Im the Vice President of social policy thank you for joining us. If you are joining on the live stream, we are going to be using the hash tag 2020 in hopes that we can continue this through the next cycle so im excited to have three guests with me on the panel that our people but between them could fill an entire encyclopedia set of knowledge i want to get a couple insights we got from the pull that we conducted with the battleground districts that they called the battleground. The days before the election people but already voted or said they were certain to vote and we asked them about a couple things. What do you Want Congress to prioritize coming into this next congress. The number one answer was reducing healthcare costs in second was expanding access to health care and then we had the immigration system and creating good paying jobs coming in behind that. 51 of the voters in the congressional districts said healthcare was the top issue in deciding their vote and i think often peo
I have three guests on the panel that are people that, between them, could fill an entire cyclopedia of knowledge. An entire encyclopedia of knowledge. I want to give you a couple of from an that we got election eve poll we conducted at third way. In the 72to people battleground districts that cook had called battleground. The day before the election, they were people who had already voted or people who were certain to vote. The number one answer was reducing health care costs. Accessond was expanding to health care. And then we had good paying jobs coming in behind that. 51 of the voters in congressional districts said health care was the top issue. I think often, people say democrats are not good at sticking on message. But when we asked people what they had heard from those democrats in their district, we asked them to name candidates. Cloud ofwe made a word those open ended responses. It just said health care. It is very clear what the democrats message was at the time. I am intere
Years in the last eighty years a sitting president s party has only gained a cumulative total of eight senate seats averaging one project kate so if we picked up two three or four thats a big percentage of that number so in the last eighty years you think of the only eight seats in president obamas first Midterm Election he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusetts republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents and these are tremendously talented hard working people that did this indiana north dakota florida missouri. We also won two open senate seats in tennessee i want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great job in tennessee marsha. And in utah. And arizona is looking very good a really very good hes done a terrific job there was a tough race and shes done a fantastic job. In each of these open seats democrats recruited very strong candidates with substantial fundraising and Media Support we were getting bomba
Audience we will use the hashtag 2020 wave. Im excited to have 3 guests with me on the panel, and an encyclopedia set. And a couple insights we got from an election eve poll with david binder research. The battleground district called the battleground, days before the election people who already voted were certain to vote, we ask about a couple things. We said what do you Want Congress to prioritize . The number one answer was reducing healthcare costs. The second was expanding access to healthcare and fixing the immigration system and creating good paying jobs behind that. 51 of the voters in these congressional districts said healthcare was the top issue in deciding their vote. Often people say democrats are not good at sticking on message but they stuck on message this year. When we asked folks what they heard from those democrats in their district, what did you hear from their mouths . We made a word cloud of openended responses and it just said healthcare. It is very clear what de
For severance several weeks. While we wait for the press briefing here at the white house to begin we will take a good look at some of the washington journal. We are joined by professor david schultz. Helping us understand minnesota a little bit more. Just begin that half of the house races they are extremely competitive the cycle. How unusual is that. Its clearly unusual nationwide. They think of it as being this overwhelmingly democratic state. The last time we voted for republican for president in 1972. But minnesota is changing i note when breanna was talking about the number of ads and how nasty they are. I said we have turned into ohio. In terms of how competitive and close we are. In the demographic changes in the state both politically and let us say in other ways are clearly making minnesota far more competitive and we saw for example in the last president ial race where donald trump got within 50,000 votes of when he minnesota. Clinton still prevailed. There are things that a