this activist tea party movement was really fueled by the conservative media. it gave a ton of energy to the conservative wing of the republican party. it led to republicans being primaried from the right. it also led to tons of republican energy for that first midterm election in 2010. there is no exact mirror image of that movement this time around in 2018, as we sit here on the eve of the first congressional election of barack obama's successor as president. there is no left-wing tea party because the left and the right are different. but shortly after the birth of the trump administration, we also saw the birth of indivisible, focused on pressuring members of congress like the tea party did back in the early obama days. also swing left, directing activist energy almost as soon as trump was elected toward the house districts that would be most flipable in 2018, most flipable from republican to democrat. we got run for something, recruiting progressive candidates to run for office up and down the ballot. senate and congress all the way to zoning board and dogc

i don't think it's going to be the democratic version of the tea party. i think you're going to find it's much more complex. there are new members who just got elected in districts that are newly democratic districts -- >> sow think there's going to be a resurgence and the blue dog caucus is coming back? >> i think what david is saying is really important to pay attention to to your point, anderson, about the presidential election begins right away because there is an immediate conversation happening inside the democratic party off of these results tonight. so when van was talking before about the emotional pain he was feeling by not having gillum or potentially abrams or beto o'rourke, these were the folks that were touching the zones in the base that was getting them really excited about reshaping what the future leadership of the party looked like. but actually, the people that won tonight, that created the democratic majority, they won on republican turf. that's where this majority is coming from. not necessarily a blue dog -- >> but that's not the ma

a lot of suburban women but winning in places with a piece of the suburbs but stretch into rural tea partyry. again, 1%. but around the country tonight in party headquarters, in kitchens, in living rooms around the country tonight if you are a partisan and watching this and starting early, be prepared to stay up late. the democrats will be happy. part is, a, can they win it and, b, can they keep it close and competitive. just to pull out, it is in the same region. we will see what happens. we know the president when you get to new york, new jersey, the virginia suburbs, down in florida in the democratic areas, you know the president has problems there. the question is can the democrats perform and deliver. if the democrats are going to have an even better night beyond winning the places they should win or the golden targets of opportunity, then they have to start winning, see if they can hold the indiana senate seats. these are the house districts you are seeing up here. if you are a democrat and looking for a jolt of energy early in the night, can we get to 23, it is 1%, don't call your b

into nancy pelosi being given the speakership that she lost as a result of what occurred with the tea party movement in two thousand and ten where we would you say were a move to impeach well let me tell you about the impeachment process first and foremost years ago larry i said two years ago i said before democrats talk about impeaching trump they got an opportunity to defeat him in two thousand and twenty they have less of an opportunity in my opinion to defeat pence and so i said put down impeach pince impeachment however comes only where there is a foundation and some rules that have been violated or some conduct that has been engaged in it's a nice conversation to have but it doesn't translate into action until there is something and so until mr mueller comes in with his report in my opinion there will not be a sufficient amount of rule violations conduct violations treaty violations or anything else in the trump operation that would lead one to say impeachment is in fact possible i hope the democrats won't get hung up on just focusing on impeachment. what happened in the midterm they

first, the chairman of tea party patriots and citizens fund. >> thank you, richard. thanks for having me here again. we've done this for several election cycles. last night the house republicans lost for many reasons but one of the biggest reasons was a failure of leadership. i'm going to talk briefly about two examples of failure of leadership. the choice not to nationalize the elections and the failure to fight the deep state. first, nancy pelosi outsmarted house republican leadership. she knew democrats would not do well if the elections were nationalize sod she advised democratic canadas to run what politico called hyper local campaigns on local issues. if nancy pelosi was advising candidates to run hyper local campaigns, isn't that a good sign the republicans should be running a nationalized campaign? jim jordan got it. he did his best to nationalize the election for house republicans. second, the failure to fight the deep state. rather than join president trump in working to drain the swamp, too many house republicans simply fail t.d. see the threat posed by wi

