where vote counts were close and some of the arguments have gone outside of the voting polls. jessica: absolutely. every seat counts, and we know that especially when there are a few moderate republicans who always seem to be on the fence about whatever the big vote of the day is. this wasn t a seat the democrats came into the 2018 midterms expecting that we were going to pick up. people were hopeful about it. kennedy: doug jones is still walking around going really? [laughter] jessica: exactly. dagen: since 1982, democrats haven t won a sent a campaign of the state mississippi. 1982. and not since reconstruction. the pete: if she wins, the pressure really moves toward republicans and the senate. can they, to your point? if they have 53 votes. probably not. kennedy: let s switch chambers. house of public and leaders adding to the white house this afternoon, ten days until the government partially shuts down,
recognition. but collins name remains on the ballot, they could lose that significant and that would be a significant loss in an election where every seat counts, democrats in the game 23 back to take back the house. very feasible for the democrats. they cannot afford to leave that on the table. that s why they are doing scrambling to get his name off the ballot. we ll see if they succeed in avoiding he initially said he s going to fight. he said he s innocent and said he was going to fight and stay on ballot. then he changed his mind after pressure at home and national republicans and in part because democrats see this as tee ball. nancy pelosi. this insufficient and overdue announcement does little to drain the toxic ses pool that proliferated in washington under gop control. the brazen corruption has left hard working families in the cold. republicans will zbut that when you have a congressman indicted for insider trader who allegedly
i m interesting in working with you on specific actions we can take to foster a better congress. when you re calling for annea an ethics investigation into yourself, the result probably isn t great, or you re saying you ll investigate yourself, it s probably not better. i have no doubt her colleagues don t appreciate that. this may be a self-interested move on her part, but i think there are a lot of unturned stones out there in congress that i think a lot of members must be worried about and certainly concerned about, and it would be nice to know. interesting dates as we watch this play out. the coming deadline for candidates is april 12. interesting story in a year where every seat counts. thanks for joining us on inside
putting my political hat on now. fair enough. the access hollywood didn t, wasn t the end of donald trump. he survived and became president and you had every leading republican wanting him to get out, calling him openly to get out of the race and far more evidence than here. and what mitch mcconnell is thinking, him in the senate is worse for the republican brand than republicans needing losing one more seat? not a cal clagculation i makt a two-seat majority, every seat counts. lose alabama. what does it do for the legislative agenda for the next year? you can lose two. without a dtiebreaker. and hard enough. democrats have to just pick up neff never and arizona and it s game, set of ma, if they can hold their own. tax reform. finally. tuesday changing the calculus even though leaders swear it doesn t. how much does it change the tax fight? you have republicans saying, is this a good vote?
in these wonderful states because i think that every single election at this point and every single seat counts. so i was there as a volunteer. and everyone should know that both of these campaigns are really running grassroots campaigns. the people are of both of these communities of the state of montana and of the georgia six are really fired about these elections. and i really think no matter what president trump says that we re going to have a really good chance at flipping those seats. let me ask you when you re in these districts what you re seeing, what you re feeling on the ground right there. i mean, from afar we can see there s energy on the democratic side, but is this purely anti-trump energy? is this folks mobilizing, we don t like him, we don t like his presidency, is there anything more to it? is this trying to is this unity behind an agenda or does it just stop trump? does it matter? if the energy is just to stop trump or if there s more to it,