Democrats look to take momentum from Virginia win into 2024 statehouse fights
This month's fight over control of the Virginia legislature previewed a year of statehouse battles across the country.
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This month's fight over control of the Virginia legislature previewed a year of statehouse battles across the country.
The wins will help the party control key legislative chambers and provide a good omen for 2024.
Of hillary clinton. she wasn't even the president. >> yeah, if you want to talk about excessive hearings, i have one word, bengals. al gore used to say denial is not just a river in egypt. that is classic denial about what happened on tuesday. it was a massive win for democrats across the board, picking up 37 seats in the house, 7 governorships, seven state legislative chambers, and 372 state legislative seats. i mean, that is a blue wave. plus picking up arizona and nevada. we could still win mississippi in the senate, mississippi and florida. governorships in florida and georgia, i mean, com...
Welcome back. as we president trump's meeting with reverend brunson in the oval office, i want to turn to the midterms. joining me is bill crystal and ma mara, who is also an msnbc contributor. bill, let me start with you. i just want to get a sense with you about the tone that we're seeing in the midterms and the tone for the midterms 24 days out. we've seen the rhetoric get hotter and hotter. the president will be in kentucky tonight for another rally. what do you make of it? how different is this from the past? >> it is different and i can't say it's better. there's a moderate wave, the dem...
It will be incredibly expensive to go into all states. a giant waste of money for them. they're losing politically. they can't win campaigns they have to redraw the maps so they can win. >> democrats could take back control of the house and 2018. it would take a unprecedented wave to do that. >> estimate is the democrats would have to win the national order to win back a narrow majority in the u.s. house. that is similar in many of the state legislators around the country. >> it's going to take a once in a generational wave in order for the democrats to over come the structural advantages the ...