good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show" from detroit lakes, minnesota, i'm ready to go. let's get to work! ♪ >> well, he really wants to get that transpacific partnership by trade. >> and failing to find common ground. >> left with a bit of egg on his face. >> resolution of that agreement will mean real job growth. >> they told us that was going to be a huge job deal for us. >> real economic prosperity. >> how did that work out? >> pitting united states workers against lower-paid and lower-paid workers. >> threatens to be hyped up on steroid. >> we're at an important cross roads in the tpp negotiation. >> he failed to make the relationship that it would create jobs. >> if you can't get support among your own party.

>> they will be able to undercut it here in america. >> we expect the president not to go forward. good to have you with us tonight, folks, thanks for watching. would president obama put his right hand up to the oval office back in january 2009, this country was peel, off 750,000 jobs a month. it wasn't good. remember those days? but the country wanted jobs. that the country wanted the congress to focus on jobs and the economy. so we did the stimulus package. it certainly helped an awful lot. we've added nine million jobs since then but the country still wants jobs. but right now, you see, america is being disfocused because of this thing called benghazi. oh, let's not forget, we got to throw in his 20-year-old sex scandal which, of course, the clintons are allegedly behind. give me a break. more on that later in the show. but you know what americans want six years after the fact?

they want jobs. and the republicans, no, they just want to help out. they want to sit over there and just be hecklers from the stands. in fact, here in the middle of the country, i run into a lot of people who think congress shouldn't even be on the payroll because they're not doing anything when it comes to jobs. now, you can blame it all on the republicans. or we can blame it on the democrats or even thinking about a dratrade agreement that wouldt more american jobs. how many more trips to the american heartland do we have to make. and i feel like i'm on an island talking about this story. president obama isn't all perfect about this either. we're going to be fair about this, because the president just finished an eight-day trip to asia. the trip was focused on the transpacific partnership. it's pretty clear the president failed to seal the deal on this free trade agreement, or, of

course, we would have heard a lot about it, and we haven't. meanwhile, the fight with the tpp is heating up and the momentum is starting to shift. here's what democracy looks like. activists staged a protest against the tpp and fast track outside the capitol. labor leaders, which is a dirty word now, labor leaders and lawmakers, you know what they did? they spoke out, calling for fair trade. they want fair trade, not free treated. it was a driving windstorm and rain but it didn't stop the protesters from speaking their mind. >> here's what's going happen if we pass the tpp we could lose an estimates 130,000 job us solely based on the inclusion of japan and vietnam. >> that's just one country. keep in mind, there are 12 countries involved in this, and it's 40% of our ecomy. other speakers included congress

won rose laguro and communications workers president of america, that is lower cohen. these people, its their priority. they're talk about it. americans at today's event, they have every right to be outraged that this country is even thinking about this. this is a corporate deal. it's driven by wall street. it's been done in secrecy? does that bother you at all? do you feel like you're part of it yet? every time america enters into a trade deal or trade, our trade deficit, as a country, it grows, and that relates directly to jobs which the country is clamoring about. they're outsourced. i've got some charts, folks. you see, you've got to have numbers if you're for or against something. this chart shows a trade deficit with china. it's very clear. china was given this preferred nation trading status. they were going to be honest brokers when it comes to

currency manipulation. since then, the trade deficit with china, has it skyrocketed. in 2012, the trade deficit with china stood at roughly $540 billion. it's estimated the united states has lost 2.7 jobs as a result of the trade deficit with china. now, that's just one country, is this going to involve a whopping 12 nations. got another chart for you. this one shows our trade deficit with mexico. since nafta was passed in 1994, the trade deficit with mexico has gone, really, through the roof. in 2012, it was roughly a $60 billion deficit. now, less just make this point very clear right here. when nafta was signed into law, back in the clinton years, a lot of things were happening in mexico that weren't good. illegal immigration was a really bad situation for this country. we really didn't know how to deal with it. we weren't enforcing the laws

anywhere near what we're doing right now. we thought if we do this jobs deal it will help people out, citizens in mexico, because it will create jobs over there. you know what it did? it shifted our zwlaubs. it's estimated the united states has lost over 680,000 jobs because of our trade deficit with mexico. what do you say we do another one? in 2011, south korea free trade agreement, oh, it was ratified. this was supposed to be the dandy. the following year, the trade deficit with south korea increased by $5.8 billion. the deal cost america more than 40,000 u.s. jobs and most of them were in the manufacturing sector. now, these are three clear examples. the numbers are very clear. and the numbers don't lie. no free trade agreement of contemporary time has ever created jobs in the united states. what do the american people want congress to focus on? jobs. free trade agreements hurt american workers.

