states. there could be a real surprise from last three. i think republicans likely are to end up with 51 or 52. but this is going to be a dog fight right to the end. democrats spent a lot of money. taken a page out of obama playbook and trying to irradiate republican candidates to disqualify them in voters mind by labor day. jon: a lot of it, much depend on the viability of the candidates. right. jon: you saw last time around that some republican candidates shot themselves in the foot and ended up not winning states that should have easily gone gop. is that going to happen this time around? i don t think so because the quality of republican candidates is really much better now. we have a couple of primaries left to go. alaska, kansas, tennessee. thus far republicans fielded superb candidates and candidates who were sort of todd aiken-like have fallen by the wayside. jon: we mentioned earlier you run crossroads gps, the super pac. article in the washington examine are says republica
mitch mccon them on other hand is preoccupied with his own re-election as he should be. democrats have super pac donors, come from wealthy personal industry trial lawyers or unions. they have significant amount of mom niched those sources are easy for democrats to tap and ready to generously contribute to their efforts. jon: if it is all true, if there is modicum of truth to the notion that people are afraid to give money to political cause because they are afraid to get audetted by the irs we have reach ad pretty good point. when you have the president go out in towson, maryland and depict republican supergroups and pac as enemies of democracy, this starts from top down. a lot of people heard these things, known what risk, nonetheless step forward to help because i care deeply about my country. jon: that will be an interesting battle this fall. karl rove. every single day of 111 days left in the election. jon: you will be a tired guy.
falling behind in that kind of big dollar fund-raising. here s part of what david drucker, the author of that article says. he says, this election cycle two new challenges chilled gop super pac efforts to raise cash from wealthy individuals and corporate donors. anxiety they could get slapped with an irs audit and unease donate could lead to public demonization. demonization like harry reid is doing with the koch brothers virtually every day in the well of the senate. this worked well for them in 2012 when they picked out five donors to mitt romney and went out to demonize them this is becoming a standard tactic of the left. i sense it in my work with crossroads. i sense it from some donors they re worried about it, but most of them it is irritating them. you need to look, david i hope it is premature in this observation. one thing that the democrats do have is they have got harry reid out there beating people up for major gifts to their pacs.
an incident went unreported to senior cdc officials for weeks. so that hearing underway on capitol hill to find out how all of this could have happened, jenna. jenna: sound like a good question to find the answer to. steve, thank you very much. jon? jon: we re learning more about where republicans plan to put their money in the battle for control of the u.s. senate. so far eight state senate races which national republicans are pouring in lots of bucks. alaska, arkansas, montana, colodo, iowa, west virginia, north carolina and louisiana. south dakota also seen as a potential pickup. karl rove, one of the top republican strategists in the country. the rove-backed american crossroads super pac is focused so far on six states. are they looking to expand the map? what are his predictions? let s ask the man himself, karl rove is with us, fox news contributor and former white house deputy chief of staff. amer of the big super pacs. you re spending money in which states? well right now we h
and confirmed. previously served as maryland s labor secretary. he filed a lawsuit against arizona sheriff joe arpaio. assuming he is the president s pick, he is the landing candidate. leave commerce, ustr and transportation. sources close to ashley judd say she is truly planning this spring to announce her bid to unseat seine senate republican leader mitch mccon until kentucky n a statement to the huffington post, judd denied report saying i m not sure who is saying this stuff, but it is not i. i prefer as a fan of your journalism that you stay accurate and credible. we told everyone who called us yesterday these stories fabrication. the american crossroads super pac launched an attack ad against the actress in february. i can tell you, democrats have lined up a bunch of plan b candidates that they thought this plan a, this ashley judd thing, has got a minds of the