KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Three Republicans and two Democrats are facing off in the hotly contested 120th district race. After 10 years in Harrisburg, State Representative Aaron Kaufer is hanging up his orange tie and is not seeking re-election to the state house. Representative Kaufer has served the residents of the 120th district since […]
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they went to cast their votes, those races will determine who the democratic and republican candidates will be this november. for the latest on those races, i want to turn to msnbc's steve kornacki, over at the big board. steve, what is happening in texas? >> i can tell you, some of the members of congress who joe biden was addressing tonight while he was giving that speech found themselves, find themselves currently, and political crises back in their home districts. let's start in the 20th district of texas, this is south texas, this is the district here spending is san antonio down to son -- to laredo. the incumbent, where henry cuellar, he's been there from us 20 years, he's one of the more conservative democrats and congress. he's a hawk on the board, he's antiabortion. he represents some portions here, some of these counties here got a lot of attention after the 2020 election where
this is not a trump district. this is not a typical white working class dkt thistrict tha trump would do well in, but democrats do have to start winning seats and these are the kind of seats they think they can win and they're outperforming the seat if they're expected to pick up the house in 2018. >> but here's one reality. from 30,000 feet, this was a seat held by newt gingrich, and by tom price and won by republicans. if republicans lose this seat, there will be panic in the house of representatives and all of the concerns that republicans have about donald trump's falling approval ratings and the cloudy future for him politically will come into sharp relief and sticking with trump will -- >> you can almost write the president's tweet for him, so
again, i'm not sure what's in it. >> they're not sure what's in it either, which might be part of the problem. >> i'm not sure many senators know what's in it. >> democrats do need to capture 24 republican seats to take control of the senate next tall. o -- fall. >> jon ossoff and karen handel are neck and neck. it is a district where republican congressman tom price won 23 points last november, but where president trump had a far tighter margin of victory. the race has broken fund-raising barriers. ossoff pulled in more than $23 million, handel personally raising over $4 million. and with all the outside spending, the final amount could top a whopping $50 million.
some basis for the shape of these districts based on something other than the outcome. that would change court review across the country and it would substantially change these districts. people are often confused, am i in the 19th or 20th district, it would mack life a lot easier for people and voters in this country, but it would also mean that party would have to convince voters, not shove them around like so many pawns in a chess game. >> professor jonathan turley, we'll talk to you tomorrow morning as we read your own work back to you. >> tank you. >> reports say the hunt is on for a new white house press secretary. the man leading the search? the current white house secretary. we break down sean spicer's political future. that plus the must-read op-eds.
district the president won by 18 and georgia 6, the president won barely by one point, essentially a tie, suggesting this is a great tonight for democrats to pick up a seat as one of the few big opportunities before the mid term. i asked what would be the democratic paerty if they lose, what's the fallout for the republicans if they lose this? >> locally, it's not been run as a referendum. >> she's distanced herself from the president and ossoff, as john said, hasn't made this as much a referendum as he did. >> we will have squeaked by. he's outperforming this district by double digits. tom price won it in the 60s. donald trump underperformed in the district. he didn't get a majority in this district. as i remember in the runoff up to this special election, i think the top seven republicans didn't get 50% of this district.
democrats wi say, number one, that they will say this guy was not the ideal candidate for this district. strong in certain ways but that he failed to turn this into as m much of a referendum on trump and his agenda as he could have. >> back in april democrats had opened that ossoff might overperform and win by 50% and avoid runoff. he fell just short and democrats have seen a boost in special elections in republican disabilities around the country. in kansas in april, that's a district that trump won by 27 points against hillary clinton. the republicans won the race but only by 7 points. montana, a 23-point election, faded to just 6 points. today the republicans are expected to hold the other special election in south carolina's fifth district, a
he has a shop where he sells mexican imports. he says people don't come to nogales anymore because they're scared of the violence that happens on that side of the fence. he thinks a wall will help restore some law and order. so he's supportive of the fence. even though he's from mexico, has family in mexico, he says that immigration laws should be followed. >> nbc's gadi schwartz along our southern border. thank you very much. let's go to congress castro, democrat, who represents the 20th district of texas, not far from the u.s./mexican border. also sits on armed services, foreign affairs and house permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman, thank you so much. in the past you said you'd be willing to work with donald trump when it comes to this wall. tell me where you stand right now. >> well, i've never said i've been in favor of a wall. >> but willing to work with him, right? >> certainly willing to work with him on the issue of immigration. >> got it. >> when he's talking about building a wall across end to end the u.s./mexico border and
was front and center, when a handful of families directly influenced by deportations stood up in the audience, providing a human face in the debate over the country's broken immigration system. nowhere has the failure of that system been more evident on the u.s.-mexico border, children languishing for days and weeks in the facilities in arizona and south texas, conditions improving for the migrants there, they have access to food, showers and medical facilities but that has not been enough for some people. hours ago, senators john mccain and jeff flake called on u.s. customs and border officials to permit media access to the nogales processing center, gathering information is in the public's interest. passing comprehensive immigration reform would be in the public's issue but the gop has been conspig cg cue lusly quiet. the 20th district, whjoaquin