that's not hard to consume. who does it help? well, it helps big corporations. apparently, they're not making enough money. now, you know that's true because this guy is pushing for it. >> expanded trade means more opportunities for americans, more exports. so the question is, is the president going to stand up and lead on this issue? we cannot pass this bill without his help. and this is one of those own priorities, you would think he would have the senate majority leader working with him to pass trade promotion authority in order to expand opportunities for our fellow citizens. >> hold on a second here, folks. i've got to clean out my ear here. i don't know if i heard that right. boehner said that it would create more opportunities for american workers? he's lying again. for someone who's always out there asking where are the jobs, boehner sure knows how to kill jobs. if john boehner wants something

it's safe to assume it's bad for working americans. when you hear politicians say that the tpp wil create jobs, they're lying. it will not create jobs in america. will it increase some exports? yeah, but comparatively, it's going to hurt american jobs. and they have no numbers to back up their case. boehner has not one chart that will be able to refer to any previous trade agreet that shows that we have created jobs in america. not one chart. i gave you three tonight in just a few minutes. hey, boehner, why don't you come on with big eddie, you can't, because you don't have the numbers. show me the numbers. you don't have them. free trade agreements are a job-killer for this country. does not involve job creation. and it does not help our economy. but most importantly, they hurt the american middle class, and that's what's at stake in all of this. you know, the president of the united states, who i have great

respect for, runs around the country campaigning, talking, save the middle class, emboldened the middle class. you know who this trade deal is going to embolden? you know where the opportunity lies with this trade deal, in the financial sector, the banking industry. bankers are just clamoring. they're champing at the bit. they can't get enough of being able to get in with these other countries and do some foreign business. that's what this is about. it's also about the pharmaceutical industry and how they're going to be able to reap the profits. not only of that is going to be able to do anything for american jobs. none of it is going to do anything for middle class. back to banking for a moment. if we allow them access through this tpp through this, quote, emerging markets, is the lending situation in america going to change a little bit for those entrepreneurs out there that want to partake in the american dream? i doubt it. you mean to tell me that we can't get a guarantee from the

banking industry that if they make even more money off the tpp that they might loosen up the reins a little bit to small businesses around america, maybe minorities to get access to capital. oh, come on, they can do that, can't they? they won't. and they can't be trusted. what about this sovereignty thing. is it really true that there's going to be this commission that's going to be able to be put together with the tpp, and if they don't make enough money in america on this deal, that they're going to be able to circumvent american law and also file lawsuits agast companies who are doing business? is that true? funny, i read that and i didn't hear any of the senators ask about that when this trade guy went up to the hill the other day and started talking about how great it is. mr. president, i know you want to help the american middle class. and i know that you probably got wall street pressure, but this is not what democrats voted for,

another bad trade deal. and i really do believe that there are enough democrats and, maybe even enough republicans who have stepped up on this tpp and talked about fast track that we may have really slowed this down to the point where we might be saving jobs by not doing this. pay no attention to boehner. boehner has no credibility on jobs whatsoever. the republican party has no credibility on jobs whatsoever. they never have. they've lied to the american people all along. they've been hecklers from the stands from day one. they've never been honest brokers in dealing with jobs. all they care about is the top 2% and the corporations are going to benefit greatly by the tpp if it goes through. strand strong, mr. president. say no to the pipeline and say no to the tpp. that's why you were elected. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think of tonight's question. will washington ever quit pushing bad trade deals and start protecting american jobs?

