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Thats but five away from the magic number and 64 for george bush. >> in little rock clintons people realize theyve won. >> it was the most delirious feeling you can imagine. and all you want to do is go around and hug everybody. >> i just called governor clinton over in little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. i wish him well in the white house. >> ross perot has failed in his bid, too, but hes taken nearly 20% of the vote. >> god bless you. thank you very much. ...

Winning across the country. let me put this in perspective when we talk about changing demographics and how things can change in the country. if you look in the south right now and you look in georgia, you look in texas, you look in florida, you saw three states where democrats almost won major seats, whether it be a senate seat or a governorship. what did all those candidates have in common? they were absolute long shots to even be in contention for those seats, and they were all minorities. yo...

Right now. we know mississippi is a rock solid red republican state. having said that, though, there are major red flags being put up. john just discussed those and talked about how democrats are winning across the country. let me put this in perspective when we talk about changing demographics and how things can change in the country. if you look in the south right now and you look in georgia, you look in texas, you look in florida, you saw three states where democrats almost won major seats, w...

The mccain seat, colorado, georgia, iowa and north carolina. for republicans, they got at least one big target in sight, alabama democrat doug jones. hell be up for a full term. >> in order to get anything meaningful, youre going to have to reach across the aisle. >> then republicans will also be eyeing potential pickups in michigan and minnesota. memorize that map. memorize that map. were going to be talking about it a lot over the next two years and 270 and the electoral college. well be back ...

A sweep. i want to start with you capri. how does sherrod brown get in the 2020 race and win and what is his message? >> a few -- a couple things. number one, let me put some of this in context in regards to ohio. look, president trump won in ohio with votes from democrats. okay? and why is that? because donald trump talked about the issues of trade, of the challenges of nafta and that is something that resonates with ohio voters. thats exactly what sherrod browns message is if there is anybody ...

An actual candidacy. absent of that they are playing into her hands. >> lisa: julie, to that point, absent of a challenger, i mean, is this is a shoe in for indianapolis? >> julie: i think the democrats dont have better options which sort of doesnt play very well when you look at the presidential election coming up. shouldnt they be more concerned about trying to nail down voters in battleground states and be looking forward to the presidential election? dont they want to breathe new life and i ...

>> heaven help me. >> is there a clear path for democrats to reach? what did we learn? >> apparently nothing. >> harry, lets go over the path here. >> harry! >> i think we did learn -- smile for a second. we learned something from this election in terms of the path that a democrat might take? >> sure. lets start off with the 2016 map, right? donald trump broke through that big blue wall in the midwest. he won in wisconsin. he won in michigan. he won in pennsylvania, which is sort of the midwest....

Theres a few dads out there that drained away. for the democrats, of course, they have to be unhappy about putting together 270 electoral votes without ohio, which is going away for the democrats and without florida, which is a hump they could not get over. >> lets stay on the president, simone, it seems he was on the ballot and you had 61 million people voting for democrats -- >> its unthinkable for a mid-term. i think donald trump is on the ballot and the agenda is also on the ballot and the p...

Have learned from the midterms, i think, he lost a lot of support in the suburbs it appears and a lot of places that probably should be red are now blue, do you think he learned any lessons? >> well, i think that the most important lesson that they took away that there was a blue splash, blocked by red wall in the rural areas. he still has, you know, very strong support in the rural areas and thats what counts when we need to get to 270 votes, electoral votes to make sure that we win. rob: but t...

If he loses florida and any one of those states, he loses. if he keeps florida and loses any three of the combinations of any other state except for pennsylvania and georgia or pennsylvania and michigan in which it is an electoral tie at 270, he would lose for instance if he lost wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, that would be a loss for donald trump and remember, we just had six statewide races there, and the republicans went 0 for 6. >> and not to mention how close the race was in texas...