we should have our own steak tea party rally. we should go down and have ridiculous signs and basically make fun of these people. the got him involved and -- [laughter] they got a bunch of fans involved in the 200,000 people, came down to this thing that was from a joke on reddit. was about me is that it was a prime example of this thing that you hit over and over throughout the book. this tension between our reddit meeting the outside world. the outside world meeting reddit. neither, usually being quite sure to make of the other. i would like to start by asking, what is one thing you'd say that is understood about the other. the outside world and read it? similarly, what is one of the most meaningful ways in which each has changed the other? >> that was a small question there. [laughter] it's so funny to me, i've been a reporter for more than the last decade. i've been following reddit for a lot of that time. but it was very fascinating to me that another cultural moment that struck was the boston marathon bombing. to me, that w

trump voters, tea party voters up here. down here, a lot of transplants from new york and new england. this is much more democratic area here. no votes yet. these three counties at the bottom tend to come in later. especially the final 10 or 15% of the vote. >> when those counties start coming in, it will be good news for the democrats. >> the key test for the democrats will be miami dade, broward, palm beach, what are the margins? they'll be blue unless there's something very strange happening tonight. the question of the margins, again, especially in a state like florida. which is just so close to the end and so you see these first wave of votes come in, in the campaigns, you say, you watch, and then you wait. then you wait. and if the scott campaign, they know. they have people on the ground in every county. did they turn out their people today in numbers roughly around the number they thought they needed? >> let's go back to the governor's race in florida. gillum looks like he's ahead by 25,640 votes. >> again, early on

remember that tea party revolution? >> i remember that.> because we talked about that revolution for a decade it seems and it hasn't even been a decade. willie, it's almost 8%. and another thing happened last night, too, with democrats picking up some important gubernatorial seats. redistricting in 2020 is not going to be as rigged as it was in 2010. >> i got some pickups for you for democrats. pickups in illinois. >> yeah. >> and these are the biggest states. >> illinois, cast. >> wow. >> new mexico, michigan and how about wisconsin. scott walker goes down last night. >> wow. >> well, here is the bottom line, some call it a split decision, but here it is, democrats are returning to power on capitol hill. they won control of the house. >> and the power to investigate and the power of the subpoena. >> the subpoena. >> and the power to actually finally get ahold of donald trump's tax records. >> and there are a lot of questions that need to be answered and now they will be. they will be answered. which is, i think, at this point something th

i mean, i was troubled by the behavior of people like newt gingrich, sarah palin, the tea party. thought there was a kind of absolutist ethos, take no prisoners, and an unwillingness to compromise or to achieve results. but i'll be honest with you -- i would not have left if it had not been for donald trump. that was the shock i needed to make a major change in my life and to walk out of the republican party. and once i did that, i realized, "oh, wait a second. there was all this other really disturbing stuff that i kind of turned a blind eye to in the name of movement solidarity." >> because one of the lines you use in your book is that donald trump stormed the castle. and it's my view that parts of the movement were corroded enough already that he walked in the front door. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, he did not come out of nowhere. there were a lot of trends that allowed him to do what he did. and in my book, i trace it back all the way to the birth of the modern conservative movement, in the 1950s, and looking back on it with a more skeptical eye than i had in the past, i reali

even if there had been no boston tea party eventually there would've been confrontation.when you chart his correspondence he gets more and more exasperated with the british. he convinces himself that america can't fulfill that desperation. i think it was one interesting moment they went to franklin on holiday. and of course the irish looked upon themselves as being in a similar situation to america into the relation of the british empire. franklin went to ireland and he was horrified by what he saw. with the poverty's. the extent to which they have a nation. you cannot really expect america to develop. by the time of the boston tea party. and there really was no prospect of healing of the bridge. just as the war was about to break out. you write that franklin at last found his calling or his vocation and science. how and why did this happen. i appreciate that there is a connection between science and craft like this. how did he become the scientific genius of america. and would you argue that this is how we should best remember him as a scientist rather than as a diplomat

the tea party has taken over the republican party. market fundamentalism has put us on the road to oligarchy or autocracy. there are ways to get off this road, but none of them seem plausible in the current political environment where too many voters are swayed by trumpian appeals to fear and bigotry. it will probably take another confluence of crises to demonstrate once again that market fundamentalism is a deeply flawed ideology that causes far more harm than the modest benefits it provides to society. as the trump administration's demolition crew succeeds in its efforts to deconstruct the administrative state, that was steve bannon's words, we should be preparing to use those crises that are inevitable, they're going to follow as teaching moments to persuade the american public that excessive economic freedom is freedom to harm. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, tom. excuse me. thank you very much. i want to point out that the second assault on regulation, which was the so-called regulatory reform drive, the leader ag

