democrat marie glusenkamp perez defeated an election denier seen as too extreme for many voters. the congressman elect joins us now live. first of all, congratulations on your victory. you know, odds makers like 538, they gave you only a 2% chance of winning. how did you do it? how did you defy those odds? woell, i know my district. i live like my district. a fifth generation washingtonian. i own a machine shop with my husband and working mom that has trouble finding day care just like everybody else. i think that really connects. people want a congress that looks more like america. they re tired click bait politics and ugliness and the division. i m really, really proud to get to be part of a really broad coalition of moderate republicans, independents and democrats who came together to shut down an extremist political
yeah. it should really give us a lot of cause to pause and really worry about the next generation of american politicians because madison cawthorn is the first republican to fully come of age in the palin trump era. the only republican world he really knows is a palin trump republican world. a post truth world. a world that is very much obsessed with celebrities. that really believes in a type of click bait politics and reality show politics. and we really should understand, we ve talked before about george wallace, trump s predecessors in terms of white grievance politics. it was sarah palin who introduced this idea of click bait politics. that really wasn t part of pat buchanan or george wallace s world. this idea of trying to be a reality show star. she was actually on a reality show. she was really the first major politician i can think of who