host: your dccc chair for a couple of years. obviously very successful year this year, at least for democrats in winning back the house of representatives. going forward, what do you see their biggest challenge is heading into 2020? guest: they are going to have a very large number of incumbent cans that they are going to have to defend in 2020. 2018 was a year where the dccc was mostly on offense. beating republicans who were rubber-stamps for donald trump. 2020 will be a cycle where the democrats are mostly on defense. defending those frontline incumbent cans in republican districts. the first job is, shoring up those new members of congress so that they can withstand a challenge in 2020. the sec thing they need to do, second -- second thing they need to do, second challenge, recruit immediately. there are some districts that the dccc can win in 2020. i have knowledge of this. they have already reached into those districts. they are talking to democrats who lost by a very narrow margin, and recruiting them to run in 2020. thos

and if the dccc was all in with cortez, why are they letting -- >> the dccc has to be strategic. one quick thing, this is also the year of the military woman. you have candidates like mj hedger in texas, these are combat veterans who are women. that is a really important distinction in this cycle. >> let's come back in a moment. coming up, how 11th hour campaign ads could backfire in the end. what it says about the state of the midterms race. ♪ oh, look... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula available.

what happened was the dccc's strategy worked.ve talked about together building the largest battlefield in a decade in terms of the dccc going on offense. recruiting incredible candidates like veterans and cia officers, as well as job creators deep into that battlefield. what that allowed us to do is have multiple paths to the majority. we went through both clinton districts r trump districts, the coasts and the midwest to get to the 23 seats we needed. there's still many seats we may flip in the next couple of days. >> dana: do you think maybe other democrats could learn from the dccc in terms of candidate recruitment and matching up candidates that fit their district? i'm thinking gubernatorial races. stacey abrams in georgia. then you had laura kelly, who won in kansas. much more a pragmatic type. what do you think about that? >> i think that you just named some very inspiring state wide democratic candidates. we'll see where all those races end up. on the house side, we are in an often jerrymandered district where you need to

alexi: you, or the dccc, thus released the first ever multistate spanish-language tv ad.bviously, democrats will always be criticized -- and they have in past cycles -- for what could he say is not paying attention to enough minority voters. as you say, this program was of a days after trump was elected. can you talk to us about two things regarding that ad? one, the timing, and two, it does not mention trump at all. it takes a much softer tone from what we are seeing on the right. is it the best response to the immigration rhetoric? or just the rhetoric of latinos in general? dan: we are incredibly proud of the fact we were able to do this multistate, multi channel approach with the entire year of engagement. obviously, these spanish buy is a piece of that. it also dovetails into an african-american radio buy. it is not just one specific audience or type of voter. i think it is important to understand -- we did focus groups throughout the rocky mountains-southwest. looking and talking to hispanic voters. not with a traditional sense of what is on a black and white full,

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jeffries: we are having ar discussion and formay with other members and then i'll sit down with the three dccc candidates who are here and also have a conversation with sean patrick maloney. hear what the members of the house democratic members have to say and we'll proceed from there. hank you everyone. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org ms. pelosi: good afternoon everyone. and i believe it is a good afternoon. we had a most unifying session just now in the house democratic caucus, the new house democratic caucus, the most diverse caucus ever and it was so inspiring to hear my colleagues place my name in nomination once again for speaker of the house. how moving it was to hear joe kennedy place the name in nomination to be seconded bill kathy castor, a colleague who has been a leader on climate change and of course, joe, a friend for many years, but a leader in the congress making his own mark. and then to have joyce beatty quoting presid

steve israel of new york, is also the former chair of the dccc. steve schmidt flew in just for you on this special night. and bilkoen made his way here. thank you so much. special correspondent for vanity fair, and the author of "why wall street matters." president trump has been campaigning nonstop. he has been on an absolute media blitz for weeks now. and a week ago, i would say, man, he's dominating all of the attention. but in the last week, whether it's the obama or the oprah effect. democrats have definitely picked up steam. are you happy with how they're doing on the campaign? >> president trump has been the best recruiter, the best fund-raiser, the best candidate that the democratic party has ever had. we want him out more. when i chaired the dccc, intensity comes in waves, the story of this midterm is this. the first wave of intensity was with democrats, then after kavanaugh and as a result of the caravan, the second wave of intense ity is with republicans. the third wave is breaking now, that is with independents. they come to their conc

