President ial prospects. Republicans are crowing about the big Chris Christie landslide in new jersey, as he prepares to become the national frontrunner for the 2016 race. Was that a Campaign Speech for running for president in 2016 . So Chris Christie is running on the theme i can do it. Chris christie emerged from last nights election as a frontrunner for the 2016 republican election. And he got there in no small part, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. But dont take our word for it. My pledge to you tonight is i will govern with the spirit of sandy. The spirit of sandy that christie evoked so many times last night is one thing. But the facts of the recovery are Something Else entirely. New jersey received billions of dollars in federal aid to rebuild, and 1. 8 billion of that came from the u. S. Department of housing and urban development to get people back in their homes. To get that money, christie promised that 60 of the funds would be reserved for low to moderate income households. Right now, it appears that Chris Christie is breaking that promise. Of course, we dont know for sure. Fair share housing center, an advocate group says theyre frustrated, and talks of the failure to provide the most basic documents, on why thousands of families have been denied the most basic necessaries since sandy. The Christie Administration has released no information on how the money is being spent. What we do know came out of a lawsuit that alleged that the Christie Administration is improperly holding data on the use of the funds, in response to that, they released documents on where the money went. 39 of that money went to the people christie promised he would give it to. The whereabouts of the rest of the billion dollars remains a total mystery. We do, however, know where an additional 25 million in sandy aid went, to a very well produced ad campaign, in fact, a whopping 7. 4 million paid for this commercial. Turns out the firm hired to run the campaign had been chosen over an Advertising Firm that had bid 40 less, but did not propose using the governors family in the spot. Jersey shore is open. Were stronger than the storm. You bet we are. Right now, there are thousands of people still out of their homes a year after the storm hit. Did you think when all this happened that a year later you would be in this condition . Never. We honestly figured maybe six months and we would have a home. Mortgage defaults are up over the past year in the sandyhit areas. 70 of the jersey residents hit by the storm say people like them have been largely forgotten in recovery efforts. For many people in new jersey, sandy was the worst thing that ever happened to them. For Chris Christie, it could have been the best. You see a mission is more than just a job, it is a sacred trust that was pushed upon me and you. Chris christie has not just benefitted from a disaster, he is benefitting from a Natural Disaster made by his own administrations failure to repair. During his first term, christie defunded the conservation, they found that new york citys transit plans for severe storms is detailed in five binders, each three inches thick. New jerseys plan . Three and a half pages with everything blacked out. My pledge to you tonight is i will govern with the spirit of sandy. Joining me now is a Hurricane Sandy survivor who lives in union beach, new jersey. She appeared in a Barbara Buono ad, did not work for the campaign. Andrea, thank you for joining us. Your home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, right . Yes. And it is a year later, what is going on . Right now, myself and my two boys and fiancee and dog are living in the trailer in my driveway, staring at an empty vacant lot. Have you gotten help from the state . What is going on . Were still waiting for the rem grants, we were one of the preliminarily accepted for the grant, i filed for the grant an hour after the grant had opened on line. Went in for the filing of the paperwork, i took three separate days off to go file the paperwork, sign the documents they requested. Bring the same documents back a second, third time, sign them over and over, and just you know, havent had any Movement Since beginning of august, end of september. The morning after sandy, and you woke up. You said it was a horrible night for you, you spent the night in your house in the beach. When you accounted for your loved ones, was there any part of you that thought a year later on the anniversary you would be in a trailer on that lot with the house still destroyed . No, no, i truly believed that the policies that we had paid for, that the government requires us to carry, i believe that they were going to protect us, take care of us, and do exactly what we paid for them to do. And i feel like you know, the federal government and the State Government have fallen short of that. When Chris Christie gets up last night and he invokes the spirit of sandy and togetherness and people, political pundits and political observers from all over the country look at this guy, saying he is a star on the rise. And he brought new jersey back after sandy, how do you feel about that . It is very frustrating to me. It almost disgusts me in a sense, because of the fact that when he brags about all the people back in their houses, he neglects that the people broke