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Obviously we had record turnout for a midterm election. whether that continues into 2019 remains to be seen. you mentioned polls show voters are really enthusiastic about voting, whether it's in 2020 or this year. you were talking about virginia. i'm in kentucky. it will be interesting to see, they're having the governor's race today. it's typically a low turnout election in the offyear, but it will be interesting to watch those turnout figures. do we get to 35% in virginia? do we get to 40% in kentucky for the governor's race, which really pour portends activation from both sides especially c...

>> would you please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i william jefferson clinton do solemnly swear -- >> bill clinton was elected president. it was the first off-year election where democrats controlled all of government probably since jimmy carter. but the voters were not happy from the beginning of 1993 because it turns out that clinton is talking about his economic plan. he's talking about a gigantic tax increase. and some other policies like the midnight basketball for convicts and things like that were not popular. >> bob michael announces he's retiring at the end of 1994. newt ...

Election as you mentioned, in a north carolina suburban district. when i say classic this is the kind of district that republicans lost big time in 2018 and allowed democrats to take control of the house. it's also a district for the president who won handily in 2011, so i think what you can see is if the republicans win, president trump who's going there will take credit for helping. if republicans lose, you're going to hear people in trump world and republicans who support the president saying, well, it doesn't matter because the president himself is not on the ballot. we're going to be look...

But the fact is, that in some sense, corey stewart is now going to be the top of the ticket in virginia. for a suburban republicans, running on house races, they're going to have to deal with repercussions of that vicious campaign that he's promising against tim kaine. just as they're going to have to deal with donald trump and we saw what happened in the virginia off-year elections last year. they have this new problem, in addition to donald trump, now corey stewart. >> heidi, there are four seats in virginia now. four congressional seats that many people have considered to be up for grabs, v...

In the off-year fewer people vote and we tend to do better with that eleck trt. the presidential electorate is better, but those don't show up in the off-year. in virginia we saw surges in certain places. so if part of the democratic intensity brought on by donald trump will lead to normal turn out next year where people who normally vote in presidential elections who tend to be younger, more minority, if they show up that's a really bad scenario for us. the question is can we take some of the energy out of that? it's like living in sparta. so we've got to get ipfront of this energy wave trump...