is going to be the first latino congress person from colorado. and the story just goes on and on. it wasn t just a matter of survival. you look at the counties that we won, or did better in, red counties like el paso county, douglas county, colorado, we are merchants improved by double digits over where they have ever been. and i think that it is because of the economic message that we ran on out here which says that we are tired of living in an economy where all of the benefit goes to the people at the very top. we have to create an economy in this country that when it grows, it grows for everybody. not just the people at the very top. that is what colorado wants, and that is what, i think the democratic party has to help deliver. a matter of candidate quality, and policy quality that the democrats were delivering on. senator michael bennett, governor of colorado, thank you for your time tonight.
tonight because i think tonight might be the night we will be able to do that. and it s going to be really important to this two years of this biden presidency for us to have the senate majority, especially if we lose the house by two votes, which i m not sure we will. but it sounds like that might be what happens. it is really an extraordinary moment, isn t it? to be sitting here, you know, a few days after monday. where the landscape looked entirely different for democrats, and now you may be on the precipice of once again having a majority ruling and the chamber. this was going to be a tidal wave, alex. of red ink all across the country. and i was saying, i want to see our state blinking blue before they decide the races on the east coast, because of where we vote here, we actually were able to do that. but it was an amazing night in colorado. the governor won by double digits. i won by double digits. we won races up and down the ballot. kerrville
powerful interest that want to defend the status quo, if we come together across lines of race. i was able to find nine hopeful stories of that happening across the country. heather mcghee, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this podcast, the some of us. heather, appreciate your time, thank you. learn more about how those findings again through the book, the some of us, what s racism cost everyone, and how we can attack it together. heather mcghee, folk s. we will be right back after the break, the first, a look at what is coming up on msnbc. hey there, i am ayman mohyeldin, tonight at 8 pm eastern on ayman, i ll be joined by senator john hickenlooper of colorado, who is being praised for his behind the scenes role in a democratic breakthrough in the reconciliation deal. that is tonight, 8 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. meet daughter s playtime. wait till you hear this thankfully, meta portal helps reduce background noise. zero lace model.
down the suspects channel. details about the story are still developing, as many gathered this morning for a vigil to mourn those killed and injured in the horror that happened there less than 24 hours ago. joining me now is congressman joe neguse of colorado and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst glenn kershner. thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. thank you, john. thanks, john. congressman neguse, your reaction to the shooting in buffalo? well, thank you for having me on, jonathan, this morning. it s a devastating day for the country, certainly for the people of buffalo, new york. as you, know i was on your program previously, jonathan, in the days after a mass shooting in my district, in boulder colorado. just a year ago, where we lost ten members of our community at a grocery store. and so, my thoughts and my prayers, my heart goes out to the people of buffalo. i reached out to my colleague,
one, you know, voter fraud which we know not to be true. in 2020. but what we re seeing from republicans as they think this motivates the base. we re seeing him sort of go after that. and then also there s clearly an exhaustion from the pandemic. and we re seeing some republicans through tweets point that out with this new variant. and sort of dramaticize what president biden is trying to do. we ve also seen the president when asked about lockdowns and masking mandates he carefully responded to that. he s clearly trying to stroke the republican base here through many falsehoods that clearly don t make sense. speaking of which, not one republican leader denounced ronnie jackson or publicly denounced the horrific islamic phobic comments made by laura boebert of colorado last week. which they have a strong vote by mail thing in colorado. she suggested her muslim american colleague, ilhan omar, maybe she was joking but not