do you think voters care? i think they ve tuned it out. i think this administration has been nothing but drama. i don t think there s going to be a khashoggi effect. the polling has been asking about saudi arabia what do you think happened to him. people care about their health care. they care about the government holding the president accountable. they care about whether or not they can pay their bills and if the good economy, which is fantastic, is going to impact them, and they say it s not, it s leaving them behind. i think that s much more important. i also think you re seeing a lot of democrats have a very good benefit from their house candidates and several gubernatorial their house candidates are going out and doing gangbuster numbers. at the same time, you have the next great white hope in beto o rourke who s going to lose by nearly double digits. everybody says that s because texans aren t him him. that s not it. we talk about hold on, hold on. back it up. if he doe
the numbers, pelosi raised $34.2 million for democrats in the third quarter. 250 fundraising events, 29 cities. total haul from nancy pelosi for the 2018 cycle $121.7 million for democrats, bill, as you note that s a lot of money. it brings up this important question for democrats. how much is that money worth when you already have democratic house candidates saying they will not vote for her for speaker? it s becoming an increasingly big issue in the swing congressional districts. bill: well done in d.c. nice to see you. julie: it is the end of an era for a childhood staple as the actor who created the voices of big bird and oscar the grouch retires from sesame street after nearly 50 years. never coming back? never. i don t understand. everything was just fine. why does it have to be this way?
has fascinated us forever, from the biblical times just as jonah to captain ahab. but here in vegas, a whale is a deep-pocketed gambler, someone gambling more than a million bucks a weekend. and here in nevada there s another kind of whale, the kind named sheldon adelson, the kind who heads the sands empire. he, along with his wife miriam, has gambled $50 million on republican house candidates. that went to a group called the congressional leadership fund. it s the official super pac that supports house republicans running for reelection or a new seat. and that 50 million represents nearly half of all the money this pac has spent this cycle, 40%. much of it has been going to candidates struggling
little bit later, but we are seeing across the country small dollars adding up into big campaign war chests. patrick, i m curious too, do you see a divide here at all when we see democrats leading the generic ballot but see the shifting now in the republicans favor. is there an issue here at all where the democrats are just it s so masked in these suburban areas, these metro areas, where there s going to be tidal waves in the suburbs but maybe not elsewhere? one of the things we saw with democratic surges across the country is they occur in democratic areas. it s because democrats living in democratic districts are going to come out and vote but that doesn t change the fundamentals. the thing here that we re seeing is that the democratic house candidates, and there s probably about 50 of them that just cringed when tharon mentioned hillary clinton. they re trying to avoid hillary clinton and trying to avoid donald trump. their appeal is we re not that
nrcc reserved $45 million of tv ads. but democrat candidates have outspent republicans $116 million to $66 million across almost 80 house districts. they are just awash in money on the democratic side. they sure are. one of the other things there, democrats are doing much better giving individual races. republicans give to party. republicans give to superpacts because they raised a lot of money from big dollar donor. democrats are doing better at channelling and connecting grass roots donors with individual house candidates. that gives you the maximum. if you re a candidate the number one thing you want is control over your own destiny. having more money than your opponent is good. having more money than you can spend and direct exactly where you want is the ideal situation. lot of democratic house candidates have it. dana: i want to talk about this quote from republican consultant john braybender. republicans who are having a hard time in what we would now