don t remember who he is he was a pro-life governor from pennsylvania and got on the wrong side of the let me ask you this. this whole thing i said democrats have a litmus test for every single candidate. you have to do this, you have to do that. every single republican in the country, and i m generalizing a little bit, was against donald trump. the moment he got the nomination everybody fell in line. and on the democratic side hillary clinton doesn t believe in this, she doesn t do this, she doesn t do that. bernie people were at the convention when she won the nomination screaming bernie, and democrats just sat there and let it happen. a litmus test is a fairly new phenomenon in the democratic party. it s something we re trying to push back on. there are many of us that don t want this checklist, the things you have to do. to your point and your point earler, i literally took my concealed weapons permit class with nikki haley. we took our class together. you failed, though, r
dynamic here. but i will you also say. p on a national basis and i agree with van, i think the democratic party is getting smarter. it needs to. it s been on its heels for the better part of a decade, lost 1,000 state legislator seats under the tenure of barack o bam a. think by relying too much on hard left policies. it seems to me like the party is starting to find its footing and is going to tolerate more ideological diversity, people like conor lamb, that smart. but in terms of connecting it to trump when you re now talking about a national race within the democratic party, within the national primary, i don t think there s any way somebody like conor lamb, somebody of that ilk, can win the nomination, for instance, for 2020 for the presidency. so there i believe you are going to have an elizabeth warren or a kamala harris or somebody who is hard left taking on the president for re-election in 2020 and i think the results will be like 2016. you think, van, you re going to see m
boring but don t have the benefit of being in a district with 20 points. if you re born republican in a district that s plus 2, plus 5, plus 10, you re dead. the local people will tell you of the three people seeking the nomination he was by far the worst of the three. so compared to what? compared to the other people he wanted to run. they you re like this is a circular firing squad because just a minute ago you were talking about let s stop the gun talk. you were talking about the fact that a good democrat couldn t win a primary, and now you re saying a good republican couldn t even win his own primary it wasn t a primary. it was chosen at the district. that s what i m saying. they made a bad choice. this is a prototypical discussion that s going to happen in the d.c. bubble. and i want this to continue to happen amongst republicans in washington, d.c. because what we re seeing and something that we are in new york. go ahead. this is an r plus 11