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The 80 seats in the assembly. one of the big issues that the democrats ran on, is opposing republicans that supported you. what does that say about your standing among the people who know you best? >> there was a 20% turnout in that election, the lowest turnout in new jersey history. the fact matter of this, the second midterm in a governors term, you always lose seats. in fact we lost less than the average governor has lost in the second term. so you can look at it that way, too, so we did bett...

Mobilization. when i look at kay hagans loss in north carolina and landrieus loss in louisiana, and grimes and nunn in other southern states in the last midterm, i see in every case southern democrats who instead of running on the presidents record, instead of running on aca, like, please, let me pretend he doesnt exist. and then the president gets blamed for these losses. >> i think thats a losing strategy. as youre saying. because the democratic party is defined by certain things. like the aff...

When it comes to the obama era, it has been a catastrophe for terri. but his party has taken it in the shorts for cycle after cycle after cycle after midterm after midterm and lost 900 seats. >> im good. im all good. >> bye. >> see you, chris. >> bye. >> well, we also have two polls out tonight with big news for the republican primary. and for the general election. the breakdown is right after this break. plus, we are fact-checking the benghazi fact checkers tonight. we get a soon-to-be-released...

When it comes to the obama era, it has been a catastrophe for terri. but his party has taken it in the shorts for cycle after cycle after cycle after midterm after midterm and lost 900 seats. >> im good. im all good. >> bye. >> see you, chris. >> bye. >> well, we also have two polls out tonight with big news for the republican primary. and for the general election. the breakdown is right after this break. plus, we are fact-checking the benghazi fact checkers tonight. we get a soon-to-be-released...

Others like myself thought we heard what he said, we werent sure. then john boehner got up and said, if you heard what kevin just said, we wont be voting today. people were looking at each other like, what just happened? >> you actually saw republicans crying. >> there were some that broke down. one, they like kevin, but also whats happening to the party. weve never, as far as i know, had a speaker removed midterm because of policy differences. you had corruptions with other speakers but nothing...

Later this month. as of now, the freedom caucus is backing this man. this is florida congressman daniel webster. but will they then stick together during the actual vote? that is yet to be seen. cnns chief national correspondent john king is going to join me now. john, things are getting interesting. >> this is interesting. this debate is really about who they should be and what months tour they should take. the freedom caucus, 40 or so conservative backing daniel webster right now. most kai cam...

Rich guys and then he says, i know these guys. he is combining this brashness, and this anger, but also on the immigration front, "a" it became very clear at the end of last years midterms the midterm was going to be a pretty, pretty powerful fuel in the republican primary for the presidency. you saw it come back as an issue. and it is tied to the wages issue. i mean, essentially -- >> immigration. >> immigration. what you hear is republican voters are hearing this as you know, you want more peo...

May 2009, about four months into the barack obama presidency, republicans still trying to shake off the residue of the george w. bush administration, but they were starting to think about the first midterm, the 2010 elections, thinking about how they could turn every congressional race in the country into a race against that evil communist tyrant obama who had been in office for a few weeks. i look back on that time period i sometimes cannot remember if this thing actually happened or whether i ...

Broadly but especially in the republican party. listen to this government in washington represent your views. 46% of democrats say the government represents their views. 14% of republicans. the republicans control the house. they just won the senate in the midterm election in 2014. a big victory. republicans should be happy. they are not. >> there are more than a dozen republicans running to be a leader of a party where its an unpopular position. democratic party, republican party, an unpopular ...

The trade bill was the first thing that happened in the week and the thing that made washington go oh, wow. here was the president strategizing, legislateing in a way we have never seen before working with the senate republican leader of the house and doing it as well as masterfully as he had done when working with democrats getting things through. >> thats true. it was noteworthy because of that cooperation. i want to say we should think back. david mentioned the surprise bounty of things that ...