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The guts to put his name on an op-ed when they are better off than they were previously. >> you can't say most americans do not care, forget about trump. what happens is what happens after. if this is a dangerous precedent we are going to set, that support i worry worry about. listen. everybody is not doing toe touch is about the way things are going. the truth of the matter is people access to affordable quality health care is the number one issue which is why conor lam is the congressman from pennsylvania. because doug jones is a senator from alabama. >> harris: connor lam didn't just run to...

August election. >> dana: and having posted today, the piece that said democrats are mounting a comeback in the midwest, to win in what is likely a low turnout election traditionally following the g.o.p. district, democrats do not need a tectonic shift, the attrition of just enough moderate republicans and independents could prove more than enough to carry o'connor over the finish line against balderson. do you see that as replicated not just here in ohio? i know that we have conor lam in pennsylvania, but are these one-off examples are part of a trend? >> there were a lot of obama-trump voter...

Health care which is again the top their list. space >> jessica: which democras are well aware of. >> harris: go ahead, i'll be quiet. >> jessica: they do, danny o'connor has come out against single payer as a nationwide plan, he's also come out against abolishing eyes. ohio was a long way from the border wall. so that particular talking point i don't think works as well here. much like conor lam has done a great job of making himself into the moderate candidate, he stumbled a little bit about support for nancy pelosi. >> lisa: the thing that impacted him or it hurts him? >> jessica: what he's...

Seeing as a theme that they're going harder to energize the base? >> i feel like we're seeing two simultaneously different things from democrats. number one is when you go into these individual districts they have shown a willingness to nominate a conor lam, so individual districts and states in trump country i think you're seeing that. there's a different question here, though, with the national message of the party and what that is. what is the emphasis, who are the faces, what are the issues? >> they don't a national message. they have no clue nationally. they just don't. by the way that's ...

Republican candidates. they are going after president trump pretty aggressively but that's only part of the equation for them. we saw that with conor lam in a special election upset earlier this year and we are seeing it in a lot of these races across the country. that's where i expect most of the candidates in these real swing districts like the one we are seeing in pennsylvania will land. >> martha: republicans are raising a lot of money. that clf, $71 million versus $2 million in the same cycle last time around. the american action fund has similar growth. cannot money put them over the top...