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Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely i...

Is toxic politically is is going to hurt republicans in the midterm elections in 2018. what gillespie was trying to do was harness as much trumpism as he could to energize those voters, energize trump's base at the same time he brought in more traditional republicans, suburban voters, and he obviously failed in that regard. this was -- republicans were hoping that this could be a model for them in 2018, and that model failed last night. so republicans are going to have to think long and hard about how they run with this unpopular president in office. perhaps tweeting against them all the while...

Gun policy in the news with tragedy in texas, split. half the people saying guns were issue, voting for gillespie, half voting for northam. different motivations. taxes, bread and butter issue. and immigration, what gillespie was playing up. republican voters here, gillespie voters. and interesting result. gillespie ran on the issue of heritage, he called it, confederate monuments, shouldn't be torn down, asked this question, confederate monuments on government property, what should be done? 38% remove, almost 60% with gillespie on that. leave them in place. gillespie was trying to build a win...

Well for a republican up here when he ran for the senate a couple of years ago. he actually didn't do as well as republicans should do maybe in the rural parts of virginia. last year when donald trump was running, we're seeing trump get 75%, 85% in should have these counties. what gillespie was trying to pull off is culture issues he ran on aggressively. he was trying to get that 85% in places down here. doesn't look like he quite reached that number. but through the tactics you're talking about, he was still trying to be the ed gillespie of 2014. the ed gillespie of the bush era up here. the ...

>> chris christie is arguably the least popular governor in the united states, and he seems to revel in it to a certain degree, he likes being the guy that they don't like being the heel, and he kind of digs it. i think he's down with that. i think his lieutenant governor probably wishes that his numbers were a little better, but new jersey is a state that likes to flip-flop its governorship. >> martha: that's true, kim, the race is far from over in new jersey, as we know. molly, your thoughts on sort of the situation that chris christie was in, and maybe put his lieutenant governor in? >> chr...