text "a" for yes. "b" for know. to 67622. go to our blog at edmsnbc.com. if you'll remember, a couple months ago i was in loraine, ohio, talking to some steelworkerses. we're going bring some of them back and ask them how's it going since the interview we did in low rain? what's it really like, are you still a taker, according to paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee. he thinks you're a taker. i want to hear what they have to say now. we'll get to that story. let me bring in larry cohen who is the president of the communications workers of america who was front and center at that protest today. larry, great to have you with us tonight. the fact that the president was not able to close the deal on the most recent trip to asia, how big is that? >> i think that's important. i think what was important today was, you know, 1,000 people from every aspect of the democratic base, not just labor, but the

environmentalists and the students, democracy groups, consumer groups with key members from the democratic caucus saying, mr. president, commit, that if a majority of this caucus in the house doesn't support tpp, you will walk away from it. and we're not doing fast track, unless we support a tpp. that's the frame we're in. and the white house is going to be under pressure, are you going to make a deal with boehner? or are you going to stick by the caucus and the base of this party? but he didn't get a deal in japan, and he doesn't have a deal with the base of this party either. >> you know, last week, i thought that -- the chief negotiator in all of this failed to make the case on jobs in front of the lawmakers in washington. how energized is this movement on this issue? it seems the more information that gets out about the tpp, the more momentum american workers get on this.

>> well, very energized. 1,000 people are in the rain for an hour, then they went to every congressional office, as you said, every republican and every democrat, senate and house, and this group representing millions and millions of americans that are here today. but more importantly, they're going to be in every district, not just through the election, but through 2015. we've had enough of 20th century trade deals with 19th century economics. we want 21st century globalization. where working people, environmentalists, young people come first. not where the nationals trump national law with these investor dispute settlement processes that you began to describe. >> you know, mr. cohen, it really is at that point where we have to call it like it is. those lawmakers up there who were saying that this is going to create jobs, they're lying. i say they're lying. they have no factual evidence whatsoever to bring in front of

the american people and say, look at this number. they don't have it. are they lying? >> they are, because the key is net jobs. so they can always point to export jobs that may increase. but the question is net jobs. just like the question is, trade deficits. there were $8 trillion in 20 years when no other nation had any sizable deficit whatsoever, net jobs. and what does it do to our pay? we have a call center worker today describe what it's like in her call center in texas when management tells us we can't raise the pay, the jobs will be moved back to the philippines. that's the reality of this. the jobs go. the pay goes down. and the deficits go up. the cities of america, whether it's low rain or cleveland get destroyed. >> larry cohen, president of communications workers of america, good to have you with us tonight. keep up the fight, sir. let me bring in senator sherrod brown from ohio.

senator, good to have you with us. this is front and center, your issue, the jobs, the focus on all of this. how can anyone make the case, senator, that the tpp is good for american jobs? >> i'm particularly amazed when i hear somebody like speaker boehner from my state talk about job growth when he connects it to trade agreements. he's been in the congress a long time. he remembers nafta. he voted for nafta. he remembers what happened with lost jobs from nafta. and underminding environmental and worker and food protections and food safety, he should travel to the other end of the state, where you were, ed, low rain lorain, ohio, and look at the job loss. and he can look in his own backyard because he's seen what's happened in hamilton, middletown and cincinnati and dayton because of trade agreements. most countries practice trade

according to a national interest. our country practices trade because the elite in washington make it that way according to some 20-year out-of-date textbook it's that the got to change. that's why when larry cohen says it's right, we need a 21st century globalization, not the kind of we've seen the last 20 years. >> senator, do you think the white house is in rough shape at this hour? >> i think the white house is of mixed minds on this. i know every president thinks they have to fight for free trade agreements. i was hopeful that president obama had learned from his predecessors that it doesn't work out well for the country. i give him credit for being more aggressive on trade enforcement than some of his predecessors, but he's wrong on this one. i'm still hopeful that we get a different kind of trade agreement. a different kind of fast track. and a different kind of transpacific partnership out of the finance committee. i've worked with chairman

wideman who is more open to this than his predecessors in doing a different kind of trade. we know what we need to do in this trade agreement and these trade agreements plural. for food safety, for public health and for wages as larry cohen said. so we know how to do it. it's a question of congress coming together and doing it and standing up to the interest groups that you mentioned earlier, ed. >> and the level of protectionism has to be in equality. i mean, if someone wants a good that's produced somewheres, nobody's against them having access to it. it's how it's put together and who's doing the work that has to be equal. and it just seems to me that wall street doesn't even let that enter into the equation. your thoughts on that? >> well, we're going to see our country lose its innovation edge. you know, we're the most innovative country in the world.

