win the most historic victory that democrats have had since watergate led by nancy pelosi staying on message, raising health care as issue around the country and democrats need to come back and get to work on health care, on infrastructure, on immigration, on government accountability and instead they are having a fight about the speaker, well, the rest of the country doesn t really share that at least among democrats and it s time for democrats to, you know, to get together and i m convinced that nancy pelosi will be the next speaker of the house. i think she will come out with overwhelming majority in the caucus and that is going to follow her to the floor and it should, she s a strategists, she s held democrats together and now, look, she raised more than half of the money that democrats took in to get the house majority. chris: jerry, as we say, a number of house candidates, democrats campaign pledging, it was an issue in the campaign and certainly in campaign ads, they
she s going to yell back. it looked to me like a guy who wanted to be seen having a fight with the media. yamiche if he wants to make the press look like his enemy, he did a pretty good job. it does seem like he lost the argument, lost the house of representatives for the rest of his term here. he lost the big argument in the popular vote last night. clearly the popular vote of this country went against him, but he wants to somehow start another way of judging the way things are. what do you think of you and everybody else today, going head to head with him in the press conference? i think two things. i think first the president does feel wounded by the fact republicans lost control of the house. this was a president who campaigned, even though he s saying that he focused on senate races, he called a lot of house candidates up on stage with him and was barnstorming across the country making sure republicans held onto the house and senate.
can they start winning in middle america again? can they find the sams that can start winning in middle america again? i think they can and i think you have some house candidates that are start to go break through there that can become senate candidates. and steve kornacki, you re amazing. it s incredible what you have, the knowledge of this and sort of like joe with useless information. coming up, where turnout was insane. plus, the races that emerged as bellwethers for the rest of the nation. morning joe is back in a moment. - meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps,
president trump talk a lot about immigration, talk a lot about the caravan or so-called caravan heading to the border, trying to get his troops, his supporters fired up. but moving on, does president trump help or hurt you heading into tomorrow? well, depends on who you are. right now, 39% approval rating, 55% disapproval rating. you would think that that is absolutely disastrous. well, for most house candidates, it probably is. the likes of here around the washington, d.c. suburbs, around philadelphia suburbs, those types of areas where republicans are, they re certainly in trouble. however, if you re in the united states senate, donald trump could be a big help, specifically where we see him in missouri today, brooke. but then the bottom line is, we come to this, what s going to happen, what does it all mean? i think if you go back to 2010 and you saw that barack obama had a 46% approval rating, he lost 53 seats. democrats are going to get nowhere near that, i believe. we re looking
the most closely watched congressional districts, dana rohrbacher now leads by two points. monmouth says that the last time they pulled it, since then, his support has gone up five points. what else has gone up five points in the district, donald trump s approval rating. just for republicans to hold the house, i think that map illustrates it, they got a lot to protect. that last point was interesting because we re trying to figure out what the increase in donald trump s popularity is doing for these house candidates. what about governors? some of the most high-profile vases. in georgia, stacey abram, kemp. if you average the polls together we ve been seeing, a slight advantage for kemp there. the big wild card in georgia, remember, this is a runoff state. if you don t get 50% on election day, they go to a runoff a few weeks later.