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Health concerns. joining us is the democrat candidate in mississippi. thank you so much for being with us. overtime, how does that feel? >> good morning. good morning, john. overtime, well, we all knew that this would be a two-step process. now we moved now, if you will, to the second quarter past our halftime. we are crunching the numbers and we really like what we see. we brought the incumbent senator to a virtual tie. i think that favors us. we have seen that 60% last night, 60% of the voters consciously voted against the incumbent senator. and on our side, that was unprecedented turnout. w...

Gillum situation, to be honest with you. we have our own race. i have kept my head down. i have not looked at perhaps why they came short. but we think we fought the incumbent senator to a tie, and that is a win for us. >> the president's perfectly popular in mississippi. why does his message resonate there? >> well, i mean, he's the president of the united states, and, you know, but he got less voters in mississippi than in louisiana and arkansas and in alabama. so, you know, all we have to do is put our heads down and get our vote out in three weeks, and we're doing that. >> secretary mike e...

The appetite is there. >> let's talk about that because there does seem to be an appetite, for instance, in the president's tax returns to be released. >> is this really what we're talking about today? >> yeah. because there will now be oversight that hasn't existed for the past two years. as you know democrats have long wanted there to be more oversight of this white house. >> well, sure. some of them it seems to be all they talk about. but what do their voters think? the last time the democrats did let's just say an extra investigation informs during the brett kavanaugh hearings, and the fou...

Carlos crabello, that voice gets lessoned. and mitt romney and ben sasse take up that mantle of that role he had been playing. we have a more polarized congress. i don't think this election says that the progressive wave is where democrats need to go, should go to win in 2020 going forward. but look at those suburban swing districts that they were able to pull. not -- you know, this is not pennsylvania won, which actually republicans held on to. this is oklahoma city suburbs, kansas city sub bauurbsuburbs. south carolina home district. that is unbelievable to see a democrat in this district. s...

I don't know if you are being modest about how you did this. because just to let people know, you are the first democrat to be elected to the office in 44 years. so that old boot strapping, you know, door to door retail politics is great. but wasn't there some other magic? how did you convince that sea of red to vote for a democrat? >> i think things are changing here. we had an amazing group of people that were involved. we really got a lot of young people involved. i think that is one of the things that made a huge difference. getting those voices of young voters and engaging new people in t...