A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
just in general the debate never goes in that direction. i don t remember at other republican debates people saying how are you going to appeal to democrats or how are you going to appeal to the more liberal parts of your party? there is sort of you don t see any countervailing pressure to marginalize the right wing fringes on the right, but at the same time, the coalitions are different. yes, they are. so democrats kind of can t simply say, well, republicans take unpopular positions all the time and they re fine and they kind of play to their base and that works for them. it does work for them, but they have a much more heterogeneous party and they re also distributed in ways that give them disproportionate power in this country there. is a little bit of breaking news that i think is interesting. when you think where are we politically at this moment, i keep being really fascinated by republican retirements. there are more of them than i would anticipate. will hurd, okay.
democrats or how are you going to appeal to the more liberal parts of your party? there is sort of you don t see any countervailing pressure to marginalize the right wing fringes on the right, but at the same time, the coalitions are different. yes, they are. so democrats kind of can t simply say, well, republicans take unpopular positions all the time and they re fine and they kind of play to their base and that works for them. it does work for them, but they have a much more heterogeneous party and they re also distributed in ways that give them disproportionate power in this country there. is a little bit of breaking news that i think is interesting. when you think where are we politically at this moment, i keep being really fascinated by republican retirements. there are more of them than i would anticipate. will hurd, okay. oh, wow. will hurd is the lone member of congress to survive who is in a hillary clinton district. he represents the largest stretch of boarder in
democrats recently. susan brooks, who is retiring, for example, fred upton, these are persons who i thing did the right thing. voting on the democrats with the democrats on what? on saying that the president was wrong on his tweet with the squad. what was your read on that? i thought of you, because i ve had you on the program before. and you you had to sort of walk a very fine line. you re a republican and the president is the head of the republican party. you were representing a hillary clinton district. you knew you were in a tough reelection battle. you don t have to walk any fine line anymore. what did it strike you when you saw the president say they should go back to their countries and the crowd chanted send her back ? i would have told the crowd please don t do that, and the president should not have engaged in that tweet to begin with. do you think the president is racist? i think he has instances where he has engaged in that type of behavior. do i think pers
republican targets that was this automatic for them. but it s now gone official. so you ve got that. now compare that with the democratic target list. we have a call there as well for you. it is the third district of minnesota. erik paulsen, the republican incumbent losing to dean phillips in this race. again, here it is. we ve been yet again, if i can get this button to work, i was going to dramatically show you well, okay. i ll tell you. how about that? this is a hillary clinton district. hillary clinton won this district in 2016. it reelected its republican congressman. now two years later the same voters who rejected trump are rejecting the republican congressman in the same numbers. it means, i can show you this list. clinton won gop districts. we said there were 25 of them. 25 districts held by republicans now that hillary clinton won in 2016. this is the story of the night on the democratic side of the house. look at this. the only races that have been called in this list of 2