. -- ann richard and she only served one term. >> texas is a tough state for us. >> will it change in 2014? >> it is hard to know. when we had 34 opportunities, we try to win each and every one of them. the way you do that is by recruiting strong candidates. you will see is focusing really hard on trying to recruit as many strong candidates as we can. we are not writing off the great state of texas. >> let me talk about one other state, and the state of arkansas. he is finishing up the second term. i would argue that no state has changed more in the past four years in arkansas. how you propose to keep a democrat holding that governorship? >> we would love to get arkansas in 2014. we have a long tradition in arkansas. one of the great presidents, bill clinton. we work very hard down there. tooannot get t specific of our prospects. >> some governors have been lobbying the white house on what they would like to see happen in some of the fiscal cliff negotiations and some of the cuts that republicans want to make in these negotiations could impact the state budget. what do you see as your

office since 2000 and it is more than 20 years that texas has elected a democrat and that was ann richards. why is it so hard for texas to elect an democratic governor? >> something in the water. texas is a tough state and we acknowledge that. >> is it going change in 2014? >> hard to know. one of your strategies is to ensure when we have 34 opportunities we try to win each and every one of them. the way to do that is by recruiting strong candidates. so you will see us focusing very hard not only on 2013 but on trying to recruit as many strong candidates as we can for 2014 and we're not writing off the great state of trks. >> let me ask about one other state that seems to present more of a risk which is arkansas. the governor is finishing up the second term, i will argue that no state has changed more in the last four years than arkansas. it has gone from mostly democratic delegation to a mostly all republican positions in the house. >> we would love to get arkansas in 2014. we have a long tradition in arkansas, let's not forget one of the great presidents of the united states, bill clinto

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richard? >> you'll be visiting with us a little bit later in the evening there for you as the day closes out. thank you, aim annf plan b shows that major challenges for republicans to come to any agreement on their own, much less the president. speaker john boehner explained the failure this way. >> that vote last night was going to increase taxes. i disagree with that characterization of the bill, but that impression was out there. we had a number of our members who just really didn't want to be perceived as having raised taxes. that was the real issue. >> as we saw throughout the election, the narrative of the republican party broadly led in many instances by congressional races here much the way it was in 2010. so pushing forward to the 113th congress which convenes january 3rd, the new future of the gop may not be too far away and in fact, 25 republican representatives will not return and only have a week of work left. joining us in the war room, karen fin me and we also have robert trainam, msnbc contributor with senator rick santorum. was this like watching a train wreck in slow motion? a lot of people sa