A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
not only did he win by 11 points. we should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. i wish. it really is remarkable. and the answer to why it s so close is in large part because of the energy that we have seen on the democratic side for a long time, but energy obviously only gets you so far when it s such a ruby red historically district. and in is a candidate who has done things right, focused on the local issues, the bread and butter issues, on the flip side, have you a republican candidate who in any other year would be fine. but he was a little slow on the uptake on seeing this big challenge coming his way. he had the reinforcements come, in the vice president, the president and others.