president before he was elected, support him now, will continue to support him after the primary, and most importantly i will support him after i am elected. the same cannot be said about mr. helder. if mr. bannon chooses to be with me, he can. danny is saying this isn t about president trump, isn t about wannon. in arizona, open seat, the flake, the republican is retiring, mcsally, the congresswoman, the establishment choice, kelly ward was shaping up to be the bannon pick. kelly ward out there saying positive things about bannon, no, similar statement. mississippi, roger wicker, incumbent republican senator, looks like he may be challenged by chris mcdaniel. is mcdaniel out there saying, yeah, bannon s got a point? maybe we should worry about
no, similar statement. mississippi, roger wicker, incumbent republican senator, looks like he may be challenged by chris mcdaniel. is mcdaniel out there saying, yeah, bannon s got a point? maybe we should worry about trump? no, it s all about sporting trump, supporting the president. and these were all the places we ve been looking at steve bannon potentially backing candidates, potentially backing insurgentsies this spring, in the spring of 2018. right now, you saw it today, somebody who put out a tweet with an image of him smiling, it was mitch mcconnell because mitch mcconnell is looking at all these places here, and he s saying, that bannon factor may be gone now. oh, what a difference a day makes. steve kornacki, thank you so much. sure. coming up the white house says the public should be worried about kim jong-un s mental fitness, not donald trump s. that s ahead when the 11th hour continues.
i was always the most embarrassed at the beginning when people would see that. martha: this is mcdaniel. unfortunate that michelle would disregard contributions of conservative women and people of all backgrounds with one false accusation. gianno? we had the most inclusive stage of anyone talking about the republican side. ben carson, ted cruz, marco rubio. the democrats didn t offer that whatsoever. martha: carly fiorina. wendy, what do you think? i think the fact that gianno can name them proved a point. no, it doesn t. let me answer. i didn t interrupt you. gianno, i didn t interrupt you. let s put this in context. she was at a diversity
that s the big point. when you heard mcdaniel say he said it outright, he said so much for principle. these folks reached across the aisle again. love it. just open about the fact that for him, for tea party folks, principle equates never compromising or reaching across the aisle. that s what happened in 2010. that s what happened some in 2012. that s what many tea party that s what many voters who vote in tea party candidates, that s what they don t, they don t want compromise. they think they are compromising too much. this formula will be the restoration of sanity but for the republican party and as we saw in new york last night as well, sort of a take back of the republican party by the reform republicans pushing back on radical extremes in the republican party. this is going to make for amore balanced congress frankly and more productive congress. before we jump off of mississippi, dane ark. i want to get your take on the most basic level. is mcdaniel going to concede?
mississippians have been proud of the fact. that dynamic just fundamentally changed. that changed and mcdaniel is riding that. we ll see. the structure of the race is such that he ought to be able to pull this out, but you don t know depending on who votes. that s right. i want to use mississippi as a window. you were in new orleans over the weekend, republican leadership conference. hale barbour working hard for cochran said we need to focus on unity, not division, we need to focus on what unites us. what does this race tell us about where the republican party is in their very public fight over what it should look like heading into 2016? a couple of things. one is on a lot of policy issues republicans are united. thad cochran would like to repeal or certainly change obamacare, as mcdaniel would. thad cochran is talking about cutting spending, as is mcdaniel. the republicans agree across the