just sounded a lot like president biden because it wasn t just what he talked about in the 2020 campaign trail, but at the first year of his presidency, reporters were incredibly skeptical that he was going to be able to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill or anything in a bipartisan manner with republicans because they did not appear to want to work with him either. and he was having a hard time finding ten republican votes. and he and the white house kept pushing for it and pushing for it, and they eventually got the infrastructure bill. they got gun safety, the first big gun safety bill in decades. that s a good point. they also passed the chips and china competitiveness bill with republicans. and most recently i think, you know, they re moving forward with the same-sex marriage bill, which was passed in a bipartisan way through the senate. so there are a lot of bills that he has passed in a bipartisan way. and one thing that a lot of democrats take away from georgia as well
warnock is taking this different path. and it isn t necessarily the same path that every democrat in washington is taking. yeah. look, to distill it down to just these were trump endorsed candidates and that s why they lost is an oversimplification. because to your point, kasie, a lot of the candidates that lost, whether we re talking about kari lake in arizona, walkner georgia, blake masters in arizona, tudor dixon in michigan even, even though you could maybe argument was a little tiny bit more moderate than the others i listed out. maybe. but they all still ran trumpian campaigns. they all embraced the vast majority of his talking points. they all cast doubt on the 2020 election. and they ran full-on towards trump. and they weren t the only ones that did it. so they had agency there. they decided to do that. and then they lost their races for it. i think that when paul was talking about what democrats can learn from warnock, to me it
but paul begala, i want to start with something you said you re interested in talking about because i don t think we ve dug into it enough. yes, democrats are celebrating tonight. but there are still lessons to learn, and potentially things that they should make sure not to forget. what is your view of what your party should take from this. every democrat should listen to what reverend warnock said today. you know victory night speeches like blah blah, thanks my mom. he wants to say something. to his country and his party and his state. and i think it s this. this is what i take from it. there is great power in healing and in humility. that s not weakness. that s strength. and, you know, the natural inclination is if you think the other guy is a bully, you want to be a bully. if you think the other guy is extreme you want to be extreme. reciprocally is in the human heart. i think reaching out to the other party, governing for
suppression does not exist. it simply means that you, the people have decided that your voices will not be silenced. herschel walker conceded defeat in a short speech at his campaign headquarters tuesday night. he thanked his supporters and pledged that he would continue to work for the voters of georgia. one of the things i want to tell all of you is you never stop dreaming. i don t want any of you to stop dreaming. i don t want any of you to stop believing in america. i want you to believe in america and believe in our constitution and believe in ow elected officials most of all. continue to pray for them, because all the prayers you have given to me, i felt those prayers. i want to thank all my team as well, team herschel, because they put up with a lot. i want to thank team herschel, thank all my donors as well, because you guy, without you, i couldn t have done what i ve done. so i want to thank all of you as well. there is no excuses in life, and i m not going to make any exc
and we re back with our coverage of the georgia runoff election. we re going to continue our conversation with our great guests who have spent the last four or so hours hanging out with us. we ve covered a lot of ground. we ve learned a lot about georgia. we ve learned some things about the state of the country, what may happen next. i m interested in your final big takeaways or things you think we should underscore as the night wraps up. something i have not completely talked about tonight, be ah large swath of black georgians, felt herschel walker was completely unqualified. and in georgia tonight, or a couple of hours ago, you had two black men face off against one another. and looking at the construct of where everything laid for these candidates, you have atlanta and then the rest of georgia.