taking over from republicans any maps that are drawn by republicans. it could look a lot different in the coming years. katie tur in atlanta. thank you for that. reminder to viewers. elections are successful because of people like the woman we just met. vallvalerie. my heart goes out to you. crazy. problems, no. that s the determination. i love it. when we come back, joined bid steve schmit. joined by chuck todd. ask them to weigh in on what we re witnesses this midterm election night 2018. let s be honest. every insurance company tells you they can save you money. save up to 10% when you bundle with esurance. including me, esurance spokesperson dennis quaid.
were appalled. they would tell you that they ve been in meetings with him and they think that he s crazy and that he s unfit. they would never say it publicly. and so the choices to either repudiate or validate, that s the question at hand. and i think that it gives these republicans a pass to say that they didn t have a choice, that their hands weren t bound. they did have a choice. they had a choice to be fidelitous to the issues they claimed belief in for most of their political careers until donald trump arrived on the scene. former republican strategist, steve schmidt, thank you for joining us, steve. you bet. sobering, as always. nicolle wallace, you and i were talking about this a few minutes ago off camera. there are republicans who repudia repudiate trump, who call the president out on specific matters and call him out in general in terms of his overall approach to politics and then
poll closings coming in at any time right now. terms of house races we re watching, we have our first flip of the night from red to blue. we ve got barbara comstock losing her seat to jennifer wexton. it s the district in florida ron desantis used to hold. had to give up the seat. waltz is the democrat to came in. waltz will hold that seat. that s one of the ones that democrats had hoped to pick up, if only because it was an open seat. but the republicans have been able to hold on there. as we re starting to see the first conclusive results come in tonight, we want to go to our dear friend, the eloquent republican strategist and former republican, i should say, steve schmidt. it s been too long since i ve seen you, my friend. great to have you here tonight. good to be with you rachel. big picture, how you re feeling about the import of this
where you just called that first race, that s another place where it s really big. i think it s interesting concept. she ran a very, very trump campaign. talked a lot about ms-13. talked a lot about dangers of illegal immigration. and look what happened already. joining us tonight from miami. really appreciate having you here. if this ends up being on the republican side, the election of the caravan, where the president put that at the absolute center of everything and ends up from the democratic side being latino voters coming out in record numbers, that will be the snake eating its pig. just to share homework with you, we re on our way to another break. the very patient steve schmit is standing by. let me read off the list of 8:00 closings we re coming up 16
that his texts when the access hollywood tape came out, when he donald trump was a deplorable and he texted a friend he was enjoying it. you have to wonder, if the people have qualms working for this president, why do they take the job. it s access to power but they leave with even less personal capital they went in with. we are exactly two minutes until the next government shut down which we know will now automatically happen at 12:00 eastern time. garrett haake is on capitol hill. do you have anything else to report prior to this deadline, which i know kicks off a number of hours of debates and votes and then back to the house? brian it s ultimately rand paul s call how long he wants to make this go over the next couple of years as the senate floor reopens here in the next few minutes. senators will likely again ask for unanimous consent to go straight to the vote.