this, without those three individuals, you don t flip the house. so, i mean, we can sit here and say that they lost their elections, they did. however, you re not winning in the suburbs you re not winning the thchaletla seats in florida. you re not winning the lucy mcbath race in georgia. so that energy was built by these individuals who showed that you could but how about independent voters? this to me was the key. you were showing the exit polls, the way independent voters went for democrats by a large margin. those are the people now that the democrats have to keep and turn to and say, stay with us. the suburban voters in houston and dallas and orange county and, you know, wherever, denver. those independent voters now who were trump s at one point, need to be need to be and again, to break out of that pr primordial ooze, it s g
so that energy was built by these individuals who showed that you could but how about independent voters? this to me was the key. you were showing the exit polls, the way independent voters went for democrats by a large margin. those are the people now that the democrats have to keep and turn to and say, stay with us. the suburban voters in houston and dallas and orange county and, you know, wherever, denver. those independent voters now who were trump s at one point, need to be need to be and again, to break out of that primordial ooze, it s got to be pretty progressive to break out. we ve got to take a quick break. we ve been getting new votes from california in this hour alone. we ll have an update on that ahead. and we ll break down the big races that the democrats just lost that david mentioned and consider the lesson for 2020.
these kind of offense for the foreseeable future. that s not generally speaking a winning posture for candidates, but it does remind me of an incredibly brilliant cartoon that ran in the new yorker the right after 9/11. it showed the classic evolutionary sequence where there iseq primordial ooze and there s a fish that rises from it and then it starts to walk on two legs and then it starts to walk upright, the last panel in this sequence in the new yorker cartoon showed a man in a suit and tie carrying a briefcase and walking through a magnetometer as if to say, this kind of thing post 9/11 is with us here to stay in some respect. greg: t thank you for expanding entire cartoon to our audiencenk. i think he was just being honest about the nature of the world. it might hurt him, thank you. now for more analysis, fox news contributor lieutenant colonel ralph peters whoan joins us from
we have to commit ourselves to this kind of event for the procedure foreseeable future. that s not a winning posture of a candidate, but that doesn t remind me of an incredible brilliant cartoon that ran in the new yorker after 9/11. it showed the classic evolutionary sequence that there is a primordial ooze, and fish rising from it. it starts to walk on two legs, and it starts to walk upright. the last panel in the sequence in the new yorker cartoon showed a man in the suit and tie, sharing a briefcase, going through a this kind of thing, post 9/11, is here to stay with us. thank you, james, for explaining an entire cartoon to our audience. i do agree, i don t think the candidate i think he was being honest about the nature of the world. it might hurt him. anyway, james, thank you. from our analysis, fox news contributor lieutenant colonel ralph peters who joins us from washington.
the tail wagging the dog. it s still, took a couple years to do it. and so, you know i m not this is not a time to nominate him for the nobel prize for legislative leadership. i think he is a long way from that. but i do think there are all kinds of harbingers, alex, including by the way, the republican national committee quietly working to change its rules for 2016. to reduce the influence of these caucuses and rules that favor tea party candidates to move the convention back in the year so that they have time to pivot to a general election campaign. there are all kinds of signs that establishment republicans, senate right republicans trying to seize control of their party. i think boehner is part of that effort right now. trying to bring the party out of the primordial ooze. thank you both for your time. thank you.