Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three, and could be four, and perhaps two, but we picked up a lot. Most like ly the number is thre, and you people probably know that better than i do at this point, because you looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In years a president s party has only
acquired eight cumulative seats averaging one per decade, and so if we picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think of that. Only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats, include ing ing i deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least four senate seats
inkr incredible health care plans which is causing great competition and driving the prices right down, but we are getting rid of the individual mandate, because it is unfair to a lot of people, but at the same time we are covering the people who need it, but the individual mandate was a di ssaster, becau people that couldn t necessarily afford it were having to pay for the privilege of not having to pay for health care, and it was bad health care at that. so we are working many plans for health care and creating tremendous competition. we had obama care repeal and replaced and unfortunately one person changed his mind at the last moment, and we had no democrat support and i have to say that. we did not have one vote. and we would have repealed it and replaced it. and we have a large scale very good health care plan and now we are doing it in a different way. a different way, but getting rid of the individual mandate is a very, very pop ular thing and very, very important thing, and pe
damages. today, residents are still picking up the pieces. a short time ago, the white house said that the significant progress has been made in the last year, and fema has made preparations that will better enable puerto rico to weather future storms. and on the ground is our colleague all year long gabe e guterres, and there is always these natural di ssaster that media wanes and support wanes, and you have done so much there, and thank you. tell us what it is like there n now? thank you, stephanie and a ali and tourism is starting to come back to the island which is so important, but there are still people on the island without power and water. i know that the reporting is that puerto rico electric power a authority says that 99% have power, but the white house said, yes, a few of the communities in
puerto rico was one of the best jobs that has ever been done with respect to di ssaster the job that fema and law enforcement did work alongside with the governor in puerto rico, i think it was tremendous. i think that puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. heck of a job. president trump taking a victory lap for the way that his administration handled puerto ri rico. and even though a recent study shows that nearly 3,000 people died in the devastation. let s bring in kristen welker, and wall street journal ist peggy noone. kristen, the president i guess i pushed out on twitter a statement on camera today, that he said the right kind of message and let s show that. get out of its way, and don t play games with it. but despite that, bad things can
here in the last few weeks that the consensus has been starting to gel around her. and throughout the campaign, david, i think that she has shown at least her supporters would argue that she is showing an ability to unite the wings of the republican party, and sarah palin has endorsed her and mitt romney campaigned with her, and senator marco rubio with her last week. let me play some of that. she has an incredible amount of credibility on the national issues, and we will need that, because this foreign policy of the president is a di ssaster, d she as proven track record of conservative activism and the votes in the state senate and she does not talk about repealing obamacare, but she has done it in the past p a, and wew she will do it in the future. and david, what about her to do that? well, convenient for marco rubio to get involved when he said he wouldn t get involved in the senate primaries, but did in the one in iowa. there is authenticity about her, and i watched her i