he said johnny ernst talks about cutting pork but she's cutting people.i'll tell you what we're going to talk about here. tom harkin, the senator that bruce braley wants to replace, liberal democrat he's campaigning with, he said that ernst was good looking like taylor swift. a comment which ernst said she found offensive. he said she's going to, quote, shake it off. >> i want to play what the senator said so we can comment. >> johnny ernst she's really attractive. and she sound nice. i don't care if she's as good looking as taylor swift. or as nice as mr. rogers. but if she votes like michele bachmann she's wrong for the state of iowa. >> this the last thing braley needs right now. i mean, clinton helped clearly this is not helping. >> yeah. it's a terrible unforced error. this is bruce braley's day to make his closing argument. he's campaigning with tom harkin by his side the entire time. i would argue harkin is probably a tiny bit damaged goods. the comment did not sit well with i would presume a lot of women in the state. will change the race, probabl

that's why you're hearing that johnni ernst. she's going win by three or four points.he needs to make sure she doesn't lose one or two points. >> the landscape as he view it is if the republicans control the senate and the house he believes it will be more extreme. doubling down of more extreme votes from obamacare to the clean air act. just some of the things that are great sources of enthusiasm for democrats. >> peggy newman's column referred to a lovely sentiment. but steve's comments put it more in perspective. in terms of the aggressive conservativism we're going it see. joni ernst didn't just say she was want going for president obama -- mcconnell. most of the republicans running for the senate advocating shutting down the government to get their away. even if it's costs $24 million. let's understand what the potential of the new republican senate means. it's doubling down on the extremism we saw ted cruz and the tea party do last time. cruz is already threatening subpoenas to investigate the president for abuses of power. >> what steve's point is, if the republi

johnny ernst because the first female combat veteran in the senate and the first woman in congress from iowa. tom cotton will be the youngest member of the senate. shelly moore capital is the first woman elected to the senate from west virginia. tim scott becomes the first african-american elected to both the house and the senate. in the house, we have a majority bigger than most of us have seen in our lifetimes. we're proud to see mea love in utah, will herd in texas 23 and elyse stepanik in new york who will become the youngest woman ever elected to congress. the governors' races across america affirmed the leadership of conservative republicans across the country and in the bluest of blue states they rejected the democrats. in maryland, in massachusetts, and in illinois, even the president's home state where he campaigned vigorously elected a republican. i think that kind of tells you how big this victory was. it wasn't just a rejection of barack obama and everyone connected to barack obama. it was also the acceptance of conservative republican leadership across the board in these st

i know i liked johnny ernst, i'm just saying there wasn't a lot of substance on the republican side.rom months and months ago starting with harry reid on the senate was that david and charles koch are bad people and you should vote against them and it didn't work. >> did we not say from the very beginning what a stupid -- we could have saved harry reid hundreds of millions of dollars if they would have ran on real issues instead going, oh we're going to pick on these two guys. >> especially when there's issues when at the ballot box minimum wage. >> can i ask, why didn't -- and i talked about this too nonstop. why didn't the democrats talk about -- use all of that money to talk about how republicans were blocking minimum wage? why republicans were blocking this reform. why republicans were blocking that reform. why republicans didn't want little jenny, the 6-year-old to have health care insurance because of pre-existing conditions. why they didn't want our ne'er-do-well 24-year-old sons playing xbox on the couch all day to still have health care insurance -- >> minimum wage start the

johnny earns has been my profiles. >> i'm excited to be here. >> and campaigning for bruce braley. who is running against ernst in the open senate seat. with. control of the senate in play, pick nearly any state that is competitive, and you'll find heavy hitters and potential presidential contenders on the stump brandishing credentials and correcting ious. rand paul in kansas and support of the indangerred incumbents revving up the base. >> you're a republican state, for goodness sakes. >> of course, the president isn't on the ballot. but republicans have been running against him this midterm and expect him and his policies to continue to be a target through 2016. it's a wide field of could-bees on the republican side. new jersey governor chris christie has made more than a dozen appearances are in support of many candidates like florida governor rick scott. it's unknown whether the christie 's pugnacious style will wear well. for instance when a protester wanted to ask him about hurricane sandy. if you're wanting the conversation i'm happy to have it, buddy, but until that time sit down and shut occupy. exchanges like that are going to app