thank you so much. i think miguel was up all night covering this. let s bring in harry emton and mark preston. let me begin with you, not a blow out for dems. of relief this morning. not a blue wave either. i think there are two major perhaps 50,000 foot looks at ths can the democratic party now come together? the great untold story because donald trump seems to suck up every bit of oxygen in the room is that the democratic party is very much in disarray. you have progressivesy much pushing against the middle, the more centrist part of the party and the establishment. as we re heading into november, can we see the democratic party come together. donald trump s still has a great influence in these elections down in alabama, for instance, last night we s that martha roark who is a republican who was very critical of donald
trump after the release of the hollywood access tape, republican who should easily fail to in fact, is now going to go into a runoff against a , bobby bright, a former determine congressman. donald trump certainly has a role and an influence in these elections in the case of bronze medal it was negative for the incumbent. the california s governor race, harry, john cox, what s your take away there? my take away is that john cox was basically an unknown candidate and antonio vil vil looked like he was going into second place. cox sort of spiked up was because of donald trump s endorsement. in fact, the cox campaign apparently didn t even know it was coming and as soon as it did come, cox jumped right up into second place and is there in november. what s the take away as other republicans are looking at that?
will, harry. yeah, it s high on the trump curve but historically speaking the presidents who i most associate with this approval rating at this point are presidents like jimmy carter, presidents, you know, ronald reagan going up into the midterm elections, even bark obama in his second term and most of those president saw their parties do quite poorly. so for me, looking at a low 40s, that may be good for trump but not good for the republican party. mark, if you re one of these democrats in the senate trying to hold on to your seat going into the midterm elections andy last night desperately trying to read tea leaves here, what are you thinking? couple things. let s just look at a couple of them. john tester or joe manchin, you walk a very fine line. joeanchin in west virginia, you know, it s a republicastate don t think the voter rolls necessarily show that. it is a republican state and a
the enthusiasm of the trump voters, we re see that on the democratic side which ties back to the fact can the democratic party and the progressives types can they come together and meet at the table to try to win in november. perhaps they may not need to based on historic analysis that democrats are likely to take back the house, but certainly i know party leaders are hoping they would come together. you as bullish, harry? i don t know if i m quite as bullish but democrats are favored in the house in november just historically speaking, you see usually waves or mini waves in midterm elections and with the president still having an approval rating, it s still in the low 40s that translates into a big gain for the outparty. yes, he has low approval and it s better than a three for any president in the front of that number in polling, but, you know, it s still it s high i guess on the trump curve if you