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Why is that . Is he couldnt ihe couldnting. He seems to be the person that makes donald trump the most nervous. All of those stay strong, he drnt wadidnt want to fire him. But i think that is looming out there. So you have this committee that is chaired by Jeff Sessions where the gentleman who was in charge of it recruits in papadopoulous and he is now actually also talking to at least the Senate Committees and probably to muellers team as well, you have this team that now seems to be kind of in low customer of the contacts with russia in addition to trump jr. , to kushner and others. Locust o...

The national issues intersect. you're talking about health care. obviously big story this year with republican bush to repeal obamacare also been an ongoing story in virginia, terry mcauliffe trying to expand medicaid. you see almost 40% saying that was their issue. overwhelming the 40% who said this were democrats, were people voting for ralph northam. then you have got gun policy most recently in the news with the tragedy in texas the other day. this was about split. about half the people saying guns were their issue or voting for gillespie. about half of them were voting for northam. so dif...

When gillespie ran for senate in 2014, he only lost by .8%. president trump quickly took to twitter last night to disown gillespie saying, quote, ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me and what i stand for. many conservatives interpreted last night's election as a referendum on president trump. take a listen to republican scott taylor from virginia on cnn this morning. >> i think last night was a referendum. i don't think there is any way you can look at it in a different way to be honest with you. >> we took a look at the numbers. here is the thing, gillespie actually did get his vot...

Outside d.c. they were just as anti-gillespie as they were anti-trump. that's significant because gillespie thought, hey, i can separate myself from some of that tainted brand. well, did not happen. and the turnout was very high there. but i have to say, we talked a lot about ed gillespie and that strategy of running on trumpism, on the cultural issues, immigration. that was aimed at two things. hey, i'm not going to pay a price up here. but he did. it didn't work. it was also aimed at republican trump areas in the state. he said, i'm going to get trump-level support there. let me give you an ...

I think democrats do well when they can speak to their core constituencies, the part of the base of the party that's active but also appeal to some of the suburban voters. >> charlottesville took place obviously in virginia. think does the monument thing wind up helping elect gillespie? >> if gillespie gets elected, it's northam's race to lose. i still think he's in the lead. if you're in some of these suburban towns in virginia, you're not necessarily worried about the monuments. you're worried about the ads that gillespie ran that says northam wants to give guns to pedophiles. he literally s...