nonsuburban seat. true. i am curious, you know, a lot of these midterm rebukes, the president, you know, you had president bush in 06 call it a she lacking, president obama said we got whooped or something. i may be conflating the two comments. this president doesn t seem to want to accept that the voters want him to change. does he accept the idea that some of this was about can you tone it down? can you do less of the tweets or less of this? do you see any of that? what the president sees is the effort that he put in in the last six or eight weeks he only sees the positive side of things. he did more campaign stops than either of his two predecessors combined. he was on the road. very active a lot of candidates didn t want him around, though. and the vice president did a lot of stops as well and the president said, i m not on the ballot but my policies are. so he s very aware that some of those members that lost, lost in places where it was a rebuke of some of
belittling one close ally and berating another one. firing his attorney general in the aftermath of the elections and reportedly maneuvering to oust others. the list goes on and on. the other clear message from voters last week, they want change not just from the president but from congressional leadership too. voters didn t seem too pleased with the collective work of leaders like mcconnell, schumer, nancy pelosi. after a slue of leadership races and major change from the voters, today on capitol hill it looks high lie likely that the leadership of the next congress will be, you guess it had, mcconnell, schumer pelosi and mccarthy. they were sort of promotions. not anybody shaken things up. for instance, here s what the old leadership of the senate democrats looks like. now we re going to show you the new leadership that democrats chose today in the senate. don t adjust your televisions. its exactly the same. house democrats are holding leadership elections after
of the congressional republicans doesn t happen to him in two years does he accept any of the blame, the president? the suburbs its a rebuke in the suburbs. we can have a conversationot clobbered. if you look at the candidates who ran with the president in a number of races. they did better. if you look in missouri, north dakota but they didn t have a lot of suburbs to win, in fairness. historically speaking, the republicans were supposed to lose the house. that s what happens. they lost about 34 seats, 35 seats right now, maybe it goes to 40. we don t know. but if you look back at where barack obama was, where bill clinton was, i believe that the marriagin was as small as it was because the president went on the campaign and guys like andy baur in a competitive district embraced the president won a tough seat because ofit.
care about the economy, you care about homeland security and you care about national security, everything is better today than it was two years ago. if you care about the style and you don t like the president s style, that s not going to change. he s not going to drop the twitter account tomorrow and stop tweeting. i think his base is more emboldened than ever. he s stronger with the republicans than he s ever been when you poll them. when it comes to the left, he s more vilified than ever there. so its really about the middle. the american people, those independents, those moderates have to decide what issue is most important to them. if its homeland security, economic security nieshl security they have to decide if they want to support this president moving forward. they it does does he believe somehow these elections were taken from him? he s like talking about election fraud as if its something that s very common. i don t think so. is that just chum for the base? when
she needs them and she also has to show value to people, to your point, who took risks. she has to show value to the brand-new people who ran in part to be something different than she is, and i have not heard her say yet just how she ll do that, but being effectively in going after the white house, running down that list of investigations will be a start. i think she is more well aware of the problems she may offer politically to her party than the president does. he that may not be saying that much. this was if there was anything that was a rebuke in the suburbs, it was temperament. less trump. less trumpiness whatever that has come to define and he s responding with by saying, oh, yeah, hold my nonalcoholic beer. nancy pelosi s been the house democratic leader during some bad election cycles for them as well and i don t recall her ever saying, you know, once you lost because they didn t embrace me enough which