$121.7 million this election cycle. democrats give money when nancy pelosi asks because she hasn t delivered for democrats on the issues that are top concerns not just democrats, but americans across the board. since her rise to leadership in 2002, she has raised nearly half a billion dollars were democrats. many wonder of all of that cash is worth the political cost. 46 house raises, the democratic candidate has already said they won t vote for her for speaker. shannon. shannon: yeah, we will see paired leland vittert, thank you so much. democrats need to flip at least 23 seats to regain control of the house. fox news power ranking show 31 seats now, so this is a toss-up here let s bring in politics editor chris stirewalt, who is helping us break down three key races. house races you re watching tonight paired while compared how are you?
Here. what is the upside to this tax increase? let s try to be positive this morning. because we ve been i ve been attacking it for raising the debt, for being the wrong tax cut at the wrong time, increasing income disparity. is there a chance that actually this could grow the economy, this could help work iing class americans? is there any tax cut in history that suggests that? i don t think so, joe. i mean, the upside i m refracting this through politics as usual. republicans look like they could do something. in particular, donald trump looks like he could do something. this is a not bad ending to a very bad year. but, no. i mean, this is great news and i don t mean to put my thumb on the scale here. it s great news if you believe that corporations are people, obviously. this is potentially good news if
Behind. this bill doesen address any of those issues, which you could address in tax reform. what this bill does, it s prefaced on the notion that we need morley quiddity in the economy and all major markets are strong. thirdly, it dispro-portionately favors wealthy americans over milled class americans. for those three americans it grows the deficit, doesen grow the economy. doesn t really get at the issues we have in the economy. still distorts toward the wealthy. dana: republicans would obviously disagree. for all the things that you were just picking off, when it comes to the corporate tax rate, wouldn t you agree to do the things that you would like to accomplish that you have to lower that corporate tax rate to get liquidity back in and get that job training and investment back in america? no. let s start with inpra structure. i have a large bipartisan proposal, 40 republican, 40
Republican voters as well. but having said that, he is absolutely animating the most disaffected group of this kind of this important group in the american public. i want to bring in the panel. whitney, you ve been seeing this in real time. when you are out talking to voters what are you hearing from this most disaffected group of white worning class americans. they realize there is a huge shift in their world. what s interesting, in rethe a if you look objectively at the numbers, let s be honest. like the influence and the huge, huge proportion of resources that the white male americans especially still have in this country, it is really not declining significantly. we have better health, we make more money, we have better education, all this. but it is changing. it is changing. one of the things when i see this anecdotally or see how
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high and makes it difficult for poor and, woulding class americans including immigrants themselves and their children to earn a middle class wage. maria, is there any truth to what trump is saying? does illegal immigration affect american jobs and wages particularly for minorities? i m glad you brought that up, don. that is one of the biggest myths that mr. trump puts forth in this ridiculous xenofolk phobic unworkable proposal. and that is that undocumented immigrants take away the jobs that native-born workers want to do. and that they keep down the wages but in fact completely the opposite is true. when we had the largest wave of undocumented immigrants coming into this country under bill clinton s administration, we had the largest expansion of economic growth that we ve ever had. in fact, another huge myth that donald trump puts forth is that illegal immigration or the undocumented population coming