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A sort of economic populism. i wonder david mentioning again those rural counties, those rural counties in coal country kentucky they are painted blue tonight. does that have something to do, you think, bevin and medicaid expansion. that b was one of the major pois of contention in his governorship. >> steve, this is a classic. go back to the early history of this state. this is a border state. this is a state you go through the union wars, the harlan county war in southeastern kentucky. now tha...

What donald trump has tried to do. donald trump has spent his presidency trying to take health care away from people. trying to repeal completely obamacare. and so the -- the campaign run against matt bevin in kentucky is the campaign you would run against donald trump nationally. >> its so hard to tell sometimes, lawrence, because the president talks about how hes going to preserve various things that his government is trying to tyke away at the very same time. you know, he goes out on the stum...

Can see here, we are declaring him -- hes going to win the popular vote here in mississippi. they do something peculiar in mississippi. to become governor you got to win a majority of the popular vote and you got to win a majority of the state legislativeri districts. its a strange provision you dont have anywhere else. there are 122 state legislative districts. we think basedgi on the voting patterns and the history reeves is going to get somewhere 70, 80, something like that in terms of the di...

Across the finish line lost. but on the other hand, as he does point out in his tweet, you got to say, five other republicans were on the ballot in kentucky. they all won. four of them won handily. does this say something about the presidents political capital do you think or does it say something more about bevin? >> well, you know, its interesting. the special elections always become these big anecdotal points of argument and it can be a bit overstated. bevin had a lot of trouble before this. ...

Against the senate majority leader in his race next year. dont think this is something that cant happen to him. republicans had a great night. won every other constitutional seat except for bevin. theyre even saying this is a very specific referendum onth governor bevin and his behavior and leadership style. >> iav think you raise an interesting point there. im curious if you can elaborate onif that. i think a lot of people are looking at this race. obviously this was a state that trump won by 3...

Theyre ancestrally democratic. theyre culturally conservative. theyre blue collar. theyre rural. they liked donald trump, but there areed still a lot of loca democratic officials. that was the question, could trump get folks in counties like nicholas county, could he get them to turn out for bevin, something lique thke they turne for him in 2016. some of these counties, just not enough. bathst county, trump won it by points. rowen county, trump won it by 22. bevin lost it by nearly 20 points. wh...

Could have here. lost opportunity for the president. >> yeah, you know,t john, i dot know about this 15 points in the last couple of days. it wasnt actually a lot of public polling on this race at all.is but the point here that he does raise about -- six elections, six statewide elections in kentucky. five of them did go for the republicans. most of them lopsidedly. do you look at this result as something that says more about trump or bevin or both? how do you look at it if youre trying to assig...