dr. wong eating bug makes him earn my respect. a lot of others were wrong. the key to donald trump s victory, the crucial swing state that had gone to obama in 2012 including my home state of pennsylvania as i had said here, the difference was not going to be in the philly burbs that everybody scrutinized but the working class of the state and the man who cracked the code is david urban, senior advisor to the trump campaign that ran the pennsylvania effort. so david, what was the key? michael, thanks for having me this morning. the key was running up big totals in the rest of the state. we knew what was going to happen in the philly suburbs and we worked hard to get mr. trump, president elect trump out to the
after his kinder speech and a long meeting with president obama. assembling his swamp draining team. rnc s sean price e sean spicer . is he about to be shunned due to bridgegate or a loyalty issue? and continued protests about the election results last night in cities around the nation under the banner, not my president. one reason, clinton actually won the popular vote, but lost the electoral college. so some are lobbying the electors to switch the vote before december 19 and others want to do away with the system entirely. can either happen? plus, you ll meet david urban, the man who finally delivered my home state of pennsylvania to a gop presidential candidate. and i ll be joined by card-carrying liberal thomas frank to begin the democratic autopsy. and finally, while a lot of
mail was instituted in 1992, the turnout was 74% on average. ten elections after 1992, the turnout remarkably was 74%. in primary elections, turnout is worse in the ten/eleven elections before. and turnout was 52% in the 10 elections since 43%. and certainly in oregon, there s no evidence it helps with turnout. let me just say, i agree with you that some vote too soon. the idea in minnesota, you could vote a month and a half before election day is too much but at the other end of the spectrum, my home state of pennsylvania where it all gets done on one day and but for a showing of cause, you need to vote on that particular day. somewhere in the middle lies the proper number. perhaps at the conclusion of the third and final presidential debate. you get the final word. i think i could agree that a
now almost more than a decade later. danny, i ve got to cut you ve there, we re running up i want to give smerconish all of his time. happy new year to you. i m brianna keilar in washington. meet you back in an hour. smerconish starts right now. i m michael smerconish, so it begins, 2016 a year in which we ll elect a new american president is finally here. not even the skies over the historic rose bowl were immune from the name-calling yesterday. and what would happen to someone in your workplace if they sent an office e-mail like this? that s what some prosecutors and judges have done in my home state of pennsylvania where we call it it porn game. plus, this weekend, we begin to say good-bye to downton abbey. the show s creator lord julian fellowes will be here to offer insights how the show
allison schwartz, one of three women running in new york as part of an event with emily s list. she joins me now. good morning to you. good morning. how are you? i m okay. let me ask the basic question. why do you want to be governor? what he has done to pennsylvania and disadvantaged pennsylvanians and left them with little vision to the bottom of economic growth on acceptable states and graded assets and cutting education and really people not trusting him on even the development of the shale and the energy. inexpensive and domestic-produced energy. it s really i just looked at what was happening to my home state of pennsylvania and the governor who lacks vision or the ability to get it done. let me stop you there. it s there for us and i want