informally with other members of the house democratic caucus, and then i'll sit down with the three dccc candidates who are here, and then i'll also have a conversation with sean patrick maloney. get everyone's input in terms of the candidate. hear what the members of the house democratic caucus have to say, and then we'll proceed from there. thank you, everyone. reporter: thank you. reporter: thank you. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] rep. pelosi: good afternoon, everyone. and i do believe it is a good afternoon. we had a most unifying session just now in the house democratic caucus. the new house democratic caucus, the most diverse democratic -- ah, caucus ever, and it was so inspiring to hear my colleagues place my name in nomination, once again, for speaker of the house. how moving it was to hear joe kennedy place the name in nomination, to be seconded by kathy castor, a colleague who has been the lead in climate change issues and the rest. of course joe, a friend for many years, but a leader in the congress, making his own mark. and then to have joyce

when i chaired the dccc, i understood that intensity comes in waves. the first wave of intensity was with democrats. after kavanaugh and as a result of the caravan, it is true that the second wave of intensity was with republicans, they began to reach parity with democrats. the third wave of intensity is breaking now and that is with independents. independents reserve judgment, they come to their conclusions pretty much in the last weekend. what you're seeing now, stephanie, is that independents are breaking intensely for democrats, because of the fearmongering, the caravan, the president's statements, the vitriol, the virulence, that backfires with moderate suburban voters. i'll go out on a limb and say the democrats will pick up in the mid-30s in the house of representatives. this has backfired on president trump and the republicans. >> bill, what do you say, do you agree? >> this is a referendum on trump. it will either be a repudiation of trumpism or a validation of it. there's no in between. donald trump closes this election with his most audaciou

dccc chair a decade ago, '08 and '10 and dsec chair now. nobody knows this country's election project at this point better than you other than my pals over at the cook report. >> thanks, chuck. >> thanks very much. >>> and joining me now is republican governor bill haslam of tennessee. he's the person in charge of getting republicans elected to state houses across the country. governor haslam, welcome to "meet the press." >> good morning, thanks. >> well, let me start with a similar question i started with senator van hollen. what would you consider a good night for republican governors? is it limiting the number of losses? i mean, i know you're defending a lot of seats, sort of like the senate democrats. how would you define a good night for the gop? >> on the governors' map, it is sort of the reverse of what it is in the senate. there's currently 36 governors' races, 26 of which republicans hold the seat. so it's easy to say this is a little bit more of an uphill battle for us than it has been historically with that many seats. that being

she's running to be the chair of the dccc. great to see you.d what happened on election night as something of a vindication of the strategy that you had been pushing democrats toward all the way along. this idea if they were going to win back the house and ultimately a shot at taking back the white house in 2020, the path runs straight through the midwest, michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, iowa and, of course, areas in your state of illinois. what did you learn from what happened and what do you think the democrats should take note of and try to make sure they don't forget as we approach this presidential race? >> i do think the path to he majority did go through the heartland but it also went through our gender. look, we have a record number of women who will be serving in the congress. we needed to pick up 23 seats to win back the majority. you know how many women flipped? 23. went from red to blue. >> women. so without the women, just want to note that. what did we learn? have great candidates that fit their district. politically. people who a

