the man whose office i occupy now, speaker tip o neal said all politics is local when it comes to local. when it comes to health care, all politics is personal. when they tried to distract and divide our candidates kept their focus on that subject. and when i say our candidates, our candidates for reelection as well. voters delivered a resounding verdict against congressional republicans attacks on medicare, medicaid and the affordable care act and people with preexisting conditions in districts everywhere in america. they went in what new direction, a house that will now they want a new direction. a house that will work to make progress in the lives of america s families and seniors. democrats pledge, again, a new majority our for the people agenda.
this is an old thing. they did it in the 2040s. it s centered around hold up a woman, accuse her of having scary. they thought it s worked the last few times. they re not talking about chuck schumer or some other man. why a woman. because they think that playbook works. they think that worked for hillary clinton. the biggest criticism of nancy pelosi is she s better at her job than anyone has been for decades. the best whip of votes since lbj. you re right because i worked for tip o neal and she was better. they are talking about chuck schumer, and the candidate in nashville, two-term governor but when he gets to washington he would be part of chuck schumer s foot soldiers. that s all true, actually.
about where we are plit kroliti right now. for a lot of people their defining election was the election of jfk in 1960. for me, for a lot of different reasons, it was reagan in 1980. i always remember on the friday before it was a toss-up, it was going to be very close. we re trying to figure out exactly what s going to happen this fall. you have a series of polls out showing donald trump in the mid 30s, mitch mcconnell is now talking about a knife fight in the senate. you never really know which way these things are going, but i was just curious when you were with tip o neal in 1980 did you see it coming? does it feel like a similar wave this year or is it just too early to tell? well, i really was with him from 81 on so 81 had already happened, but 82 was the one i worked on and we picked up 26 seats and that felt like a pretty good wave because the social security and the
the urgency is because of the supreme court vote coming up. so one arizona republican i talked to this weekend said if the governor picks anyone not 100% loyal to this president, this white house, it s a problem for the governor. you could see the governor yesterday had a lot of conversations with people during the funeral service. one conversation i saw was with jared kushner and ivanka trump. look for the decision this week. probably someone not in the mccain mold. mitch mcconnell having conversations on that one as well. tomorrow is labor day, but primary season rolls on. in boston on tuesday there is an interesting house primary. a 20-year veteran of the house mike capuano in a seat the kennedys had, tip o neal, he s facing a challenge. this is the first real race he s had in two decades in congress.
back in 2014, it was 62% for each party. meaning who will be in power after this matters. not that you like the man or woman representing their direct. how does that play out on impeachment? the president wants people talking about that. might motivate republican vote voters saying you have to keep republicans in power or he might be impeached. how does it play out on immigration? like everything else, it s a national issue. long ago, tip o neal said all politics are local. that s not the case now. when we see this intensifying attention to the mid-terms, once upon time they weren t that big of a deal but everything is a 11 now. the intense focus that you see in that poll for these mid-terms and whether will the republicans keep control or the democrats be in control of the house, the fact that is superseding to a great degree who my representative is.