lamb was giving his speech said there wouldn t be a concession for several days. this could go all the way to next week is when those provisional ballots, the military ballots, those absentee ballots won t come in until all the way up until march 20th and it may take up until then when they make their decision. and rick saccone was quite clear himself about his own intentions. you know we re still fighting the fight. it s not over yet. we re going to fight all the way to all the way to the end. don t give up and we ll keep it up. we re going to win it. it took a little longer than we thought, but we did it. i ve heard conor, the job you re running for is the house of representatives. so if you get down there, do the job. do the job.
typically a lot more politically active. the polls may be biased in that way. more students may not partake in them. there may be a skew in the polls that way. also it s important for the students out there that want to know what to do next, it s get out and vote. research who your politicians are even. know what they do. know who they re supported by legislatively and know who is supporting them financially for their campaigns because ever since citizens united we ve seen a massive growth in the campaign contributions and corruption in politics as a result. and that has to change. sadly, our parents haven t done so, so my generation does. david, thank you so much for being with us. we greatly appreciate it. david hogg, incredible. still ahead on morning joe i hate to put this pressure on you, rick, they re all watching, because i won this district like by 22 points. it s a lot. that s why i m here. look at all those red hats,
he ll be out next week for the next 20 years. yeah. and this you you look back again, you look back at what happened in 1974, post water gate, and you look at the generation of leaders that that 74 off year election created for democrats and i just wonder if we re not seeing the rebirth of a national democratic party here, stay with me, everybody, stay with me. okay. don t get us ahead. no, because you were finding, john, that the democratic party has awakened, they ve gotten smart and they have a lot of u.s. marines, a lot of retired military men and women, a lot of people that are fitting their district that sort of out of the seth mollton mold that is going to be tough for republicans to paint as people like poor rick saccone tried to paint conor
dream. this was conor lam who was the former marine, the former federal prosecutor, everybody knows that story but it came down to those local issues and i talked to this man anthony ross who i first met on monday in washington county and he had the time he was a trump voter and he was unsure how he was going to vote. i called him up late last night and he told me he cast his vote for conor lamb and he said what fried rick saccone s butt was his unwillingness to concretely say where he stood with labor in this district. this was a man that worked for 42 years at a sheet and tubing steel facility in cannonsburg when it shut down in 2008 and he felt that conor lamb while he still supports donald trump was that candidate to represent pa 18. fascinating. incite the district. also you talked about all that republican money. the president of the united states brought in to close the deal at the last minute and apparently could not get it
republicans say their argument here is that, well, conor lamb was just an unusually good candidate and rick saccone was an unusually bad candidate. well, here is the problem for republicans. there are many conor lambs out there. i went in southern illinois, brendon kelly, got a great pedigree, he is doing the same thing that conor lamb is doing in pennsylvania. he s a former naval officer, prosecutor and what you re seeing here is many conor lambs around the country. this is like the tea party in a sense that these people are newcomers to running for federal office, but here is the difference with the tea party, these are people who have very deep civic ties in their communities. their former federal prosecutors, former c.i.a. officers. so they are people who are uniquely embedded and popular in their district. so message here is conor lamb is not a one-off.