to address the most vulnerable in this country hidden behind our attempt to beat trump. how do you build unity based on trust not just as a practical matter? i couldn t agree more that trust is what it s all about. we didn t show up in all too many zip codes in this country. how can you expect to earn trust when you don t even show up? that s why trust matters. once again, virginia, you may recall in the primary season the media was writing about how this was going to be a bernie, hillary redo election. what it was was two high-road candidates who ran a spirited campaign. they agree on just about everything and everyone came together. i had a number of experiences over the last few days, i was in virginia, where people came up to me and said tom, i supported bernie sanders in the primary. i worked for him hard. i see what you re trying to do to unite our party.
i feel good. james brown. i feel good because for the first time in two election cycles, especially off-year election cycles, democrats are holding their own. this was a blue wave. this was not just a national party invested in down ballot races. this was grassroots democrats and i am taking back my city council. i am taking back my sheriff seat, my state delegate seat. you ll like this, john. i came down from boston, mika, and i went down to northern virginia and said what the hell am i doing with my life? i m 57. i should be home sleep iing, right? i was out there canvassing with kathy. they said she couldn t win that seat. she was the first asian female to win that seat. grassroots democrats are taking back the party and they re going to take back the country next year. 5% increase in turnout, the big issue for democrats in offseason election, turnout, turnout,
accomplish things? i think that s right, that s a great question. there is a lot of attention paid to the big wins in virginia and new jersey, just across the pennsylvania state line for me are a series of counties, so-called colored counties in philadelphia, at the county level there were big wins for democrats in bucks county in delaware county, in chester county, pennsylvania, there has never been a county elected democrat since the 1,700s and democrats swept the county offices up for election. what does that mean? i think it means members of the house that represent the suburban district who are republicans will have to begin moving towards the middle. i think it will make it clear to the president or at least members of his team that if they don t begin some real outrage to democrats on tax reform and other priorities, they will not get their legislatetive agenda
looking forward to the shirts. should be there by friday. i m waiting for them. wait, wait. where is it? no, no, no, no. we go back to kascie we don t leave until we see the thunder bolt. kasie dc. that s her name. i like that radio voice joe uses. laser rock. exactly. we re back. my god. what does the democratic party plan to do to capitalize on last night s success? we need to do something. former dnc chair donna brazile has her new book on the 2016 election continues to make waves. plus the senate s number two democrat, dick durbin and joaquin castro of texas, his state still stunned after the horrifying church massacre. morning joe coming right back. fresh cinnamon?
mad. we never had a chance because they didn t compete in places where people didn t get the message. if they would have heard from the campaign, if somebody would have said, mika, i need your help. i need to say one last thing. don t underestimate the russians and what they did. i can tell that story they corrupted our entire data. they corrupted our data bank, our files. they were in our files until october 21st. and they were mean. they took more than our e-mails. they wiped out our files. i had to make a decision. so, donna, i want to get down to the core of your criticism. i m going to use your word, cancer. my critique. your critique. the cancer you describe it in the book is the financial agreement put in place between the clinton campaign and the dnc. the clinton campaign has said that was intended only for the general election. it was that an agreement about the primary process or just about the general election? the paper said the general election. what i found was th