>> i don't know. >> you are, you're chair of the dccc. >>> meanwhile, president trump canceled his meetingladimir putin today at the g20 meeting. tweeting today, "based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia, i've decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously --" he didn't write this, this reads like the government of the united states. "previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin. i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as this situation is resolved." trump's tweet refers to russia's seizures of three ships in the black sea last weekend. this came an hour after the president told reporters in the midst of questions about michael cohen's guilty plea that now was, quote, a good time to meet with the russian president. gene, who's in charge here? >> well, look -- >> that was not written by donald trump. that we know. >> of course not. you know, what looks to have happened is the most plausible thing. i imagine that his national security team have been trying to get him in a meet

to defend in 2020. 2018 was a year where the dccc was mostly on offense. beating republicans who were rubber-stamps for donald trump. 2020 will be a cycle where the democrats are mostly on defense. defending those frontline incumbent cans in republican districts. the first job is, shoring up those new members of congress so that they can withstand a challenge in 2020. the sec thing they need to do, second -- second thing they need to do, second challenge, recruit immediately. there are some districts that the dccc can win in 2020. i have knowledge of this. they have already reached into those districts. they are talking to democrats who lost by a very narrow margin, and recruiting them to run in 2020. those are the two political challenges. then of course in substance, which i hope counts more than politics, the democrats need to deliver to the american people on things like infrastructure and reducing prescription drug costs, and cleaning up washington, d.c., through campaign reform. host: last thing, have you take us back inside the room again, things ha

you're at the end of a $900,000 well with the dccc, that resonate with voters. they are flush with corporate dollars. you've den a coordinated ad buy with them and you try to look like you're holier than thou, like, i don't touch pac money. where are you getting your money from, andy? you have raised in enormous amounts outside of jersey and all the supporters running these ads on tv are running them with corporate dollars. and you want to pretend like you are innocent. moderator: that is your time, mr. macarthur. mr. kim: i am proud of the campaign we run, a campaign bout the people. we have hundreds of small-dollar house parties and other events throughout the district. you can see by the size of our volunteer base and are just people are. that has been the focus, not taking corporate money, that is that a campaign with integrity. a are a lot of people in this district, a lot of people around who are upset about what my opponent has done on health care, and that is why we have been able to raise the money needed to run the campaign. again, someone who just loa

i.e.s are being run for people, you know, if people are working with the democratic party organs, the dccc and other things to raise money, i'm not gonna criticize folks for that. until we have a change in the system, it would be an abrogation of one responsibility to the voters to go out there and spend, you know, $3,000 when you're gonna get pounded with $300,000 from the other side. i just think that that's -- with all that being said, look, we got to get rid of citizens united, we got to have real campaign-finance reform in this country, we got to move to a system of public and small-dollar financing. >> bernie was incredibly outspoken in 2015 and 2016 on trade. in 2015, he said there wasn't a single international trade deal that he supported. in fact, he succeeded in getting hillary clinton to disassociate herself from the trans-pacific partnership and really pulled the party to the left against trade, and he's been relatively silent since it was -- >> so, it's not about being against trade. it is being -- you know, and donald trump likes to put this as, like, in a frame of nationalis

dccc estimates 70 seats in play. grassroots fundraising hasn't grassrootso -- fundraising has enabled them to be competitive where in past cycles they haven't in competitive. they have a path of the majority. on the flipside, the republicans see a path to keeping their majority but it's much narrower and involves creating bulwarks key areas in holding onto seats in districts where one, sort ofmp play a chess game with democrats to make them spend national resources in suburban districts and hoping that keeps them out of more stretched districts in rural areas. right now things are still unsettled, not a guaranteed democratic victory, but you definitely understand why democrats feel more confident. you'd rather be democrats right now than republicans. difference in their battleground strategies is clear when we ask about closing arguments. john rogers talked about resistance and encouraging republican race voters to vote against democratic chaos or democratic-controlled congress. said vote for somebody who cares about

i saw nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and jim clyburn on the stage at the dccc victory party.he was positively euphoric. steny hoyer, who i like a lot, looked at he was at a funeral. i mean, not that he wasn't happy, really happy about democrats picking up a bunch of seats. he had been in districts and worked hard, but you know, i am not sure he enjoyed her taking a victory lap like that. we will have to kind of weight -- wait and see. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. this morning, american universities david barker and the brookings institutions molly reynolds discussed how president trump might work with a divided congress. joined the discussion. >> later tonight, housing and urban development secretary ben carson speaks at a conference in washington dc. the young america's foundation is hosting the annual gathering, also live on c-span starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. analysis postelection in a discussion moderated by ken walsh. under two hours.

