candidates is to shoot guns in democratic primaries? if you re a military hero and you know how to handle a gun. the problem with this is that republicans are going to find every single excuse. i mean, you sat here earlier today and said saccone was a bad candidate. compared to what? what is he a bad candidate what did he not do right? three reasons. it s not a death knell to be boring. time out. time out. he did not raise money. you want to know why that s a red herring? because republicans, not just his campaign but special interest groups, they outspent conor lamb. so however much money he raised, the republican party spent more money in this race than the democratic party. saccone spent $10 million. lamb spent almost 2 million. but candidate saccone was far lazier. he got outworked by conor lamb. i m not disputing that. that s a fact. i agree with bakari in this. i don t think rick saccone was the worst candidate. if he was boring, there s a ton of republican cand
and i think that getting back to amanda s point, i it do think there has been some cookie cutter theme that people are tired of and this guy conor lamb had a message. republicans also don t recruit candidates very well. exactly. i think there s a they recruited me. okay. now we re making my point here. that s why we say former congressman we have a lot in common. don t worry. but if we go back and look at the history of todd akin, if we look at the young lady who was not a witch, christine o donnell, we can go down the list of individuals. roy moore, for example. who are not good candidates. and that s going to be the problem. what the democratic party has done with these organizations that are not the dnc like emerge, like higher heights, like emily s list, they ve gone out and they ve recruit ed some amazing candidates outside the
republicans. some of those you were talking about the senate earlier jason. some of the senate democrats red state democrats running in places that donald trump won they are seeing tonight that guy conor lamb won a trump plus 20 district. what lessons can i earn as a learn from a trump plus 20 district that i can fort fie ran on sanctuary cities and conor lamb being soft on crime, that stuff didn t work quite enough. we ll see what the returns are but they ve got to figure out you re going to be on the radio in pennsylvania early in the morning. yes, thank you for that reminder, and a 5:50 train. the message is, the house is on fire for republicans. in each one of these races, regardless of whether there was a pickup, the democrats have