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Look what happens friday down into the middle 30s. guys? >> i think he was trolling you there. >> about chicago? >> yeah. 33. >> i love chicago. i love chicago. >> enjoy that. >> i do. >> early start continues with the presidents trip to beijing. democrats serious big wins on election day. anti-trump frustration is to blame. can the democrats carry momentum to the midterm? >> anyone who doubts the strength or determination of the united states should look to our past and you will doubt it no l...

For, republicans won 4 of 4 house seats, with the economy doing record numbers we will continue to win even bigger than before. this is second time in the past few months the president has backed a losing candidate. what is the impact of this loss for a president whos already badly weakened? >> president trump is still trying to get some of his agenda through congress. and if he gets a win there, all of this goes away. you have these little wins and little losses along the way. the bottom line i...

Of trumpism. >> he got wrapped up in the republican politics and the donald trump era. he lost because of donald trump and when they are citing these four house races, tom price, his last three elections, he had about a 66% average. the republican wins with about 49.5% of the vote. not for nothing because of tom prices corruption. he had to resign, of course. but not before the republicans invested $50 million into a republican seat. if you look at just the congressional races and understand in ...

Virginia. i think this was a good example of that. >> it sounds like senators on both sides of the aisle are getting ready to do something ed gillespie never did and thats invite president trump to their battleground state. because a g.o.p. aide tells me tonight that the map for the midterm is pro trump. even democrats havent been afraid to ride on air force one with him. >> bret: peter doocy live in arlington, virginia. thank you. there were other notable first and last night election. new york...

Contortions that republicans will start twisting themselves into and the fear about what comes in the midterm, if they pass something that the voters will ultimately reject. i think tonight it became a little harder for president trumps legislative agenda to move forward. >> you guys have been great. youre always great. combat pay all around tonight for phil rutger, kimberly atkins and peter baker. thank you for staying with us on this election night 2017. another break. were back with some good...

College educated women, the republicans got trounced in the state legislature races which means a grassroots movement is there. the concern is remember how obama did so well when he was on the ticket but then when he was off the ticket coming got trounced? the warning signs, because of trumps loyal base and he is a persona driven movement that when hes not there in a midterm or off-year election, people arent going to turn out and its going to be in anti-trump vote. >> dana: part of that was bec...

Youve got to make the government work. got to do the routine things, funding government. i think we can get that done, too, by the end of the year. again, our fates in our own hands. youre foolish not to recognize its a midterm. nobody does well in midterns. have a lot of challenges. individually youve got to be ready. your committees got to be ready and most of all, deliver for the american people. >> tom cole, straight talk from you. republican from oklahoma. appreciate when you come on. i can...

Is it that trump brand of politics is not transferrable. he is a singular candidate and that you actually cant just take a page from his book and play it effectively. >> look, thats a good question. we need a little bit more time, i think, to judge that. but what i think is clear is that in a race like this, in a governors race or off-year races we will have next year, it is easier to make it as a referendum to react to a big event. a financial collapse, iraq war, 9/11 as we have seen in the pas...

Legislators. >> the peril at the moment is more to the republican party than it is to donald trump. lots of presidents do poorly in midterm elections. >> yep. >> and then go on to win. barack obama had a historically terrible re-election -- midterm in 2010 and then won fairly easy in 2012. >> same with bill clinton. >> same with bill clinton. so -- and, you know, were not even up to the midterms yet. certainly all the signs are very bad for the republicans going into 2018, but i dont think anyon...

Backfired, to the extent that it had any real effect at all. >> tucker: lets a gillespie loses, the message to republicans in other states in the midterm next year is what? run on trumps issues or avoid trumps issues? >> if he loses badly, which i dont think will happen, if he loses badly, that might provoke the kind of soul-searching you were talking about, but lets be clear about this. virginia has gotten to be a pretty blue state. its also the political gravity and a presidents first term, of...