what is the dccc doing? >> we have to understand the magnitude, we have invested in 80 races across the country. believe there are 80-100 across the country. in addition to building the biggest battlefield, we have invested $30 million in engagement. get out the vote efforts that started five days after president trump was elected. five days after he became president, we had organizers on the ground in the most will numeral districts to work with the emerging grassroots, millennials, begin to organize and focus alongside the new energy on the ground. that program is focused on african-americans, hispanics, women and millennials. all those groups together combined for a terrific coalition. >> you have put an emphasis on trying to reach latino voters. can you talk about what you are seeing in terms of early vote? engagement? whatever metrics you have at your disposal. >> we had organizers on the ground for 20 months before today. we are excited about that early investment. that early engagement is important. w

has beenident the dccc doing that.e have invested over years to talk about hispanics including millennials, and african-american voters. that is the long term, doorknocking, targeting male, targeted digital ads. we wrapped it up with a spanish television ad with real hispanic families talking about why they are excited about voting on tuesday. i believe in our polling we see metrics that show this has all been successful. hispanics are turning out at higher numbers than the last midterm in 2014. i think that will continue. david: thank you very much for joining us. meredith kelly, communications director for the democratic campaign committee. do not miss our special election night coverage next tuesday on bloomberg television and radio at 7:00 eastern time. the hour, dow dupont shares are storing -- are storing thanks to china. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: you're watching "balance of power." shares of dow dupont are headed for their best day since december of 2015. the companies strong third-quarter results showed conce

>> the dccc invested several millions of dollars in new jersey, and it showed in the poll. 15 pointsnts. >> neil: it is. that's what makes me think of everything up until now had been into a single digit range, it's quite a swing. do you think it holds? >> yes, i believe in the numbers. >> neil: you don't have to get so sensitive. just inquiring. let me get a sense of what's going on in the country. if it's indicative of what could be happening in new jersey, then it could be showing a late break possibly for democrats. how do you look at it? >> there is some evidence. quinnipiac had a poll this morning in florida and we saw it in both cases in the governor 's rates and the senate race that independents were going heavily towards the democratic candidates for those offices. is it typical of other states? we don't know. we did see some movement in florida this morning. >> neil: as you are speaking, we are showing the average of polls we are getting. we talked about in the midterms, the voter who gets to the poll. it's unusual in the midterm but it's kind of the way it goes. whose vote

david: you volunteered to be the new head of the dccc.s you look forward to what needs to be done, what is your secret sauce? i mentioned you won in what is thought of as a republican district, and you won by a larger margin, even though donald trump won there by a large margin, so what is it different that you do? points,tos: i won by 24 the largest margin of any democrat who is serving or will serve in congress from a trumpet district. and we will- -- trump district. and we need to figure out how to get this right. what do i do? it is not overly scientific. i am a former reporter. as you know, if you are a reporter you ask questions, you listen for the answers, and then you take that information and do something with it. as it pertains to politics, i do supermarket saturdays every weekend where i walk the aisles and i ask what is on people's minds. i say, i serve this district in congress and i will be flying to washington on monday or tuesday or whatever day, what do you want me to focus on? you can gett of - yo- a lot from those conve

what if leadership changed, other members sort of on that top ticket, her deputies, whips, dccc?eas are welcome, strategy matters. when you look over at republicans, mitch mcconnell isn't a new voice, but it's unbelievable what that guy can get done because of experience. >> i think mcconnell should go, too. nancy pelosi, she's accomplished a lot in her past 30-year legislative career. it's not a winning strategy. since 2008, we have 30 fewer seats. this actually hasn't gone well. when you look at the amazingly talented leaders we have in our caucus, like martha fudge, i hope she will win, she's my mentor. with fudge, she hails from the midwest. she understands the struggle that ordinary americans are having every single day. she has incredible experience in the house and beyond. she's a true leader. she's respected deeply across the caucus. you say, that's the future of our party. and that's what we need in our democratic leader. >> but quickly, you said you would want mitch mcconnell to go to. you had different political viewings. if you're a republican, wouldn't you look and s