the best universities. the best government-funded and privately funded research. when we noun vat and come up with a new product, we follow this business plan that's too common. you shut down a plant in steubenville or toledo or jackson, ohio, and move it to china. >> that's good stuff. >> then we lose the innovation action. that's what we're doing in far too many cases. this whole idea, you shut down production here, move it 5,000 or 8,000 miles away, then you sell back into this country is a bankrupt policy. it hurts the workers. it hurts the small businesses in the community. it hurts the community overall. and it's bad for our country. it's bad economics. >> senator, good to have you with us tonight. you're one of the great ones. you get it, there's no question about it. there's a handful in the congress that do get it when it comes to jobs. thank you for joining us tonight. and this really is what it is all about for america right now.

if we don't believe in american workers, if we're willing to allow our politicians, our elected officials to go out and deals like this, go through that come back and hurt you in your backyard, what are they worth? what are they worth? this has been the conversation since 2009. can't let them go down this road in this trade agreement. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your shots on twitter @ed show and on facebook. appreciate your interaction of the show so much. coming up, the tea party's view on conservative voters, is it slipping? why the mainstream, the mainstream gop i think is just as dangerous. but, first, the senate's tug-of-war of the keystone xl pipeline.

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blockade. >> even if it passed the bill, they're still not going to build this pipeline. >> it still relevant, with president obama. >> keystone vote isn't a lot for senate supporters. >> we've got baggage and land drew. these are issues that they're going to have to deal with. >> the oil industry has stepped up pressure on democrats. >> can we find four, five, six more democrats? i would hope so. >> this vote means absolutely nothing. joining me now on the phone is jane klebb, executive director of bold nebraska, her organization, no question about it, has been at the heart of the opposition when it comes to the keystone xl pipeline. 60 votes for a bill in the senate that would give it the stamp of approval. jane, we just had the national climate change report come out. i think it's the most credible thing out there. you had over 300 scientists, america's best, working on this, over three years. should this, in your opinion, affect the vote?

and should this tell democrats to hold the line? >> absolutely. look, you know republicans couldn't get the 60 votes that they needed. so now, i'm sure, for the next couple days, ed, we'll be hearing them explain on how harry reid wouldn't give them a vote on x, y and z and that's why they had to pull it. reality is, $21 million, five times the amount of other folks who did not sign on this bill, $21 million did not buy them the vote. and this is the good news. intensity is on our side. yesterday, in denver, you had lots of folks on the pipeline pushing them in the streets to vote no. also monday, folks in delaware bringing a 200-foot pipeline to the senators' offices. intensity is on our side, republicans as well as democrats are hearing that message loud and clear. >> and the fact that the oil industry, the petroleum industry is spending so much on ads it's

somewhat of a compliment that that they're having an impact. your thoughts? >> you know what they say if they're ridiculing you or taking out ads in politics, they're winning. weapon will never have the amount of money they have, we just never will. but they will never have the kind of heart and soul we have fighting this pipeline. to be honest, they continue to give us -- we have the wood and hammer to kill this pipeline, to build the coffin for this pipeline. but to be honest, ed, big oil and republicans, they're the ones who keep handing us the nails. whether it's the bill to try to force approval. or whether it was the shady way they tried to get the nebraska route which they invaded our state, they really keep handing us the nails and we're going to build this coffin to bury this pipeline once and for all. >> bottom line is here is, if this vote does take place and it passes, it doesn't matter. all it is for senator landreau

and maybe others out there to empathically put themselves in position with voters where the pipeline is popular in certain portions of the cover, it gives them political cover. isn't this vote about political cover at this 30i7b9? >> that's right. all this vote would have done is for senator landrieu to be able to say in a campaign ad i voted to approve keystone xl. so voters who support the pipeline who don't know that's just a ceremonial vote, just a political cover vote wouldn't know any different. that's misleading. it's not only bad because of the climate report that keim out that said we've got to keep a certain amount of carbon in the ground, why would we allow this pipeline that brings 1 million barrels of tar sand a day. that's why we know the president's going to do the right thing. let's forget about political cover and think about the risk to the water and the futures for our kids. >> jane klebb, bold, nebraska,