in 2010 was about the affordable care act, was about the opposition of the tea party to that.fact is that in 2018 the reason that democrats took the majority is because it was the affordable care act. i think it's important for us to have leadership that knows what it's doing, especially in the face of a republican controlled senate and a white house that we need somebody who has been there, a proven leader, battle tested, and who can take on these republicans and work on an agenda that the voters voted for. they were not voting about the speaker or the house, they were voting for an agenda on healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, building roads and bridges, creating jobs and reforming the political system. this is what this election was about. >> jason johnson, when you were out there on the campaign trail were people telling you the thing they were voting about, the thing that was driving them and making them stand in the line was nancy pelosi? >> they didn't care about nancy pelosi, they didn't care about russia, they didn't care about most of the d.c. nonsense. the

you had the tea party movement, needryan talking about the to get a handle on the deficit in the -- and the debt. it turns out the republican party or the electric were not that interested in fiscal restraint. as craig pointed out, trump comes along, completely redefines the approach to those issues. republicans who were all in on the tea party go we are not that interested in entitlement reform, the debt and deficit. it was like a switch. in 2012, you looked at paul ryan, and i think a lot of republicans and conservatives said this is the future of the republican party and conservative movement. that was obviously not the case. host: let's go to tim, north carolina, a democrat. not paul ryan and all the other republicans earlier this year in fact getting off of the titanic? host: craig gilbert? guest: i think he is talking about retirements. host: republicans retiring, getting off the titanic. guest: with respect to all right, the speakership is a finite job. it has a time limit. speakers do not last very long. he knew this would be his last job in congress. it would only go on so long

chamber of s the commerce republicanism, it lipped to dave brat, the tea party era, a more light leaning andidate and it could potentially go blue. abigail is putting up a hell of leans republican specifically. if democrats can pull these two night.off early in the >> it's probably going to be a democratic takeover if they win races.wo >> that race with brat, that was before l district even the rise of the tea party. >> it was, and it was viewed as republican seat. defeated eric canter, republicans were not seen to be at any risk of losing see. now what's happened is the suburbs have moved mainly because college-educated white shifted from the republicans to the democrats in the age of trump. kentucky ing back to for a second, andy bar, the republican incumbent got over vote in 2016. what are the demographics of this district that make it more this time around? >> suburbs. that's, you know, what it comes down to. lexington suburbs. a lot of educated voters, a lot of educated women in particular, that's the single most important demographic we see shifting. as i said it will be an test.an

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after the boston tea party, he was treated poorly bad by the british government.radually, he could see there was no aspect of healing the rich. he did back to america. >> you write that franklin found his calling. or his vocation in science. how and why did this happen? we knew his apprentice appreciate that there was a connection between science and craft. how did he become the scientific genius of america and would you argue that this is how we should best remember him? that as a scientist rather than a diplomat or a political leader? is this really what makes him important through the ages? >> personally, no one would agree with that. my feeling is that many of the other achievements could have been before. there was something special about him. i think the part was, he had been reading for a long time. he emerged himself in the scientific text. he'd been coming over for about philadelphia. it had excellent collective. he also had friends in the art and steel industry. iron and steel, in generic, that was a critical element, too. hit a very logical mind. test p

the tea party came in on the anti-obamacare message. , 2018, democrats came in on they are going to take your health care way. we have to save obamacare, and improve on it, lowered the price of health care and prescription drugs. it is a completely different landscape. people have had insurance in the meantime. they have had troubles with it. there are a lot of people unhappy with it. and othersone well, have found the premium way too expensive. it obviously needs fixing. mcconnell said yesterday in done,fixing, but if it is it will be on a bipartisan basis. host: chuck schumer and nancy pelosi said yesterday that republicans, if they are with us on protecting pre-existing conditions, then they have to drop this lawsuit. they can't say one thing, but continue with the lawsuit. guest: i think that is a fair demand. in the lawsuites is now a senator elect, the attorney general of missouri, is now a senator elect. another protagonist in the nominee who lost. i think this lawsuit as a predicate to any service negotiations on fixing obamacare , this lawsuit will have to go away. host: in texa

