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In 2016 were uncontested, on both sides of the aisle. ive been telling folks since we launched, republicans get indicted all the time! you never know whats going to happen. you cant assume that theres a safe bet. youve got to get on the field, run a good campaign, connect with voters. you could win. >> what you -- yeah, cornell? >> but this is why you need, again, the 50-state strategy. you have to put in place the structure and infrastructure and the people and the resources to take advantage o...

Safe bet. youve got to get on the field, run a good campaign, connect with voters. you could win. >> what you -- yeah, cornell? >> but this is why you need, again, the 50-state strategy. you have to put in place the structure and infrastructure and the people and the resources to take advantage of these opportunities. and i think democrats are being caught flat-footed. look, without sort of these eruptions around moore, democrats arent spending money in alabama, but if were going to see -- if we...

My pastor. i dont look for them to be the people that -- >> but theyre learning it from the church and from their pastor. theyre learning it from their pastors. yes, they are. >> theres plenty of people that are unpleasant and nasty that are whatever -- you know, on any issue. theres people that are, you know, unpleasant to conservatives, liberals, whatever. so i reject that if theyre learning it. but i would say elections are about policies and people. and roy moore lost, and some of his polici...

A long time on air and we we said you know is this a new culture is this just trouble are the republicans going to stick with it there are actually some republicans who either stayed home written in another candidate right in there actually they moved over to the democratic side and actually voted for it so it is not just politics anymore and i think this is finally the point where trump and people like roy moore went too far and they can just lie their way out of it prediction for the midterm w...

This tax bill so far has not been popular. >> raidses an interesting question for jones as a senator. all sorts of people wondering will he try to be the conservative alabama senator or the national democratic senator? look at all the democratic senators right now in trump states in this white house theyve put no political pressure on them all year to choose between the two. >> doug jones becomes best friends with donnelly. right? that dude, whatever joe donnelly does, you do i mean, theres only...

Blue wave in 2018. i mean weve seen this, right? when democrats ran through obamacare, we had a terrible midterm. obamacare much, much more popular. >> theres huge desperation within the republican party to deliver something, to show something for having the white house, the senate, and the house of representatives. i think that what it does is it gives the senate version of the tax bill a lot more leverage. i think the senate -- you know, theres significant differences between the house bill an...

Speculation from election officials in alabama we were in the ca 25% turnout. were looking at approaching the kind of numbers you would see in the midterm. real engagement, voters coming out. may not be great news for roy moore. >> bret: thats the question, for their new voters are somehow energized by all the controversy to come out. >> this has become a nationalized special election certainly. youve democrats talking about this as a way to set a message. you have republicans concerned about th...

It isnt just the really serious allegation of abuse but the long series that congressmen think it will dog them in the midterm and make it much more difficult to hold onto the house and the senate, but the president is gambling that if he backs roy moore at this really critical time, that will create more loyalty on moores part to the president. its not clear if that will work, but thats the political gamble here. if he hangs onto him at the time everybody abandons him, maybe when he gets to the...

Hundreds of protesters on the street when he was arrested. those supporters then helping him break free so he could lead a march to parliament demanding the resignation of the ukrainian president. the prosecutors gave him 24 hours to turn himself. in ukrainian politics gift just keeps on giving. >> millennials are on course to be the largest course of voters in our country and new poll out of harvard shows they preferred democrats by a two to one margin. according to a recent poll just 33% of 18...

There is careening from one side to the other. you dont know who is really in charge. the internal politics are crazy. the people i talk to privately are terrified. they see the midterm election and trying to get the election back and there is a chaos factor. to quote jeb bush who pro predicted this and its coming true. >> underneath it all is the erosion of basic norms in some ways provided the rudder, the stability. the basic democratic norms. that allow us to do what we do. >> decency, honest...