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Saying, wait a minute, let me make sure my primary challenger doesn't get the room to run to my left. i think that's number one. i think two, it's the year of the woman, this is another woman winning a major party nomination. three, young people, very, very big. number four, the democratic party is becoming more diverse, and joe crowley represented the district that was majority/minority, and he was a white man. this is another indication that perhaps the democratic party -- at least the voters -- want a more diverse congress representing them. >> zach, weigh in for me. is this a bellwether fo...

Resonated with voters there. he was just there over the weekend to support rick saccone. you say there's two areas to watch. which ones and why are they important? >> well, there's two townships that we watched all the time when i ran for office to see what the turnout is. one township is located in westmoreland county to the east of pittsburgh. that's hempfield township. one township south of pittsburgh in washington county. petsers township. those are bellwether townships for the turnout. mr. saccone needs good turnout and good results from that area in order to be successful. he can be succ...

House with 238 seats. democrats had 193. montana's greg gianforte takes office wednesday. >> bret: thank you. let's talk more in depth about how the elections possibly affect the house. chad joins us, our political reporter. what is your take? is this a bellwether? >> we look at special elections. they are just that. they are special. sometimes you take something away from it and sometimes you can't. in may of 2010, there was a special election in western pennsylvania for jack murtha's seat. they said they had to get the seat to win the house that fall. the democrats held the seat and held tha...

House with 238 seats. democrats had 193. montana's greg gianforte takes office wednesday. >> bret: thank you. let's talk more in depth about how the elections possibly affect the house. chad joins us, our political reporter. what is your take? is this a bellwether? >> we look at special elections. they are just that. they are special. sometimes you take something away from it and sometimes you can't. in may of 2010, there was a special election in western pennsylvania for jack murtha's seat. they said they had to get the seat to win the house that fall. the democrats held the seat and held tha...

Joe. thank you very much for that. we have a lot to discuss with our panel. we want to bring in cnn political and cyst, david gregory and michael sheer. let's begin with the georgia race. david gregory, what is this a bellwether for? is this a bellwether for the mood today, a snapshot or the mid terms or president trump's agenda or what? >> reporter: well, i think it's all of those things. i think you want to try to measure voter intensity on both sides of the aisle but particularly democrats who are trying to retake congress and who would eventually like to get the white house back. you want ...