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mary peltola who takes her seat in congress tomorrow, joins me tonight. >> we begin on the 60th anniversary of john f. kennedys historic moonshot speech announcing his goal of putting a man on the moon and bringing him home. today, president joe biden announced new steps in his own moonshot vision, ending cancer as we know it, a cause hes truly passionate about since the passing of his son beau. >> we face another inflection point, and together, we can choose to move forward with unity...

Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Thats 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. The official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1 of each other once the votes are certified. This morning, balderson is claiming victory. Oconnor has not conceded. Regardle...

Unemployment, 4%, pretty good number. record employment among minor y minoriti minorities, et cetera. but you dont really hear that. fear is a better motivator than enthusiasm, than, you know, thankfulness towards the republican party. but i just dont see it. i dont see any of it manifesting in some sort of a victory, and donald trump leaning in to these primary victories, demonstrating saying that "he is responsible" for the victories a tone deaf. its silly. hell have to run away from a loss in...

Lieutenant governor and elevated after president trump made governor sam brownback ambassador. trumps endorsement of kobach monday night put him over the edge according to the "new york times," a private tracking poll so he went from even in the race with collier to up seven points after trump weighed in. in michigan, republicans nominated another trump endorsed candidate. john james for u.s. senate. james faces an uphill battle against democratic senator debbie stabenow, and in washingtons eigh...

Cathy mcmorris rodgers got barely ahead of her democratic opponent, 4/10 point at this point and the fourth ranking republican in congress. very little, look at results of last night and say republicans had a very good night. they squeaked out something of a victory in ohio, you could call it a victory but its a very pureic one. >> historic night for candidates and the numbers are only going to go higher. laura kelley, nomination for governor. in michigan, former democratic leader of the state s...

But we do it, just like men and have a bigger reaction to it, because for some reason, when women fail its much more of a story than men, but were pushing through it. much more at knowyourvalue.com. still ahead on "morning joe" well talk to the democrat locked in an election too close to call. danny oconnor joins us inalities while. plus susan page writes in "usa today" about whan what happene and when bob mueller issues a public report. examining why conservatives arent freaking out about rep...

2i6sh conserve -- conservatives left in the republican party, they ask about putin and protectionism, but what conservatives left in the party would be energized to go out for the sort of things that got me and im sure you voting for candidates in the past? are they small government conservatives? i mean, here you have donald trump running up the largest federal debt ever. youve got donald trump promising the most tariff taxes on middle class and working-class americans than ever before. you hav...

Is income dents deciding not to run. as you know, something like an 85% re-elect rate for incumbents. having an open seat, advantage for whichever party is contesting that seat. you can see again going back to 1976, the number of retirements both democratic and republican over that period of time, you can see for example, in the 1994 period, there were a huge number of democratic retirements. that presumably anticipated the wave election of that year, but you also see this year up to i think 41 ...

Nominations with still more to come and one more milestone last night as michigans rasheda talib likely will become the first muslim woman in serve in congress. a former state rep, unopposed in the general election for the seat. long held by ex congressman john conyers. i think in a lot of ways this is a response to trump. joe, women are stepping up. >> yes. willie, so much, and, again, not a surprise. just like 1996 was a response to bill clinton. 2010, a response to barack obama. no doubt abou...

Hold. republicans as you know sent in the big guns. president trump showed up there, the vice president among many others. are you disappointed that more national democrats didnt come in and support you that maybe would have given you that advantage to win here? >> no, not at all. you know, weve had grass roots support from the beginning. whats more important to me is having folks in licking county and delaware county and marion county, everywhere in between who are fighting for me and who have ...