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And as you noted, president obama lost this state by more than 50 points. at that point, people kind of rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows. now the clinton campaign is actually sending more staff out. the reality is this, anderson, hillary clinton has a hard ceiling here. she's not going to get above 25 or 30%, but with a diffuse electorate right now, three different candidates polling, that might just be enough. anderson? >> fascinating days. phil mattingly, thanks very much. back with the panel. is this just a fluke? just a one-off thing? >> talk about a never-trump. the last time w...

Legitimate questions because they are highly regulated industries that benefit from a close relationship with political figures. >> peter thank you for being with us. come back again very soon. coming up in the next hour, the south goes red, another big republican night. where republicans take over southern governor's mansion and the one solid south, talking about how matt went from mitch mcconnell's punching bag to governor elect. and the democrats are blaming, and their words, trump mania. >> okay.

I think it was a very balanced bill and could be passed in a minute in the house. it would be great if boehner brought it up and passed it. >> who is the republican establishment? >> well, we know who it was. it was the bush family. the bush family was sort of pushed aside briefly by the reagans for a bit. it was back to the bushes. it's bob dole, bob michael, cloth cut republicans with some old money like the bushes. it's a party of the northeast and the midwest historically and now more the sun belt because of the civil rights passage in '64. it would be the end of the solid south. now we ha...

It? whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will become the first republican to hold that senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south, the democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. in louisiana this weekend it was all over but the shouts of victory and the briefest pause for the reflection on defeat. >> if you want to spend your life in a worthy cause, choose something that takes longer than...

As the last one blue dot in the south, would it have been worth it? whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is that mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state that gave her three terms in a row picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will now become the first republican to hold that louisiana senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. and in louisiana this weekend it was all over, but the shouts of victory and just the briefest pause...