we had our tea party and you saw the republican caucus has been fractured. democrats have something i call the herbal tea party, with people pushing the other way. politics has been very fractious these days. with the growth of independent media, social media and the like. you lose the message from a leadership point of view. host: congressman seth moulton could face a primary challenge in two years because of his opposition to leader pelosi. how much pressure is he under? >> i do not think anyone will knock him out. he is an exceptional candidate up there as well. very strong in his believes, they can try it at this point but i think he is solid in that district. host: let me ask you -- marjorie: let me just say that one of the things tom and i, the real problem is this fear of primary challenges. and so it is pushing people, members of congress to the right and to the left. i think you are right about moulton. one of the things we have to recognize is that sometimes the members get down there and they really want to stay. i wasn't great at that. but they w

davidt district is where brad really started the tea party revolution in taking out eric cantor. now it's risk -- represented by her. mark: you had -- you're asking me to pick my favorite child. they are not my children, but certainly my clients and friends. i have too many races i can point to. as ak at jennifer wexton race where she was disciplined and went through a tough primary. we're not talking about how many democrats came out to run for weree in the primaries and a healthy contest of ideas and passion. jennifer survived a tough primary and went on to win in a very decisive victory. it was exciting to be the first victory of the evening for a oneped seat area that was in the suburbs on the issue of health care and her own personal story as a mom. if i had to pick one, it would be jennifer. >> let's talk about the primaries. it had a little bit of a hunger games feeling at certain points with some of the districts having a or nine democrats wanting to run. at one point, i said every thirtysomething brunette woman i know that used to work at the department of state has gone

she has a state that's republican party has become more tea party. she's more establishment. so it's not just president trump. but if you have a ten-point race, let's assume it gets a little bit closer. republicans will celebrate that. that means they will have 53 seats in the united states senate next year. easier for the president to get a new attorney general. easier for the president to get other nominees confirmed. however, in mississippi, she's on the ballot again in two years if she wins tonight. this is to fill the remaining term. t this is not an overjoyous night if this is the margin that holds up in the state of mississippi. a win is a win, don't mistake that. but it's another sign even in mississippi, you just talked about the big blue wave. the republican party has problems just about everywhere. >> let me ask you this, then. you said the republicans, they have problems just about everywhere. let's talk about overall because not a lot has gone well for republicans in terms of the house since election day. so catch us up on where we stand right now. >> sure. let m

i agree with the tea party and with republicans, we have to do better in georgia.'m going to do so in the court of law, not in the court of public opinion because i want people to understand what was flawed but then what can be fixed and fundamentally, that's what i do, try to fix the problems i see. >> leader abrams, this was the closest race in georgia for governor since 1966. a lot of people wondering, are you going to run for office in the future, perhaps senate in 2020? >> i'm going to spend the next year as a private citizen but i do, indeed, intend to run for office again. i'm not sure for what and for when. i need to take a nap. once i do, i plan to get back in the ring. >> all right. leader abrams, have a good nap and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we do hope that governor kemp will accept one of our invitations for an interview sometime in the near future. >>> i'll talk to three new members of the most diverse congress in history next. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect

you had the freedom caucus, the tea party people that had a veto.hner would come to the white house, next thing you know, his chief of staff says, excuse me, that's not going to sell. the democrats in had a similar position, riled all kinds of excitement and optimism, yet with a group of them that have very progressive goals they want to see achieved. >> i would tell them enjoy the honeymoon. >> what would be positively besides sarcasm? >> speaker pelosi is doing a great job getting the votes to become the next speaker of the house. the argument that democrats couldn't win with her as leader got blown up by a 40-seat victory in the midterms and he's going to have a period of time when she's going to be able to wield her caucus effectively. but i think it's going to be short. there is a frustration that comes with controlling one half of one-third of the federal government and you can't enact a progressive agenda. >> congresswoman, thank you. she said something i completely believe in. comprehensive immigration reform. let's be americans and put a go

