Dana bash, mark presson and gloria borger. Dana, what happened to night . What happened to night is this was a surprise of epic proportions. This is a town where we are right now, that doesnt get phased by much. But everybody im talking to is numb. Is numb from the shock. Because even the challenger didnt really think he was going to win. He said, joking to our deidre walsh that there would be a cnn van pulling up in his drive way. But he didnt really mean it. At the end of the day, eric cantor and people that support him in general election campaigns didnt go out into the primary, didnt go out and to vote. The money he had, 5 million war chest, couldnt beat the 300,000 war chest of his unknown candidate because money cant buy enthusiasm. Mark, how broad does the fallout from this go . Very far. The local implication says that we will see a new congressman from a district north of richmond. National implications are new majority leader in congress. A new lineup of potential successors
Who has not yet taken a message across the country one whos just Getting Started may well emerge as being better able to defeat the democrat nominee. In fact i expect and hope that to be the case. Joining us here in washington kevin madden cnn political commentator, former Romney Campaign adviser and spokesman, also with us, cnns dana bash and gloria borger. Kevin, i was surprised given the body language the statements the activity he was doing for the past month or so. I was surprised. Publicly and privately, it had all the indications that he was moving towards a direction that he would do it. If you look at the san diego speech from a week ago and the Mississippi State speech all of those had the trappings of a president ial candidate. Complete with sending out the excerpts of a speech beforehand. And even privately, governor romney said, in conversations that he had with me when he confirmed that he was thinking about it he said if you want to be president , you have to run for pre
Here. Because i did my part. But so did senator obama. He made it clear he welcomed people who had supported me. He made it very clear. We went to unify, new hampshire, together. Appeared together. Spoke together. And made it absolutely obvious that i was supporting him. He was grateful for that support. I was reaching out to my supporters. He was telling his. You nominated senator obama at the convention. I did. Bernie sanders is saying hell fight all the way through the convention. Its different. He has to do his part to unify. He said the other day that hell do Everything Possible to defeat donald trump. He said hed work seven days a d week. I take him at his word. The threat he poses the our country and democracy and economy that i certainly expect senator sanders to do what he said he would. Any thought to your making the first move and reaching out to make that process happen now as opposed to months from now . We have had lots of conversations between people who know me well and
Reported yeas and nays. Theyre having a vote if they will adjourn. They will if there are enough republicans on the floor to record their votes. Why thats important, too, what they will do now, democrats will take that vote and use that against the republicans to say that they chose to adjourn instead of dealing with what we consider a major issue that the American People want to see passed. This is now a Strong Political ploy by the democrats against the republicans. Do we still have audio of this . Can we still hear . Now theyre voting. Its just milling around. Got you. Its hard to see how many people are there. The question is, weve been talking about how, you know, wouldnt it be interesting if donald trump is the one who could broker a deal, considering his stance on this particular issue. Where does that leave your candidate, Christine Quinn . Look, i think thats a fair question. Could donald broker this. Weve seen no evidence that hes willing to put his Political Capital on the l
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