better than any of the other candidates. but it turns out the antipathy for governor matt bevin which is so strong that not even donald trump himself could come in in fact it was one of the worst counties for bevin in the election. he was blown out where democrats are heavily in those cities. you re saying the president visiting those cities on matt bevin s behalf might have actually energized the other side? yes, i would say so. it motivated democrats and i should note that governor bevin is an atypical kind of candidate. he s very brash. in 2015 he won and before trump
statewide offices in virginia, governor, lieutenant governor, ag, those things. they have not controlled the legislator. virginia republicans have had narrow control of both the house and senate. if the democrats are able to flip both houses of the legislator in particular, again the ap saying they ve already got the senate, that would put the democratic party in control of every major statewide office and state legislator in virginia. that would have huge implications in terms of policymaking in the state whether or not people still consider virginia a purple state. ap is calling the virginia senate for the democratic party. we re waiting on the news out of the house in virginia. it s turning out to be an interesting off-year night for democrats. again with the news we continue to cover out of kentucky that the democratic challenger has taken the governorship from republican matt bevin in kentucky even as kentucky republicans were able to hold on
winner in the kentucky governors race. it appears democrats have taken at least partial control of the legislator in virginia. as a democrat and someone who was recently running for your party s presidential nomination, that has to be good news to you. it s exciting am. i think it started in 2017 after trump was elected. we go to alabama and pick up seats dug jones and we pick up seats in the midwest, iowa, texas. and to make it really hyperlocal i just learned my wife s hometown, hometown of vice president mike pence, their city candidate just went majority democratic. i think a lot of these issues are local, and we can t read too much into what impeachment means for these places. in kentucky, for example, the governor there, governor bevin was working overtime to reverse the affordable care act, and that was on ballot there and kentuckians like the apparent
in 2015 when he won when trump won in 2016 for kentuckiens it was very familiar because bevin acts very similar to trump, very bombastic and doesn t apologize for it, and it turns out altogether they swept matt bevin couldn t survive. joe sonka, political reporter for the louisville journal joining us tonight. i know there s going to be more the come but thanks for joining us. while it was talking to joe sona, we got is more news. the associated press has just made an interesting collin
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