Quinnipiac poll showed mcauliffe ahead of cuccinelli by six points. If they show up, the next governor could be a democrat. If he wins, the long ethank you letter will be to the women of the old dominion. Cuccinelli faces a gap so enormous it is better described as a yawning chasm. Women choosing the democratic candidate by a margin of 50 to 36. As it turns out ladies arent all that into antiabortion, antisod my. Thinking people. Joining me Michael Steele. Nbc political analyst and former governor ed rendell. Managing editor of the grio. Com joy reid and deputy of new york city howard wilson. My fellows and friends, thank you for joining me on this election day, which im determined to make a big deal in this hour we have. Michael steele, ill go to you first. Talk about the implications of the Republican Party. I want to start with virginia. My question to you is will the gop take notice if Ken Cuccinelli is defeated. They will take notice of it. In a sense were making more of these two
Terrorists, it does not extend to criminals, and it does not extend to the mentally ill. While Wayne Lapierre struck a posture less combative than Previous Press conferences, his views remain questionable, calling for an immediate blanket of security at schools, lapierre dismissed universal background checks, saying criminals would never submit to them. Chairman leahy pressed lapierre on background checks and whether and how the nra head had changed his mind on closing gun show loopholes. Should we have mandatory background checks at gun shows for sales of weapons . If youre a dealer, thats already a law. Thats not my question, please, mr. Lapierre, im not trying to play games here, but if you could, it would help, just answer my question. Senator, i do not believe the way the law is working now, unfortunately, that it does any good to extend the law to private sales between hobbyists and collectors. So, you do not support mandatory background checks at all in instances at gun shows .
Hearing with secretary sebelius to make sure their base is hearing them. With just over 50 days left in office, mayor bloomberg is getting an earful for election efforts outside of goth am. Good morning from washington. Its thursday november seventh. A packed show and we will hear 2012 nuggets from the double down duo. The authors will be here on set. Lets get to the first reads of the morning. We joked that new jersey governor Chris Christies campaign would begin on election day. The day after christie would bask in the 22point win with an event clearly staged to stoke 2016 speculation. Fresh off of wins 50 of the hispanic vote, he chose a high school in union city, new jersey known as a Little Havana. Not to be confused with miamis Little Havana for the first public event of the second term. You want to make inroads, you got to get there and work it. Look at what happened last night. Another republican who won the latino vote recently. You didnt already know christie was going to be
The bathroom. Senator sanders would anyone like to tell mayor bloomberg to screw himself . Very good. And who ordered the pastrami . The chicken breast . The caviar . A jar of mayonnaise . This salad with a comb in it . Senator klobuchar. Lastly, anyone who knows they shouldnt be here . Thank you. Goodbye. Okay, then. Lets begin. That was fun. Good morning and welcome to we need a little levity, right . Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, february 27th. An with joe, willie and me we have the president of council on Foreign Relations and author of forthcoming book the world of bree introduction Richard Haass. I like that. Also with us, historian, author of the soul of america and rogers professor of the presidency at Vanderbilt University jon meacham, nbc news and msnbc contradicter and author of look at you two the last words of jesus from the cross is out today. Very good to you have both. Thats the great news. Great to have you on. Decided to go with a lesserknown subject. Those
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders winning colorado, utah and his home state of vermont. Results are still coming in at this hour and we are keeping our eyes out for a call on the all important state of california where 415 delegates are up for grabs. As the count stands right now, former vp joe biden is leading the pack with 453 delegates. Senator sanders with 373. Elizabeth warren and Mike Bloomberg both trailing far behind. Well bring you the latest results throughout the hour as they come in. I want to go to our road warriors spread out across the country. Lets go to Shaquille Brewster whos with the Sanders Campaign. I have to guess this is not the ideal night they were expecting. Reporter officially theyre pointing to california, theyre pointing to other calls made saying the delegate lead that Vice President biden has now will shrink. This is not the night the Sanders Campaign wanted. They made clear coming into super tuesday they wanted to come out of super tuesday with a clear delegate