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congressman, the issues we re 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, don t want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. that s how he started anyway. says to me, voters said that s where i am on this issue, didn t vote on this issue. it was not the issue. but gillespie and trump. gillespie didn t 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 didn t work. catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall a controversial president in by-election. anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. right? absolutely right. you take all the hell with trump s name on it. and histo ....
And national security if you lose your democracy, even in 2022, people will get it. well, i think the evidence of this week is that people did get it, and another amazing thing is that look at the last four or five days, there were such predictions of possible violence, election deniers all over the place, chaos, the amazing thing, wonderful news is look how much of these past five days have resembled calmer times in american history. i pray that we see that go through. michael, you have talked about that it was not hyperbole to say that democracy was on the ballot. it is something you are talking about right now. we are talking about who has won in the big sense, not in the parties, but how american democracy has won over the past couple days. but the conversation alicia and i were having earlier about trump versus trumpism, yes, the candidates who embraced a ....
Two-thirds of the people wanted to see new faces. and, three, the other thing that i thought is, you know, the candidates still matter. we forget about the kpaenl cand sometimes. he was the best networker of the group. in new york, you ve got to network with interest groups in order to win. he did it better than anybody else. having said that, i think the democrats and republicans have the same problem. that is, both parties have gotten more to the extremes, and there s a whole voting in the middle of about 40% of the voters who feel like, hey, that s not me. stephanie, this seems to be both on one hand, democrats, if they run as biden democrats, that s a winning coalition. if the republicans successfully paint the democrats as the defund-the-police democrats, it s almost like the wokism versus trumpism, pick your poison here. does that make it a harder midterm? midterms are always difficult for the party who holds the ....
Ago believing it would drive him out to the polls to help in the swing districts. whenever he are started talking about birthright whenever he started talking about birthright citizenship and the ad of the immigrant killing cops and immigrants want to come here to kill police officers. that is a step too far. the republicans want him to focus on the economy. the poll yesterday shows 65% of americans feel like the economy is doing really well right now. republicans say this is a great spot. this is what they want the president to highlight in the districts. he wants to talk about immigration and red meat issues. it is reaganism versus trumpism. you heard ronna mcdaniel say it is immigration. if we only knew what the ....
Possibility of the house of representatives flipping to democratic control? there s rippling and anxiety within the republican party. lawmakers i ve spoken to in recent weeks point to virginia. the special election in alabama and they say the suburban voters seem to be turning not only because of a particular issue because of the republican tax plan or the republican health care proposal, but in part the whole party s image and how it s dominated by president trump. president trump surely has his base voters, but he really won the election because swing voters in the mid-atlantic and the midwest, they turn toward the republican side because they wanted change. if that appetite wanes, a lot of these rank and file republicans say maybe it s not for me in this district to run again. this is the anti-trump republican and i wonder if that changing any dynamics in the suburbs. you write mitt-ism versus ....