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so-called main treatment republican candidate, really? house speaker thom tillis won the gop nomination with nearly for example% of the vote last night, he beat greg brannon, a tea partyist backed by senator rand paul. the win prevents a july runoff which, of course, would have drawn out the republican race for another couple months. tillis will run against democratic senator kay hagan in november. >> it's not end of the primary. it's really the beginning of the primary mission which has been a mission all along and that is to beat kay hagan and to make heirry reid irrelevant in america. >> senator kay hagan called a choice between two different records. she says thom tillis has spent his time in raleigh pushing an agenda that has rigged the system against middle class

families. north carolina has has been one of the most radical states in the country. progressives moved to what's called a moral monday, ranging from a refusal of the medicaid expansion to education cuts to limits on unemployment benefits to new voting rules. i mean, they have had it all in north carolina. joining me tonight for the "rapid response" panel, e.j. dionne "washington post" and msnbc contributor. and william barber, north carolina naacp president and architect of the moral monday demonstrationing. great to have you both with us tonight. first of all, e.j., we'll start with you you why is the term "mainstream republican candidate" being thrown around right now when if you checked this guy's record he's as radical as anything you've got on the right? >> that's true. the charlotte observer had a great editorial on this yesterday where they said tillis

is seen as the establishment candidate in this primary but his record and his rhetoric are clear. he is no moderate and can come across that way only when sitting next to greg brannon and other candidates. i think the other lesson here is that the tea party is going to lose some of these primaries as they did yesterday. by my colleague from "the washington post" has made the point that they've already moved the republican party to the right of where it used to be. and when you look at mr. tillis' record whether it's on the medication expansion or the voter suppression law, his opposition to a federal minimum wage he is a very, very, very conservative candidate. >> no doubt. reverend dr. barber, what's your reaction to thom tillis winning last night. how is this going to be? >> we don't endorse candidates.

with them calling him mainstream, there's a lot of green tea in that mainstream. he cut 500,000 people from medicaid expansion. nine republican governors accepted medicaid expansion. he took 900,000 people earned income credit to give 23,000 families a tax credit break. ronald reagan supported earned income tax credit -- when you make ronald reagan look like a liberal then that's surely extremism. he passed the worst suppression law since jim crow. he took 107,000 people's unemployment. cut it to almost last in the nation, 5,000 teachers. this is not some kind of mainstream or establishment. as speaker, he's been right there with the tea party extremists. i think he got one of the top awards from alec as a legislator. so we cannot engage in this

rhetoric. we have to look at the record. the record proves who you are. >> well, reverend, wouldn't that record motivate progressives and democrats to get out and do what they have to do in november? i mean, is this going to be in some way a motivating moment and a number of opportunities for the left? >> i think sometimes, people are missing what's happening. we had 13 moral mondays by the end of that, people were arrested. and thousands turned out. in february, people of all races, creeds, and parties, republicans, democrats are gathered. we're going back to the legislature on may 19th of this month. there's an upswing. there's a tide, there's a pushing. we've even seen republicans in certain counties who have said, listen, i'm not with this tea party extremism. i've stood with republicans in the state that are against the medicate cuts and education. so it's going to be a different day. you know we're going to see a major turnout in a major way come this fall.

>> major turnout, i hope so. e.j., in a recent poll, 45% of north carolina voters said that the minimum wage should be raised to $10 an hour or hire. thom tillis had this to say about that. he said, i think for the most part, the market needs to define that. when we create artificial thresholds then you run into a big problem. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think the minimum wage is a winning issue pretty much all over the country. there are plenty of people who may be conservative on this or that issue. but if you ask the basic question should people who work every day get paid something much closer to a living wage, the answer is, yes. it's a conservative value that you ought to be paid if you work. but also on your point about mobilization and reverend barber has led an extraordinary mobilization down there, i think this is going to be the first electoral opportunity to cast a ballot on what's been happening in north carolina.

