host: and the president sending out a tweet about this incident yesterday, saying wow, fake trump hader joe crowley, who many expected to take nancy pelosi's place, just lost the primary election. in other words, he is out. perhaps he should have been nicer and more respectful to his president. what does this victory do for progressives overall who are running? guest: while i am sure republicans are glad they have managed to keep all of their incumbent faces last night, several cases were incumbent republicans were facing difficult primaries. i do not think the lesson of last night is that democrats in new york needed to be nicer to the president. seeing the same device we saw in the 2016 presidential primary playing out in the midterms. and the reason is surprising is because we have not seen that play out until tonight. we have seen the bernie sanders wing of the party suffer in midterms so far. and last night, rather, but we saw a new candidate who either had bernie sanders endorsements or who were avid supporters and n theirers wi primaries. so those divisions in the 2016 presidential election

host:nd the president sending out a tweet about this incident yesterday, saying wow, fake trump hader joe crowleywho many expected to take nancy pelosi's place, just lost the primary election. in other words, he is out. perhaps he should have been nicer and more respectful to his president. what does this victory do for progressives overall who are rug? guest: while i am sure republicans are glad they have managed to keep all of their incumbent faces last night, several cases were incumbent republicans were facing difficult primaries. i do not think the lesson of last night is that democrats in new york needed to be nicer to the president. seeing the same device we saw in the 2016 presidential primary playing out in the midterms. and the reason is surprising is because we have not seen that play out until tonight. we have seen the bernie sanders wing of the party suffer in midterms so far. and last night, rather, but we saw a new cdidate who either had bernie sanders endorsements or who were avid supporters and n theirers wi primaries. so those divisions in the 2016 presidential election are not