state assembly, one u.s. senat seeking a seats in the house republicans swept everything except for the secretary o state. in 2014 republicans held on to the statewide offices bu secretary of state state of th democrats. then in 2016, the presidential election, wisconsi unexpectedly swung for donal trump. wisconsin along with state like pennsylvania, florida, an michigan turned red, handing donald trump to victory. but in 2018, the democrats dominated the fall elections for statewide offices, o seeding three incumben republicans including the tw term governor scott walker republicans maintain control o both chambers in the legislature. as well as a majority of the states u.s. house seats. last november, we saw anothe shakeup during the 202 midterms the party split the major stat races. democrats kept the governorshi and the attorney general offices, republicans get the seat in the senate they gain a seat in the hous in one as heat in the state senate, resulting in a republican super ma
forever. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time. for those of us who are not deep in state politics and consequences they carry for th fate of democracy, wisconsin may not be top of mind but i would like to bring it there. wisconsin was long known as bastion of progressivism the early maybe when the state fell to conservatism in the 2010s, i did not go unnoticed the state has been a closely watched political lab, a microcosm of the nationa movement, swinging to red to blue in 2006, wisconsin was blu across the board four years later, the firs midterm election of the obam era, the conservative wave tha was sweeping the country hit wisconsin hard come 2010, republicans too control of all of wisconsin executive and administrative offices, the state senate, the
their republican colleagues tr to move on to other business on thursday, republican stat representatives in tennessee took the extraordinary move of expelling two of the tennessee three, the two young black freshman lawmakers, justin jones and justin pearson, as punishment for violating the house rules of the court gloria johnson, it wha lawmakers narrowly avoided her expulsion by one vote. now since the civil war era, because the state legislatur has only moved to expel member of its body three times and never for something like a violation of decorum jones and pearson were dul elected by their constituents, their expulsion is just th latest example of how th politics of revenge that donal trump has normalized i chipping away at democracy their expulsion is a trump mov consistent with how the former president has denigrated a mystery to his critics throughout his entire politica career the result of this today i that more than 130,000 tennessee people are without representation in the
bring it up themselves you are doing their job. that is why john lewis i remembered they remembered because they disrupted what was going o wrongly in a constructive way. reverend, thank you for joining us i know you ve busy weekend a always, reverend al sharpton i the host of politicsnation he is the president and founde of the national action network coming up, wisconsin has gon from blue to red and bac again. what a major win by a libera jue dgmeans for the state. and the nation so it s decided, we ll park even deeper into parking spaces and the nation so people think they re open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can t hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone s bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else s? -no! -no! or you can get a quote with america s number-one motorcycle insurer and maybe save some money while you re at it. all in favor of that. [ horn honking ] there s a lot of buttons and knobs in here.
said they would try and legislate things what else could you do in city in a state that had just see six people killed, three o them nine-year-old children. by someone that had legall purchased these kinds of firearms, military style weapons that should never have been sold. the legislature didn t want to deal with it they did what they are suppose to do, they worked constructively i think that it has rallie people around the country to stand up for them and th racism even involved there was that they did not exclude th woman. they voted to black men out. she only state by one vote she will be on politicsnatio with me tonight. it is an amazing story of ho far we still have to go. if one wonders what the rol