much of the media has spent the last 24 hours talking about the shellacking that the democratic party suffered in florida with governor desantis getting re-elected by 20 points and marco rubio riding trump sicaphacy. tonight we ll talk about the absolute shellacking republicans felt in colorado. meanwhile, in an unexpected turn of events in the battle for control of the united states house of representatives, two colorado democrats are leading their republican opponents in races that were rated by the good old polling averages as republicans. in the eighth congressional district which includes the northern denver suburbs,
voters all enshrined abortion rights in their constitution. voters in montana and kentucky rejected antiabortion measures. president biden spoke about the results we ve seen so far. our democracy has been tested in recent years. the american people have spoken and proven once again that democracy is who we are. joining me now is steve kornacki at the big board and, steve, i have two questions for you. what can you tell me about what s going on in nevada and arizona. you probably guessed that s where i was going. yeah, that is. that s the big question. knowing georgia is heading to a runoff on december 6th, the stakes here in the nevada and arizona senate races is this. republicans need to win at least one of these two. if they can get one of these two, then that december 6th runoff in georgia would be for senate control.
themselves out of power if they re lucky enough to get it. you didn t say anything about inflation. you didn t say anything about crime or gas prices because they re not going to do anything about any of those things. thank you for making that very clear. claire, i wanted to go back to the senate situation that we have because georgia is the other big issue. last night you said something you always say something that is smart. you said something that is so spot on. if in fact georgia is not the difference between controlling the united states senate for republicans, what is the marketing campaign to elect herschel walker who literally is not competent to be a senator, they all know that, who s got all sorts of issues with the truth, they all know that but there s no incentive. how would they even do that marketing campaign? yeah, i think it s really interesting to think about it. if you do the hypothetical that we pull off wins in nevada and arizona and we control the senate. the
point either way. broad strokes, whoever has the majority gets to decide what is debated and whags voted on. yeah. if crazy stuff comes from crazy town, if republicans take the house, it goes nowhere if we have control of the senate. if mitch mcconnell has control of the senate, it s a big question how much of crazy town he would bring to the floor. judges, big. judges will be done. joe biden will never get another judge. correct. correct. those are the two big things. controlling the agenda, what gets voted on and judges. but other than that, it s still the push and pull. you ve got to have some democrats if you re a republican in control with 51 just like we had to have some republicans on the infrastructure bill. right. so that doesn t change but what will change if mitch mcconnell, if they pull off victories in both nevada and arizona or two of the three that are left yeah. mitch mcconnell will have a different kind of caucus.
jobs, health care forcivilians as well as veterans and not spend most of their time traveling around the country down in mar-a-lago, florida. what would you bring home to your district? we know boebert doesn t do legislation. she does theatrics and stuff. what would you concretely want to bring home to the third district if you are, in fact, elected. i m a big fan of the caucus. in the house of representatives, 29 republicans and 29 democrats. i want to be one of the bipartisan democrats and work on things. my number one concern in our district, number two is ag, ranching, farming. three is to make sure we have a safe and secure independent energy. we have to make sure we make