thing. steve: that s new jersey congressman jeff van drew is no longer a democrat he is joining the republicans. he got to sit down with the president yesterday. katie: the trump 2020 campaign hoping others will follow suit launching the democrats for trump coalition. steve: reaches a 26.7-million-dollar fundraising haul. is this proof the impeachment push could be back firing? indicated indicate here to discuss the chairman of the republican committee ronna mcdaniel. good morning. good morning. katie: what is your reaction to this new coalition the campaign has put together and are you seeing more democrats become trump voters on the campaign trail. first, i would like to extend a big welcome to jeff van drew. welcome to the party that s actually getting results for the american people. we hope more of your colleagues will come on over. absolutely this is a trend we are seeing. as we go to rallies we get reports as to who is attending these rallies. close to 20% of our rally atten
workers that donald trump is supposedly because selectable to get those voters back in places like pennsylvania and minnesota and michigan, the jobs come back in terms of manufacturing, coal and gas, are average between 2% and 3%. so, they have not only paid attention to those jobs going away but brought them back and someone like joe biden saying yes i will get rid of them is certainly not going to pin the voters he needs to voters in swing states. steve: topic was about the impeachment of the president of the united states. the breaking news story on the cover of the new york post. nancy pelosi has not yet sent over the articles of impeachment. pete: nope. steve: it s stall tale. pete: hasn t gotten around to it. steve: she says until the senate democrats agree with mitch mcconnell on the terms she is not going to do that because she wants the senate thing to be fair. in a delicious. katie: i saw chuck schumer last night in penn station. he is not talking to
for most of us. the middle class is getting killed, the middle class is getting crushed. fact is the g.d.p. have very little relationship with people s lived experience. we need an economy that works for working families not just the 1%. steve: despite what those democrats who want to be president said last night, the u.s. economy keeps surging, these are just the hard numbers. and stocks reached record highs again yesterday. including the dow, marking its 10,000th point gain since donald trump was elected. here with reaction is fox news contributor and fox nation host lawrence jones. lawrence, good morning to you. good morning, dude. listen, they said the economy is not working for most of us, the economy never works for everybody but isn t the idea to get it going for as many people as possible? well, yeah.
that. she was rehearsed and he was not. you have can see she practiced that line and he came back he was ready in exchange pete won democrats a, independents an b and republicans a c. steve: great answer by him. problem with issuing a purity test yourself cannot pass really resonated. pete: it s bad to be successful. that to me is the underlying trouble of it. katie: who doesn t want to have wine in a wine cave, come on. they walk a very fine line here between saying it s totally terrible to be successful some people are responding to this idea of the disparity. it s one day to say you don t want to be around these people. steve: just generally for people who did not watch it, according to the dials, was there a winner? i would say mayor pete was the one that had the biggest night. elizabeth warren was going to be the one she needed to hit it out of the park and she just didn t last night. biden did not have a great
jobs yeah, 20%. the one in michigan 20% recently and 30% independents. he transcends party lines because he talks about jobs and wage growth and all the things that matter to the american people. steve: all right. so we just mentioned that you raised something like $20 million in november. did i see in the paper this morning that you raised $5 million just on impeachment day alone? yes. 5 million on impeachment at a alone. and in 48 hours we raised 10 million between the trump campaign and the rnc. so, the voters, they can t go vote right now but they can contributed. we have added 600,000 small online voters since this impeachment began. so it shows that people are really angry. they are passionate. they don t want to see democrats take away their vote and they are doing what they can, which is give to this president. katie: ronna, what are people telling you when they donate to the rnc? do they tell you they are doing it for a specific reason? they re frustrated with democrats or