we had infrastructure week scheduled every week for four years. in a normal time, things that the democrats and republicans would be cheering for, they are going to the ribbon cuttings, as he said in perhaps his most memorable line of the evening, but i also think this was an eye towards what the next two years should be about if they run an effective, strong, bold presidential campaign, which is constantly bringing it back to those bread and butter issues that people care about around the kitchen table and ignoring the whackiness of the cultural issues and efforts to drag the conversation there. towards this narrative of disdain and alienation and a complete ignorance towards anything that has to do with
he has republicans policy book on talking about cutting social security and medicare. you want to take a deeper dive and you opened it up, so i m going to dive into it. that s on huckabee. i was struck by how dark and dystopian and chaotic her vugs of america was. it s as if republicans now see america as go them. it s no longer the city on the hill. i sat there and thought, you know, i didn t agree with reagan on policy, but i agree with his presidency. this party is now as far from the party of reagan as it has ever been. i m not sure the gulf could ever be shrank. in 83, reagan opened up talking about saying he wanted to talk about what we can do as a republic, not as republicans or
days. harris: so afghanistan and how we present there? jason: yeah. i think they have until maybe the weekend and they start to turn a corner. harris: that s two days. emily: it is wednesday. harris: it s thursday and friday until the weekend. [laughter] have you seen the last two days? kennedy: just we thought it could get more wild harris that s what i was thinking. we have seen so much political turmoil. all of our elections, especially the presidency, and to emily s point republicans finally think they have a win and it is still very much unsettled. i am still in the camp i think change can happen. i don t know if there is a grand scenario that these 20 art of playing with or going after, but if they do in fact have something tangible they want, momentum is definitely on their side right now. it will not stay very long
you know, things go a little differently in nevada. things go a little differently in arizona and all of a sudden the g.o.p. controls the senate. the g.o.p. controls the house. all of a sudden, democrats not quite as happy as they were 50 minutes ago. i don t think we should break out the champagne for losing the house of representatives which would be the case the next couple of hours or two days. but to mark s point republicans have a good night in certain areas new york and florida one as well. so not just republicans need to do forensic study that marc thiessen s talked about but democrats as well, especially drop-offs we saw with four constituencies of the democratic party. will it be african americans, latinos, the suburbs and some of those races? i think you saw the drag on the top tier like kathy hochul coming up short in the house races. we saw the flip with really strong candidates tim ryan even though we came up short. they were able to pull some folks across the finish li
enthusiasm upward expert state republicans may have the edge there. at this point republicans have enthusiasm advantage. there s been some concern about democratic analysts. that said that john and sandra this is not a slam dunk for either side as there will be plenty of boats out there to be one over on election day. should point out that a pretty sizable lead in polls in the last week or two. we ll see how it goes on tuesday night. we had to new hampshire republican baldock will unseat democrat senator maggie hassan hillary vaughn is live in salem with the details on all of that republicans have a chance? more than a chance and some republicans thought. if there isn t upset here that