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All these rural counties that for a long time democrats had almost written off in places essentially sort of south and west of richmond. now all the rest of that is back in play. not to mention were looking at a tiny, tiny fraction of fairfax county which is the behemoth blue county here in virginia which comes in historically late and will be i think enormous based on the voters i talked to. >> thank you for that. well probably be checking back. the point about reverse coat tails is something t...

That put donald trump in the white house." youve been making a lot of news with this book, a lot of people angry. >> a lot of people tonight are celebrating whats happening in virginia. >> youre celebrating. they were going to come for you. they were going to blame you if northam -- i saw people writing the story about donna brazile being responsible for depressed virginia turnout. >> a month ago i went to help raise money. i went out two weeks ago to kick off a canvassing campaign. tonights sto...

Both for american politics and for the democratic party. what is your big lesson for the future of the democratic party? >> my biggest frustration, if you want to know what i went to bed with every night last year, i couldnt help enough candidates in states. i couldnt send posters to nonbattleground states. i saw someone today criticize me for sending money to chicago. i sent money to chicago because i wanted to help tammy duckworth. i sent money to my home state of louisiana because we had elec...

Something you just said, when you talk about seeding or not running anyone in half the house delegate races. this year there was this real effort to be competitive everywhere and it dovetails with the critique of the party that is in it donna braziles book and which is essentially that the party institution was bankrupt financially, that it was not doing the things it should, it wasnt doing the things like helping to field candidates in every race and it was essentially busted out. is that an ac...

went to court to block some of the pardons. he says theyre a slap to the face of everyone in law enforcement, he will be with us with jeff toobin in a bit. first, four of the convicted murderers that got pardons were released sunday, according to mississippi department of corrections. one link between them, they all worked at the governors mansion on a work release program. one of the men is david gatlin. these him there. the shooting victim he left behind and family of the victim that...

And basically, you know, im seeing in michigan an energy that i havent seen in years. democrats who want to make sure their voice is heard. they want to get involved in politics. theyre finding ways that they can interject themselves into this debate. and i think theyre very motivated to vote. but we didnt really have a test of that until last night. and virginia, i think, showed that when democrats come out to vote, we win. and if we can keep that enthusiasm going into the midterms, its going t...

Folks. that was wrong. you saw significant african-american turnout. 20% of the electorate. he did better with women than hillary clinton did. he did, you know, ed gillespie won loudoun county when he ran for the senate and northam won it by 20 points. a good message in the ex-urbs and suburbs. he wasnt scarey to independents. he ran a very, very good campaign. and i think what was also good about what happened in virginia is that the virginia democratic party was ready with a lot of candidates ...