the bank. They tapped into their 401 k s, and retirement. They now have to work an additional 15 years to pay off the loans that bring them back into those houses. Did the people on your block, the people that were really directly affected, do they feel the same way . Is this a common feeling . Yes, yes, my next door neighbors were weight lifted for the grants. They were not own preliminarily accepted. And they have a heartbreaking story just like my family. And they have a young daughter. And to be wait listed, for what reason . You say there is 15 million left over sandy funds that you can rebuild the system a second time, and you have people that are wait listed. Why is that . And the governor the famous boardwalk, the jersey shore, sea side and sea side heights. It burned down famously, tragically, just a month after it was reopened and rebuilt. Christie said he found another 15 million to rebuild that again. And your neighbor, waiting a year after sandy hits. I want to bring in msnbc contributor, joy reid, and pod cast majority reporter. I have to say it is one thing if you say look, Chris Christie ran on capping property taxes, and he capped the property taxes, and you may not like it but he did it. If he said my record was on new jersey capping taxes, we got it through. It is another thing entirely for your entirely political persona to be bound up in your help you give the people of new jersey, i have to say the more i look at this record, the more time i spend on reporting on it. As i listened to Chris Christies acceptance speech last night, i was kind of fuming. Chris christie has perfected this performance of being the great man of the people, that entrances the reporters, but his actual performance as governor doesnt marry up with the image. Last night he talked about almost as if he was a marine, not leaving people on the beaches of normandy, well, he talked about his big achievement. Well, darn it, he hugged people. People hugged him. It is a minimum standard for a governor to accept aid. He didnt do that. And he didnt hate barack obama in the process, he deserves credit for not hating barack obama. That is a low bar. It is a low bar, he cleared it. But this is so important, this is the first time i have actually heard broken down what did he actually do to earn this rapturous response from the media . Yeah, i thought it was actually crazy, he is talking about the response after sandy which is actually people coming together after sandy. Which again, i am not raining on. It is an amazing thing. It had nothing to do he had nothing to do with it. When he put together himself that it was his alchemy of him bringing together people suffering after the tragedy, and yeah, the one thing he could do, above and beyond the neighbors coming together, is to deliver the federal aid in a timely fashion, and he failed at that. Is that how you feel, andrea . Absolutely, i cant believe with the special election they found the money to fund this project, and you found the money, yet a year later you cant find the money to funnel the funds to people who need it. It is absolutely frustrating to me. And my voice is one of thousands of families. Dont think that my story is unique. It is not. I was amazed by the polling, people affected, it is a huge disconnect. If you held a sandy survivors election, Chris Christie might very fewell lose it. But Chris Christie will take the credit. It is not hard to be popular when you are handing out billions of dollars in federal money. This is not to say he should not be in a position, he should, the reaction was justified. Nobody was questioning that. It is not the hardest thing in the world, joy reid, to be a popular politician when you are sitting on a huge federal budget piggy bank that you didnt have to raise, to dole out for political favors. Yeah, the people, the face of a Natural Disaster can be a huge benefit. Because the optics of a disaster, when a huge hurricane hits, for which the federal government is footing the recovery, you are the guy handing out the water and writing the checks. It appears from the outside you could have tremendous benefit. Jeb bush benefitted, Charlie Crist benefitted. But the federal government shovels in the money. You just have to figure out how to allocate it. And andrea, youre sitting in a destroyed trailer a year after sandy hit. It is not just a question of optics, that money went somewhere, only a quarter of it. A third of it is accounted for. And you have the democratic challenger saying you know, these party bosses, essentially in the Democratic State politics, for some reason they decided not to pursue what the policies they have always pursued. And frankly, i dont think it shocked anybody that the new jersey politics are transitional. I wanted to talk about the speculation, which didnt even wait until he had won. And the speech, and the greatest job ever, the speech like everybody else said, was an announcement speech. Take a listen to Chris Christie. Oh, please, it is such a burden about you speculating about me being a burden of the free world, stop, that is a huge ego to worry about that. It is a compliment. He is stoking it in his sort of narcissistic fashion. I think, it could be his bain capital. Because at of end of it, did you do your job . And what did you do in your past . That speech last night was really for a bunch of cable hooves. America was not watching the speech. There are a lot of people in new jersey, the ones who have a real problem with what the reality of sandy is, theyre not being heard obviously. That was there to start the narrative that other people will carry for him as he gets closer to 2016. And i think youre right. They will build on it, this could come back to bite him. Thank you very much, andrea, good luck. And msnbc contributor, joy reid. Thank you both for joining us. Coral r according accordia study, patients are likely to die as with patients with private insurance, tell them to vote no on obama care and medicaid expansion. That ad is making the rounds in virginia, well tell you why it didnt work, ahead. Or is it . 