the floor. there s between 16 and 20 slightly more people are saying they are not going to vote for nancy pelosi on the floor. here s the problem. they don t have an alternative. look, i get the plan, the plan, of course, is to demonstrate on the floor that she doesn t have the votes to get to 218, but unless you have somebody willing to step in, what do you do? do you do that for weeks? do you send a message of division and chaos within the democratic party? i don t think so. so they are running their play that they have a right to do and unless they come up with an alternative, they better run that play and if it doesn t work, stop and allow us to unify and move forward and do what we were elected to do, which is to stand up and fight for the american people. sounds like you are leaning towards, yes, you would support her? if you had a choice you might you might think to yourself, gosh, is it person a or person b, and today we have no choice. again, i will not go public until m
pennsylvania who won the special election coming out to say he is going to vote against nancy pelosi on the floor, and that is a complicated thing potentially for her, and at the same too so far, nobody has stepped up to run against her, and you can t beat somebody with nobody, andrea. and rick scott showing up, even though he does not have the senate vote yet, and just so that possession is 9/10 of the law, but right now, they are counting the ballots down there in florida. thank you, kasie. before i let you go, i wanted to congratulate you first of all on you and your team winning the jones barone award tonight from the sorry, from the television news director the s foundation. it is a big deal. i knew skwon baron john baro and joan barone, and she would
the democratic party messaging around today. which is odd. there is little to no press release from other house democrats cheering her on. there haven t been any press releases from the dnc. we haven t noticed any big hashtag. despite her marathon performance, it just doesn t seem like it is a major priority for her party today. which is strange. it is an impressive idea, just poorly amplified. nancy pelosi s show of defiance as they gear up to make the midterms about nancy pelosi. the campaign arm for the house gop was cheering her on today. the party has made it very clear, they think they re best shot at holding the house is to somehow tattoo the words nancy pelosi to the foreheads of every single democratic nominee running for congress. case in point, republicans are out with these ads to avoid an upset loss in the next month special election in pennsylvania, trump country. and there is plenty of pelosi in
democrats. our pails in comparison. well not so much. not so much. we ll find out. we don t know. we ll find out. a couple of things, one, i thought congressman guiterrez drew a very bright line and when he started with the comment in answer to your question about, well, you know the speaker is doing, she s on the floor and she s like good for her. the disconnect between the democrats rank and file like him and what she s doing is very real. but here but here is the play just by that one comment, you haven t talked to the democratic caucus, have you? believe me, there are a whole lot of folks who stand with guiterrez in the house. and there is a whole lot of flip votes stancing with nancy pelosi on the floor right now. but i think the broader picture is, i m not fixated on the guiterrez or fixated on the freedom caucus. i think what pelosi and chuck and the president and maybe a little bit of paul ryan who is probably a little bit more skittish about this, they ar
sort of a brake pedal on the atrump agenda and the republican response is here is what democratic change look like and they show speaker pell os yeosi what is your advice to democrat, you could say what you want but the fact is it is an effective strategy in swing states for a decade now. but we re going to show paul ryan in districts that we think we can pick up. his approval ratings are in the toilet. literally in the toilet. and whatever the speaker is, whoever the leader is, this is what is done. but i could tell you this, i think people and i don t care if it is a swing district like i represent, i think people all over the country are sick and tired of people in washington treating this which should be public service, as a game. and i ve been think being this. i played college basketball and volleyball, i love sports. but this isn t a sport. it is not about winners and losers and who is that is my question. the question is this is a