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Criticizing anti-semitism. this offers kind of a glimpse of why a lot of classic liberals are moving out of the party because the people that are on the left, the left side of the party, are saying no debate. we are not debating you. so you are there any want to have a discussion but they are saying no. personally you are responsible for the death of 50 people. you are disgusting human being. you cant have debate with that. you end up with the staunchest defenders being republicans because we do...

>> i was in tennessee as all of the kavanaugh stuff was going down towards the end. there was clearly an uptick in republican interest. in the month of september before kavanaugh became a thing, the democrats are starting to profit from this idea that they could possibly win the senate. the doldrums are setting for republicans. we are going to lose the house and things dont look good. voter interest on the right was not that great. kavanaugh gave them something to believe in. in tennessee and mi...

Combined with the caravan optics with him being there every 10 minutes. >> he did not step down from the supreme court. do you think he would win that race? >> it would be much more likely. >> much more likely, she would have won if not for the kavanaugh fight. how much did kavanaugh shape things? they helped democrats to energize their base, but it could have affected things in the senate. >> tough to say. i was traveling after the kavanaugh stuff and the one thing that was tangible was fervor ...

Rule changes. pete: she doesnt like this problem solver caucus. rachel: she actually tweeted about it? >> favorite socialist of ed henry not here to defend himself from the bronx. 9 democracy are choosing to hold the entire 220-plus caucus hostage if we dont accept their g.o.p.-friendly rules that will hamstring healthcare efforts from the get-go. people sent us here to get things done. not negotiate with the -- she wants to be able to raise your taxes faster. she feels like if the rules arent c...

Shunned and treated like we treated smokers 20 years ago. rachel: should he really be shunning fellow americans? joining us now to react editor and chief of campus reform lawrence jones. lawrence, welcome. >> thanks for having me. happy thanksgiving. rachel: happy thanksgiving to you too. this is not the first time michael moore has called on anyone to voted for donald trump racist and shunned. >> really lazy political commentary. most people would try to figure out what went wrong, especially a...

This president is not an idealogue. is he one that will find compromise. thats why i think we will be able to get stuff done. rachel: alexandria ocasio-cortez, a product of the campus culture. we are seeing campus things really bleed into national politics. >> from the kavanaugh stuff to alexandria ocasio-cortez. look, we can no longer laugh at these people. we cant laugh at socialism because they are winning now. they are getting some seats. look, this is not a sprint. its a marathon. these peo...

Iowa and northern illinois. maybe chicago. more rain eventually coming into the west coast as well. a few traffic delays today across the south with that storm. temperaturewise, things are going to be getting a little bit better. i dont know what that is. that didnt work. pete: why would anyone be trying to get away from mom or grandma. rick: dont ask me. if that were the case. my parents are staying with me right now. that is not the mom or grandma. pete: i wanted to give you a chance to correc...

Saying it is a small difference -- it is not a big difference. so the idea that trump somehow -- his distance from trump and some issues caused the loss, i mean, he is representing a fairly purpleish district. >> that is right. i think this election was, in particular, a base election. energizing our side or the nancy pelosi/top, chuck schumer side. he showed in those final few days in those battleground states, he was going to energize the base. the kavanaugh stuff got people going, he was talk...

And growing right now. the abrams get enough vote out of the atlanta area to make up for the fact that kemp is going to win the rest of that state by a lot? not a lot of swing voters there. its a republican state. kemp has the advantage, but if abrams can get the turnout real high in atlanta, she can get the upset. >> how will the massacre in pittsburgh, the racist shooting in kentucky, and the pipe bombs to leading democrats and trump critics, will that impact either of these races at all in yo...

Look at the numbers, things look pretty good for the democrats. they need their voters to turn out and in a state like texas, who thought that a democrat could challenge ted cruz? that is the story. [booing] >> lawrence: i think the democrats overplayed their hands. they never quite got a message. everything was what they were against. you could never determine what their why was and right now theyre getting republicans to the polls. the biggest advantage they had was republicans were complacent...