with her we had a conversation about the fact i'm putting myself forward for something called the dcccis basely the portion of our leader that allows us to communicate with the messenger or messengers. i'll hopefully be one of the three people that will serve her in what we'd like to convey in the house in 2020. >> we're running out of time but i do want to ask each of one one question, which first of all what does it mean to you to be one of the two first native-americans? >> first of all i'm humbled i have this opportunity. i'll tell you the other day when i was walking across the capital to actually take our freshman photograph, two young girls from south dakota came up to me,tapped me on the shoulder, their mother came over, it looked like it was a school field trip, crying. and, you know, we hugged and took pictures. i feel like, you know, for every native-american child who has never, ever seen themselves represented in this body of our government, it means a tremendous amount to them. i know it means a tremendous amount to tribal leaders across the country to feel like they have

it is what the dccc, the dscc, broader ecosystem. i think democrats are doing pretty well. when i look at what the rnc spent his money on, they spent it on roy moore and donald trump's legal defense fund. i would rather get the us. i really think so many people they invest in are morally bankrupt. that is why we have been able to win a lot of seats. call from the washington examiner. paul: the you expect to hear more calls for limits in the house? the shooter had an extended mag on his pistol which would've been outlawed under california law overturned by a few judges. tom: i hope there will be some common sense gun safety actions. for me this is personal. i get so sick and tired when i hear people talk about how their thoughts and prayers are with folks. they are not enough. i was in cincinnati last weekend in the run-up to the election. i spoke to a woman who was the grandmother of one of the parkland shooting victims. she had a double whammy. she not only lost her granddaughter, but she lost her son. in the aftermath of 9/11 he helped first responders and he contracted -

start of october, were actually brought to their attention by a wing of the democratic party, the dcccthey have an in house team that are sort of looking for trolls, looking for people who are trolling their candidates, and that's how they came across it. there was about 10,000 accounts, we think. twitter won't say a precise number. they were telling people don't go out and vote on tuesday, and it seemed to be an effort that was aimed at democratic voters. now, what twitter is saying is that they think they believe that this was a domestic operation, that this was not foreign-run, but in terms of any information about who was behind it or what more they're doing to further investigate, they haven't said. >> but it's a word of caution that these accounts are still out there. that we do know that people are still working to influence, people, entities, and beyond. facebook has also experienced some struggles in trying to hold up its end of the deal in terms of providing transparency when it comes to political ads. >> yes. you might remember after 2016 it emerged that there was russian op

>> i was told by both executive directors of the dccc and nrcc that they fully expect we will not know who controls the house for a week or so. which is horrifying because it just drags out these nerves even longer for many people around the country. but you know, i think that republicans have a much narrower path to keep control of the house, and that's worrying them. they know that democrats set out from the start to target more than 100 gop-held districtins a seats. they have a broader path to take control of the house to get those 23 net gain seats to win control of that chamber. that's not to say it's going to be easy, but they have many more paths. if we look at pennsylvania, they could pick up four seats. i think that's worrying some republicans. >> i want to get everyone up to speed. we have early voting numbers. that's a huge focus. continues to be a big story. some 33 million americans have cast their ballots already. big rallies, as we've been saying, continue across the country. 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, president trump and president obama speaking simultaneously, counterpr

