joining us, david avella and brandon hall.you said this ought to be a deeply red district, but it's one that president trump won by just one and a half points. your guy ought to have a pretty good shot. >> there is no question and he does have a pretty good shot. i would much rather be jon ossoff heading into election day today. he is either slightly ahead are tied in almost every poll coming out. he's done a fantastic job. i like his chances. >> jon: let me play for you senator ted cruz's reaction. >> eventually a democrat may when one of these. special elections are unpredictable, but it is important to show up and turn out. they to use this as a dagger to stop the conservative agenda, to stop obamacare repeal, to stop tax reform, to stop the reasons why the american people gave us a republican president. if you care about that agenda, if you care about strong conservatives and the supreme court, it matters to win the elections. >> jon: is that kind of message resonating in georgia's sixth district? >> clinical party democra

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and, david avella, chairman of gopac, a republican political action committee focused on developing candidatesrun for higher office. ica rin, david, thanks for joining us. republicans held on, one was being highly watched, one not so much. the one being highly watched was not as close as people thought it might be. the one that nobody seemed to be watching was much closer. so what did we learn last night? karinewhat, did we learn? >> there are a few big takeaways. i want to be clear, yes, the one we watched, georgia sir, we didn't come as dloas as we thought, but he was dealing with a 24-point deficit. if you think about tom price, who won that district in november, he got as close as five points which i think says a lot. that district is a gerrymandered district that is a stronghold for republicans. it is a republican. plus-eight district. i think getting that close says a lot. if there are a lot of takeaways which i take from it, in 2018 if we're now able to play in georgia and south carolina, we're going to be able to play nay lot of different southern states because georgia and south carol

joining us now, david avella and leslie marshall. good to see you both. there are all these challenges now about the leadership in the house and within the party saying they don't have a real leader. what you make of them going back in time? a lot of people saying that former president obama is still the guy who really is the best leader for the democrats. >> i don't think the president -- the former president would be the best leader for the democrats, but one thing he was able to do quite frankly, was unite before the partition between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. if that remains quite large. there are still burning or bust people. if you look on twitter on a daily basis. the former president has very high approval ratings and he had historical numbers and getting out african-americans and millennials to vote. millennial voting is key, not just in the general election but even more so in the midterm as you know historically democrats come at my side of the team, stays home during that and we definitely need somebody to fan the flames and get them