politicsnation. tonight s leads, not a moment to lose. right now it s five pm in washington. and house republicans have just released their spending plan to avert a government shutdown. moments ago. now, have less than a week to pass it and ultimately prevent a potential economic catastrophe for america. meantime it appears the table is nearly set for 2020 for democrats. out before, i m out exportation s, in tuesday s elections scoring a big win on abortion rights in ohio, taken control of the virginia legislature, winning a key governors race in the red state of kentucky. fresh off the victories for the soon to be first black house speaker and rhode island s first black congress person joins me shortly with their takes on where democrats stand ahead of 2024. as for republicans, they help their three primary debate with a significantly narrowed field. and they re a front runner donald trump remains embroiled and other matters, including a continuous fraud trial here in
senate leadership, about the differences of how they wanted to block it. and when all of that was going on president obama was able to secure the votes to override a veto. so it was nothing they were really arguing about the policy, it was the way they were going about it. but is that particularly dangerous ahead of an election year? you know, i think it is. and i think that republicans are going to have to ask themselves particularly in the next few weeks whether or not they want to have another government shutdown heading into 2016. i mean, they have such an opportunity to head into 2016. and they campaigned on this when they got back control of congress to really offer a more level-headed measured approach to governing. if they shut down the government, is that really going to send the right signal to key independent voters in states like pennsylvania, virginia, ohio and florida heading into 2016, and colorado, that that is going to really help them in an election year? right.