winfr winfrey. in a few minutes i ll reveal another idea from my daughter but same idea with one candidate. mr. steele, the front-runner and a front-runner and who i think will be the democratic nominee is the governor of virginia, terry mccauliff. wow! you really think the democrats will go with a clinton democrat? it s not so much about the clinton brand so much as it is, what he s done as governor in do you think it s a good story? a good story in virginia. he s got a national network that we all know. jennifer is looking at me like i have four horns growing out of my head. i m looking at you like, did terry put you up to this? no, he s not and he s probably surprised i m saying this. but he s someone for all of us to watch. who aren t we talking about? governor martin o malley. oh, you malander, you.
and so i think if you read the tea leaves, this could be the beginning of a potential blue wave we ll see in 2018 elections, and i think you re seeing historic low approval ratings with the president. 33%, which is unprecedented for a president in their first year. so look, it s still early, of course. if you look at the generic balance for congress, democrats are leading by double digits. in regard to the tweet, what is the saying, success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan. i think we saw a little bit of that play itself out. all politics is local. this is a blue state, a state that s been voting democrat. they have a popular democratic governor. governors in the state of virginia are only allowed to one for one term. this is the lieutenant governor running for the second term of the terry mccauliff administration. the surprising thing is the republicans had a chance. every possible advantage was
it was not good and i knew that going in. we are rebuilding, modernizing, reorganizing, we were able to win seats in oklahoma earlier this year. beat red districts. we have to take the model and scale it everywhere. and yet the democrats right now are seen as the anti-trump party. how do you get a message of your own? voters want a message to run on instead of against? yes, it was undeniably in part a referendum on donald trump and the divisive world. but you also saw democrats leading with their values. ralph northam is a healer. what they were saying is health care is a right for all and not a privilege for a few. if you vote for me, i m going to fight to make sure you keep your health care. same thing on the economy. terry mccauliff, people want a
we heard from a number of gop senators that they re not in a hurry to take up this bill. have you gotten a sense of a timeline when we might expect the senate to even start looking at this thing? reporter: we re joking about crystal balls and the like. it s impossible to tell. it s going to take a couple of months into the summer, and then there s the regular process of congress passing spending bills, things of that nature. but what republicans are most eager to do is pass tax reform. that s expected to take the balance of this year. they don t want to get into it for an election year, a third of the senate, every member of the house of representatives, and so there s going to be a time crunch in the senate, things are very iffy at this point in terms of republican efforts to repeal and replace obamacare, craig. mike, enjoy the weekend. thank you. terry mccauliff is the
that doesn t spread a lot of confidence about our democratic process, does it? no, but i think there is a concern that he has, and it s understandable. a lot of people support this, that you have a lot of folks in the media, frankly, and a lot of pundits who have claimed the race over and said hillary is up this much, the race is over. she s beginning her transition, when in fact again, even your own poll shows us down five, you in your previous segment talked about that we re up in a couple of these key battleground states and close in others. what we want to do is encourage people to vote and not declare this race over. when you look at a situation that broke today where you see terry mccauliff, a clinton aide is fulling money to the deputy director s wife, it s shady to see $500,000 going to a candidate s wife, when the deputy director is personally overseeing the hillary clinton