hello, vii to three-to-one, three-to-one and today, debate night in america begins june 27 at seven closed captioning brought to you by thunder shirt, constant gentle pressure for a calmer pet. if your dog suffers from fear of thunder, fireworks, separation, or any other anxieties, thunder shirt can help thunder shirts find it. retailers like pet smart pardon, petco welcome to the second hour of laura coates live remember when i told you that republicans were expecting donald trump to outline maybe a second term agenda today, when of course, he met with all of them on the hill he made a few points here and there, but mainly he went off topic like real off-topic he talked about taylor swift question her support for president biden though, to be clear, she hasn t endorsed anyone this year according to people in the room, trump said, why would she endorse this dope? he has a know how to get off a stage. he talks about nancy pelosi, but in a bizarre way. and again, the story
in in realtime, because when the here, we grateful for what you ve got, they re going to stay at home. seoul, making an all-out concerning push, even if you re not a successful, making that conservative push shows that you are fighting for the voters no matter what, and that s where they need to see. michael, let s talk about the republican side, they are all in on culture issues. , what s banning books for libraries. in florida, they re pulling my thick s books for, so-called, critical race theory. i, mean this is the kind of thing mcconnell is warning about and some of the candidates the trump has endorsed? yes. mcconnell, i ve been saying this for three months, the mcconnell sitting there looking at what s coming down the bygone. we can t win with this, y all. we can t do it. but, the party doesn t care. and you know why? because they have a weak opponent in the democrats. the democrats can t even take
majority leader mitch mcconnell who s facing probably one of it stronger challenges he s ever faced in his senate career next year. obviously every race is specific. matt bevans is a specific incumbent. and the winds in the country may be blowing differently than they are tonight. but do you think it s fair for people to start extrapolating from these results tonight to think about what mitch mcconnell may be up against. i d be cautious. if you re mitch mcconnell you re not happy with what you re seeing tonight. if you re mitch mcconnell and you look at the poll numbers and think also of the standing bevan h had, you might be nervous too. the thing mcconnell has going for him, i think you have to keep in mind number one it will be a presidential election year. trump won this by 30 points last time. the other thing is you go down ballot in kentucky tonight, the
the affordable care act. the tiny red bars you see at the bottom of the screen, the number of people covered by the republican alternative. so the republican alternative would cover less than a tenth as many insured people as the president s plan, and that s what eric cantor said is the gop s plan today. the republicans really don t see covering the uninsured as, quote, the issue. they are comfortable with the system in the form it exists today. as i told you earlier, you should always listen to mitch mcconnell. joining us now is steve kornacki, host of the cycle. good to see you. great to be here. the thing mcconnell is great at in my view is getting
kornacki, co-host of a brand new show. good to see you. great to be here. the thing mcconnell is great at in my view is getting politics right. he tends to see the political calculation correctly. and you wonder if he has it correct here. in some circles, people say the most important fact is not that 15% of people are uninsured, but 85% of people are insured. are the republicans actually right here, that covering the uninsured is not a political winner and it s better to give it lip service and move on to other things in the agenda? some people would say part of getting politics right is not admitting to the stuff in public the things mitch mcconnell admitted to. but his analysis is correct. the important thing to keep in mind in terms of how health care politics play out, when health care exists as an abstract campaign idea. think about the 1992 campaign with bill clinton. he made universal health care a