carry over. bill clinton got his butt kicked in 94 and pretty easily won reelection. president obama got shellacked, pretty easily won reelection. but the president lost republicans. the president was not on the ballot. the republican vote, they lost in the suburbs, their african-american numbers went down from the presidential election, latino numbers went down from the presidential election, the asian numbers went down from the presidential election, the white educated women number went down from the presidential election. he saw his base shrink last night, not grow. that s not good going into 2020. he did something i don t think any of us have seen before, i certainly haven t seen it, he shamed some fellow republicans who were defeated in the elections publicly. listen to this. we saw the candidates that i supported achieve tremendous
was and where all of that shook out positively for republicans. it was important because it allowed the president to unite all wings of the republican party, which he has not done otherwise. from never trump to always trump, everybody came around. right. because again, if you care about if you care about life, if you care about other social issues, he s delivered on the supreme court. what s interesting is he specifically declined to go down that road that could have helped suburban republicans by kavanau emphasizing the economy. to follow up on that point again, the president deserves credits, the republicans made gains they thought they were going to lose. but the national referendum was the house. all 435 are up. if you look at the results here, a president he doesn t like to remember this a president who lost the popular vote by a pretty good number actually shrunk his base yesterday. we have no idea if that will
or not they will have whether they will have the ability to enforce that even if they want to because the margin of republicans will be so much bigger with republicans donald trump helped get into office. he did he tell rod rosenstein it goes through me now, not you? you have the later submitted, laura, jeff sessions first is he sentence is i m resigning because you told me to. reporter: that s right. we re told despite the 90-minute press conference where trump deflected what would happen for the attorney general, he actually asked for his resignation before he even took the stage.
sessions. this is where the make-up of the senate and the margin that they now have, we have exhibit a of why it matters so much. leading up to election day, you had republicans like lindsaey grah graham, who is likely lindsey graham has said don t mess with robert mueller. does he have a spine to back it up? we ll see. the president said he doesn t want to mess with robert mueller he just did. he just did. rod rosenstein still controls that investigation. does he? let me finish my point. what he and other republicans, some of whom are now leaving, have said is obviously sessions is going to go but, mr. president, you have to put somebody up who is going to come before us in a confirmation hearing and swear under oath they are going to let the mueller investigation continue. it is an open question, the point you were making, whether
margin of victory so that s 54 votes theoretically? assuming the mississippi senate leelection we still don t know what s going to happen in arizona. so 54 as of now and it could be 55. assuming rick scott does emerge as the winner in florida. right now they re at plus two. nevada went to the democrats, north dakota, indiana and missouri went to the republicans. if scott does emerge from this, the republicans are at plus three. that s a big pick up. i ll just say donald trump actually had some good news to share, and it is amazing to me that he would rather have this fight, relish this fight with the press than actually continue to tout the good news of a nearly, truly well-padded public majority, helps on judicial