Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
bevin ran the campaign. matt bevin looked to donald trump to help catapult him ultimately to victory. i want to play a little exchange yesterday with matt bevin when he decided to nationalize this campaign so much. why nationalize this race so much and talk about president trump so much? i don t know do you watch the news? the fact you ask why this is being nationalized and why people are talking about president trump would indicate to me that you may have sort of come out from under a rock. here in america, that s pretty topical every night. reporter: so what should we take away from this race, craig? donald trump, to what extent was he actually annual to help matt bevin. he maybe helped bring out trump-backing voters that wouldn t otherwise come to the polls. but it clearly was not enough. the campaign of andy beshear, ran a very state-based campaign. there were no 2020 national candidates here. matt bevin ran away from the national conversation, ran away
governor matt bevin is seeking his reelection and his favorability is not that high in the state. so whibash irhas been trying to focus on education and health care here in the state and jobs. and matt bevin, if you watch him on the air waves, it s been trump, trump, impeachment, trump. i want to let you hear directly from him just a few minutes ago when i asked him why he has nagzleized this race so much. why nationalize this race so much? do you watch the news? when you ask, it would indicate to me that you have sort of come out from under a rock. we re talking about is this a civics lesson now? you think i don t understand what the role is? talk to the average person, ask the next 100 people who come in here if they care about this impeachment process, and they will tell you almost to a person, that they do.