There she is. There she is. Theres the picture. Theres the full screen picture of judy from the diner. At barnes noble tonight. She told you this wild idea she has about maybe i should run for president. I told her that i would very, very happily accept the Vice President ial nomination on the maddow odonnell tick. I thought you were going to say judy. I like that Vice President ial job. You know . Judy has very good taste in diners and very good taste in late night hosts. I know i think show knows who to run for president. Judy spillman, new yorks most famous political strategist. Well done, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Republicans woke up this morning clinging to the wreckage of trumpism and now republicans cannot honestly see any success in their future that involves donald trump but theyre still trying to pretend that there is a future with donald trump. What happened last night all across the country is tired of this. You could smell a wave coming. There was
You know . Judy has very good taste in diners and very good taste in late night hosts. I know i think show knows who to run for president. Judy spillman, new yorks most famous political strategist. Well done, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Republicans woke up this morning clinging to the wreckage of trumpism and now republicans cannot honestly see any success in their future that involves donald trump but theyre still trying to pretend that there is a future with donald trump. What happened last night all across the country is tired of this. You could smell a wave coming. There was a coalition of the decent in this country that rose up yesterday. The rejection of Donald Trumps fear and divisiveness. The margins of victory, the turnout, the energy are astonishing. Its important for republicans to self reflect. Bing, bing, bong, bong. Doesnt change my reading of the current moment. I think it means we have to deliver. What last night signaled was if you keep going on
republican house members is as far away from donald trump as they can get which puts the tax cuts bill in even more danger than it was before last night. we re in trump. yeah. sure you re with trump. until you re not. joining us now, john heilman, national affairs analyst for nbc news and david frum for the atlantic and stewart stevens for the daily beast. senior strategist for morn s 2012 presidential run. stewart, i will go to you as the senior republican strategist here. you re a republican strategist looking to 2018. you wake up this morning and you think what? well, listen. i think some interesting stuff happened last night and didn t get talked about enough. i m conflicted here. i love ed gillespie like a brother and i just think the campaign didn t really give him a chance to show who he is and
senior strategist for morn s 2012 presidential run. stewart, i will go to you as the senior republican strategist here. you re a republican strategist looking to 2018. you wake up this morning and you think what? well, listen. i think some interesting stuff happened last night and didn t get talked about enough. i m conflicted here. i love ed gillespie like a brother and i just think the campaign didn t really give him a chance to show who he is and happens more often than not in campaigns. but remarkably, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general who didn t embrace this sort of cultural war on the republican side that top of the ticket did overperformed. he had a very unusual situation where the female lieutenant governor led the ticket. and got more votes than the top of the ticket. i think there s probably a message in that. they still lost. and it s still they did a lot better when there was a dropoff on the democratic side between
with the united states house of representatives. the message to washington republicans last night is that they are on their way to a restoration of the nancy pelosi speakership or desperately clinging to an even thinner majority than they have now. maybe a majority of just one or two seats in the house when the dust clears next year. republican strategist mike murphy said today the canary in the coal mine didn t just pass out but its head exploded and it exploded because of the head explorer in chief, donald trump. it s a personal rebuke of donald trump and of course donald trump tried to pretend the opposite saying that ed gillespie lost because he did not embrace me or what i stood for. did not embrace me.