who the candidate is. here s what i m worried about for republicans going into 2020. what we saw from 2018 is that the democrats were very willing to run different kind of candidates in different kind of races. look at the governor who won in michigan and got those hillary clinton voters back in the democratic colu
30 seats, net, and they may be head headed for their best midterm performance in more than 40wate. they re now leading in seven of ten house races that remain undecided. a democrat just now taking the lead in a key california race, as new votes came in just a short while ago. that means the democrats advantage in the house could grow beyond the 225 seats they hold now, compared to 200 for the republicans. in the senate, democrats now have 47 seats. republicans holding the majority with 51 seats. two senate races still undecided this hour. let s go back to wolf, who s at the magic wall with john king. all right. thanks very much. you know, it s interesting. even as we re doing this live show, votes are coming in pretty quickly out of california, especially in the tenth district in california. so let s beam it out and take a look at it and we ll show you why it s so significant. this is the full state, people leading. but let s take off the races that we ve already called and just l
to run different kind of candidates in different kind of races. look at the governor who won in michigan and got those hillary clinton voters back in the democratic column. meanwhile, donald trump, his speech the day after the election was essentially a scolding for republicans who did not get in line. he danced on the grave of mia love, who hasn t her race has not been called. by the way, she s a lovely person. she is a black republican woman. he should be thanking her for being republican in this party today. and still, he would not let her be the kind of candidate that she felt she needed to be to win that race. and if you put this in a nutshell, where does this go? you have women like barbara comstock and mia love losing, potentially. paul ryan, retiring, and candidates like chris collins and duncan hunter, who have been indicted winning. that is a well, that s because of scary prospect. it s the truth. but you have these safe
nationalist, here s what s wrong with nationalism, which is common sense, trump said nothing at first. i said, oh, look at that. he s keeping his mouth shut when he should. good for him. then today he came out and bashed macron and made jokes about world war i and world war ii and the germans. so you re right. he is who he is. the question now is who will the democrats be? they ve got a chance to be in power in the house. let s see what they do with it. thanks so much. always appreciate it. all right. back to wolf and jake. thanks, chris. it s interesting because already the midterms aren t even over yet. we re still calling races. but people are trying to figure out what this might mean for president trump and his re-election contest. one of the things that i think is you can see signs both positive and negative for president trump in these results, mainly negative. but, you know, he did hold some states, republicans did. florida, for example. but one thing that i think is a very
analysis of the election. she said something like, whether or not you think a lot of trump voters are racist, trump talks as if he thinks they re racist. and that turns off people who would vote republican. and she also said, it s not just white suburban women who are being turned off, it s white suburban men. yeah, and i think andrew gillum had a pretty good quote about this, too, in the context of that florida race. he essentially said he didn t necessarily think ron desantis was racist, but the racists think that ron desantis is racist and it goes to this similar point. donald trump has decided to run a white identity strategy. it worked in 2016, because he was able to get those racial conservatives, who in some ways have stereotypes about people who are non-white, who voted for obama in some instances. he got those folks by talking about the wall, talking about immigration in a very hawkish way. but the key is, does it turn people off? and we ve seen that in some of these races,