that s the big question looming for 2024, does it happen in time? 2024, or does he managed to keep the show on the year long past, you would think, the storyline worn itself out. that is the question, declining audience and an ultimate cancellation of the trump show, pamela. new york times chief white house correspondent, peter baker, was good to see you, my friend. thank you for time tonight. as trump is speaking right now at mar-a-lago, republicans find themselves one step closer to getting control of the house. for more on that, we go to steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what is the latest, my friend? because, alex, in the last few minutes from our decision desk, the 41st congressional district of california. we now project can covered, the republican candidate there of three decade incumbent, survived reelection challenge from democrat will rollins. this is a win for republicans, again, we have been monitoring this doing list of uncalled house races with this victory, rep
say it will never get voted in. sometimes you have to get off park afsh noou. it is coming. bill: you are watching tonight. says trump s reelection challenge. down in the polls he needs a strong economy to have any chance to win a second term. president trump faces a difficult reelection despite his economic success because he hasn t expanded the coalition that elected him. you deal on the economy instead of the politics. on the economic message. the economy is there. you have to learn how to sell it. i don t know why republicans have a tough time selling it. but they have to sell it better. it is never going to resonate in the media. they ll never give president trump the credit he deserves. we just came off a jobs report on friday and the nuances of this report are so overwhelmingly positive and so headline you may read is that well, black unemployment is still far below white unemployment. that s the narrative.
reelection challenge from democrat mike espy from the traditional red state, but the president is looking to give hyde-smith a trump bump looking to stop at campaign rallies. she is facing new controversies after her remarks referring to attending a public hanging. so the question is how might that affect voters? let s bring in lamar white, emily tussman and michael seal. thanks all three for being here. lamar, i want to start with you on this. what s the latest? what are we hearing? you saw some of the nbc numbers. it seems very close in a race that should not be very close. the latest i ve heard is her campaign bus literally just broke down on the side of the highway. but i think that the numbers are very close. that is symbolic, are you saying? what s that? is that symbolic in some way? i think it is symbolic, yeah.
did reduce the fiscal damage that was baked in the cake for 2014 and 2015. so, again, if you kind of look at some knew answered policy changes, you can see some recognition that the agenda that republicans have had on jobs has been a big failure. but you got to look pretty carefully to see any of that. that is for sure. thank you, michael thomasky and jared bernstein. we discussed ohio governor john kasich who is facing potentially a reelection challenge on the far right from tea partier ted steven. our guests believed this wasn t a credible threat and apparently steven agreed. he announced saturday night that he won t be running against kasich after all. coming up, personal beliefs and locker room politics collide. but should standing by your convictions cost you your job? our disrupter of the week is next.
shepard: fox news is america s election headquarters, and he has been in it a lot. one of the highest profile politicians in all the land. former republican presidential candidate, a senator from arizona since the mid 1980s, john mccain may now be facing the toughest reelection challenge yet, and it s from within his own party. conservative radio show host and former congressman j.d. hayworth has announced today that he will run against senator mccain in the g.o.p. primary. hayworth says mccain is not conservative enough and he is taking aim at the senator on issues including climate change and immigration. anita vogel with the news live in phoenix tonight. anita, mccain is still the frontrunner here but j.d. hayworth has pretty big name backers. hi there, shep. they both have pretty big name backers j.d. hayworth has joe arpaio and simcox co-founder of the minute man project. he would challenge john mccain