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Re-election in defeating mandela barnes by about 26,000 votes to secure a third term. what can we expect from the gop when the new congress begins in january, and why push ahead with leadership elections so soon after the midtermsesome. joining me right now is senator ron johnson. senator, it s good to see you. thanks very much for being here. morning, maria. maria: so do you think we are going to see those elections next week, and why do you believe they should be postponed? well, i hope not, and i agree with stephen miller, the preposterous 2 be preposterous to hold elections before whether we know who our senator from georgia s going to be. plus, we need to do an assessment of what went wrong. the last two years we had a number of our colleagues join democrats, spending like drunken sailors. i heard repeatedly when they joined in, for example, the infrastructure spending bill rather than repurpose $700 ....
Re-election in defeating mandela barnes by about 26,000 votes to secure a third term. what can we expect from the gop when the new congress begins in january, and why push ahead with leadership elections so soon after the midtermsesome. joining me right now is senator ron johnson. senator, it s good to see you. thanks very much for being here. morning, maria. maria: so do you think we are going to see those elections next week, and why do you believe they should be postponed? well, i hope not, and i agree with stephen miller, the preposterous 2 be preposterous to hold elections before whether we know who our senator from georgia s going to be. plus, we need to do an assessment of what went wrong. the last two years we had a number of our colleagues join democrats, spending like drunken sailors. i heard repeatedly when they joined in, for example, the infrastructure spending bill rather than repurpose $700 ....
The democratic poll shows in the battleground districts 6 point lead for republicans. that s a big surprise for them and it shows that you may have individual initiatives that are popular but when the economy isn t living up to expectations you won t get credit for any of that stuff. dana: how will the far left and moderate wings of the democratic party deal with something like this? well, the test coming up will be whether the democrats can kind of get their left wing in line over the infrastructure spending bill, a more limited bit of spending for roads and bridges and so on. the left wants to scuttle that unless they get another $3.5 trillion in spending on social priorities. that is not going to fly for a lot of these swing voters, that degree of spending passes. dana: we ll see, it is not too early to talk about the mid-terms if the democrats are this worried at this point. thank you so much. ....