all behind herschel walker. so he is going into the general election with the united republican party behind him. he is already running even or maybe even ahead of the incumbent democrat. so that s a race that i m paying attention to. bret: today, as you look at it, you think the senate gets you to the senate majority seat? well, look, i never liked to put a number on anything. but i will tell you this. we haven t had a better electoral environment for republican success since 2010 or 1994. the two best republican years anyone can remember. so the atmosphere is there almost disgust with the performance of this democratic administration and this all democratic congress over the last year and a half is going to lead to the perfect atmosphere with wind at our back this fall. we get the right nominees through the primaries, we re going to have a good year. bret: senator, we always appreciate your time.
trump, donie discredited themself, he told jonathan martin. he asked about the 25th amendment. he said trump finally pulled a gun does that pull the trigger. he seems to be such a pure political animal, with no sole inside of him. we will see when you first ran? you are continuing dating in your book that it was always like that? you are right, mitch mcconnell did novel soul. but in the beginning of his career, he supported organizations like me. he supported women s rights. in a lot of, ways he would condemn himself now. but it just shows that democracy in the pursuit of power at all costs. and, look, as a kentucky, and we have mitch mcconnell and rand paul. on a do my bite to get one of them, and get mitch gong of the majority seat. and ask everybody, go to charles bullet wearing and novels of this effort, because the people in kentucky are not being represented by qualms like mitch mcconnell and rand paul. there are a lot of people, who talk to me about this, race when you ran a
one aspect is that it is a relatively defense live incumbent protective map, but it s also notable en you talk about the demographics, the tribune tech pointed that out the people in colorado acquaint for 95% of the states growth, but in the new map there is one less hispanic majority districts zero districts for the black majorities, the latest census result that so you have basically, it looks like they are preserving the partisan bench, but the racial makeup of the state is not necessarily represented? you re right, 95% of the group was nonwhite, 95% of it was hispanic, and there s not one you hispanic or non white majority seat in the map. republicans are essentially playing keep away from democrats and minorities moving their own seats to higher ground, they did create a democratic district are proposing to the austin area of which is a vote trying to shore off
altered this time around to ensure that they can still elect hispanic candidates of choice for the next decade as we see these trends take hold. in the suburbs of dallas and hewson respectively, are they safer in their seats under this vision of new maps? look, republicans are likely going to have to pack more democrats into existing democratic seats in dallas and houston, which is good news for lizzie fletcher in houston, good news for colin allrad in dallas because republicans have problems in neighboring districts. they have to shore up their own incumbents for another ten years. one creative way republicans might approach that is to try to turn lizzie fletcher s seat on the west side of houston into a hispanic majority seat which would simultaneously help republicans in neighboring districts and at least, you
sentiments. i do recognize it to be flushed out of most things and a separatist and very extreme in his position. i don t know if he was echoing that. we ll see what they decide today. they re going to give him a majority seat. that s for sure. the question is and he likely can t get a coalition behind him to rule but you re right this is someone running for prime minister has banned muslims and the koran and radical muslims should be in prison even if they have not committed a crime. when you look at the election today and the upcoming election in france where the far right candidate is also doing quite well is this the tipping point in europe? we are at an inflection point and my article published in the coming days is going to discuss