infrastructure and hopefully we'll continue to stand up thata infrastructure across the country, because dccc did expand the map in a way that quite se frankly we haven't seen done in a long time, in a long, long en time.lo on candidate front, what i think was most interesting here, chris, you see candidates that don't look like typical candidates for senate or congress. and i think if you look at the energy, i think 32 -- we had 32n increase in turnout this year which is a tremendous amount of increase. a lot of these new people, a lot of them women candidates and you look at sort of the gender gap advantage that democrats took here, a lot of these new candidates that they recruited that fit these districts help at bring that energy. h we also have to underline the trump effect here and we can't l act like we didn't get this opportunity because so many, particularly women and better educated voters across the country, as well as minorities were really upset and wanted to put a check on trump this election.o >> congresswoman, it's going to be a record number of women serving in the united sta

so at this point, we don't anticipate any surprises, and we are watching the dccc race to see who is going to be responsible for running the democratic campaign, and what started out with questions of nancy pelosi's future, and she has again proven that she is the best vote counter in the congress. >> thank you so much, kasie hunt, right there on the spot. and coming up, artificial intelligence and why the head of the cia was noticeably missing, including my voice is missing, from the briefing of saudi arabia today. and cia chief john brennan is joining me next on "andrea mitchell reports" right here on msnbc. ohhhh...enough already! we need to see a doctor. ask your doctor about myrbetriq® (mirabegron). it treats oab symptoms of urgency, frequency, and leakage. it's the first and only oab treatment in its class. myrbetriq may increase blood pressure. tell your doctor right away if you have trouble emptying your bladder or have a weak urine stream. myrbetriq may cause serious allergic reactions... ...like swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, or trouble breathing. if experien

in california or sorry, in new jersey and new mexico, so we've already deployed a team from the dccc.eady sent lawyers to different parts of the country, and we're going to fight for every inch. we never said it was going to be easy. no one can say that last night was not a historical night, strom democratic candidates, veterans, prosecutors, small business leaders. it is incredible, and i am really excited for them. it's a good day for america. >> congressman ben ray lujan. we'll have you back on soon, appreciate it. >> what about people who may be on the next ballot? we're talking about 2020 because whether you like it or not, it has begun today. i'm sorry. okay? that's after the break. - meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps, with the best of pressure cooking and air frying all in one. with our tendercrisp technology, you can quickly cook food, juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside. go from fresh to deliciously done in half the time. which means it may become the only thing you use in your kitchen. (tapping) for cooking, at least. (upbeat music) the ninja fo

my goal was to raise $1.5 million for dccc. i raised over $7 million.dues are $600,000 a year, my pay $750,000 in dues, and i gave directly to other candidates and fellow colleagues $1.1 million directly from my bank account into theirs, so this whole notion that i'm some kind of -- or was some kind of a token is a bunch of poppycock. you expect those things to be used, and i expect to hear dog whistles in campaigns. i never expect to hear it coming from friends and supporters of my colleagues. >> and to be clear, these are democrats we're talking about, too right? we're not talking about folks on the other side of the aisle? >> well, what i heard over the weekend and it was saturday when i got a phone call from a colleague saturday, saying that that was being repeated by a fellow democrat. where that person got it from, i don't know. now, the person i don't think was here when i was house majority whip before and probably repeating something somebody told them. as we say down south where you and i are from, i let my work speak for me. >> amen to that.

one thing to kentucky, and i'm with the dccc that you can lose kentucky and still win -- >> sure. >>but if you're picking up red in solidly blue states like new jersey, that tells you something different is happening because republicans used to be able to win there. and if they lose in jersey one, new jersey three, i think that's -- >> and mccarthy and lance are the two republicans are worried about losing. if you look at a scenario, they need to hold on to both of those two. >> both of them. believe it or not the president seemed to indicate maybe, just maybe, he has to recalibrate things after these midterms, maybe. i'm curious what you think of these comments. this is the president earlier today with sinclair broadcasting. >> is there anything as you look back at your first almost two years that you regret, that you wish on you, that you can just take back and redo? >> well, there would be certain things. i'm not sure i want to reveal all of them. i would say tone. i would like to have a much softer tone. i feel to a certain extent i have no choice but maybe i do. and maybe i coul

