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Half. donald trump only won tarrant by 8. this year, the move to the left continued. beto o rourke won tarrant county by 1 point. now, this trend was already under way before president trump came on the scene, but there s evidence that his toxicity in the suburbs has helped accelerate the trend. let s move to gwinnett county, georgia. nathan diehl won by 12 points in 2014. hillary clinton swung the county democratic in 16 and won it by 6. this year democratic stacey abrams extended that advantage winning the county by a whopping 14 points, double digits. that county is blue, not purple anymore. by the way, this was one of the counties in the atlanta suburbs that once helped newt gingrich remake the republican majority back in the 80s and 90s. wow, is it looking blue today. and of course there s florida. in his 2014 race for governor rick scott won seminole county by 7 points. in 2016 donald trump lost a little ground there. he only won the county by 2. this year andrew gillum flippe ....
Calls in to these early states. that s something that flies under the radar when state legislators from iowa and south carolina happen to be in d.c., he s had them over to have a beer and talk to them. he definitely wants to run for president until he is not running. until he is not running. i think part of this yrg thouen though is because he thinks it might be his last campaign, 2014. hillary clinton would be welcome on the campaign trail by most democrats if she d go out there. joe biden will go out and do a lot of base and labor stuff. bill clinton was on the road this week. the one person we don t see on the road yet he went to minnesota okay, walter mondale won that state is the president. we know he s not welcome in kentucky, he s not welcome in arkansas. i could list the other key states. but he is in washington going to a lot of events that he says will help change the agenda. here s my fundamental question. yes, democrats have him to raise money. they have this techno ....
Whether wall street, which supports the democratic party still, whether wall street s standing in the way of fundamental reform. do you think that is the defining issue, do you think hillary clinton is well positioned there? well, i think these are two big issues facing the midterms. one is, we have a country that really wants some populous economic reforms. there is a broad based bipartisan support for raising the minimum wage. that s beyond question. it s whether the political class gets that quick enough to react to those voters. then there s the understandable confusion about obamacare, so those things are going to face the voters right now in 2014. hillary gets a pass on that. that does not directly affect her. where we go forward, i don t know if there s going to be a real contested democratic primary for president if hillary runs. that is going to be a big question about whether or not she has to face the internal questions facing the democratic party. yeah, and i think that ....
We talked about the new york mayors race. right. if i joke, if it s tuesday, somebody s voting somewhere. colorado, this is a state trending blue. they did a big gun-control, bunch of gun-control legislation, and the nra funded some recall elections against state legislatures. if they win those, i think that tells you that possibly the republicans have found a way back using guns in colorado. and whether or not the gun issue comes up in congress again in 2014. hillary clinton and jeb bush, strange bedfellows. if it wasn t for syria, this would be the biggest political story of the week. jeb bush is giving an award to hillary clinton. the first families of presidential politics hanging out together in giving an award. the right s not happy that jeb s doing that. hillary s doing this on the eve of benghazi. there would be a lot of stuff percolating over this, but syria is drowning that out. our sunday first read, chuck todd, thank you very much. thanks to our roundtable as well ....
right. if i joke, if it s tuesday, somebody s voting somewhere. colorado, this is a state trending blue. they did a big gun-control, bunch of gun-control legislation, and the nra funded some recall elections against state legislatures. if they win those, i think that tells you that possibly the republicans have found a way back using guns in colorado. and whether or not the gun issue comes up in congress again in 2014. hillary clinton and jeb bush, strange bedfellows. if it wasn t for syria, this would be the biggest political story of the week. jeb bush is giving an award to hillary clinton. the first families of presidential politics hanging out together in giving an award. the right s not happy that jeb s doing that. hillary s doing this on the eve of benghazi. there would be a lot of stuff percolating over this, but syria is drowning that out. our sunday first read, chuck todd, thank you very much. thanks to our roundtable as well for a great dis cu that is all for today ....