if you missed the article, brett stevens article in his opinion piece in new york times, run, mike, run was the title. not subtle. what s the insight you have? if he does well in california, that will be definitive for the rest of the race, certainly. and he can afford that market. there are two great arguments for mike bloomberg. number one, he would be a very good and potentially a great president. he was a great mayor of new york city. number two, he can beat trump. if your number one priority as a democrat is to beat trump when someone who broadly shares your values, not on everything, but basically shares your values, he can do it. why? he defeats trump s money advantage and his number one argument against the dermocrats which is you got to vote for me. that s what trump is saying to voters who are afraid of progressivism, of sanders or warren or feel that biden is perhaps a feeble champion for
campaign. new fcc filings show it s $100 million so far. no other president dating back to ronald reagan, according to the post, had raised any money at this point for his campaign committee. donald trump is a fundraiser for his reelection shortly after his 2016 win. could that be a big problem for democrats, that money advantage the president is building up? democrats will certainly be able to start raising money once we start focusing on 2020, right now the fundraising is focused on 2018. any time you re an incumbent, you have an advantage going into an election cycle. we ve got a lot of democrats who are going to be running. it won t be like 2016 when we just had a handful of democrats. i think you ll see a real policy debate about the issues that matter and i think you ll see a lot of people emerge from that that democrats are excited about. let s talk about somebody else and then, charlie and nancy, i ll let you jump in. you saw garrett haake talking
were dropping hard. that s stabilizing. democrats are trying to work on turnout but also using their money advantage to try to make the difference because they re going to need t next couple of weeks, these polls will narrow. they talk about the kavanaugh confirmation battle and say it energized anybody, but republicans needed to be energized. democrats were already energized. the republican the pollster neil newhouse said he thinks we ll get a split. the north dakotas of the world, indianas of the world, tennessee, they re moving back toward republicans. that s the way it always was, the senate map was always much more favorable to republicans and house map much more favorable to democrats. all these districts voted for hillary clinton in 2016 but had republican house members who obviously thought that s where we can start building our majority. listening to vice president b e
absolutely. dana: i asked the congressman scalise about this news this morning that adelson will give $30 million to the house republicans for their super pac. can the democrats keep pace with that? in some ways, if you have a money advantage is one thing. the democrats seem to have an enthusiasm advantage up to now. the democratic campaign committee has been able to outraise the national republican campaign committee. there never was a question that the republican super pacs would out-raise and out-spend us as democrats but you point out it does not make up for the energy and the momentum out there. i don t think there is any amount of money that can buy that. dana: so then are the democratic groups outside of the dccc, can they keep pace with the republican groups? i don t believe the democrat outside group will keep pace with the republican outside group. if my count is correct the republican outside super pacs already committed $1 billion to races across the country. most
talked about is the latino vote in florida. you have two white guys running in a state full of la teen nos. there s a big difference between cubans in miami, who tend to be more conservative and puerto ricans in central florida around the orlando area. there s a whole new group of young latinos that don t know either one of these guys. who ever does the best outreach there i think will be the determining factor of what happens in this race. dana: matt, florida. boy, you and i know florida well. right? right. dana: it s always tough. razor thin margins rick scott has run by. people think nelson hasn t ever really had a tough opponent. what do you think? i think that the money advantage that rick scott has, he s a man of personal welt. he s been willing to put it on the line as he s run for governor of florida. he s going to be willing to do that as he runs to represent florida in the senate. i think that s going to be a new