hillary clinton and until recently worked for john kel lane any. maura gay is an msnbc contributor. this story in your paper mara reflects right here from a number of democratic kratic activists, it says the mood of alarm is more intense because of the party s hunger to defeat president trump. with over three months to go before voting starts in iowa, their impatience with finding mr. and mrs. right among the current crop of candidates. are these concerns warranted, or is this just business as usual, democrats fret, it s early, fretting is what they do. it s funny. i have a little different take. i hear that from folks in new york from a lot of the strategists i talk to. i actually think this is exactly the kind of story that infuriates voters of both sto storistore parties because it suggests that democratic insiders who should be hand picking who the american
democrats have a 70% of doing this or that. that s a snapshot and basically a very, very educated guess, but nobody is going to win anything by 70%. it s going to be close. a bunch of close elections and every vote is going to matter. we talked a lot about who likes who, maura and talk about, oh, well, donald trump has his base, but there is a resistance that was larger than his base from the start of this because hillary clinton won more votes and now that s distributed across the midterms but put it to the side as we get closer to november and it is about turnout. we want to show some of this in the context of people who say they re certain to turn out, 81/79 of people who claim they re absolutely certain. so really statistical margin of error there. if you look at 2014 in october as a comparison there you had a much larger republican turnout and their voting blocs generally are higher for off-year
vicious, vicious place. the attacks, the bad-mouthing, the speaking behind your back. you know, and my way i feel very comfortable here. trump also comfortable doing anything to survive. the talks are under way reportedly for how his team might work with democrats if they do take back the house so the bottom line tonight, the democrats lead already is having an impact. washington prepping for whatever november brings. but as everybody knows from many, including 2016, a lead is not a victory which is especially true in this era which is the fastest, most nonstop omni present news cycle ever and an overconfident perception the democrats will win could hurt them. widespread turnout in a nonpresidential year. let s take this paradox to our panel. the new york times maura gay and the washington post gene
serve. they just don t want to be on the committee. it s a lot of work. i mean don t forget compared to a lot of committee meetings, we have an executive every thursday. so it s a lot of work. maybe they don t want to do it. as they say, that happened today. with us today, maura gay, a member of the new york times editorial board. both are msnbc contributors. so we have that and we have the sum total of today. you this week wrote a poignant personal piece in the opinion section of the new york times about your life experience. what do we do about the entire community of american women who look at a dr. ford, look at a maura gay and say, yes, that story, that s me.
ways a self-healing organism and it has a way of shaping the people who sit on it, even if they have that long federalist background or whatever it is. i think the man to watch is john roberts. he cares deeply about the supreme court as an institution, and i think we should watch very closely the moves that he makes as this new court takes shape. tries to heal it. and i think some of us might be surprised. he could end up actually becoming the anthony kennedy of his own court. i like that optimism. my thanks to maura gay, the reverend al sharpton. mtp daily starts right now. hello, chuck. hello, nicolle. if it s friday, judge kavanaugh is set to become justice kavanaugh. good evening. i am chuck todd here in washington. welcome to mtp daily.