swing district races. that strategy did not work out so well. you mention your new book, i have it right here, the enemy of the people. thank you. i want you to tell us a little bit about the book, and in light of this news that sarah sanders is going to be leaving the white house. this is something you talk about in the book, what do you talk about when it comes to her as press secretary, someone we didn t see doing briefings. brianne, that you were a white house correspondent, so you remember this. we worked together at the white house, we had regular briefing lds, it was something the american people expected. to pass on very vital and important information on to the american people and for the last 90 or so days we haven t had a white house briefing. what do sarah and the rest of
as the outsider, somebody who is running against the democratic leadership. but, you know, in the end on that ballot it s going to have the d next to his name. you know, he s saying he s not in lockstep with the democratic leaders and the speaker, nancy pelosi. but here s what he had to say. i m not running in san francisco, and if my opponent wants to run against nancy pelosi, it s like, what, 700 miles to the south. feel welcome. reporter: so you can see the strategy, jon. it s about the democratic candidate running kind of away from his party and saying that he s the independent-minded guy trying to get the middle and trying to localize this race. and you ve got the republicans also trying to localize and talking about spending and reining in control of spending in congress but also trying to make it a national referendum and saying a vote for me, the republican, is a vote for a change in direction, and that s happening in races, a lot of these swing district races across the co