Debate put him on the national debate, paul ryan has a pitch for a big debt deal to end the shut down standoff. He doesnt mention the h word though. We will talk about that. On pennsylvania avenue, president obama said he makes it clear he is ready for a bill that avoids default. Ready for even the shortest of shortterm deals. A funny thing happened on the way to the senate. They thought corey booker would waltz his way to a win. He has gotten a tad closer than some expected. Good morning from washington. Its 2013. Day nine of the shut down and eight days before we hit the debt ceiling. Right to my first reads of the morning. 2012, paul ryan has remained quiet over the past few months. Eight days to go until we hit the Borrowing Limit of the country. Brian is putting up to kick start a debate of tax reform. By the end of the day, the question is whether we will see light at the end of the tunnel or a Freight Train with the words tea party express. It looked like a bad day. The presiden
he defeated by just one point two years ago. tom cain jr., the son of ex-governor tom cain. in swing districts like this one, some see another advantage. donald trump is no longer president. he s not on the ballot this year. that s leonard lance, the ex-gop congressman who lost his seat in 2018 to malinowski amid an anti-trump wave. because inflation reporter: this time there s voter anger over sky-high inflation. we have a record of the democratic party in control of both the congress and the presidency. and the overwhelming issue is the state of the economy. kean is seeking to ride the national environment while avoiding scrutiny on the trail, rarely holding public events and refusing to tell cnn where he was campaigning. new jersey political watchers say that is not an accident.
democrats held districts have fallen into the report s lean republican column. including new jersey seventh district. that s where our next guest hopes to beat the democrats incumbent tom and his house race new jersey state republican leader tom cain jr. joins me now. this is your second time running for that district. why do you think voters will pick you now? the radical left has gone too far and across the country. in new jersey massive tax increases on the state level by phil murphy, when you look and go up and down the street whether it s in my hometown where candy shops where i used to buy candies for my staff during the holidays, local movie theater where we had party for our kids. local diners and restaurants. a third of these small businesses in new jersey have closed. never going to open again. that s because the massive tax
question, and, bob, why was he on why was he put on this committee in the first place? there s an interesting back story here maybe you could tell people a little bit about it where tom cain jr., the republican leader in the state senate in new jersey. and right after last november s election, chris christie and kevin o toole basically teamed up to try to oust tom cain as the leader and they failed. and then tom cain appointed kevin o toole to this committee. what am i missing here? how did this all happen? those are good questions. also you have the democratic i mean, the decision had to involve the senate president, democratic senate president sweeney and john wisniewski, the leader on the assembly side and sweeney has had a close collaborative relationship with the governor as well. so there s all that kind of
governor did, is parlayed that little bit of work with some of the democrats the into something much bigger. he certainly used that politically to seem he s the only republican who could work with democrats, and i think he got to know them and, frankly, almost cared more about the democrats during the election season than he did the republicans. and that gets to the whole point of kevin o toole and chris christie teaming up to try to take out tom cain s son as the party leader. and his supposed mentor. the republicans in the state senate said no to that because chris christie got the re-elected with 60% of the vote. a republican had not run up numbers lake that in new jersey since tom cain. and guess how many senate seats they gained at the same time? zero. one thing i ve picked up on, i haven t heard many saying this public publicly but privately i ve heard from a number of republicans in trenton and new jersey politics who feel chris christie really kind of threw them under the bus