sean trende? >> guest: the governor's race in wisconsin, scott walker has been perennially endangered since basically since he won in 2010. he survived a a recall election picky survived a strong challenge in 2014. it looks like 2018 might be different. he hasn't been pulling particularly well in wisconsin. he's been trailing his relatively unknown democratic opponent. if we end up with a democratic wave, and not a very powerful and would be needed to put scott walker out of the governor's office, but it is doable for the democrats. >> host: your governors know tossups production right now has democrats plus seven seats, 24 democratic seats to 26 republican seats. talk a little bit about how that expectation has changed over the course of the cycle. >> guest: when we started we knew republicans would be in trouble in a couple of seats. we knew the open governors rang base and the open -- rachel thed on 2014 but this environment, those will be tricky. it was the same story in illinois where bruce w

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analyst sean trende joins us now to explain. sean, you say no blue wave, why?wavy. it was a great year for democrats. there is no denying that if you look at other places like the governor's races, senate races. state legislative races, it really just looks like average, good democratic year would be expected to look. it's just not that impressive of a showing otherwise. todd: all right. now, that's the past let's look forward marcia fudge the democrat from ohio who is believed to be mounting a challenge to nancy pelosi for the speaker seat in a surprise move endorses nancy pelosi. what does this mean for pelosi's bid for speaker of the house? is she basically over the finish line or is are there still problems for her? >> i think she is probably over the finish line. there is a large number of democrats who ran for congress in republican leaning seats who pledged to vote against nancy pelosi but i think tengetiond they will find the votes they need to get her over the hump. some of these new members are going to have their first attack ad of 2020 cut against t

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trend is essential. i would agree with you there. haidi: thank you so much for your time. economist,seanetting up a heavy week with maker -- macro data. japan's top diplomat is gearing for his country's first actual trade talks with the u.s. in two years. the foreign minister coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ is is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: this is daybreak asia. japan is expected to hold its first bilateral trade talks with the u.s. in two years on january -- in january. they will talk about the tariffs and president trump has discussed slapping duties on cars. this minister said japan will tough talks. he said any deal must be mutually beneficial. >> any trade negotiation must be or theresatisfactory will not be any agreement. so if we give something to needs toates, u.s. give something to us. so it will be depending on the further negotiation. i think the prime minister and that what we can provide in terms of agriculture previous epa to that japan has agreed to. that u.s. andhing look forward and rulemaking.kind of haidi: that was our exclusive conversation with the japanese foreign min

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