>> because she let me do a five-month deep dive into the dccc, because she supported it completely, becausen in all these suburbs. we didn't talk about it publicly. look at the results. i think she has proven that she is resilient, tough. she's the smartest person we've got and i don't think you ought to sub her out at this critical time, especially when there is no alternative. and that's the bottom line. >> then is there a deal to be made that nancy pelosi should remain or should take that top post but possibly some of the other seats just below her in leadership could change up and not get -- i want to be very careful about my word choices. not get younger blood but get a new faction of the party, different faces, shake it up? >> look, again, we want fresh ideas. that's the important thing. the important thing is we focus on the american people and what's bothering them, getting their health care costs down, making sure they have rising wages, making sure we stitch our country together again and not be at each other's throats. we need to deliver on infrastructure, immigration reform, on

and so even from that very first list the dccc put out in january of 2017, the illinois 14th was listed as a priority race. so we knew that the seeds were planted. we just had to cultivate them so they would grow and sprout. so i knew that in this election, a woman could be very successful in engaging other women throughout our community. the women in the illinois 14th have for a long time been activists. they've been community leaders, led every pta, every church group, every neighborhood association, but weren't necessarily running for office. we knew there would be a natural base of support there and also knew that the electorate, the voters were interested in a new generation of leadership, were interested in supporting someone that came from their own ranks. came from the community. >> how did you know? how did you know a place that had never elected a woman, let alone an african-american woman, let alone an outsider african-american woman, someone not familiar with the process, what made you feel, you know what, i know there are people out there who will respond to this? >> well,

they have a monitor up and i saw nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and jim clyburn up on the stage at the dccc the third party and she was positively euphoric in steny hoyer, who i like a lot looked like he was at a funeral. i mean, i'm not that wasn't happy, really happy about democrats picking up a bunch as deep he had been in a lot of those districts and worked very hard, but you know, i'm not sure he enjoyed her taking of it. lap like that. we'll have to kind of wait and see. yes, sir, did you have one? >> estimate thank you for taking my question. one of the cornerstones of our democracy is the faith and trust we have in the process. use the words that boil down to ask down to access security for suppression. wondering if you have any thoughts about the short-term and long-term effects that things like secretary of state they'll begin in florida were an election official was really cast in the spotlight. now we see it in kansas. we see it in georgia. we see it in new hampshire on both sides of the aisle of which money is starting to work its way into those in the managing process that i w

the dccc poured a ton of money as republican counterpart but lottery winner gill say facing serious meare very close. no way mathematically to tell who is going to win it i think ends up going to a young republican. pete: that is open seat. next two held by republican incumbents as many swing districts are in the house of representatives. the first is texas 23rd district. will herd is a veteran currently polling sizeably ahead to gina ortiz jones. this has been a swing district. and what are you looking at in this district? >> that's why i chose it -- won by 2%. i think it's is not only indicative of texas, specifically but america broadly that this large blue wave is not nearly going to be so big as. pete: will hurd is a good candidate. at some point that will matter. >> will hurd district. heavily hispanic. he has identified issues and championed issues that reflect that district. he is a fantastic candidate. pete: you have david young incumbent republican 41% right now. cindy at 43%. within the margin of error but what do you think of this race? >> so within the margin of error, mat

i saw nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and jim clyburn on the stage at the dccc victory party.she was positively euphoric. steny hoyer, who i like a lot, looked at he was at a funeral. i mean, not that he wasn't happy, really happy about democrats picking up a bunch of seeds. -- seats. he had been in districts and worked hard, but you know, i am not sure he enjoyed her taking a victory lap like that. we will have to kind of weight -- wait and see. one of the cornerstones of our democracy is the faith and trust we have any process. when you use the words that are boils down to security or -- suppression, i'm wondering if you have thoughts about the short-term or long-term effects of things like an election official passing the spotlight. now we see it in kansas, georgia, new hampshire on both sides of the aisle, in which money is starting to really work its way into those that are managing the process. i was hoping you could share some thoughts about the effect that may have. charlie: those are good thoughts. we have had secretaries of state running for governor, for senate. i d