. -- it is an indication not an invitation to a tea party. they say just come. what he's trying to do here is delay until the democrats come to power. a lot of judges would be miffed saying you are trying to use this to delay. i do not think he will be successful. host: let's go to hot springs, arkansas. surely. caller: good morning. i have watched on c-span2's two separate times. mr. seymour hearst, a reporter. he made this documentary. i don't know why other people had not watched that. it seems like if they would just show that everybody, especially in the mornings when people are watching, he said this whole thing was started by him. , evene the cia and fbi dick cheney involved in it. if i know that and i'm just an in the country, why is everybody in washington act like they are so crazy and don't know anything. not anfirst of all it is act. they are crazy. that is very helpful. people have to dig into this on their own. when i said don't be a chomp, voters have been played by both parties and it is not the first time. reporters have to keep their wits about

take an issue of indictments which people, tea party activists were strong in favor of and they felt they had earned them. while they have doubts about whether the jump you were earning anything at all. including sometimes embers of -- members of their own family. i think that creates a cleavage because where i think older white americans are quite conservative willing to defend their social student in medicare, programs designed to get future benefits for beneficiaries in that younger cohort who are seen as so suspicion by old white conservatives, i think they could easily be the dividing line that allows republican leadership to achieve something that is the much considered a priority for a long time which is too blind to those programs that. >> you went into this challenge of trying to untangle what is seen as a policy position that i should have as a voter with what my part is telling me i should have as a voter. if si did you spent probably more time than i should have watching the ins and outs of the debate over repealing the ac aca last year. one of the big challenges was repu

>> wright: i think that a lot of the tea party political figures in power right now see over the horizonbig change coming their way. and that change is brown. and that change is young. and that change is not so conservative. that's the wave that's coming into texas. ♪ and i'm proud to be an american ♪ >> wertheim: like all the midterm races, the specter of donald trump hovers over the campaigns. in the case of cruz, his newfound coziness with the president strikes many as hypocritical, given how bitterly they opposed each other in the last presidential election. in 2016, you're running against president trump, and he disparages your father and your wife. you're accepting his support now. reconcile that. >> cruz: listen, 2016 was a hard-fought campaign. and there were hard blows thrown all around. now, i could've said, you know, "i've got hurt feelings. i don't like the things he said on the campaign, so i'm going to take my marbles and go home." frankly, i think that would've been a really selfish decision. >> wertheim: "marbles" implies this is school-yard stuff. but, what he said about

you have the next tea party election, more of it disappears. you have the area where the democrats have it on the coasts and the demographics. look at the areas very red. some comeback. some pieces of comeback for the democrats. still largely happening on the coasts, democrats will be happy about the midwest tonight. not with the governors' races. they'll be happy with pickups here. you have to catwatch, there's a couple of stunners here. how are the democrats winning on nobody's map. you look at the democratic map, at least now, you have some representation from some parts of the country, where yesterday, you had known. >> people are looking like they're not there yet. let's bring in harry. you're looking forward for us. what do you see? >> my polling is showing that democrats will pick up 228 seats for 270 republicans. it can go higher than that. we can look at the best case for the democrats. that will work. that is winning up to 239 seats, which would be a net gain of 40 on the evening. one historical fact, the last time we had this configu

those who know that district is where david pratt really started the tea party revolution taking out eric cantor. >> so you're asking me to pick my favorite child. as a father he don't want to do that in a number of children but theykiic are certain my clientsd friends. dear to many i could point to a better look at jennifer westin here race where she was disciplined and went for a tough primary. if it were talking about is how many democrats came out to run for office in the primaries and were helping contest of ideas and passion and jennifer is survived a tough primary and went on to defeat barbara comstock in a decisive to be the first victory of the evening fo eclipse he and that was in the suburbs on the issue of health care and on her own personalal story. if i had to pick one i would go with the first one announced for us, which was jennifer. >> let's talk about this primary because i know it had a little bit of a hundred games feeling that a certain point with some of the districts having eight or nine democrats saying i'd like to run and at one o point i said every thirtysom

it was the canary in the coal mine for the tea party movement.me way an bail sp-- abigail spanberger is expected to do well. if this goes toward democrats or shows weakness for brat, that's something to look at fairly closely. let's look at georgia 6. this was karen handel. she won in a special election and that's why she's defending this seat. lucy mcbath is running against her. lucy mcbath, if she -- this is still expected to go to karen handel but if she doesn't do as strongly there in georgia, we'll be looking at that. part of the reason this is interesting, when we're looking at georgia, everybody's attention will be on the gubernatorial race with stacey abrams, who if she wins becomes the first black female governor in america. but this is an interesting one to watch for purposes of the senate. let's go to florida 15 right now. this is an interesting one. this is located between tampa and orlando. it's a seat that dennis ross is retiring from. the republican is ross spano. kristen carlson is the democrat here. florida is a tough one because

