get to know geico. and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance n be. a stunning midterm upset in last republican primary in south carolina s first congressional district. incumbent congressman mark sanford lost to state legislator katie arrington. president trump took credit on twitter. his representatives didn t want to get involved but arrington was so good and sanford so bad he had to give it a shot. joining me to break it down, steve kornacki and david joely, former republican congressman at the board, start there. sanford s performance last night in the primary. was it a strong indicator of the path ahead for gop hopefuls who are hoping to buck trump or an anomaly? no. i think this gets to the bigger
republican colleagues are free to poke the bear. bear beingsid david joely. as we march towards midterms in november, is it reasonable to expect that fewer republicans be willing to criticize this president or his actions? sure. look, it s district dependent. what senator corker pointed out, this is a party loyal to a man now. not a set of ideologiideologies. look what he s done on foreign toles, trade and deficit and one of the most popular presidents of all-time among republicans. in a republican delinquent. mark sanford, martha roby, you embrace donald trump for who he is. in one of those more moderate districts, there are, there is value to distancing yourself from the president to prove your independence, but craig, reality is, a lot of those moderate districts, republicans are going to lose the cycle. congress will be more trump-like among republicans next term. not less. and if i may on mark sanford,
boy, a bad sign. she s in grave danger for basically the same reason at mark sanford of losing her seat. you get two republican inco incumbents both defying trump in some way and earning the ire of trump supporters going down in consecutive weeks tells you a bigger thing what s happening in the republican party. and katie arrington beat sanford. what she said talking about democrats and the gop. they believe in higher taxes, bigger government, fewer jobs, and that s the problem. it s not it s the job of washington to fix it. we are the party of president donald j. tr we are the party of donald j. trump, david joely. do you agree? if not, where do so-called establishment republicans like yourself go? sure. no. look, i think this completes donald trump s strangle hold of
by about 3,000 votes at this point. and of the precincts that are remaining, two of them are heavily republican. the other two are awash. so, for david joely, who started off tonight not looking good when he lost the absentee in early voting to alex sink is now starting to look pretty good. and the cheer that you hear going up through the crowd is because somebody has just arrived. they haven t called the election yet. they won t call it for another little while. and if it s very very close they may not call it the all this evening because, still, we don t have provisional ballots in 10 day overseas ballots in yet. but, at the moment, 3,000 vote margin with only those 4 precincts remaining there may not be the votes out there for alex sink to pull ahead of david joely as she was in the early going. why is all of this important, greta? it s because this is the first congressional election of the midterm election year. and this will be a real test of messaging to see how obamacare plays.
get help right away if you have swelling of the face or throat, or trouble breathing. tell your doctor your medical history. and find an arthritis treatment for you. visit celebrex.com and ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. bill o reilly is next. but, first, let s speed read the news. a winner declared in a florida special election for the 13th congressional district seat. republican david joely defeating democrat alex sink. joely 48% jolly 49% and sink 47%. marco rubio hopped a plane and left washington to return home to miami. why? senator rubio has jury duty. he reports for civic duty first thing tomorrow morning. and that s tonight s speed