all right. now, some of these races that are ongoing, it s just about tabulation. it takes a while. i know the president didn t tell you that, but he s wrong. elections don t end on last tuesday night. that s just when they re starting. the votes start then. tabulation takes days, weeks, every state has its own laws. they re all projected out weeks. now, those projections are a function of timing and litigation. and a big case for that you re going to see in florida, also in georgia. tomorrow, we re going to have a ruling on stacey abrams lawsuit regarding absentee ballots. abrams, the georgia governor, democratic candidate, is one of the last holdouts for new rising star democrats. so what is abrams possible defeat and the losses of andrew gillum and beto o rourke mean for democrats? let s get some perspective on that and a lot more from cnn
talking about earlier, bakari. they came up short. they overperformed with democrats, but came up short in the goal of winning their seats. so i m not sure that there isn t still an argument for the terry mcauliffes or steve no, no, i agree with that. i agree with that. i think that terry mcauliffe is going to be a very viable candidate and lead this party, if he so chooses and can garner that support. but andrew gillum and stacey abrams and beto o rourke did not lose. and i know that they may not have won these particular races, but they fundamentally rebranded the democratic party. stacey abrams and andrew gillum showed that you can have progressivism in a black idiom. beto o rourke showed, if you have this grassroots movement, no matter where you are, if you touch 100 counties in texas and you have that energy and out here in hollywood showing you can have the bubba who drives a truck that you have an opportunity yeah, but you have to actually win, though. a winning nation
pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan those were states that did well for democrats. mm-hmm. senate and governors races in pennsylvania, democrats won. wasn t really even close. in wisconsin, scott walker defeated in the governor s office by a democrat, and the senator, the incumbent senator winning a race that everyone thought was going to be competitive. not all that competitive. and, in fact, senator baldwin ran on medicare for all and won wisconsin, and then michigan, of course, where democrats held a senate seat and picked up a governor s office. that s significant in terms of those states. it s not to say that president trump can t win them again, but it does say, first of all, they re going to have democratic governors. and second of all, it does say the democratic message did well. i think we probably overestimated trump s strength in the midwest, right? he won those three states, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, by about 80,000
respect, wherever they find them, in this country. and that is a prescription for success against a donald trump who has made a decision that he is going to try to maximize his base and write off the rest of the vote. i hear you. i understand the analysis. and i get the adjustment that you re making, in terms of the blanket statement, well, they lost. but at the end of the day, we had this conversation during the special elections. and i ve been listening to everybody tonight and their thoughts about defining victory. i m more simple than that, axe. you ve got to win at some point. and the problem in the special elections is that the democrats were competing in places better than they had in the past, but they didn t win. and we did see them win in a lot of house areas in this midterm election. not the special election period, there they kept losing. but in these midterms, they won in places. and i wonder if what we re seeing is, you still lost in texas, you still lost in georgia a
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