back paul glastris, editor in chief of the washington monthly. . thank you for being with us your cover story -- monthly. thank you for being with us. your cover story, looking at the 2016 election where hillary clinton did well and did poorly. what did we learn? guest: the democrats have a problem in that their voters in 2016 and 2018, democrats got more votes than republicans. 9 million more for u.s. senate in 2018. yet they lost two seats in the senate. a 2016, hillary clinton got 3 million more votes than donald trump yet lost the white house. the problem is obvious to anyone who looks at the map. democrats are clustered in a handful of coastal states, overrepresented in those states thin on the-- too ground in states like ohio and mississippi. host: donald trump winning the electoral vote. the states, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan and iowa considered key to the democrats and you can see the coastal states, the upper midwest and out west, this is a by county breakdown and you can with theea of read blue along the coast. -- you can see the sea of

. >> welcome back paul glastris. good sunday morning. thanks for being with us. your cover story, looking at the democrats and what you call their geography problem. you looked at the 2016 election. what did you learn? >> the democrats have a problem in that their voters in both 2016 and 2018 democrats got more votes than republicans. 9 million more for the u.s. senate in 2018 than the republicans did. yet the democrats lost two seats in the senate. in 2016, hillary clinton got 3 million more votes than donald trump yet lost the white house. the problem is obvious to anybody who looks at the map. democrats are clustered in a handful of coastal states, overrepresented in those states, and too thin on the ground in places like ohio, missouri, wisconsin and so forth. >> this is from "the new york times." for those who forgot on election night, donald trump winning the electoral vote with 306. hillary clinton at 232. these states, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin and iowa, were considered key to the democrats. you can see as you mentioned the coastal states, t

back paul glastris, editor in chief of the washington monthly. . thank you for being with us your cover story -- monthly. thank you for being with us. your cover story, looking at the 2016 election where hillary clinton did well and did poorly. what did we learn? guest: the democrats have a problem in that their voters in 2016 and 2018, democrats gore

our guest is paul glastris, editor in chief at the washington monthly.f you live in rural america, (202)-748-8000. for all others, (202)-748-8001. tweet or joins a in on the conversation on facebook. looking ahead to 2020, you may have a record number of democrats running for the presidency. do you sense that this message will get to these candidates? guest: i think it already has. cory booker has given some very strong speeches on anti-trusts. elizabeth warren was the first major democrat to get behind this issue. decides to getr into this race, she is behind the big antitrust move. host: a democratic senator from ohio is on a tour through iowa. busy resonating among rural americans -- is he resonating among rural americans? guest: i believe he is. he is kind of a straight arrow midwest guy. when he sits down with farmers, they are telling him sort of what we reported in our magazine , which is you want -- if you want to reach farmers, talk about industry concentration. host: let's get to some phone calls. blake is joining us from maryland. caller: how

coming up this morning, the washington monthly's paul glastris discusses how democrats can regain support from the climbing role areas in the united states. and then the daily caller's stephanie hamill discusses the future of the president trump administration. and the u.s. ambassador to venezuela, patrick duddy, on the political unrest in that country. live "washington journal" at 7:00 this morning. join the discussion. >> virginia governor ralph northam held a news conference in richmond to deny he is one of the men in this racially charged photo that was on his 1984 medical school year book page. the governor also vowed to remain in office despite calls from virginia democrats and others around the country for him to resign. this is 45 minutes. this is 45 minutes. gov. northam: good afternoon. thank you all for being here. i am pleased to be joined by my wife, pam. pam, thank you for being here as well. there has been much public discussion about racist and offensive materials that appeared on my page of the 1984 eastern virginia medical school yearbook. i bee