there are so many house districts there where republicans are going to be defending their seats in suburban areas where trump is unpopular that it s going to force the republican party i think to develop a strategy that s going to work given what just happened in virginia. and kimberly, let s talk about ed gillespie, the republican candidate tonight who went down to dee feet. a lot of people said when he embraced trumpism, if not trump, it wasn t him. it wasn t the guide he had shown virginians he was, kind of a dependable, predictable, conservative republican who s been the former party chairman. he was. he was about as an establishment republican as you can get. and actually defeated a more trump-like candidate in the primary. but in the last weeks of this race he seemed to have really embraced this trumpist kind of steve bannon-esque way of complaining that focused very strongly on things like immigration, trying to tag ralph
contortions that republicans will start twisting themselves into and the fear about what comes in the midterm, if they pass something that the voters will ultimately reject. i think tonight it became a little harder for president trump s legislative agenda to move forward. you guys have been great. you re always great. combat pay all around tonight for phil rutger, kimberly atkins and peter baker. thank you for staying with us on this election night 2017. another break. we re back with some good news out of today s news. right after this. the 11th hour. ah, dinner.
speech, calculated, written out, disciplined, and tough talk, make no mistake. elsewhere in the speech, though, perhaps a surprise to many in the audience in south korea, a mention of his golf facility in north jersey. the women s u.s. open was held this year at trump national golf club in bedminster, new jersey, and, it just happened to be won by a great korean golfer. all righty thing, let s bring back in our panelists, philip rut ter were kimberly atkins, peter baker back with us. peter, i don t have a question except what did you make of what we witnessed tonight? anywhere he gets a chance to talk about the golf clubs he s going to do that. he s shown that in the most unlikely of settings.
blue column as a regular thing. and secondly, this backlash against president trump or at least trumpism, as ed gillespie sought to project it in this election only. whether this means anything going forward again, very open question. phil rutger, in 30 seconds or less, do you expect to see more republicans in the house decide this will be a great time to spend more time with their families? potentially. i think what a lot of republicans in the house are going to have to decide whether to continue to support, you know, donald, president trump in every way or try to find ways to break with him and show some independence. and, you know, we ll have to see how much the republicans in the house contort themselves over the next year before these mid terms. and kimberly, 30 seconds. same rule to you. legislative outcome between now and the end of the year. what s the chance, the actual chance a bill will arrive on the president s desk saying anything that he will sign? i think that it
tried to draw a comparison out as he really tries to build support around the world to join this coalition against north korea. yeah, phil, to one of your points, i was struck by how clinical and graphic this speech got at one point. very much so. very dark, wondering where how that was injected into this speech. it s not the kind of thing you wanted children in the room to hear. it s not, but we ve seen this before in some of president trump s speeches, including his inaugural address when he talked about american carnage. he likes this sort of graphic imagery. he spoke this way on the campaign trail a lot. he describes terrorists as animals. i mean, he likes to come up with really sort of visceral terminology when he s making his points. kimberly, you have to admit yesterday s theme from him was kind of let s make a deal. even in japan he was saying we can work something out. it was a little bit of outreach. today we are back to something