environment. it relied on building a huge battlefield, recruiting candidates with strong records of service and ensuring they have the resources to tell their story. our candidates are anything but generic. we recruited and empowered military veterans, former cia operatives and prosecutors and independent-minded leders who are over performing in districts that trump won by double digits. sandra: what do you see as far as your party s chances tomorrow? i m very confident that we ll be able to take back the house and we ve never taken anything for granted. but like i said, we built a huge battlefield and the importance of doing that is we created multiple paths to the majority. not just about the suburbs or districts where clinton won. we re competing and winning in districts across the country including where president trump won by a wide margin. we re fighting everywhere and we ve spread republicans thin and put them on defense. sandra: let s talk about
laylala, is this recruitment successor failure, because donna doesn t speak spanish. i think the democrats underestimated the leadership and the recognition that maria salazar has in southern florida. she is a very well-known tv anchor. she is cuban-american. a good chunk of the electorate in that district is cuban-american. she is committed to the cause of cuba. cuban-americans in southern florida are not very happy with democrats in terms of the position towards cuba. so i think they underestimated her. and the last poll i saw, she is ahead by two points, within the margin of error, but i think she is a fantastic candidate. she is very charismatic. how many do you think the democrats missed in this landscape that could shift the strategy or are there so many toss-up districts? democrats did a fantastic job of recruiting candidates if you
lot of attention from president trump and certainly in 2020 and you have him running there. president trump exactly was just in that district. he won. he ran that race in 2016, came up about within a point. it was a very close race. he is back again i guess a candidate who is quite flawed and susie lee. we are confident that he is a well-known commodity and that district and that he could pull it off. dana: in your sales pitch, when you are recruiting candidates to run for office nowadays, it is not of this noy decision to make. what do you say to make it want to run for office? they see the economic progress that we have made with unemployment record lows and they want to be a part of that. i think tax reform is also a big indicator of really come at the big thing that they can get done if they come to washington, d.c. that is going to be a
agenda. they ve not had one in years for the american people to further make america great again, which is what donald trump ran on. that s the issue. they only want to impeach this president and they want to raise your taxes. that s all they have. if that s what they re selling this november shielding illegal immigrants. that s. that s all they have. in the special elections that have happened and several dozen now at the state and statewide level. democrats have outpolled hillary by double digits. in a mid-term, the message that matters much more than a national message is the individual district by district message. the democratic party has done a good job of recruiting candidates that match their district and matched those messages. it s different district by district. look at what conor lamb did. there s messages that will resonate. it s a problem though going into 2020.
similar dynamic in the midterms? i think it s not a national election, so it s going to be based more on candidates, and they are, the democrats are recruiting candidates that are more like connor lamb who definitely fit the district that they are running in, so i think that that is what s really going to matter, and i think, susan said this in the break, and i agree with it, trump s been out of sight, out of mind, helping them, and, the stormy daniels thing, people don t care about it, and so it s, you know, that s all media s been talking about. thank you very much tort panel as always. stick around. we ll be right back. just for a . but why go back there, when you can stay home, with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection, which could lead to hospitalizations. in a key study, neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%, a 94% decrease. applied the day of chemo, neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the next day,