then the big republican route that made nancy pelosi speaker in 2018. in 2019, more. why do i say that? you see dan mccready. you go to the presidential race, president trump won. that will be seen by democrats as a bit of a moral victory here. in the end, though, a win is a win, right? this district in republican hands since 1963 will stay there for the time being. democrats will probably field t the win next time. others who may be thinking about running for re-election next year will will look at this one-time strong ruby red district. now a two-point race. the bottom line, the president s happy. others are looking at this in other parts of the country in districts that are less than republican might think about retiring. dave and christine? john at the magic wall.
affairs analyst. and rick wilson. hello, good to have you here. especially on this evening. rick, let s start with you. talking about north carolina ninth district. it supposed to be a ruby red district. held by republicans since 1963. what gives tonight? what gives is what always gives in the races. money matters. there were $10.7 million spent in the race. about 6.4 republican spending a the amount of money you spend in the u.s. senate race on one house district in one state in a relatively affordable media market. they bought this race out of desperation. you can t scale that. you can t replicate that across district after district in the country. we have out spent the democratic side of the equation two to one in this thing. that 6 plus million dollars made a big difference.
popular among a wide swath. governor bullock got up there and said to people we re not going to win with this message, folks, let s go real. here s what we know for sure. and i hope i m really wrong about this, but i don t think we re going to see in the election what we are able to do here on this show at night, which is you guys don t check a lot of boxes that you agree with, but you do agree with being decent, and i don t think that s going to happen. i think this is going to be an ugly battle of attrition because the president is going to need that to win. i hope i m wrong, but we ll see. i don t got any bumps on my head. nice new haircut, though. don t think i didn t see it. you ve got one of the most beautiful heads in the business. hair just like me, cuomo. neither you have can do this. that s the game ender right there. all right. we re going get right back to this razor-close race in north carolina and what should be a ruby red district. when we get the numbers, we
governor bullock got up there and said to people we re not going to win with this message, folks, let s go real. i hope i m really wrong about this but i don t think we re going to see in the election what we are able to do here on this show at night, which is you guys don t check a lot of boxes that you agree with but you do agree with being decent and i i don t think that s going to happen. i this i thnk this is going to ugly battle of attrition. i hope i m wrong. i don t got any bumps on my head, though. you got one of the most beautiful heads in the business. he doesn t need the hair just like me. but neither of you can do this. that s the game ender right there. we re going to get much back to this razor closed race in north carolina in what should be a ruby red district. there was some realtime democracy in action. did you see this? ted cruz and alyssa milano had
advancing it. we will. including, giving trump a break when he deserves a break. we will. we will. carl bernstein, thank you. it is election day in north carolina. it s a big do-over vote in the a reliably ruby red district. the race could serve as a referendum on president trump looking ahead to 2020. but first, the mayor of dayton, ohio, bringing her fight against gun violence to washington, d.c. naan whaley just met with senate democrats. i ll ask if she thinks her words will inspire any action. we ll be right back. i can. the two words whispered at the start of every race. every new job.