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our votes. you still think there is a chance? >> i do. 7,000 precincts, not in the nation but in the state of ohio and let the process play out and see where we're at. at the end of the day we've been laser focused on november since january, this was step one in the process and we'll be ready to go come november. >> cnn knows obviously really accurate with these projections. we don't make these early. we make them when we have a good assessment of what the vote looks like on the ground. i meaning but you say you're still waiting to see the final call. when this final call comes through, if it has failed, why do you think it failed? >> look, this was a battle worth having. we needed to have a decision with the state of ohio, all 88 counties. whether they be liberal or conservative special interest or do we want our constitution to be for sale? look in the state of illinois they have a 60% threshold to change their constitution and said if it's good enough for the blue state of illinois, shouldn't it be for the red
don't think it would be called necessarily. are still here, but the no side is winning, of course at the end of the day we still want to count all of our votes. >> you still think that there is a chance? >> i do, i think 7000 precincts. it's not in the nation, but in the state of ohio. so there is still time. we're going to let the process play out and see where we are at but at the end of the day we have been focused on november since january, this is just up one in the process, and we will be ready to go come november. >> i will say, cnn is obviously, really accurate with these protections. we don't make these early, we have these when we make a very good assessment of what the vote looks like on the ground. i, mean the big news is you are still waiting to see the final call. when this comes through, if it has failed, why do you think that it failed? >> this was a battle worth having, we needed to have a decision with the state of ohio all 88 counties. do we want to protect our constitution from outside special interest? whether they be liberal or conservative special interests, or do they wanted to be for sale? in the state of illinois, they have a 70% threshold to change a constitution. we said if it's good enough for the blue state of illinois, it should be good for the red state of ohio. voters decided tonight, but it's a battle worth having. it's a question that we should've all as the night, and we did.
authoritarians have become everything that they hated. >> what we've seen is trump consolidate power in the republican party. he tried to install loyalists, which is what we saw with the senate races, right? he put his people in. a lot of his people could not get elected. herschel walker. i mean, the very few -- j.d. vance, right, in ohio, in the really red state of ohio managed to get elected. >> dr. oz got elected -- await, i'm sorry. the gubernatorial government we -- didn't work either, did it? >> he's trying to consolidate power and it hasn't worked because trumpism doesn't scale. now we are going to see if he can win back the white house. >> trumpism doesn't scale. that's a perfect way to put it. molly, thank you so much for joining us. greatly appreciated. with jen and eddie, stick around, we will be right back. we will take you behind the scenes of christopher nolan's oppenheimer, a film that will be the summer's biggest
fulton county courthouse. >> this is a crazy thing. let's just circle back to where we began with authoritarianism, strong leaders. this republican party is supposed to be the law and order party. law and order, law and order. they are supposed to be -- you know, the republicans used to always rail against the church commission, whale against hippies against the fbi and against the military. they've become these trumpers have become these authoritarians have become everything that they hated. >> what we've seen is trump consolidate power in the republican party. he tried to install loyalists, which is what we saw with the senate races, right? he put his people in. a lot of his people could not get elected. herschel walker. i mean, the very few -- j. d. vance, right, in ohio, in the really red state of ohio managed to get elected. >> dr. oz got elected -- await, i'm sorry. the gubernatorial government we -- didn't work either, did it? >> he's trying to consolidate power and it hasn't worked because trumpism doesn't scale. now we are going to see if he can win back the white house. >> trumpism doesn't scale. that's a perfect way to put it. molly, thank you so much for joining us. greatly appreciated. with jen and eddie, stick around, we will be right back. we will take you behind the scenes of christopher nolan's oppenheimer, a film that will be the summer's biggest blockbuster.
statistical sfnpoint but 61% of democrats think we are, 74% of independents think we are. 91% of republicans think we're in a recession. if you're tim ryan, democrat of the house trying to win an increasingly red state of ohio this year you're mad at your party. >> when it comes to inflation, we need a tax cut. we need to put money in people's pockets if we're going to weather the storm here so a tax cut in the short term. >> how many think inflation and the economy is the number one issue in this race? and you're one of them. >> i'm one of them. i've been screaming at democrats too for a year and a half to pass a tax cut. >> he has been pushing. i think democrats may regret some of their decisions in their strategy of passing things in the rearview mirror but in the front view this is a very, very bleak climate for democrats. >> it feels like a recession to people because of inflation and we're not used to inflation so people are really struggling with it. i think it's telling that it's