michael field is a former chair of the republican national committee. he joins me now. michael, there is a history here, we saw in 2010, it happened again in 2012, republicans having a shot at the senate, and ending up with candidates that lost the races that they probably should of won, o donnell in delaware, is a really famous one, how do you think of this now, with youngkin having secured this victory, having never having to run in a primary, and compare that to what these primaries look like in a lot of these senate races? chris you just put your finger on a very important difference between the rays that we just saw unfold, and the races that are about to come up. what virginia republicans, did and the country should know, in virginia, you can choose whether to go into an actual primary, or on election day primary day new voters across the street go vote, or, you can have a party convention. in which the party officials
represents enthusiasm, and these are all vital in a midterm election when turnout is not nearly as what it is in a presidential election. so the tea party is a key factor here, and dealing with its demands and concerns is a priority, it s a challenge for the republicans, but an even bigger challenge, of course, for the democrats, who are in power and against whom the tea party is reacting. jenna: when you look at the candidates, the candidates backed by the tea party, we re going to show the audience a few of them, christine o donnell, joe miller, rand paul, marco rubio. of the candidates, who do you mind the find the most provocative and who do you think is actually going to win a seat? the one that looks to be the most controversial nominee of course is christine o donnell in delaware and she s down in the polling to the democratic candidate there. the other three that you cite there, they re all ahead in their races, or
yan and there has to be something different that can put this nation back on track. frankly this is an opportunity for those in power to recognize what is coming up from below. the answer is getting power to the states and that will be put forward after november when new people take office in congress. jenna: you talk about the new people taking office, who are those new people that you think take office? well i think that what you see in a number of these races in the lower 48 you see obviously what happened with lee in utah, sharon angle in nevada, o donnell in delaware. and of course the numbers are greater than that. they are all focused on the same thin that is reversing the growth of government, getting the federal government back down to a manageable level and transferring power back to the state. in alaska we have more opportunity to use the resource base we have here to fiscally get ourselves in a good position so when the federal government pulls back we can move forward. j
at the white house. jon: just 42 days to go until you ll be voting in midterm elections. brand-new fox polls just out in key races in the battleground states. molly hen aburg is live in washington with that. delaware, molly has been on everyone s radar screen since christine o donnell won the primary there, what is it like. reporter: you were talking about christine o donnell she has her work cut out for her. take a look at today s new fox new poll. she is trailing chris coons by 15 points. only 5% of voters say they are undecided in that race. also posing difficulty for o donnell look at the strength of vote poll. this is a measure of how certain voters are that they will vote for a certain candidate. for the democrat, coon, 91% say they are certain of their vote for him.