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Theory that bill nelson financially really needed gwen graham at the top of the ticket. but there's also a theory that andrew gillum could really get the base out, whether he can win or not. so is bill nelson a happier man today or not? >> i would think bill nelson has a skip in his step not just because andrew gillum is out there and he has shown he can juice the black vote, he gets high margins and a high turnout but so does shawn shaw. the first florida democratic official who is running as the attorney general nominee. so you've got two historic african-american picks on the democratic tic...

>> he won't do it. >> first of all, from a political point of view, this could help him from the point of view of he could get his base out, let's say. think he could say, look, bill clinton got through it. he could say, well, i'm being persecuted here because of winning an le corbusiewin winning an election. he could play it that way. >> even if don junior was going to jail. >> in terms of pardons, perhaps he would pardon. perhaps he would. that's a prediction i can't make. what hi can tell you knowing him politically, we've been through this early on. he made his announcement. his business g...

Women in suburban places, democratic base voters, the way the president has behaved in addition to the policy points you made, in addition to the corruption points, then there's the president as the overarching thing in our politics who is so offensive to voters in those districts that democrats have to win. >> that's the motivator across america to get the base out, to get a lot of democrats out, to get independents out, to get republican women out. you saw in the alabama race where you actually saw a higher percentage of black voters in alabama voting in an off year special election than the...

They can snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory. >> i don't think that will happen. i think we have a lot of wind behind our back. there were two things made this win possible. first you had people who typically voted republican. donald trump won by 20 points. he switched over and voted for a democrat. and then a nice surge in turnout among democrats. that surge is what has been helping us in these other special elections. we're winning deep red seats by huge margins. the question for us in the mid terms, can trump get his party to turn out too? we saw in the special election in georgia, bot...

Black women delivered two important races for democrats in 2017. that was virginia and that was alabama. red states that we had no business playing in, we hadn't had a democrat in that state in 25 years. so we have to lean in to the base. the only way we're going to win is if the base comes out. we have to get that base out, which is the black community, the latino community, which is also millenials. democrats need to do all those things, and not chase voters who are not going to vote for us. >> i'm going to take it in reverse order. african americans make up 27% of the population in alabama,...