end. it is not great politically. i still stand by the fact they are very difference cases with former president trump and biden. but i can understand, even though his lawyers handled this legally correctly, with the communication lenses it seems like there has been a few stumbles. there are comparisons being drawn. i want to go back to the timeline. when did you know it? who knew it and what did you do about it? for 68 days they did not say anything about the discovery. i wonder if the idea of the explanations, the idea of the trying to differential doj, is that connecting with voters? or is it there a concern that there is not? i think what is connecting with voter is that president biden had classified documents after criticizing former president trump for having classified documents. it is not the same. the obstruction that was perceived from former president trump is not the same. the refusal so cooperate is not perceived as the same. but i don t know how closely the
Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
look at the black voter percentage that we saw in the exit poles. georgia stands alone at 29%. no other state that president biden won by less than five points comes anywhere close to it michigan 12%. pennsylvania, 11 percent. another state that really rallied for the democrats, arizona, very tight like georgia. all the way down to 2%. in georgia, black voters are important. but here is the other key thing to recognize about georgia that is, take a look at the black voter percentage according to the second of state look at this. in 2020, black voters made up 29%. look at where we were in 2000. it was just 23%. it is not that they just make up a big percentage.
george w bush guy. it shocked republicans or democrats that he would take this line, given what happened in charlottesville. i think it s not tone that republicans should consider, it s the policy you push that are poison yous. virginia voters went to vote against what is happening with health care. that s what you see in the exit poles. i think the issue with tax reform is you re tone deaf i talked about this earlier today, if you re sending out e-mails saying you want to simp fly your tax return, support this movement, that s not accurate. people know these are tax cuts for the wealthiest among us and there is tax and pain for the middle class. i have a question for all of you, so we saw last night that trump-ism may not work without
congresswoman cheri bustos. does this victory make you feel more aloft? going to be optimistic about something we re seeing tonight, but also want to say, hey, we got a lot of work to do. november of 2018 is still a year off. don t want to lose sight of the fact that we have to keep track of what people are talking about, jobs, economy. and as we saw in the exit poles tonight in virginia, lot of it was about health care as well. people are very concerned about health care that donald trump and paul ryan are sticking on people. what happened in virginia, had until tonight a conservative legislature, said no expansion of medicaid up to higher