later, hardball s chris matthews. he wrote a book. that kennedy book just keeps selling. really? oh, my god! his new book. that will sell, too. chris is like the geico guy with all the money on the boat just flopping in the breeze. coming up next, the kentucky senate race gets nasty. mitch mcconnell s challenger is getting big outside money. that s the story that will be topping the politico playbook. so many fascinating races. also in texas john cornin looking over his shoulder at ted cruz. lindsey graham, too. he has a challenger. goodness, gracious. i thought we were supposed to fight the democrats. first, dylan drier has a check on the forecast. what s it look like today? absolutely perfect across most of the country. we lost the humidity, gained sunshine. temperatured cooled off. it will be a nice wednesday. right now it s almost fall-like
leadership and adhere to their positions and vote with them because they knew the party leaders were the ones who could steer the money and connect them with the influence industry and the folks who could give them the money to run their re-election campaigns. now you have the tea party sort of ground troops who can support a campaign and the big outside money from the club for growth, from freedomworks, freedom for prosperity that were freed by the recent supreme court decision that can support these candidates and these firebrand republicans even when the party doesn t. and so steve with the que ses ter coming, all the signs are things are even more gridlocked. look at the 2014 elections and the two problems of what he just talked about poses for the republican party. one is ted cruz-like candidates running in republican primaries might not want to nominate can get the money on their own and go around the establishment and win nominations. second aaril secondarily, republicans re
as i ve been able to do in my state, as others have, that have won progressive races, that you re on their side, it makes all the difference in the world. and political parties matters less to voters, ideology matters less. are you on our side when it comes to wall street? when it comes to drug prices? are you on our side when it comes to trade rules and tax laws and all of that. and that s the message every day that needs to come out of progressives mouths. sherrod brown, u.s. senator from ohio, the number one target in terms of senate race this year, and so far in terms of dark money, in outside money. it s an honor. of a sort. thank you, sir. i have to tell you, you may have heard senator brown mention his campaign website. and in the interest of fairness, his opponent s website is joshmandell.com. and that s even. did you just know that out of the top of your head? i spent some time browsing there myself. of course, he s always welcome here as a guest on this show. given
issues of what s happening in the country. and the other thing you can t control is the money. we have seen it in my race, there s been more outside money than any senate race in the country. they just did another big buy, up to about $9 million, most of it since last november, but it s been going on for 14 months. we ve been outspent 4 1/2 to 5 to 1. you re the incumbent being outspent to 5 to 1. the money is, we don t know who the money is, it s directed by karl rove, clearly. it s a lot of oil company money, we figure. it s conservative billionaires. when their sides when our side spends money, if a rich progressive would come up and spend $10 million, if we win, they don t get material benefit from it, they feel good, but don t make money from it. if some of the right wingers win, the loyal people and all that, they get an estate tax, get tax cuts, get weaker environmental rules, they get anti-labor laws, and that s partly at what s at stake with this.
we have something called the grassroots victory fund in ohio, which is going to do get out the vote and identify voters and all that you do that way, and we need to have enough on the air, and so far we will, but we are concerned. if the funding we figure they ll spend $20 million or $25 at least in outside money, let alone what my opponent spends, and that does concern us. there are always great underdog stories every election cycle, someone who wins despite a huge cash advantage. but that is the exception, that is the inspirational story. and generally whoever has the most money wins. usually incumbents have the most money. are we now entering a cycle in which republicans will always have the most money in every election because of the policy alliance with corporate america who s giving the money? the republicans will have the spending advantage no matter who the incumbent is? i think that s right. if it s a competitive race. there are races where you can t senator whitehouse