Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
you did partner with the guy politically. not just leaving the prom date you weren t happy with nobody does that. that is worse than i can imagine. exactly. tweets just earlier in the day, saying this guy is wonderful. now saying he s not. but other problem is this, every republican out there, every other tweet that trump sends, seeing this now. he s not going to have my back. i didn t believe it until i saw what was happening on state legislative level. that s where it s worrisome for republicans. if you see a state legislature flip in off-year election and if that level of enthusiasm continues, you have real problems. ask you about the decision by mr. gillespie, decisions are not accidental or casual. go out to give a plaintive difficult moment. difficult to give a concession speech without crying or showing
lost his primary runoff to roy moore. he dumped on him afterwards and dumped him and deleted his previous tweets in support of strange. somehow he raced them. i m joined by politics editor at the root and msnbc political contributor. jason, this unfortunate human nature here to scamper away from defeat when you did become partner with the guy politically. well, you know, not only partnering with yourself. this isn t just like leaving the prom date that you weren t happy with, right? don t talk that is worse than i can imagine. exactly. and here is the thing. the tweets just earlier in the day and you re saying this guy is wonderful. and now you re saying that he is not can you feel wonderful. the other problem is this, every other republican out there, they re seeing this now. they re seeing this guy is not going to have my back. i do. i didn t believe it until i saw what s happening on the state legislative level. that s where this is really worrisome for republicans. because