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The numbers we focused on, every single down ballot progressive candidate in my district won. new york had a profound title change really in the democratic party. one out of every five democratic senators got replaced on thursday night. and the path to eliminating the idc was through new york 14 and my district. im proud to say that every single locally endorsed candidate that we mobilized for won their election. cynthia nixon did a phenomenal job. >> off the your district by 30 points. >> right...

Class. they come in the state and register republican. they are a big key to donald trumps rather surprising win in 2016. you have to look at voter performance in the state and historically in midterms, democrats have really suffered when it comes time to show up. they have a big progressive candidate. theres going to be no excuse for democrats not to show. >> pickle ball in the villages. >> the things i learn with you two. hes planning to spend more than a hundred million dollars on progressive...

Democratic candidate is going to be to challenge a republican and the republicans name is congressman yoder. this is one of those hillary clinton districts, brooke. so its in a red state, but hillary clinton won this particular district. and democrats on the national level are kind of concerned, are pretty concerned that the more progressive candidate who they want, his name is brent welder could win. it would make it tougher to beat the incumbent republican. and that is going to be one of the t...

Progressive candidate enter the primaries. they used to be good to clear them out and now they are not as good. you could see democrats running. if you have people like corey gardner, kamala harris and whats her name from new york. kirsten gillibrand. who all represent this camp. >> marie: elizabeth warren. >> lisa: you could have somebody come up like you saw with trump outside the main stream and is unique. >> david: economics matter. >> harris: we are being shouted out on twitter. i said, the...

Really bad. what do you think about that? is it conditions and i think so. there is always someone like a kasich who said its worth a risk. i will be the person who stood against trump and i will look good like say bill scranton did in 64. >> its always a function of conditions like bloomberg was making calculations based on whether hillary ran. i dont think that just because a republican throws his hat in does a primary challenge or runs as an independent that it hurts republican donald trump. ...

This tax is bad news. i think there is always going to be somebody like a kasich that says it is worth their risk of being horatio. >> it is always a function of conditions. just like mike bloomberg was waiting it out. let me float an idea here. i dont think that just because a republican throws his hat in, and does a primary challenge and runs as an independent that it necessarily hurts republican donald trump and this is why. the demographic that is up for grabs is the suburban female republic...

Statewide in california that they wouldnt be able to field a candidate for governor. you see the results up there. john cox sort of at the end of the this race, republicans got behind him and said, you know what, if we want to compete in a lot of these house races we need somebody at the top of the ticket. lets make sure we dont get shut out there. again, the asterisk on all of this is a lot of votes will still be counted. that 26% may come down and may take a while. cox certainly in the numbers...

The dccc lost his primary to a more progressive candidate. she is running on medicare for all. in georgia, intense primaries for governor will reach critical mass on tuesday. the democrats there are both named stacy and even showed up to a recent debate wearing basically the same shade of blue. i have to say i sympathize that is totally happened to me before. this race has exposed, however, a divide within the party. joining me now from atlanta is political reporter for the atlanta journal const...

Dont just russia, russia, russia, or dont count on this coming to us. >> i think shes doing a couple things there. shes trying to differentiate herself from some who are seeing her as a more progressive candidate for the candidacy in the coming year. but were starting to hear from democrats, hey, this cant be totally about trump. we have to do other things. theyre seeing trumps numbers go up a little bit. theyre nervous right now that maybe the environment isnt going to be quite what they though...

Dominated by the old wallace-ite bloc and so this -- the hope in those suburbs, particularly i think among the soccer mom faction who have taken these sexual allegations very seriously, i think the hope there is that this will finally be a breakout election where alabama has a watershed victory for a more progressive candidate. it will also be a miracle and a tribute to doug jones that he is run a very effective campaign despite a virtually democratic party in alabama. >> lets listen to steve ba...