over the last couple years. and so, i think -- >> what about that, reverend? >> well, i think you're exactly right. when we were mobilizing, people were fighting for unemployment. fighting for medicaid. thom tillis called us whiners and losers. literally he referred to people who lost their jobs as whiners and losers. i think the people he defined as whiners and losers are going to wind up at the polls in a mighty way and they're going to vote like they've never voted before. he has 63% name recognition but in one poll, only 29% favorable. we don't endorse, we don't tell people to vote for but certainly tell the people how the candidates have voted so they can make an intelligent decision. >> e.j. dionne, history is not on their side for turnout. do you sense it might be different? >> that's what i was going to say, precisely because there had been so much mobilization in north carolina and precisely because there is such a strong reaction not only from

progressive voters but from a lot of middle of the road people in north carolina who really think this golf of theirs has gone way to the right of that state's recent traditions, they're going to be looking for an opportunity to express themselves. yeah, democrats in general may have a turnout problem. but i think it's going to be less in north carolina because of the nature of this government and the fact that will tillis played a role in it. >> north carolina just as hot as florida. vice versa. great to have you both on tonight. e.j. dionne and dr. reverend barber. thank you. coming up, lynne cheney has got a new conspiracy theory. or maybe just bad intelligence. "pretenders" is next. orbiting t. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal.

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the workers united, we'll never be defeated. >> welcome back to "the ed show." this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work because they've earned it all day. fast food workers refuse to give up the fight for fair wages across america. demonstrators gathered to announce an upcoming strike of 150 cities. the strike on may 15th will call for a may increase of $15 an hour. here, here. one michigan fast food based company has already proven that paying employees fair wages, hey, it works. last year we introduced you to moo cluck moo. now, over the last year, they have paid their employees $15 an hour, and they are still selling hamburgers, and it's been good economic development. you see, it works, folks.

joining me tonight is brian parker, cofounder of moo cluck moo. brian, good to have you with us tonight, a big congratulations. this is a big conversation in america. where there are guys like you who are in charge can actually pay employees what they deserve. i want to ask you, has this been a job killer, because that's what everybody against it says. >> i'm not sure a job killer in what way. it's been great for us. >> that's the bottom line, because a lot of people who are against the minimum wage are paying workers, say, well, this is going to force owners to get rid of people on the payroll. what has happened with your company with this scenario? >> well, what's happened with our company is we have employees here that really care about what we do, and who we do it with and who we do it for, and it's been great because we've had very low turnover and we have people that really care about the food, they care about the sourcing, and they really care about our

customers, who are the fuel for our rocket. >> brian, have you had to raise your prices because of what you pay your employees? >> no. we really have maintained our prices. the only issue that we would raise our prices is the cost of food. we have our labor in check. our workers work really hard. they wear many hats here, and they are very, very well trained, so they are very well worth it and that really helps the bottom line for us. we've had very, very low turnover, and that saves the cost in terms of training and, you know, trying to get other people up and running. so we've had some economies there. >> you know, what about product loyalty in the community? i mean, obviously, people in the community know what you're doing. there's this big discussion in america about fairness. how has the community responded to the way you treat your workers, because that word is out there. >> the word is out there, and they've responded very, very

well. i wish i could show you the line we have here right now. every time i come in here i see the same smiling faces, and they've really rallied behind us in support of us, because they know that we pay our workers and our team a little better than most. >> now, we talked to your partner, harry, last fall, and he told us your company's goal was that you wanted to expand. how is that expansion going? >> well, we've since you've talked to harry, we've expanded to a location in canton, michigan, which is about 20 miles west of here. we have another location in our crosshairs in troy, michigan, which is another 20 miles north of here, and we're looking at new york and california and chicago as other locations. we don't want to stop there. we'd love to be in every corner of the country. >> well, brian, if you come to new york or minnesota, you've got to have the big 80 burger.

we could really get it done on that one, you know? hey, great job. you are a great american for what you're doing for workers. brian parker, thanks so much. all the best to moo cluck moo. we'll follow the story. and that is "the ed show." "politicsnation" with rev sharpton starts right now. good evening, al. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, extreme goes mainstream. that's what we're seeing today in north carolina, where house speaker thom tillis has won the gop senate primary. he beat greg brannon, the tea party candidate champion by rand paul, and tillis's win is being considered a victory for the establishment wing of the gop. saying tillis is a moderate is like saying rush limbaugh is a moderate. just listen to mr. moderate in 2011. >> what we have to do is find a