ground in 2022, and in 2018 in the house. it is my intention to reach out to them and say, how can we work in a bipartisan way? you say, that would never happened, but look at what happened this summer with 50-50? five were bipartisan. not every republican went along with us, but enough did. we will keep doing that. turn leaft, republicans, or at least don t turn right, that would be a more appropriate thing to say. that s very, very important to us, to get things done. well, you might call that, erica, a victory lap of sorts from the democratic majority
keep the senate, because the combination of those two things was the powerful one-two punch that made us defy all the odds and provided the right nutrient so our great candidates could prevail. don t take my word for it. this is what i read lindsey graham said this morning, quote democrats have done a pretty good job of picking issues that motivate their base and have wider support among the public. we, the republicans, need to be doing the same thing. i think a lot of people in the republican party don t see us douse it as emphatically as the democrats. once few times i ll quote lindsey graham with approval, but he said it. okay. the practical effects of the 51-seat majority is big, it s
the final line you just heard, some of the candidates are mediocre. that s mitch mcconnell s excuse. there s truth in that honestly. some are mediocre. compared to what? mediocre in the congress? let s see, dianne feinstein hasn t spoken a coherent sentence in years. hasn t had trouble getting elected. one had sex with a chinese spy and is still there. mediocre people get elected to office. lots and lots and lots of them do. every cycle. see what mcconnell is saying, it s buck passing, don t blame me, i didn t choose these people. all right. they re still the nominees. so if you want to save the country, and move in a different direction, yes, using some mediocre people to do it, what are you going to do? no hint of what you might do from mitch mcconnell other than accept the inevitable. the truth is it s entirely possible mitch mcconnell doesn t want to retake the senate, because then you d have to run things.
mcconnell, will watch footage like that and tell you the most important issue we face, territorial integrity in ukraine. the truth, as you well know, the people who run the republican party don t want to do anything about it. j.d. vance is talking about this, blake masters in arizona, joe kept in the pacific northwest. the leaders in the republican party in washington would rather those guys lose, and people like them lose, than change the focus of the party to issues that voters actually care about. the truth is you can t win elections, unless you listen to voters. they re telling you what you want. republicans have less than three months to figure this simple riddle out or it s going to be an actual disaster. steven miller has been following it since the beginning, a former senior white house advisor, and joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. this seems like the simplest form that ever.
there s one thing republican leaders like, it s running anything. much easier to complain on fox news. if you actually wanted to win, what would you do? here s an idea out of nowhere, just spit balling here, how about you run on issues that voters care about? that might work, even for a mediocre candidate. let s say, again, just for the sake of argument, that you ran a campaign on illegal immigration and crime. now, these are two issues that didn t just arise out of nowhere. they re the product of policies the democratic party put in. they were intentional outcomes. we have millions of people coming in illegally, and we have a lot more murders than two years ago. these two issues, immigration and crime, don t simply annoy voters, though they very much do. these two issues threaten the existence of our society. so maybe under run on them. that seems reasonable. that s not what they re doing. oh, no. here, for example, is a recent campaign ad from dr. oz, the guy losing to the stroke vic