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shannon: she was a pioneer in so many ways. you reference her time out west and where she was from and it was such an interesting back drop to see her become the first female appointed to the supreme court. she often told the story about graduating from stanford and not being able to get a job. no law firm would hire her as a woman in the 50s and 60s. she struggled to make it in the legal profession. to think she came out of school, she found a roadblock to any kind of legal career and she decided to plow forward and ends up on the supreme court. it is a really fascinating, truly american story. she went out and campaigned to become a judge because she saw this is my avenue. she didn t win the first election. she did ultimately end up becoming a judge but another part of her interesting background is she was a lawmaker in arizona in the state senate. so she had a real appreciation for all of the different branches, for fighting her way into the legal profession. she h ....
now looking at the skyline over gaza. the sun will set in an hour. the truce is over. the fighting has resumed between israel and hamas. we ll watch that story throughout the morning and we ll try to learn more as we go forward on the fate of the hostages who are still there. so stand by for more on that. meanwhile from last night, did you see this? yes it s a danger to the country. he has no business running for president. gavin newsom agrees with that. that s why he is running his shadow campaign. he should not be running, he is not up to the job. and it is dangerous for this country. i tell you why i m here. i m here to tell the truth about the biden/harris record and compare and contrast ron desantis s record and the public party s record as a point of contrast that s as different as daylight and darkness. you want to bring us back to a pre-1960s world. america in reverse. bill: it was blue state and red state. it was punch, counter punch last night. really so ....
Been following the back and forth with progressives in the democratic party calling for him to retire. and in your experience how do justices receive a message like that? i don t think they want the court to be seen as more political. they want to have it seen as less political. my sense is breyer is sitting there saying really? i m going to denigrate the court by bowing to the wishes of the hard left of the democratic party and bailing out when i still think i can contribute? i think this is counterproductive if that s what they are trying to achieve. dana: do you remember june 30th, 2005 what happened that day? sandra day o connor announced her resignation and it changed a lot of things and then we were off to the races to do two supreme court nominations right after that. that really affects the court. it does. it absolutely does. that was a personal decision by her. there was no encouragement or public campaign. i think it was a big ....
This shows people who have filed formal campaign papers with the fec and people who have raised more than $5,000 by june 30th the year before whatever election they were going for. so this is people who are in it, who are running a serious campaign from jump. and sort of read it from right to left here. 2003, that s june 30th, 2003, so that s people running ahead of the 2004 elections. the next one is june 30th, 2005, so that s people running for the 2006 elections. you get it. you see there s a big spike in 2009, where the number of republican candidates jumps. that was ahead of the big tea party wave election for 2010, when republicans took back the house, right? remember they had that huge year in 2010. that election began with an early outsized presence of republican challengers, republicans running for congress. it really did prove to be a case of chart imitates life, right? you look back at those numbers. in hindsight you could see it coming, how huge that year was going to be fo ....
So that s people running for the 2006 elections. you get it. you see there s a big spike in 2009, where the number of republican candidates jumps. that was ahead of the big tea party wave election for 2010, when republicans took back the house, right? remember they had that huge year in 2010. that election began with an early outsized presence of republican challengers, republicans running for congress. it really did prove to be a case of chart imitates life, right? you look back at those numbers. in hindsight you could see it coming, how huge that wear was going to be for the republicans in 2010. now we are the same distance out from the next election. we are a year and a half out from the midterm elections that are coming up, the 2018 elections. brookings has updated its chart. you want to see what it looks like now? you want to see how the count of house challengers is going for this next election? put up this year. oh, 209 democratic challengers have filed with the fec and have ....