joan perry was a great candidate. the thing that's interesting to me is, i think we have got to start -- if the nrcc is going to providedupport, and we to anyone, by the way, there are eight people in the primary, and they come to us and say, we need your advice, we need your direction. we will give everybody the same thing. we don't tell them who we are talking to because we want them to run their own race, and they are responsible for that, but we will point them to services and vendors. we will give them information, if it is available, to everybody. one of the things i think we need to do a better job of is we need to help them, and i've been talking to especially women who come in now and sit down , especially this week with the big race last week, we've got to have a better ground game for some of our candidates, women in particular, and i thought they were shown last week. somebody asked me on monday where i thought the race was going, and they were excited about the energy on joan perry's side. i told them i t

. -- joan perry's side. told them i think greg murphy's going to win. how do you know that? he said well if you look at the primary where greg murphy was number one and joan perry was number two there were little over 13,000 somewhere between 13 and 14,000 absentee ballots cast in a primary. john had to make up seven points to overcome the front-runner in the runoff. as of monday before the election, i think there were 11,000 absentees cast which told not doing there job you needed to do on the ground to identify voters to get them out to vote. it wasn't happening with absentees, because you should have seen the absentee count. it was the same as a turnout in the primary if not more if joan perry's operation was going to overcome that. i think the short answer should be what the nrcc can do with all candidates and perhaps maybe with some of our first-time female candidates is help them with advice about delving that -- building that ground game and what you need to do to target your voters and get them out to the polls. i talked to a candidate yesterday who is a former execu

the party's efforts to court more women hit another setback this week, when political newcomer joan perry lost her g.o.p. primary race in north carolina. capitol hill correspondent lisa desjardins is back she spoke earlier with republican congresswoman debbie lesko of arizona's 8thistrict. >> thank you for joining us, congresswoman. first of all -- >> thanks for having me. >> reporter: what do you think happred in no carolina and how significant was that? >> well, you know, i really want to sumport republican en. we lost ten republican women in the last election cycle. since i'm a republican and i'm a woman, i'm really going to try to work hard to recruit more women anmake sure they get elected, and, so, i had donated to joan perry, but i congratulate mr. murphy, and i think he's going to win. i look forward to working wit him and getting to know him better. >> reporter: i know you've heard the nuers before, but want to look at the republicans in the house now. if you look atall the women in the house of house of represent, it's a record number of women, 89 democrats, just 13 are republic

in a north carolina house primary, republican voters advanced greg murphy over joan perry.ll republican women in the house backed perry. one of them, congresswoman cathy mcforest rogers backed perry saying if republican women doing win their primaries, we wouldn't win back the majority. it's that simple. am i right in translating that as her telling the men in the caucus, you guys just don't get it? >> that's exactly what she's saying. she's not the only one. another republican congresswoman has said the same thing. greg murphy was backed by other republican groups and there's really only one republican outside group that is putting money behind women to win republican primaries. if republican women don't whim primaries, they can't win general elections and get into congress. >> republicans have a problem with voters of color. among the house, it's still a male dominated game. but 77% of the members of the house are men. but when there are women, democrats by a lopsided margin, 20% of women, only 3% of republican women in the house. senate, again, mostly men. 17% democratic

. >>> pediatrician joan perry is running against a fellow doctor, greg murphy, for the state's thirdessional seat. the seat was held by walter jones who died in february. whoever wins will face a special election in september. >>> president trump taking a swipe at the british prime minister and her ambassador. the fradjectives in response to leaked cables where the ambassador describes trump inept and inkpengt. . >>> an obamacare lawsuit back in court today with the potential to reach the supreme court. this after a texas judge ruled that the affordable care act is unconstitutional. the trump administration agrees with that court ruling and said the entire law should be struck down. an appeals court about to hear arguments from both sides. joan, tell us about what we should expect today. >> reporter: hello, john. yes, hanging in the balance is health care for millions of americans with this challenge, the third major challenge to the affordable care act. lawyers for texas and for the department of justice are going to argue that in 2017 when congress amended a tax penalty, it effecti

joan perry, against greg murphy in that race. she enjoyed support from wam in washington, d.c.ption for republicans as they look to broaden that base? >> they have to make a decision if this is a value to them. alias stefanek, the youngest member of congress, has been trying to galvanize some enthusiasm and support on the republican party to recruit women candidates. when she first came out with the suggestion, after the debacle in 2018, she was slapped down by the party. i don't know if they have interest in doing this. the right has two problems in recruiting women. one is, they have no infrastructure the way there is on the left. the left has a variety of organizations designed to recru recruit, to train, to promote women. if it's emily's list, emerge, a fleet of organizations. on the right, there is nothing like that. when women candidates who may be new to politics, decide they want to run, there is no one there to help guide them to promote them and fund them, if they don't have resources of their own. the second problem is that the republican party agenda is becoming hos