I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
i spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. it s antisemitic in some cases and the platform. as the conservative supreme court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. we get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the midterm election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. as and as nbc noted democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. democratic presidents in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican
moderate than hillary clinton. which is striking. and very funny exchange with more mcdaniel, is the head of the rnc, and continues to be about trump, where she just can t say the obvious thing. take a listen. would you publicly say that donald trump bears any responsibility for some of the losses in the midterm elections? when you say that? you know, i don t like this. i don t like these parcelling out here s the one thing that i think people should be talking about. the amount of ticket splitting. the amount of republicans that went out and voted for republican at the top of the ticket look at arizona, the top vote getter is a republican. look at georgia. we had eight of nine statewide races won by republicans. but why are republicans going in voting for one republican and not the other? we have to work hard to bring those is that not an answer? the answer is trump, isn t it? i m not into the blame game right now. [laughter] i love it. because she perfectly sets i
look at arizona. look at new hampshire. and the challenging situation in georgia as well. our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in 22, because of the support of the former president proved to be very decisive in these primaries. so, my view was, do the best you can, with the cards you re dealt. hopefully, in the next cycle, we ll have quality candidates everywhere and a better outcome. compare that to what rnc chair mcdaniels said during an interview on fox business news. take a look. would you publicly say that donald trump bears any responsibility for some of the losses in the midterm elections? would you say that? i don t like this i don t like parcelling out. he supported ted budd who won,
i don t like this. i don t like these parcelling out. he supported ted bud who won and j.d. vance who won. i think there s a lot of things david, you know from working in public life, if there s a question or topic you don t like, you just say you don t like it and then you don t have to deal with it. i know that s how it is at the white house you just say, i don t like this missile clash. make it go away. but notwithstanding for not liking the question, what do you think of her effort to same or similar circumstance well, trump did win some races, in her view? i think when you work in the white house, particularly if you re going to do discussions with a broad variety of reporters, you are going to get pressed. so many of these republican officials, ronna daniel as well, they appear in friendly confines, yet they re getting tough question, because i think people are dissatisfied with the last three elections. she s not going to throw trump under the bus, but for those in the r