incredible day and last night the republican party defied history to expand our senate majority while significantly beating expectations in the house for the midtown and midterm year. we did this in spite of a very dramatic fund-raising disadvantage driven by democrats wealthy donors and special interests and a very hostile media coverage to put it mildly. the media coverage set a new record and a new standard. we also had a staggering number of house retirements, so it s a little tough. these are seats that could have been held pretty easily and we had newcomers going in and a lot of them worked very hard but it s difficult when you have that many retirements. we held a large number of campaign rallies with large, large numbers of people going to
incredible day. and last night the republican party defied history to expand our senate majority while significantly beating expectations in the house for the midterm year. we did it in spite of a very dramatic fund-raising disadvantage driven by democrats wealthy donors and special interests and hostile media coverage. they set a new record and a new standard. we also had a staggering number of house retirements. so it is a little tough. these are seats that could have been held pretty easily with the newcomers coming in and a lot of them coming in and it is difficult when you have that many retirements. we held a large number of campaign rallies with large,
that was never that great. this week, president trump asked cuomo to run for president. he said that he didn t have any personal or political conversations with the president and finally, speaking of presidential candidates, hillary clinton is back in the news today, praising an 11-year-old girl, marianna taylor, a student at maryland who knelt during the pledge of allegiance. clinton tweeted, it takes courage to exercise your right to protest and justice, especially when you re 11. keep up the good work, marianna. the young girl said she was reprimanded by her teacher. baltimore county schools as she was not punished. ed? ed: trace gallagher covering a lot of ground for us tonight. we appreciate it. let s turn to reaction to a giant killer in public and politics. jeff johnson, who against heavy odds in a big fund-raising disadvantage, be with a former
support? one source is that people know her, she s been on television a lot the last few years, and i think something more specific, paul. i would say her support does lie with the tea party. understand, i ve always the tea party was a metaphor than an actual organization. there are people beyond the tea party who are very upset, very angry and ready to be activists and i think michele bachmann is going to literally attempt to corral these people and bring them into her organization. she s at a fund raising disadvantage right now and organizational disadvantage and i would say she s in some ways, analogous, believe it or not, to barack obama in 2008, and had this youth corps, the internet based things and if she can get people to start to go to iowa and new hampshire and working on her behave. sending her small donations, i think she can reach critical mass and challenge the well-organized people. so, dorothy, the point is, that she s a new face and that