Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collar professional, think of john kasich, congressman from this district. That strain of republican used to be the heart of this district. In 2016, what we saw happen with donald trump on the scene, Franklin County it was dead even when it was obama versus romney. The flip side is when you get outside of franklin, outside of the wealthy suburbs of delaware and into the blue counties of rural. You saw some of the biggest swings in the country from romney in 12 who did terribly from trump in 2016. Obama carried the muskingum
in michigan. Muslim American Public Health Official is running the democratic primary for governor. The front runner in the race, the state former Senate Minority leader has been endorsed by emilys list and like every contest, todays elections stand in the shadow of 2016 election and the man who became president and the wreckage he associates himself with. His fixer Michael Cohen is under investigation for tax fraud for under
hillary clinton did in 2016 or does this go back to being the backbone of the district. we are going to look for, when we start getting delaware and and franklin in. that will give a clearer sense of under and over performance. it is small, in terms of the performance of the district. you look at the returning part. muskingum county. this was trump surge country. he won this by almost 30 points if 2016 after obama carried it in 2012. we figured that balderson would do okay. how is he doing? he is getting trump numbers. he is up 29 points. we re seeing something similar if you look, if you go next door, it is not quite working. i think we are seeing a gigantic, and this is the story of the trump era, a gigantic