normal times. of what republicans are trying to do. first i m going to congratulate doug jones. he deserves to be congratulated but let s be honest, this race was a referendum on roy moore. misbehavior. yeah. he was under multiple allegation was sexual conduct including with a teenager. i guess my bigger question would be what would you have said about the democrats if they hadn t won. second thing, it is an incredibly parochial state, shellpy outtrumps no pun intended the president and bannon on what he said he was going to do. the lot of republicans did stay home and the percent of republicans vote that the republican got was much less than the democrat votes that the democrat got of it has nothing to do with doug jones it. has everything to do with people said mitch mcconnell or anyone else, they basically said we would raert go with not supporting somebody who we can t support his character once he is here than they felt that he would have been the gift, roy moore would
steve bannon, we are starting to be pretty sure he can t win a general action but he still mighting able to swepg a big ax in a primary. the question for republicans is can they get past steve bannon enough in a primary in order doshs. donnelly and a rape candidate. if he gets another murdoch, he gets back in again. that s right. if he is against a reasonable republican, he is going to have a tough time of it. that s going the happen all over the country. they can get really jammed up playing with steve bannon, they may not have a choice. the news of doug joan s victory tonight won t be the only headline greeting donald trump until the morning, an editorial goes of a the president for his sexually suggestive tweet directed towards kirsten gillibrand. the editorial reads a president who all but calls a senator a whore
do you think this is going to rouse them to vote because it? larry. i think it s absolutely going to happen in 2018. i agree with charlie on the wave that s coming. don t forget about the governors and state legislatures. i think you are going to so a tremendous turnover to the democrats there, too, which is going to be critical for the next redistricting coming in 2021. so donald trump has got the white house and i suppose a lot of republicans are still happy about that. but he s going to cost them tremendously next year in the midterm elections and probably beyond that. you know what i think the people that like trump don t like him as much as the people that don t like him don t like him. i think we saw that tonight. thank you larry and charlie. i finished a week and a half ago the bobby kennedy, boochlt it s really good. charlie is an expert on politics. he wrote the most beautiful review on my book. the best book you have done
days. welcome back to hardball. that was steve bannon going into alabama and telling them how to vote. urging republicans to vote for roy moore in this case. tonight s loss is a rebuke to steve bannon and also to president trump. here s the headline to new york daily news, screw you and the horse you rode in on of course because the republican candidate who lost last night was of course the guy that rode in on a horse, roy moore. it was kind of ridiculous doing it. the headline also says teen-loving moore loses pam bam race in big blow to trump. let s bring in annie landski. sofia nelson, and jim al simmons a democratic strategist. in this order. let me talk about this, what does it do to bannon, the friskies going out there looking
been created since that development? sure. sure. but the thing is there were problems that republicans had. it s president trump s 36, 37% job approval rating. it s having a 48, 49, 50 strong disapprove rating. yeah. it s having the republican party identification dropping five points since the in a year. yeah. you know, it s state legislative seats shifting this year. there is an enormous amount of evidence that next year is going to be really ugly, but tonight was about roy moore. how about african-american vote? last question to larry. i want to push that i am very enthusiastic about african-american voting. it s been depressed. they have been played with. they have been suppressed and all the tricks of voter id and everything they do to screw them out of the voting system, literacy tests and poll taxes finally they got out tonight and spoke loud and clear and beat that guy.