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Control, they needed 23 for control of the house but some results are still pending. let me put this in perspective. republicans actually had what is an amazing historically speaking election night. 44 house republicans were tired, a massive number. here is the history, here are the headwinds that very few people ever talked about. lets start with 2010. barack obamas first midterm, look at that. democrats lost in his first midterm, 63 seats in the house, six seats in the u.s. senate. thats a tot...

Massive especially when you look at the historical perspective. democrats will get a net gain of 35 seats, that gives them control, they needed 23 for control of the house but some results are still pending. let me put this in perspective. republicans actually had what is an amazing historically speaking election night. 44 house republicans retired, a massive number. here is the history, here are the headwinds that very few people ever talked about. lets start with 2010. barack obamas first midt...

Time now for the lid. the panel is back. all right. donald trumps been good for one thing. civic engagement. whether you love him or hate him, he gets you to show up to the polls. look at the total turn out. were estimating more than 113 million total votes. we think it could get as high as 115, 116. 105 million people cast ballots in the house. this makes it only the 2004 -- only the last four presidential elections had a higher turn out than this midterm. higher turn out than 2000. >> it only ...

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One possibility is he may be waiting for the mueller investigation to concludes before he names someone in that role. after a midterm especially one where theres losses and the president say we picked up a couple of seats its a normal time to reshuffle a bit. we know how exhausting these jobs are. sometimes two years is enough for them. they may want to move on as well. this is one of the high stakes. it also tells us where his priority, allow is he able to do recruitment? do people want to be p...

Military at the pentagon, at the dod, and theres not a push in the white house to get rid of him, although trump has had mixed feelings about him in recent months. and i would not be surprised just based on reporting the last several weeks if trump were to try to replace him at some point down the road. but theres a sense among trumps advisers in the white house that mattis is doing a good job and certainly has the respect of those in the military. >> president obama said in his midterm campaign...

The backbone of the party and have been able to grow the party. >> one of the most fascinating statistics that didnt break through on election night to your point about thinking through a historical lens, the last time voter turnout in a midterm was this high, women didnt have the right to vote. >> wow. thats incredible. and yeah. i was with the parkland kids a few days before the election. they were seeing the voter turnout there just, you know, 500% increase in texas particularly where we were...

That changed when colin allred ran against him. allred won by a surprising six points. we knew it would be a race, but six is a lot when you consider the kind of incumbent he faced. recently i spoke to the congressman-elect and i asked him if he was impressed by the size of his victory? >> i wouldnt say we were surprised. it was a pleasant surprise. we worked extremely hard here. we had so many people get engaged in our campaign. we were taking our message door to door. i think we increased turn...

Messages. the "new york times" reports that some wins and near losses have raised questions about whose vision of the democratic party will emerge victorious in 2020. and it raises questions about whether democrats can deliver a consistent message to voters. among the crew of possibly familiar contenders, a politico morning consult poll taken in the days following the midterm found joe biden as the early leader. 2016s runner.up, vermont senator bernie sanders came in second. but to underscore th...

Because the presidents attacks, his verbal attacks and his consistent effort to denigrate these institutions and to try to make the american people think that the rest of the institutions are weaker than he is, people in these government agencies and these institutions are going to have to take on a more public and a stronger effort to push back against it. >> interesting question. youve seen it on other fronts, too, since the mid term election, has something changed where people feel more free ...