across america, with an executive who does not have very high favorables? i mean, i think that republicans nominated lunatic candidates. there is a price to pay for right wing extremism in this election, and the reason that we saw the results what we did, is because donald trump went around, and try to push a bunch of candidates that were as extreme as possible, and also, stacked the supreme court with right-wing justices, who then overturned roe v. wade, and fueled one of the biggest backlashes in american politics. because of that extremism, the question in this election was, will the 2018 anti trump coalition turnout? it turned out in the 2018 midterms. we saw a record turnout sendoff mid term. the big question was, what the coalition still turnout in 2022, even though democrats held the
let me start with you. i was in charlottesville, on election night, in 2010, where you lost that race. in the big sort of key party backlash. you have personally experienced this. what do you make of what happened last night? i think it s a warning in time for democrats to avoid next year. the losses that we had in 2010. first of all it was a much closer election. we saw the democratic coalition turnout, in a close race. but really at the end of the day, i think we saw that simply being anti trump is not enough. democrats are going to have to show the results that they re producing for everyday folks. and for good reason to get the biden build back agenda passed, and passed faster, and actually saw with the delegates, many of whom were running to the left of the ticket, they actually survived, and kept most of the gains of 2017 by running on
swing vote in the electorate, there s some and it is important but not a lot of it, what really matters is the coalition turnout of each party, which includes the base and left or right leaning independents. that s where that strategy and messaging really comes in. as you were leading into the show, talking about defund the police, if you have republicans tying every single democrat, very few of whom supported defunding the police to that position, and democrats are not effectively countering that message, i don t know by explaining they don t want to defund police, by launching their own counter offense and really making the gop pay the price for bringing up the topic of crime in the city which is determined largely by poverty and access to firearms, then yeah, they re going to be in a competitive disadvantage. the republican party, they