in 2010, republicans, the tea party came in on the anti-obamacare message. 2018, democrats came in on, they are going to take your health care away. we have save obamacare and stop them from taking that, and we have to improve. we have to lower the price of health care and prescription drugs. it is a completely different landscape because people have had insurance in the meantime. they have had troubles with it. a lot of people are unhappy with it. i know people personally, some who have done very well and others who have found the premiums way too expensive. it obviously needs fixing, and mcconnell said it needs fixing but if it is done it will be on a bipartisan basis. host: minority leader schumer and pelosi said yesterday said if republicans are with us on rejecting pre-existing conditions, they have to drop his lawsuit. they cannot say one thing and continue with the lawsuit. guest: that is probably a fair demand. one of the plaintiffs in the , theit is a senator elect attorney general of missouri. another plaintiff in the lawsuit was a nominee for the senate who lost, patrick mo

it was a canary in the coal mine for the tea party. he's a tea party republican.erger is a former operative with the cia. again, this is one to watch because this is those sue bourbon women voters in a washington suburb. if this goes to the democrats, that will be some sense of how the evening will go for them. jonathan capehart just mentioned this one, georgia six. handel won in a special election against ossoff but it was particular choice. we will watch what happens in the georgia gubernatorial race. but see if that falls into democrats' hands. number 15, between orlando and tampa, there's a retired republican in this district, gop republican dennis ross. it's between ross spannio and kristin carlson. again, you're watching a lot of races in florida. we're watching the gubernatorial race between desantis and gillum. but keep an eye on florida 15 to see how the house will go for the rest of the evening. this one pennsylvania one, this is mostly bucks county, outside of philadelphia. a little bit of montgomery county. this is one where we're going to look at clos

by the time after the boston tea party, he was treated appallingly badly by the british government andadually he could see there was no prospect of healing the bridge. >> you write that franklin at last found his calling or his vocation in science. how and why did this happen? he was a printer, and i appreciate that there was a connection between science and craft like this, but how did he become the scientific genius of america? and would you argue that this is how we should best remember him? that is, as a scientist rather than as a diplomat or political leader? is this really what makes him important through the ages? >> personally, i think the size is most important thing. my feeling is that of the other achievements and perform other people but it was something very special about his turn towards science in 1746. the point was the have had been reading scientific books for a long time. he had immersed himself in the scientific text with the best text books available from europe have been coming over from 1730 from the library company of philadelphia which had an excellent collecti

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to,ink the tea party effort which i remember so vividly saying some years ago, the kind of bitterness among some of them . think president trump has added to that. they could never imagine the kind of -- that is expressed by the president. including his former friends as well as his enemies. i think all of it has added up to the kind of deep division and divisiveness that i think we need to know or adjust directly and overcome it. it is foreign to my experience on the ways and means committee. he is in his 90's. a republican. he and i spent two days together meeting with the joint task many going into ago taxation. just the two of us. the republican and democrat. in introducing legislation. that seem like so long ago. we need to return to that kind some differences, but some sense of common purpose and decency. decency. two years into the trump presidency, clearly a lot can happen. when they write the history book about this, the first two years of the president, what will they say from your standpoint? rep. levin: i think historians will find it a bit complicated. and there are a num

remember the big tea party wins in 2010 and 2014. ted cruz and marco rubio said the republican party is looking for a tea party evangelical. ben carson said, i'm going to run for president. who won the republican nomination? donald trump. let's be careful about thinking what happens in a midterm carries over to the next presidential cycle. if you're the president and looking at this, number one, you should be worried. if we take this out and show you what we showed you before in the suburban districts and then you stop this here and do the pickups. flips. democrats are going to pick up 23 republican seats. there are 20 now, a few outstanding. they could pick up as many as 23, maybe 24. republican seats in american suburbs. that has long been the base of the republican party. so california is going to be blue. wur n you're not worrying about that. but if you come over here. virginia, used to be a red state, became a purple state. you can lean it blue now in presidential politics. that's's o one lesson to take. if you're the president,

