Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Disapprove. The numbers are shifting for the president . Talked about it for a long time. A bit of narrow casting. But this is about as narrow casting as it gets. Willie, all i can say for donald trump and republicans who are hoping, like a special election in ohio tonight, the republicans hoping that hes somehow going to get them over the finish line, even in strongly republican districts lie this ohio 12. They better hope that their small slice of the electorate comes out, because, i mean, donald trump is sacrificing just about every other group in america for this one group of white, noncollege educated voters that, again, just there just arent enough to get him over the top or to get his candidates over the top in
A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
i appreciate you asking. the biggest lesson i ve learned in the military and public service has been this, it s that don t go out and try to act. don t try to be an actor, you re not an actor, go out and tell people what you believe, because you might convince somebody. voters do not experience issues one at a time. sometimes we go on tv, we talk about issues one at eye time opinion i have yet to meet a single voter who experiences them one at a time. they don t have an excel spreadsheet where they re trying to figure out if you re with them on this issue or that issue. i tell a story in the book, one of the first doors i knocked on. the fellow completely disagrees with me on an issue, i had never done this before, i started doing what i had seen politicians on tv do. i started convincing him we agreed. it became clear really quick we didn t. we were in an argument. i thought, i have to bail out of
appreciate it. one of the stories i tell in outside the wire is that one of the very first doors i ever knocked on in my campaign, my first campaign, which was for state legislature, this fellow came to his front door and we were talking. it was really clear immediately that he and i disagreed on this issue he wanted to talk about, and i had just been a candidate for a short time and i did what i had seen politicians on tv do, and i start trying to spin him and tell him how really we agreed, and next thing i knew we were in an argument and it wasn t going well. i felt frustrated and desperate. i said, thanks for your time, i know what you believe. i walked off and he said to me, that makes sense, you can put a sign in my yard, i will vote for you. that s how i learned that voters don t expect you to believe everything they believe. they want to know you believe what you re saying, and they will for gigive you for believi something different if they know you care about them. you are
wait, we re adding that snoring sound. how about if you re the vice president just try to stay awake at work and stay off the ridiculist in and a quick follow-up to last night s ridiculist about all the money snooki is making $100,000 an episode for the new season of jersey shore. $25,000 to show up at a club. snooki responds on her twitter page, she writes or tweeted, everybody s asking me about mr. anderstand cooper. he called me freakishly tan and i m lucky? gotta love this man. thanks, coop. first of all, i didn t call her freakishly tan. i think she called me anderstand because my name is anderson and i understand her. some people thought i was trying to start a feud last night. au contraire, mon frere. of all the jersey shore folks she s my favorite. she s the most orange sxl she has a sense of humor about herself which believe me not a lot of folks on tv do.