if she is feeling better if she that candidate, she getting reelected. . we ll get lucy mcbath and the georgia six. she ended up winning that seat, that is how people can effectively win next year. that is what you to do to convince people. that is not what the american people want to see. the recent poll by essence magazine says what else do you got. these candidates are not winning by that. if you give them the same piece meal nonsense, they stay home
almost there. stacey abrams is correct, were it not for voter suppression she would have been the next governor of georgia. the georgia six, newt gingrich s district now represented by lucy mcbath, african-american democrat in favor of who ran on a platform of gun control. i think there is change but i think you can t underestimate the influence of the old south. a question i would have for jaime. on the one hand we would like to think lindsey graham has trashed his reputation. he s trashed his reputation in d.c. and new york but people love this new spineless, toady lindsey graham. he was more popular than when he had this rebeccatation. jaime, how are you going to fight back against that. i know you guys cited one poll. there was another poll that took place in february that had
disen franchising felons. but what people now think of in my former state, they think of massacres in orlando and parkland. actually the son of the woman just elected in georgia six was also killed in florida. they think of killings. this isn t good for the business of the state. well, i want to refer everyone back to 2013 when chief justice roberts wrote the 5-4 decision which struck down a part of the voting rights act. and in that decision he said that we re 40 years passed all the bad stuff. the racism basically doesn t exist in the southern states anymore. it s gone. if that were the case, i would like for you to say, go back and read your own opinion because i m pretty sure after all the stuff you just reeled off, racism is not only alive and
say. and robert the list of 12 who said they re going to vote against pelosi and to jessica s point as well. those were all center of the road people. the people that you mentioned, cortez, gillum, et cetera, are all far left progressives. which way does the new leadership of the democratic party need to break? well, the new leadership is going to have to find a way to stick together, both wings. party. there s a centrist wing and the part that both groups support. because pelosi is such a divisive figure, if you look at georgia six, during the dismaysal all that was was negative ads pushing pelosi into the district. this year when we had a runner against handle without pelosi on her, we thought would be able to beat without that same baggage
some breaking political news. the democrats just picked up another seat in the house of representatives in a very high profile congressional race. georgia six, representative karen handle, the republican, just conceded the race to her opponent. this was the seat where there was that special election a year ago. now in republican hands no longer. democrats have picked up a number of seats since the polls closed on tuesday night. joining me now is a former democratic mayor of new orleans. thank you for being with us. we ll get to politics in a moment. thank you. but i want to get your reaction to what happened overnight in california.