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
speech donald trump. but as i mentioned president tweeted earlier that ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for. republicans won four house seats over the years and economy that s trumping to his usual. about face, tweeted that quote, gillespie will totally turn around the high crime and poor performance of virginia. vote today asap. that was before the votes came in. this is a pattern for the president. tweeted against alabama senator luther strange after he lost to roy moore. dumped on him and deleted previous tweets in support of strange. joined by politics editor at root, and msnbc contributor. unfortunate human nature here to scamper away from defeat when
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
them. he did. but there s this issue where republicans for a long time before he run didn t want to run as donald trump and now feeling the pressure because he had surprising win. i think now they re like we can go back to our corners and not be donald trump. will he let them? you re going to have national effect no matter what happens. i think the republican if we talk about donna brazile that will be all we can talk about. big in the news. democratic problems, we ve entered stage where things are national in general. question. bernie people still hanging on, donna didn t help that what she said, not sure what she wanted to do. but republicans may have a real split. john, trump and untrump republicans next year? first of all it depends on the economy, and if trump s
have cost the republicans entire state legislature. openly transgender democrat danica rome won against incumbent who called himself virginia s chief homophobe. battle of differences. bring in round table, new york times, democratic strategist and republican strategist. down the line, i think this is big, going to change morale across the country of democrats who haven t won since last november and lost that one. and choices couldn t have been more clear. someone calling himself chief homophobe and transgender woman sayi saying going to usher in new phase. she s 34 and he s 74 by the way. exactly. not a nuance, clear choice. either want confederate status to dominate the conversation or progressive ideals to dominate.