The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
midterm year. it s going to be a bigger challenge, i think, in the midterms, don t you think? i think the midterms are going to be more difficult because of the gerrymandering, because of these voter i.d. laws. but i ll point out some examples. in new hampshire, are we picked up seats, we picked up seats in the state legislature, in new hampshire, after a voter i.d. law had been passed. and this is the 33rd. this seat last night was the 33rd seat that democrats have flipped since trump became elected. the seat before that, democrats won that other seat before that ruby red seat by 60%. so, yes, there are some challenges. but democrats are energized. and also, i want to point out one thing. it s women and people of color that are running, too. particularly in virginia. tara dowdell and cornell belcher, thank you. i ll be on late-night with seth meyers later tonight. tonight, senator al franken
senate district 37 looked like last year when donald trump won by about 40 points. clinton pulling 27%. here s the same district tuesday night, when a democrat won the district senate seat in a special election. and i have to notice, not just any democrat, allison ikly freeman is a 26-year-old lesbian. she won by just 31 votes in a campaign heavy on turning out progressive voters, which ones there are, and while the special election turnout was low, this is still a striking flip. and it s hardly the only piece of good news for statehouse democrats this year. the list of seats flipped in state legislatures includes 15 seats in virginia, four seats in new jersey, four seats in oklahoma, two in georgia, four in new hampshire, and one each in washington, florida, and new york. tara dar dell is a democratic strategist and cornell belcher is a an msnbc analyst to discuss whether this looks like the beginning of a wave. as a pollster, what are you looking at right now? well, you know, it s
issue standpoint, george bush killed us with terrorism and security, you know that, right? and then there was a values consideration. on the values, there was two big issues in 2004, where republicans had a huge advantage. there was terrorism and values. we said going in 2006, if we could cut those down from 30 and 20-point advantages, we may have a shot in these districts. going into october of 2006, we had cut their advantages down to single digits around those two important issues. and i think that s from an issue standpoint and from a structural standpoint, we were able to sort of take advantage of the wave that was coming. tara, you work with different politicians. you ve your firm represents actually someone who s challenging in new jersey seven, which lance s district. and that s like exactly the kind of seat, right, that democrats should be able to win, if they re going to win a lot of seats. right. what do you think about the dynamics in those kinds of most vulnerable
his behavior. he hasn t acted presidential at all. the tweets bother me. they might be enlightening to some people. i m not a tweeter, but to me it s like firing off these tweets, it s just childish. democrats are already capitalizing on that dissatisfaction, racking up electoral victories across the country. the latest, a win on tuesday in a state and a district that has been unmistakably red. that is what oklahoma s state senate district 37 looked like last year when donald trump won by about 40 points. clinton pulling 27%. here s the same district tuesday night, when a democrat won the district senate seat in a special election. and i have to notice, not just any democrat, allison ikly freeman is a 26-year-old lesbian. she won by just 31 votes in a campaign heavy on turning out progressive voters, which ones there are, and while the special election turnout was low, this is still a striking flip. and it s hardly the only piece of good news for statehouse