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Did involve it did involve a quid pro quo. he was involved with it. donald, this is a bad development. that s also bad news. you could just go to a channel that doesn t cover it most of the time. here we will. he likes that or network right? more on the two big results in yesterday s elections with potentially big implications for next year s presidential race. in the governor s race in kentucky nbc news projects the state s democratic attorney general andy beshear is the apparent winner and will unseat republican governor matt berch. you already explained this. little known fact, mad bevin was ahead by five percentage points before donald trump went there. willie, help me out here. matt bevin who aligned himself closely president trump and who framed the race as a referendum on trump and the issue of impeachment, ....
Charms he shares with donald trump and why he really was trying to focus in, and again, just being difficult, rude, insulting, very trump like. and for the first time in more than two decades, democrats in virginia have taken control of the state house. do you all like the color blue? i said do you like the color blue? because i m here to officially declare today, november the 5th, 2019 that virginia is officially blue, congratulations! amazing, thanks to unusually high turnout especially in virginia s suburbs. there we go, the suburbs again. yesterday marked the third election in a row in which democrats made significant gains since president trump was elected. before trump was elected, republicans held a 66 to 34 majority in virginia s state legislature. before trump was elected they ....
Becomes president. in the 9/11 election in 2002 it was good for republicans but in 2006 complete total white house, by the time bush is leaving office, total low ebb for republicans. barack obama comes in, magically republicans have a massive midterm 63-seat gain in 2010, tough years for democrats when obama s president outside of the presidency, and then of course trump comes in and boom, 2018 the democrats come back to life and you get all sorts of results like we re talking about in kentucky last night. it s been very hard for my party to get power in washington, to get the white house, to get the house, to get the senate, to act on that power, and then to get rewarded by the public for their decisions they make. we haven t seen that piece of it basically at all. so let me ask you, steve, one final question. what s the one takeaway? what s the canary in the coal ....
Again, you talked about his low approval ratings. they re about 20 points higher than mitch mcconnell s in that state. they can t play this game and get away with it, and how fascinating that sondland said that it got more insidious over time and could not even could not even testify that it was not illegal, suggested that what happened just might be illegal. now, heidi, let s project forward, talk about what s going to be happening as we go to the public phase of these hearings. what do the democrats have planned out? right, joe, so i ve been speaking to democrats close to the impeachment process, and they say they are not waiting for these witnesses who continue to be no-shows, that they are already pushing into the next public phase, which will be public testimony, which they want to start no later than two weeks from now. and i am told last night according to sources that there are three candidates that they believe are the strongest witnesses at this point that they are going ....
Was and democrats have held the governorship in kentucky for a huge chunk of the last 30, 40 years, and let s even take another data point here, which is obviously his approval rating s low, and donald trump could have been a drag with impeachment. let s say that, but like if you look at the suburbs of philadelphia, chester county, bucks county, these are seats when joe, when you were in the house of representatives made up the republican party. this was not a small part of the republican party, but in connecticut, new york, new jersey, philadelphia, all up and down the east coast, these suburbs made up the building blocks of the republican party that we ve known for the last 30 years they ve disappeared. and it s not only in the northeast and in northeast cities and in new england cities, excuse me, it s in the south. it s in the suburbs of atlanta, the suburbs of charlotte where you ve literally seen districts that were built, that were drawn for george w. bush era republicans that a ....