believe virginia this year will be the first referendum on the divisive and chaotic presidency of donald trump. . obviously virginia democrats think that that kind of referendum will go their way. apparently it s not just places like georgia and virginia where this is happening. th appears to be the national phenomenon. the leership of the dccc, the house campaign committee for the democratic party, they did an issue about their recruitment efforts to find candidates across the country. this is for federal candidates
apparently it s not just places like georgia and virginia where this is happening. this appears to be the national phenomenon. the leadership of the dccc, the house campaign committee for the democratic party, they did an issue about their recruitment efforts to find candidates across the country. this is for federal candidates for congress. they say their priorities are to find candidates in districts where right now there is a republican incumbent member of congress but hillary clinton won that district. or hillary clinton only lost by a little, she lost by four points or less that s their priority for finding democratic recruitment for democratic candidates for congress. how are they doing it? the recruitment chair for the dccc tells the national journal that actually being recruitment chair is usually kind of hard. he says in years past getting somebody to run was like pulling
it s still a ways off from the deadline. deadline for the primaries isn t until march 30. they already have democratic challengers to 45 republican incumbents. the democratic caucus chair in the virginia house tells us tonight democrats are seeing unprecedented interest from potential candidates. she tells us we have never felt so much energy so early as we are feeling now. the house democratic leader in virginia told us tonight they believe virginia this year will be the first referendum on the divisive and chaotic presidency of donald trump. . obviously virginia democrats think that that kind of referendum will go their way. apparently it s not just places like georgia and virginia where this is happening. this appears to be the national phenomenon. the leadership of the dccc, the house campaign committee for the democratic party, they did an issue about their recruitment
business. he has saddled up to putin to putin in so many ways. what he s doing in syria is great. yeah. he didn t, you know, an excrimea and going after nato. there s something he s got a bit of a putin crush, and there s i want to know how much of that is tied to maybe financial strings? let s turn to the president s travel ban. according to the department of justice, isis recruitment efforts have targeted the somali community in your home state of minnesota. if we know isis is targeting the refugee population or immigrant population in the twin cities, does it make sense to put in some kind of new and more thorough vetting system, even if you don t agree with the travel ban? well, the people that isis is targeting and those people in the somali community voy brant somali grunt in minnesota, they
great. he didn t annex crimea, going after nato. there s something he s got a bit of a putin crush and there s i want to know how much is tied to financial strings. let s turn to the travel ban. isis recruitment efforts have targeted the somali community in your home state. if we know isis is targeting the immigrant population in the twin cities, does it make sense to put in some kind of new and more thorough vetting system even if you don t agree with the travel ban? well, the people that isis has targeted and those people in the somali community in minnesota, they have in the few cases gone back to somalia to fight and they have gone to syria to fight with isis. that s just a couple handfuls.