is terryning us madonna. me. host: give us your assessment of the cycle and what makes pennsylvania a battleground. guest: i think what makes the state of battleground is the fact that when the congressional map was re-drawn by the supreme itrt earlier in the year made the congressional races in the state very competitive. if you go back to the previous in each of11 map, the subsequent congressional elections that republicans won 13 of the 18 seats in pennsylvania. -- 2012, the democrats 2014, 2016. 13-5. the map put somewhere between three and five of the state's congressional seats in play. my sense about this from the polls that have been done in other analyses is the democrats are likely to pick up somewhere between three and five seats, which makes the state a player in the democrats effort to try to get the magic number, 23. we can talk about those if you will. , we havean pointed out a couple of congressional races that are very competitive, getting a good bit of national attention and money coming in from

is terryning us madonna. me. st: give us your assessment of the cycle and what makes pennsylvania a battleground. guest: i think what makes the state of battleground is the fact that when the congressional map was re-drawn by the supreme itrt earlier in the year made the congressional races in the state very competitive. if you go back to the previous map, the 2011