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Cuccinelli brought in his base and talked about the things that matter. Because remember, he was the first person, the first attorney general to actually file on obama care, did a is great job of presenting it. And people remember that. This is an idea that conservatives latched onto. The race narrowed in final weeks, that really they should consider it a victory. And it narrowed because of the bangup job that cuccinelli did. There is simply no evidence in the data that is true. Take a look at the exit poll from virginia, 53 of them oppose obama care as opposed to the ones that support it. This graph is how they feel about it in new jersey, and virginia, and the last graph is how people feel about obama care nationally. It is all pretty much the same. Essentially the same in new jersey, where the republican won in a landslide, as it did in virginia. Theyre about the same in the national means. Which means it doesnt seem to be driving the vote. It is just a regular bipartisan split. But on monday, when marco rubio said this to a crowd . This is the first time people have a chance to speak clearly at the ballot box, about the impact this law is having on our lives and the economy. That is right. He was right about one thing, obama care was on the ballot in virginia, and obama care won. This is why, Virginia Governor opposed the expansion. He is not opposed to running it in the state. Cuccinelli opposed it, calling the health care act, the Unaffordable Health care act. Get it . Meanwhile, Terry Mcauliffe supported it, even went so far to talk about the benefits of expanding medicaid during the campaign. Beginning next year, 400,000 people in virginia will get access to quality, life saving care. Number two, this is the law of the land, 29 states have agreed to accept it. Some very conservative governors agreed to accept it. Make no mistake, this was not a symbolic win for obama care, this was a very tangible win for more than 400,000 people in virginia who now stand a very good chance of getting Health Insurance. Joining me now, Washington Post editor ezra klein. This is surprising where it pops up, a little unpredictable predictable on the democratic side, the democratic governors, it is a nobrainer. You would think it would be a nobrainer for everyone. It is not. What is your understanding of the politics of this a day after virginia . I dont think the politics have changed dramatically nationally, the question is simply who is in power. So as you say in virginia, Terry Mcauliffe supports the expansion, then as he says it is 400,000 people who get medicaid. And it is not just 400,000 people, there is actually an important point for it. There are tons of money, like a stimulus for virginia, for any state that accepts it. That is all federal government money. If they dont accept the expansion they wouldnt get it. If they do accept it, then they get it. This is the federal government dumping a truck of cash into virginia. And mcauliffe saying i want to do it. The Virginia House of relationships have the speakership. They dont want to expand mon a medicaid. This is an incredibly good deal for their state, you saw it in ohio, pennsylvania, and even florida, it doesnt always work to get it through legislature. But there is at some point, the republicans listening to the business industry and the health of their state saying okay, well take your Free Health Care dump truck of money if you make us. The last point you made, very interesting, in florida, rick scott who was the former Health Care Company ceo, that this is also very meaningful for all of the Health Care Providers in a state, hospitals, chief among them, who tend to have a pretty good direct line to those states governors. Not only that, if they dont take the medicaid money the hospitals will be in a lot of trouble. The way the law works, all the groups will get the money from medicaid, ratcheting it back. If they dont get the money, you could see a lot of hospitals begin to buckle and close. So it is not just that you dont get the health care expansion, you make the lives worse, by the way, you make a lot of people seeking health care, their lives worse. There is a lot of anger and fear and regret of folks who had their health care, and are going to see the health care change. Well see the couple of million folks in the individual market whose plans are going to change in the market. But youre talking about a vastly large group of people who could get health care who dont have it at all now. And there is no