candidacy. and co-host of the good lies trying to make sense of the continued allegiance to the nra, at the nra meeting. stay tuned for that chat. good evening, i m mehdi hasan, if you support the democratic party, you probably don t want to hear this forecast from election expert and political analyst dave wasserman of the cook political report because he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november s midterm elections. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat president barack obama once called a shellacting, and republicans are planning for that victory for control of congress for what they re going to do and i tell you this won t be health care policy or tackling prices at the pump, top gops have conservative think tankers on the tony eastern
optimism. senator ted cruz laid out his reasoning at friday s nra meeting. many would still tell us that the evil on display in uvalde or in buffalo derives from the presence of guns in the hands of ordinary american citizens. but it s never been about guns. and days before that speech democratic congressman blasted senator cruz for his stance on guns tweeting fu, tweet cruz. you care about a fetus but will let our children get slaughtered. get your ass to cancun. you are useless. they re not backing down. even in response to what happened in uvalde, the stands is no new gun restrictions what sofer coming from the gop. it doesn t surprise me. they care more about the gun and
i am looking right at you, the nra today. i will not let any more of my peers die in a school! [ cheers and applause ] a passionate declaration from just one of the hundreds of protestors right outside the nra s convention today. texas governor greg abbott offered taped remarks. former-president trump and senator ted cruz each spoke in person. all of them, rejecting any kind of gun reform, and instead calling for security overhaul in schools. i want to bring in democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee, who represents district where the nra meeting is being held. congresswoman lee, the nra s resounding message was that evil. no the guns were to blame for the tragedies woe are seeing. the texas governor even said