democrats nationwide for democratic candidates nationwide? well, candidate talent matters of course. but a big tent matters. you know, there s two kind of parties like there s two kinds of churches. those who hunt down heretics and those who seek out converts, okay? i m a pope francis democrat. i want to see converts. i don t want to drive people out of my church. and you have the same fight in the republican party where they brand people rhinos if they dare vote against one thing. i like the fact that the democrats found someone who is a democrat, as kirsten pointed out, pro-union, pro-medicare, pro-medicaid, pro-choice, but also fit the district. you got to meet people where they live. i think this is a great template for the democrats. not every candidate will be a progressive. not every candidate will be that talented. but if the democrats finally are learning but could conor lamb win on a national stage in the democratic party as it is today. he s just 12 years old no,
did all the things that hillary clinton didn t do. having said that, i ll be the first to say am i worried about the fall? of course i am. you know why? history. let s put this in context. there s a lot of talk about losing seats. history says that s extremely likely. paul knows what happened in the clinton white house during the midterms. the last three really popular two-term presidents, barack obama, bill clinton, ronald reagan, all three of them had disastrous first midterms. we heard from the white house saying the reason lamb won is because he essentially is donald trump-light. that he embraced the president. that s so dumb. what steve is saying is really smart, which is he said i didn t support nancy pelosi. he wanted to appear with an ar 15 in one of his campaign commercials. he wasn t out there talking about climate change and a lot of issues which democrats there are important lessons here for democrats. he ran a middle class economics. so he s pro-union, pro-medi
the national environment is on our side and the polling and data are on our side as well. so look, i believe that we re going to see more candidates do well against our republican counterparts in the house. connor lamb ran as pro medicare, pro social security, he also ran against the republican tax cut that gave away tax cuts to corporations in the top 1% across the country, prioritize them over the middle class. so i m not certain which spin my friend mr. stivers is trying to throw here. the facts are the facts. this was a win and i m honored that we ll be serving in the house together with connor lamb. and connor lamb was pro tariff. you can add that in there. i wanted to mention something about former speaker pelosi, now minority leader pelosi getting a lot of attention from all sorts of places, including connor lamb who said he would not vote for her. this is a congressman from texas saying if we re going to take
precincts out and westmoreland county that will come in tonight from election day, and my understanding is that there will be some more absentee votes counted throughout the night and into tomorrow, but again, we do not feel that there is any path forward for rick saccone at this point. and it s not a surprise. conor lamb ran a fantastic campaign, connecting with western pennsylvania and, talking about, pro-job, prounio prounion, pro-medicare and social security message, and as a veteran, i think he really connected with people across party lines in pennsylvania 18. ed: meredith, what about the fact that yeah, definitely a strong candidate, former marine, former prosecutor. but he also ran away from nancy pelosi. how do you deal with that moving forward, some candidates may say, run from nancy pelosi and you ve got a better chance of
prounion, pro-medicare and social security message, and as a veteran, i think he really connected with people across party lines in pennsylvania 18. ed: meredith, what about the fact that yeah, definitely a strong candidate, former marine, former prosecutor. but he also ran away from nancy pelosi. how do you deal with that moving forward, some candidates may say, run from nancy pelosi and you ve got a better chance of winning. conor lamb did an incredible job of touting his record of service to both the country, as a veteran, and community as a federal prosecutor. that took him out of the partisan frame. it had less to do with exactly what issues he talked about and more about his record of service that is so appealing to democrats, independence indepe,