has roots in the district, people go what they re saying about bob, that s not true. he s going to be with us and not nancy pelosi. yesterday the atlantic published while the voters were voting a piece by rahm emmanuel who used to head the d triple c and a long time centrist clinton aide and talked about thish u, when they were fighting to win back the majority successfully they recruited people like one example heath shuler in north carolina, former nfl player, very conservative guy, more conservative than bernie sanders or eleez beth warren would like to see dominate the democrat party but he fit the district in north carolina. you ll see part of the finger pointing and second-guessing amongst democrats is, does the party activists, the people who gave all that money in georgia, the people marching in the rallies, the people who are the most vocal, will they tolerate a plan to try to get recruit candidates who actually fit the
all the groups that are alive at the dnc need to think about building this infrastructure that does recruit candidates and does the nuts and bolts work of turning toward the democratic side of the aisle because remember, there is another census coming out in 2020. after that, they ll be redistricting again. and they will continue on control jury mannedering and give themselves. final thought? we just have to stop. all the variables, russia, all of those variables may be there. but the bottom line is that democrats lost and the 2016 election was really just the straw that broke the camel s
in helping with the house republican campaign committee, recruit candidates and protect endangered incumbents. he s somebody that they should know as a savvy inside player who people will pay attention to and i think his being the first person in the congressional rank and file to come out like this, it may be a signal that others are about to do the same. before we talk about that, let s take a look at this latest poll that shows donald trump with 27.2%. he is 14 points ahead of dr. carson, who comes in at 13.2. you go down to jeb bush at 9.2 and so on, with carly fiorina at 5.4. so i want to ask you, donald trump is resonating with the people at this point. do you think at some point, david, that donald trump s brashy name calling style will eventually turn off those who actually like that about him? gosh, i don t know. i think one of the standard
and we re getting in from adam lavine. he s one of the pentagon correspondents. the pentagon has advised recruiting commands that they can accept this is just in can accept openly gay and lesbian recruit candidates. that s the development. they can accept new recruits here given the decision that bars the military from expelling openly gay men and women from serving and also we heard from former army national guardsman dan choi who s en route to reenlist. we re all over the election. it s 14 days now until the midterms. and, of course, cnn has all of your latest political news with the best political team on television. cnn equals politics. leading the pack, mr. wolf blitzer at the desk. wolf, sharron angle seems to be going after harry reid s wealth again. what are with hearing from her today.
special election last month, also being used here in washington by the campaign committees to help recruit candidates. he was trying to woo woolsey to run against murray. he s becoming a go-to guy for candidates, for party committees that want to sort of drop some stardust it s amaze in about six months he s become a celebrity enough where wihe can do that. he s got the profile to do it. what is the advantage for scott brown to work with the white house? is it because massachusetts is massachusetts? right. he needs to broaden his base and run again, of course. that s exactly right. it gets his headlines if he s seen as good op s new rock star, like i said. but politically back home where he has to stand for reelection in 2012, that s not good enough. he has to be seen as somebody that s doing more than just out there campaigning for republicans across the country. and by sort of meeting with the president, by supporting, for example, unemployment extension like he did a few mon