. >> if folks don't know, the district is where david bratt started the tea party revolution in taking out eric cantor and now represented by abigail sandberger. >> you are asking me to pick my favorite child. they are not my children but they are my clients and friends. i have too many races to point to. i look at jennifer waxed and in virginia 10 as a race where she was disciplined and went through a tough primary. how many democrats came out to run for office in the primaries? really healthy contests of ideas and passion. jennifer survived a tough primary and went off to beat barbara comstock in an exciting victory, the first victory of the evening to flip a seat and that was a race won in the suburbs on the issue of healthcare and her own personal story as a mom. if i had to pick when i would go with the first one announced for us, jennifer and she will be a phenomenal congresswoman. >> let's talk about the primaries. it had a little bit of the hunger games feeling at a certain point with some of the district having 8 or 9 democrats saying i would like to run and at one point i sai

but listen, we had a popular performance bigger than the tea party. the tea party 6.8% in terms of your margin. we had 9% apparently tonight. the reason is, you gerrymandered the map so bad even when we have a 9 percent victory we can't get all the seats. >> in pennsylvania, the only place where you had an impartial judge to. >> im. >> they're democrats, elected by democrats. >> talk big picture for viewers just kind of joining how do you see tonight and what this means moving forward? >>en, the president of the united states receive aid report card on his first two years in office. and one of the houses of congress went the other way. in a pretty dramatic fashion. so there is a rebuke here of the president. and there is evidence that the president maintains his unique ability to you bring out voters in parts of the country that are very supportive of him which is why they're adding sees to their total in the senate. ity would not sit back though and just say split democrats the won the house and republicans won the senate because donald trump is goin

this is tea party and trump country. dave brat knocked off a republican incumbent. tea party votes in the rural areas. tough competitive district. democrats back in the lead. watch that. another one, democrats wanted at least one. they were hoping for two, maybe three in virginia. let's keep an eye over here on the coast. scott taylor, 91%. the republican incumbent losing. 4,000 votes with 91% right now. watch as that comes in. the democrats had a plan. we'll get to new york and new jersey. the polls close later. picked up a lot of new york, new jersey, pennsylvania. they needed at least one. you're looking at the map. they got one. the question is can they keep going? then you look at it. come down to florida, we've done the business down here. this was a flip. this one we already called. this one we're watching as we come through. we're up to 93 %. the democratic candidate running ahead of the republican incumbent here. this would be a big target for the democrats to get that one. pick up opportunity in florida. so they have won. they're looking at a second. i wan

have you all heard of the boston tea party? boycott activity has a really storied history in the united states, and the seminole boycott in the united states is the black community in mississippi in the '60s issued a set of demands to white merchants for immigration, for desegregation, and the white merchants ignored it, didn't satisfy those demands, so they said, we're going to boycott you all and we're going to encourage other folks to boycott you all. and some of the white merchants got together and sued the naacp who is leading this boycott effort and other key leaders of that boycott, and they lost. they were ordered, to begin with, lower courts in mississippi ordered naacp and these black leaders of the boycott to pay for the lost busine business. you know, the white merchants that were operating segregated spaces and doing all sorts of terrible things. the supreme court in the '60s said absolutely not. absolutely not. your boycotting is an express sieve activity. it's a form of speech. and the government can't conform vi

every night knocking our government and president, we had a boston tea party and we had a war and gotthe brits and now they are back trying to run our government, they say the russians interfered with our last election, the brits are really interfering with this one. me, watch't believe channel eight. absolutely ridiculous. they have made me mad. host: thank you. caller: the last word from indianapolis. you are calling on the line for independence, how will you vote tomorrow? caller: i have voted republican and the reason is because of what president obama said electiveears ago about surgery. he said sometimes someone or whoever does not need to have a kneegery and i had that i was -- could not even walk on, i was going to have to have a walker or a wheelchair and when he said that, went to my doctor and he suggested that i have the elective surgery right away because he said i am not sure what the democrats are going to do in the future. the other thing is as far as we're letting people come through this country and taking away, not every young man can go into the service or not ever