there s a wide variety of measures. dana: tell me about election night. everyone is looking at the individuals and candidates winning or losing. what do you look for? what might that tell you about the election to come in 2020? so, initiatives are very susceptible to trends. so if you can get a measure that advances a certain policy to pass in one state or two state, then you re more likely to see that measure again. some new ideas so looking to see if things like medicade expansion continue to be successful, as it was in maine in 2017, and whether some new proposals in california that are a little experimental, perhaps, but you can see more similar ones in the future. dana: it is going to be interesting across the country, the number one issue people say is healthcare. immigration and president trump second and third right after that. but medicade expansion being on these ballots in these key states is going to be very
state. reporter: republican or democrat, virtually every vote er and not just here in texas, have identified a top issue they want fixed. i think our healthcare is in a horrible state. i m not for obama care. i think that needs cut. reporter: o rourke proposes universal health tear. congressman o rourke is proposing socialized medicine. reporter: some say they have fear just trying to make ends meet. you work all your life. you have a pension. you have social security. and that still doesn t take care of you. reporter: senator cruz argues his opponents recommendations for health care would make the system. seniors have paid into medicare. they relied on it. putting 200 million people on it could bank corrupt medicare. senator cruz has voted to take away medicare for families
immigration. i m getting e-mails from nancy pelosi saying if you vote for republicans, they will take your social security. you will lose your social security. this is the same argument, pushing granny off the cliff, that they used on paul ryan. one side of the mouth they re saying trump s different, evil, rot ten, but they re using the same argument that s used every two to four year. do you think there s a reason that if mitch mcconnell said we re going after entitlement spending. dana: he said that s a problem. there you go. we re going to do something about it. trump campaign is not touching the entitlement. that s true. spending like a democrat, but cutting taxes. who would you rely on in terms of their skill, mitch mcconnell/donald trump? he was saying, donald trump promised not to go after social security. mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, those guys are intent on reducing that. dana: can we talk about
giving america the greatest economy. it would mean single payor system for healthcare and would mean 13 million people become legal citizens. we have trouble paying our bills today and we would have trouble paying social security, medicade, if all these people become citizens. dana: let me ask you this last question. dan crenshaw from houston district. he used to work for me. dana: he s running for congress. he said the number one issue here is the debt. republicans have failed to take that on. mitch mcconnell saying i wish we could do something about the entitlement programs. what would you try to do if you ran again? we would offer everybody a private account. dana: do you remember how that went in 2006? only because it was said that you d put it in the stock market. make it guaranteed interest, like an ira, and you wouldn t have that problem. we still must take people off government programs. government programs should be for people that need them, not
maryanne, i ll let you define why you think that is. well, i think it s simple. women realize that their cost of living, they re not keeping up with the cost of living. their pay checks aren t equalling the cost of living. groceries cost more, gas costs more, clothing costs more. everything you need to live an every day life cost more because of the trade and tariff war that donald trump has started. they also realize they didn t benefit from the trump tax cuts. it exploded the deficit. now they hear republican candidates saying we re going to have to cut medicare, medicade and social security to make up for that. women aren t buying any of that. you see more women turning out. that s why you see white women who supported donald trump by nine points now support democrats by two. that s an 11 point swing. dana: what do you think about that, josh? have republicans failed here? no. listen, there s no gender bias to ideological issues. women in suburban areas, women