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Either we ll dig into the wisconsin story in a moment. it s not just the liberal judge winning that now and there s impacts on abortion and gerrymandering and security of elections, by the way but we ll dig into, and kornacki is going to be here the erosion of republican support in counties where they have been dominant where mitt romney was winning by 30 points down to single digits or the teens in some cases so no question that the spectacle we saw last night at mar-a-lago and seven years, is having an impact on the way people vote in those important elections. back to last night just a little bit jonathan lemire. there are many and we both probably talked to some people who said, this is a little thin on donald trump. i m not sure if there s a conviction in there, but when one put it to me this way. onto georgia where there is so much more ahead for donald trump, and this really is just ....
They quadruple check this stuff every time something changes. they go back, and i think they have to make sure that everybody s numbers are in order. they need a kornacki. they need to steve kornacki, that is right. although steve, they have been doing remarkable work all week. they are running the show right? more molly, there is a speaker in charge and they have a rules park ridge that they have to charge. so they re going back to parliamentary role. and for the first time, since you and i are covering politics. c-span has their cameras wherever they want in the room. normally those cameras are actually being operated by government employees, and the rules are strict. but without a speaker, it is why we have actually had all of these moments that we are seeing. you re seeing these intimate roam moments right? where we all wish we had reading skills. obviously, the clerk is taking their time about this, this is a moment, a historical ....
They go back, and i think they have to make sure that everybody s numbers are in order. they need a kornacki. they need a steve kornacki, that is right. although steve, they have been doing remarkable work all week. they are running the show right? there is usually a speaker in charge and they have a rules park ridge that they have to charge. so they re going back to parliamentary role. and for the first time, since you and i are covering politics. c-span has their cameras wherever they want in the room. normally those cameras are actually being operated by government employees, and the rules are strict. but without a speaker, it is why we have actually had all of these moments that we are seeing. you re seeing these intimate roam moments right? where we all wish we had reading skills. obviously, the clerk is ....
Against mccarthy tonight. again, a smaller number than the margin boehner had. but mccarthy looks weaker because the gop is so much weaker now. they blew their touted red wave with a historically terrible showing in nochl we remember watching kornacki at the board. there wasn t any wave, a fizzle of extreme candidates and political malpractice. they usually buck trends that fave the opposition party. that fizzle is the reason why mccarthy is going through his living hell of groundhog day this week. at times that historical context may have gotten lost. boehner would have been stopped with exactly this kind of thin margin. so if you re looking at this and saying, mccarthy is so much worse at doing this than boehner that s a math thing, not a leadership thing. now, boehner s opponents ultimately did oust him, and his successors, if you remember, fared even worse. there was a member of his leadership team, eric kanter who ....
I ll talk to you this way. it s like talking to kornacki, enough, the big boy, across the room. so, bradley heart, you are historian on the show tonight, made me feel great. when he said he has written a book about this. he studied the period very closely. he learned things from your podcast. i love that part. i thought i knew a little something about the period, and i ve learned everything from the podcast, but bradley hart learned something from the podcast. he wrote a book on it and he learns stuff. it was very, like, i was overwhelmed when he said that. he said he d never before heard the sound of john roth s voice, i mean, that s one of the things we can do with nbc archives, and help you got from the library of congress, and all this other stuff. it s so cool to be able to make a real contribution in terms of even for the people who know the stuff, and very few people know this story. it s relevant to what we re ....