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District running against a republican but that you all of a sudden offer destroying ice and you promise to vote to impeach president trump, thats probably not gonna cut it. >> we have a real life example in texas where democrats spent research and money trying to basically get this very liberal candidate in texas and make her unelectable for a general election. she said she never wanted to live in rural texas when she lived in washington. her husband is a big bernie sanders supporter. theres a l...

Like at the political report, like nathan gonzalez say if these overperformance rates hold, it bodes well for democrats taking control of the house. but the thing to watch right now are these primary races, right? so are we going to see a repeat of what happened with the republicans in 2010 with some of these primary candidates winning who then become unelectable in the general. i dont think thats going to happen. we dont see that theres a big source of funding going out there and pushing these ...

Assistance, meaningful tax relief to families. that has been the presidents priority from the very beginning. >> sandra: roy moore after the senate race in alabama still refusing to concede his team says their campaign is waiting for the ballots to be certified before he would do that. meanwhile some of your colleagues such as senator richard shelby who did not support moore said he and republicans were relieved after the former judge lost. were you relieved to see him lose? >> i think the messa...

Republican candidate. and in the memo line of jeff flakes check he wrote, country over party. and today the republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell once again suggested that if roy moore wins the election, alabama will have to have another special election for the very same senate seat next year after roy moore gets expelled from the united states senate. >> i had hoped earlier he would withdraw as a candidate. that obviously is not going to happen. if he were to be elected he would im...

>> and david fromm is back with us. david, we all remember the attack tweets from donald trump against jeff flake that hes been doing most of the year, most recently november 19th. senator jeff flakey who is unreliable, unelectable in the great state of arizona and so on and so on. and so you see, senator flake sitting beside the president today and donald trump just sitting there as if nothing had ever happened between them. >> right. half an hour before you went on the air roy moore tweeted ou...

President trump tweeted, senator jeff flake, whens unelectable in the great state of arizona, quit the race amid the polls, was caught purposely on mike saying bad things about your favorite president. hell be a no on tax cuts because his political career anyway is toast. so far, one republican senator, ron johnson of wisconsin, said he cannot support the bill. and five other republicans are undecided, senator lisa murkowski, jeff flake, senator john mccain, susan collins, senator bob corker. jo...

>> and so, with the fate of the trump tax cuts now in the hands of republicans in the united states senate, where they are still struggling to get 51 republican senators to support the bill, donald trump decided to attack one of those republican senators. and while he was attacking him, confidently predict something that no one else is confidently predicting. president trump tweeted, senator jeff flake, whens unelectable in the great state of arizona, quit the race amid the polls, was caught pur...

Just a couple minutes away from a white house press briefing, and i dont know about you, but this might come up. arizona senate jeff flake caught on a hot mic. not m-i-c-k. were already toast. >> oh, gosh. of course, fired back calling flake, flaky, and unelectable in the great state of arizona. the president went on to say the senator was caught purposely on "mike." i dont know if it should be mic -- saying bad things about your favorite president. hell be a no on tax cuts because his political...

Week, but it is unclear if the gop has the votes to get it passed. with senator susan collins of maine and senator ron johnson both asking for changes. president trump is putting pressure on republicans who could be holding out. he sent this tweet out, attacking jeff flake, senator from arizona, yesterday. he said, quote, jeff flakey, unelectable, was caught purposely on mike saying bad thing about your favorite president. hell be a no on tax cuts because his political career anyway is toast. fl...

Once might have dismissed as unelectable. back with us, two great minds in politics. michael steele, cornell belcher. michael, ill start with you. that was matt newsboum from politico. the series of questions he asked, isnt that going to be asked of every major republican in 2018, distance yourself from judge roy moore? >> the press secretary get that script ready and get it down pat because youre going to be asked it over and over and over again in different ways. i think that headline in polit...