and where national democrats mess up, where the d trip and the dga, when they drop in and they do not take stock of what the climate is on the ground, that is when we mess up. we took stock of the climate and i think we re going to do well come this fall. listen, dana bash threw out a number earlier tonight that s significant. she said 114 house districts that are even more competitive than tonight. more competitive. that s got to scare republican colleagues on capitol hill, jack. there s no question about it. and i m saying i think this was a very significant victory for the democrat party. i would say that the democrats keep bringing up alabama. they re absolutely wrong on that. not only was how so? not only was it all about the good judge down therebying a terribly flawed candidate but that the attorney general race down there in the test between the governor and luther strange, that had so much to do with it. but symone, so what i would give you is you ve won these state
in beauty shops, barber shops and bible studies. alexander marquardt is reporting in the morning saccone will be at home while his campaign team meets with legal counsel assess his options. communications director patrick mccain says that will include lawyers from washington, from the rnc, from the nrcc. no decision will be made until after the meeting. i can t wait to get my new glasses. i can t read this small type. what do you think? yeah, there s no automatic recount in pennsylvania law. so this is quite frankly the same meeting is going to be happening with conor lamb and all his lawyers because they re going to try to figure out how do we stop this, how do we just declare victory, how do we move on? this is not out of the ordinary. let me just say one thing here that a lot of people will draw a score and bring it on. i think this is a victory for both political parties tonight. and here s the reason why. bring the scorn. oh, stop, it symone. here s the reason why.
be? it s not the party you had been, especially in 2016. but here s the thing, though. the democratic party is always shifting and changing. it wasn t the democrats that passed the civil rights act. so the question on the table is what will the democratic party look like a year from now, two years from now, even five to ten years from now? and the answer to that question lies in which factions rise up. and what lessons are learned. because there s a lesson learned from this and all the other special elections we have been covering throughout the past year. is that democrats have to rejigger a little bit and figure out where they go and maybe they have to run candidates that are more conservative. go ahead, jack. but i m just saying, and symone can disagree, but he is out of step with the democrat majority in washington, d.c. he s pro gun. he s personally pro choice. he s pro tax cut. meaning the trump tax cut. and he s pro tariff, meaning the trump tariffs. these are not sustaina
our breaking news this morning, democrat conor lamb declares victory in pennsylvania s special congressional election. a race that s just too close to call. until all the votes are counted. but it should have been a slam dunk for republicans. back with me now mark preston, bakari sellers, amanda carpenter, scott jennings, symone sanders and jack kingston. you wanted to rebut something jack was talking about, symone? it s so late i don t even remember what jack said. i just want to say this. i want to reiterate that conor lamb did not run republican light. he did run as a democrat. and i think what this means for democrats in 2018 is that you can run good races with good candidates and solid messaging and great ground games. but we have to do the work to identify good candidates and to make sure we are going out there reaching people where they are.
vet, that means they could be blackmailed. they could be bribed. there s something about them that history has proven people in that category are dangerous to our country. this is not just, you know, hey, it s a nice way to do it. it s a suggestion. this is national security being put at risk. michael, do ah agree in. i actually agree with that. it symone s point, there were some women who came forward in the rob porter there was actually three. but it did work hand in hand with the process because he was contacting them saying, hey, quit saying this because you re affecting my i m not going to get a security clearance. he was trying to influence his second wife, jennie, about retracting this had been flagged and was probably at that point being investigated to see, okay, what can we do about this? it is not uncommon for this process to take that long until the fall before this stuff starts to come up. i mean there s a massive we love the cia and the fbi, but there are