political outsider in the vein of john mccain. let s be honest, if john mccain as a child had been dropped on his head and into a vat of acid, and you see why republican trying to change the conversation. mitch mcconnell knows that candidate quality really does matter. even when the political winds should be in his party s favor. look at the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. maybe remember delaware republican senate candidate christine o donnell, who after confessing she dabbled in witchcraft has aired a campaign ad saying she wasn t a rich. or caught todd aiken, whose lead in the polls came to a halt when he said there were legitimate forms of rape. when house democrats got walked and lost dozens of seats in couldn t win the senate for republican, and i couldn t do it in 2012 even. mitch mcconnell knows political losers when he sees them. and it s clear he doesn t have a lot of hope for his crop of contenders. joining us now is former democratic congressman, max rosa of new
men in jerry joins me live. jerry joins me live good evening, if you thought the era of republicans using a migrant children as political pawns ended in 2017, as donald trump s cruel and discussing child separation border policy was exposed to the world. well, you would be sadly mistaken. i want you to take a long hard look at this newborn baby, this infant who along with some 50 other mainly venezuelan asylum seekers was she noted family man greg abbott, texas governor to the doorstep of vice president kamala harris as d.c. residents early yesterday. a baby, who uses a baby to score partisan points? the texas governor s move was just a latest development in a vial game of political one-upmanship, taking place on the gop. as we placed trump want to be point out that there are more than racist enough to be the party s new standard standard bearer. in the past you ve probably heard of what would jesus do, from the american right, i may be muslim but i think i could rather confi
Their treatment is cruel, it s also a distraction. you might be action, from what? a new poll out this morning could give us a little insight into this. democrats have not pulled even within republicans on the congressional midterm ballot, with both parties locking in 46% approval. mitch mcconnell actually saw this coming. in fact, last month, he downplayed his own party s chances of slipping the senate, setting issues with candidate quality. last another name to its roster, when dan bullock won new hampshire s republican u.s. senate nomination. bullet, and retired army general referred to his own state s republican governor as a, quote, chinese communist sympathizer. bullock has styled himself a
Process. if the american people knew about it, they d get more in tune with pollices and start watching a lot more closely. maria: yeah. i mean, look, it s clear that voters are getting smarter about everything, don. look at this advantage in 2022, congressional midterm graphic. republicans with 47%, they saw say democrats have 44%. do you think anything has changed as a result of this most recent supreme court draft opinion leaking? has anything changed in terms of the advantage that the gop holds in 2022? as the biden administration comes out with disinformation board to try to get ahead of free speech, frankly. yeah, i mean, i think it s more of a panic tackic, right? they can t run on the economy, they can t run on jobs, they can t run on energy, we re on the brink of war with russia, china s flying sorties over taiwan. this is democrat policy. everything that you re seeing
They ve never met him, they ve never interacted with him, he does not know montana values. so, no, this election is not about socialism, it s about who cares about the state. health care seems to be the number one issue in the 2018 congressional midterm races. is that the number one issue that you ll be running against senator daines on in montana? that s part of it. as you know, montana, per capita, we ever one of the highest veterans population, and senator daines decided to vote against veterans housing and limit veterans health care. that s sad, because that s a lot of montanans. we re looking at hundreds of thousands in montana who will be left in the cold because of that. so yes, i m going to make this an issue. mayor wilmot collins, our first senate candidate to join us for the 2020 senate election campaign.