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> when the president before him took office, was the economy growing? >> no. >> when obama took office, was the economy growing? >> you mentioned the debt. barack obama took the national debt from $10 trillion to $208 -- $20 trillion. >> more money. >> im sick and tired of hearing this because its a bunch of crap. >> what is? >> what economy did obama inherit? >> it was a horrible economy. >> it was horrible. what was it called? what was it called. >> a recession. >> by june of 2009, were out of...

Which is mobilizing a lot of white voters too. >> thats exactly it. the optimistic piece of this would say, every year we get a little more browner, a little bit more blacker. but again, you cant assume that the laws are going to stay fixed, though. and i think like when i think back to 08, how excited a lot of folks were about the president, the first black president, one of the great mistakes that was made was not to assume that there was going to be a response to this, that some people -- and...

Back to 08, how excited a lot of folks were about the president, the first black president, one of the great mistakes that was made was not to assume that there was going to be a response to this, that some people -- and other people were watching how close gillum and abrams got. >> and are thinking. >> and are thinking about how to respond to that. i think folks should not sit pat. >> the other part of that too, and this is encouraging me about the midterms, backlash works in both directions. i...

Officials accusing democrats of the rampant voter fraud. and hopefully the hope is that the recounts will put that to rest. thats the idea of a recount. its a way to protect your work. but there is that issue of one group or another with it being as close refusing to accept the outcome of the election. arthel: you mentioned broward county. miss snipes was re-elected in 04, 08, 2012 and 2016. she was named in one of the lawsuits. why does she keep getting re-elected? and why didnt governor rick s...

Strassel, bill mcgurn and allysia finley, kim, should nancy pelosi be speaker in the democrats best interest, do you think thats in their best interest? >> i think its still unknown if she will be, theres some members that declared that they would not vote for her, she has a cushion now because they obtained enough of the majority. im not necessarily sure it is the best thing for democrats and its because she is a liberal leader, once again presiding over caucus that elected a lot of moderate de...

You are a part of that history. you were in democratic politics at a very high level. we will put 40 years back up. you were there in the 90s. you worked with obama. he obviously galvanized a lot. look at 08. what do you think? are you basically giving credit to whatever the democrats and a lot of new candidates, women candidates we have been covering, whatever they did on tuesday was bigger than what was going on partly when you were running things? >> no, i think absolutely you saw it virtuall...

Representative from new york. those are big numbers for the democrats. you can see those four pro injections. as a result of that, right now democrats must pick up 11 more republican seats in races that are too early to call. but theyre leading in 24 of those republican districts right now. so they look to be in pretty good shape. now theyre leading in 23 of those republican districts. jake, the democrats clearly have some serious momentum going on. >> theyre having a great night when it comes t...

With you. we have on the set a former chair of the republican party. heres my question for michael steele, a serious question. if you were chairman today and you had your chief lieutenants in a staff meeting next monday morning, what would you say? what would be your damage assessment and your call to arms? >> the first thing would be the damage assessment. take a look at the field of play. find out where we were the weakest and then begin to understand exactly how the democrats were successful....

Definitely do not want a trump rubber stamp in the united states senate. hugin would be a trump rubber stamp in the united states senate. the reason hugin is competitive is because he spent tons of his own money, money that he got -- >> its not because of menendez legal problems? >> theres no doubt that bob menendez has had that issue and he has had to litigate that throughout the campaign, which he has. but it is also the fact that bob hugin has now spent $30 million of his own money, money tha...

Dccc chair a decade ago, 08 and 10 and dsec chair now. nobody knows this countrys election project at this point better than you other than my pals over at the cook report. >> thanks, chuck. >> thanks very much. and joining me now is republican governor bill haslam of tennessee. hes the person in charge of getting republicans elected to state houses across the country. governor haslam, welcome to "meet the press." >> good morning, thanks. >> well, let me start with a similar question i started...