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here is whats interesting, i would say. there is a theme. we have seen several races in which the conservative media, the republican establishment, others folks, even donald trump, have come in and tried to take out a candidate or persuade their voters not to go down a certain road. we saw it with certain attacks on kathy barnette who had a late surge in that race and pennsylvania. she still in it but not ahead as of now. we saw a bit with mastriano. it has followed on deaf ears. donal...

Sits under 7000 votes here. you see less than 1% is split between them. kathy barnett, a lot of talk about her in the final stages of this campaign. with a lot of late momentum. but she is lacking a bit behind them. i think a couple ways to look at this, the key though, in big picture. is this. and this republican primary, there are some votes that were cast by mail. but republicans if you remember in the 2020 election in, this was a story. republicans are far less likely to cast a mail ballots ...

First year. if he doesnt get tax cuts through, people are going to start locking at him and saying he is a failure. >> okay. coming to the end of the year, moving us closer to the midterm elections. you have to ask what is the legacy. >> yes. >> of a president trump embracing someone like roy moore with these kinds of allegations. what is a legacy for the gop brand, and furthermore, for the 2018 elections? >> well, the party of lincoln is becoming the party of hugh hefner. and if thats the case,...

Republicans can look at this background check bill, sign on to it or stand on the sidelines and oppose it. if they do that, ultimately i think that theyre going to lose. theyre going to pay at the ballot box. >> and the rules of the senate being what they are you might find an opportunity to basically introduce this on the senate floor as an amendment to some other moving vehicle and possibly get a recorded vote on it on who actually is for and against what 94% of the public is for. >> yeah. alt...

We dont have the opportunity under leader mcconnell to bring the measures up and who knows whether well gate vote on background checks? who knows if we get a vote on banning bump stocks? we have to get the senate back to regular order where we got the chance to say yes or no to big policy proposals so i hope youre right but that doesnt seem to be the senate were operating in today. >> we had to my surprise on this show two experts on tax legislation, one republican, both saying that they have st...