radio panel, radio host rj harris from harrisburg, pa, a friend of the show and noted expert. and tom heartland from portland, oregon. i appreciate both you guys being here. nice to be here. leland: rj, pulled out some of the ads and talking points from the republican race in pa. some of the words thrown around, slimeball, deadbeat, phony and those are the nice ones. up there reagan s 11th commandment somehow got forgotten. well, it did and i think it s because scott wagner s current state senator had such a sizable lead that paul mango thought he had to do something to really separate himself. now, they argue who went negative first, but i think that there s no question that paul mango s commercials were really just brutal and laura ellsowrth is in the middle of this looking good because she really didn t participate except pointing out the fact that they were at each other s throats.
leland: in the post trump era, does taking the high road matter anymore? i don t believe so, in fact, susquahanna polling released a poll on thursday that shows that scott wagner s at 37%, and mango s at 22. laura ellsowrth though went from 2% to 18. so, she had quite a bit of a jump and it s about 22% undecided, but when you look at the negative campaigning that went on, scott wagner still has a pretty commanding lead. leland: tom, what always happens in these primaries, especially with rj is describing there in ohio, is that everybody is beating up on each other on the republican side and you ve got governor wolf there, the democratic governor, who is skating through unscathed and protecting his war chest right now. you have to imagine that he s recording every one of these ads of the republicans attacking each other? yeah, part of the problem, i think, that the republicans have right now is the tone that s been set from the top, from the trump crime family on down, where, you ve