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And that s why republicans on capitol hill are very, very nervous and the nrcc and republicans that are going to spend money on the house in 2020 are left wondering how do they win with a president who s in the 40s and 30s in approval ratings in these districts. and it s impossible to know because the math simply at this point does not work out. well, and it does. there is an ongoing debate inside the democratic party about whether ideology matters. if you look at the 2018 election returns, whether you re talking about in virginia, whether you re talking about in virginia, whether you re talking about in california, whether you re talking about texas, there were moderate democrats who made the difference there. and bevin last night lost to a moderate democrat as well that put kentucky in play. that will be interesting, and of course the democrats will have that debate. but you know, gene i was interested listening to jake ....
President trump or political leadership on the gop says. another important thing that s ahead, the senate intelligence committee, which has managed somehow to stay bipartisan led by senator burr, the republican chairman and senator mark warner the democratic ranking member is going to issue a report in the next couple of weeks on the fundamental issue coming out of 2016. was there an organized russian effort to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton is the basic issue president trump to this day continues to dispute. that s going to be a bipartisan support. i m told it s going to be overwhelmingly clear. in some ways the strongest statement yet by a bipartisan group about what happened. so whether the person sometimes known as the senate majority leader mcconnell, other times known as moscow mitch responds to that with any new legislation i don t know, but there are this series of things happening anyway to reinforce the point ....
I mean, it s absolutely stunning. we saw in a special election, which republicans did win but the democrat won mecklenburg county, the wealthy parts outside of charlotte, 70-30 after republicans had won by that margin there for years. and the big question to me and i see no evidence this will happen does the president do anything to try to course correct? the obvious answer based on the evidence at hand is obviously not. he believes he cannot work with democrats. he does not have any interest in taking up popular legislation that has broad bipartisan agreement anywhere at any time, so republicans are kind of stuck in this position where they have to tie themselves to trump, hope that they could really rev up republican turnout and thereby win the election by just drumming up republican turnout in the reddest areas of their district while hoping that voters make a delineation between an unpopular president and the republican. doesn t work in a lot of places, ....
Him in kentucky, i think you got to put moscow mitch now in the list of endangered candidates. you look at that map last night, you look at the fact that democrats turned kentucky blue. you ve got a guy who has a lower approval rating than any other senator in america in his home state, and this same guy, i think people around the bluegrass state where my mom and dad went to school and where my dad was from to calling him moscow mitch now. that can t be good for moscow mitch going into next fall. look, joe, despite what you might think of double m, moscow mitch, he is a skillful politician, and he knows how to read the numbers, and i think one of the big stories in the next three, four, five months is going to be watching moscow mitch, double m tor, to see if does a slow but steady stroll away from president trump because of president trump s weakness now visible to everyone ....
Let me louse. this is about me. if it was about him, he lost last night by 5,000 votes in that governor s race. nbc news does project that the state s democratic attorney general andy beshear is the apparent winner, will unseat republican governor matt bevin who aligned himself closely with president trump and who framed the race as a referendum on president trump and on the issue of impeachment. race is close separated by just over 5,000 votes, a difference of less than half a percent in a state that trump carried by 30 points. bevin was the only republican running statewide to lose in kentucky last night. he is currently refusing to concede that race. gene robinson, the significance there, matt bevins ran ads voiced over by president trump. he talked about him on the trail every day. he talked about socialists in washington. it was run like a national race. a national contest which turns out not to have been a great idea perhaps, you know, bevin had some approval problems ....