candidates on opposition to them. it also bans leaders endorsing candidates from the pulpit, makes sense you. walk us to speak freely but you won't let them trade their influence for charitable donations. or part of their and trackable cash all of the election played. it's about separation of church and state. it was the one at play when they denied the coalition taxes back in 1989. the johnson amendment is no joke, or at least it used to be no joke. >> now if you vote democrat, i don't even want you around this church, you can get out. you can get out you demon. you can get out your baby butchering. election thief, you cannot be a christian and vote democrat in this nation! >> the american socialist party, they -- and liberal democrats are promising to tax people 70% of their income. >> you see any difference when you put left-wing progressives
and wisconsin was home of longtime republican senator fighting bob, in many ways, the father of the american progressive political movement. so what's changed for the past century? in today's wisconsin, the majority of voters still tend to vote democrat. they elected a democratic attorney in 2018, elected joe biden in 2020. and voted to reelect beavers. but despite all those votes, republicans inspired not just a majority, by the super majority in the legislature. my msnbc colleague chris hayes explain how last week. >> people of wisconsin came out and said, who do we want to govern the state? and by two points, the people of wisconsin said we would like the democratic governor state. and when those votes were fed into the maps, the republicans themselves had written, what it sped out was near super majorities in both the house, and senate, for the republicans with the same votes. that got tony evers elected by
for her greatest achievement, well, tens of millions of americans have health care today. thanks to nancy pelosi's tireless fight to pass the affordable care act in 2010. >> we go through the gates, the gates close. we'll go over the fence. the fence is too high. will pull bold in. if that does it work. well parachute in. but will going to get health care reform passed for the american people. >> as molly bald notes in her biography of nancy pelosi, the speaker of the caucus had been relentlessly at the time calling dozens of law f makers and asking for their average. she called police -- leaders in italy to get there -- on the bill. and pressured a moderate india democrat to get on board. she even attended the annual football game to cheer on and colleague there. all this jockeying paid off, helping to pass obamacare. and ensure more than 30 million americans. in fact, one congressman even
completely grateful. >> yeah, interventions and game ban, tony stark found a way to travel through time, i would challenge tony start to find a way around these wisconsin maps of yours, that would be a challenge for any genius, let me ask you this though band before we run out of time, there's no question that these are ridiculous, they hurt your party. but that's not your only issue in wisconsin. mandela barnes ran statewide, you can't blame his defeat on gerrymandering, why did he go down to someone like ron johnson? elections and i. or anti-vaxxer. please be bad for the people in wisconsin. >> it's very, very painful especially because he came closer to the feeding run chances that anyone has. this was the closest senate race in 100 years in wisconsin, a democrat hasn't defeated as sitting republican senator since 1962. 60 years ago. and in that year we had a president with a 70% approval rate, the mandela barnes did extraordinarily well. the most people thing with that ron johnson's biggest legislative achievement was given a big tax cut to the biggest -- of the conservative movement.
are going to undoubtedly cost the u.s. government a lot of money, does that calculation change? >> well, the answer i think is yes, poppy, in that right now donald trump is running against the sort of emorph us group of whatever amalgam of democrat a voter likes. piece of biden, sanders and warren. eventually it will be just one of those people he'll have to run against. and those people have warts. i think the entire biden candidacy is premised on the idea, all we need to do if you are a democrat is provide a reasonable alternative. we don't need to do a lot. people want to fire donald trump, but they don't want to go for the devil they don't know. you have to make it comfortable and easy. bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, obviously different and, yes, no question that medicare for all, decriminalizing illegal immigration, these are the green new deal, these are policies
jim and i have an over/under on this. we agree the economy is keeping the president afloat. this is a big deal for him. are we right? >> yeah, i think that's right. here's what's hard, poppy, about trump. his ability to defy political convention is huge. >> sure. >> he would never be elected president by any political convention we used in the past. even with the economy when it was the thing that was continuing a majority of people said they approved of his handling of it, he still was in the mid to low 40s in approval. typically with any president, republican or democrat, if your approval is in the 50s, 60s, your job approval is over 50. so i think he has a very low ceiling and a pretty low floor candidly, but i think he moves in between about 37% and 43%, 44%. i don't know if the bottom ever drops ourkts but i will tell you if the economy is either
by 12 points but a democrat hasn't held since 1963. >> yeah, and poppy, to be very -- look. the fact that we are here talking about this as a toss-up race in the 9th district says something here. both president trump and mitt romney won this district by 12 points. right now polling shows democrat dan mccready, republican dan bishop neck and neck here. and plenty of money. we're talking millions of dollars in outside spending have just inundated the people of the 9th district in ads that really mirror what we're seeing on a national scale here. dan bishop has painted himself as essentially in line with donald trump. trump came in 11th hour election eve. big rally for bishop in fayetteville, north carolina, the other end of this district overnight talking about socialists and talking about how democrats are going to prevent him from continuing what he has
was talking about, about our electorate is so polarized, so locked in. where a democrat hasn't been sullied by targeted ads. donald trump wants to run a devil you know campaign. obviously he does and america is situated to only listen to a devil you know campaign because no matter who has the r next to their name will get 45% of f the vote. whoever has the d will have the hatred of the people who will be b voting r then this narrow slice of o the electorate who will vote and it's all baked into donald trump's we call it approval, disapproval numbers. >> you've got that constant danielle. in the fox news poll, there were these head to head compares. how much does that matter? the president tweeted about what he sees as fake or misleading polling. what does it tell you when you see warren havversus trump, tak
33%. they need to boost that a little bit. there's also the non- -- the non-republican white vote that would be helpful to be boosted a little bit as well, and if they can do that, i think he has a shot. they've done a very good job of organizing african-american communities across the state, and he did appeal to non-republican white voters on november 6th, so i think, you know hooer know, he's got an outside shot. this is a very hard race. this is a state that a democrat hasn't won in several decades. he's really -- i think he's run the right type of campaign. it looks a lot like what doug jones ran in alabama. >> hugh president trump holding not one but two rallies in mississippi last night in biloxi. it was quite a winter and christmas spectacle there in biloxi, the president walking out of what appeared to be a chimney there that had been
reconciling regardless of what happens tomorrow with the rest of the country. >> let's listen to beto o'rourke in that closing case in texas where a democrat hasn't been successful since lloyd benson's re-election to the senate. >> we have decided as a campaign we will organize not against someone else, not against another political party, not against anything. we are organized for one another, for this great country, for a future that includes every single one of us, making sure that we can all live to our full potential. >> jennifer, the o'rourke campaign is now the dictionary definition of positive campaigning. >> yeah, it's -- i mean, i wish he can pull it out. i have been. if you check my twitter feed i've been predicting for close to a year that he will win texas because you did see such a new style of campaigning. not just that it's positive but