ROB: ONE STEP CLOSER TO SETTING
THE STAGE FOR THE MIDTERM
ELECTIONS.
MAJOR VICTORIES FOR BOTH PARTIES
AND CANDIDATES FOR NOVEMBER, AND
FORMER POLLSTER FOR THE
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, CHRIS
WILSON, STARTING WITH INDIANA.
AND HOW MUCH MONEY MATTERS.
IT SEEMS LIKE INDIANA MONEY
MATTERS TO DO.
>> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BROAD
VIEW REPUBLICANS HAVE GOT TO BE
EXCITED ABOUT HIM COMING OUT OF
THE SENATORIAL COMMITTEE, THEY
HAD A GREAT NIGHT.
PRETTY MUCH IN EVERY RACE.
A CONSERVATIVE BUSINESSMAN,
CONSENSUAL THE SUCCESSFUL
BACKGROUND, AND A MAINSTREAM
CANDIDATE AT THE SAME TIME.
HE IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL
POLITICIAN, JOE DONNELLY IS
VULNERABLE, MORE PEOPLE WENT
HIM, MORE DESERVE REELECTION
THEN DOES.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT TURNOUT, MOST
REPUBLICANS OVER 2014, THE LAST
MIDTERM ELECTION, TURNOUT HAS
BEEN DOWN, MORE THAN IT WAS FOR
DEMOCRATS.
REPUBLICANS HAVE THE RESULTING
INDIANA.
ROB: THE RICH BUSINESSMAN TREND
CONTINUES.
A CHANCE OF DEFEATING DONNELLY,
SENATE SEAT REPUBLICANS WANT.
>> BRON GIVES REPUBLICANS THE
LAST CHANCE, IT IS A TOSSUP.
IF NOT, A LITTLE BIT OF A SLIDE
BECAUSE REPUBLICANS TRENDING
NATURE OF THE STATE.
ROB: I WAS THERE IN OHIO
SPEAKING WITH VOTERS, THE
RESULTS NO SURPRISE.
RENACCI.
>> REPUBLICANS GOT WHAT THEY
WANTED.
REPUBLICANS LED IN EVERY
STATEWIDE RACE IN TURN OUT.
I KEEP GOING BACK TO THAT SECOND
BECAUSE DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO
MAKE THE CLAIM WE HAVE THE
ENTHUSIASM ON OUR SIDE AND LAST
NIGHT SAW THAT TREND REVERSED.
OHIO IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
THE SOLID BACKGROUND, ONE OF
THESE SITUATIONS WHEN YOU LOOK
AT RECENT POLLING, INCUMBENT
SENATORS SAID MORE PEOPLE -- IT
IS AT BEST A TOSSUP.
REPUBLICANS PICK THIS UP.
ROB: REPUBLICANS LOVE HIM BUT
MANCHIN COULD BE A REPUBLICAN IN
ANY OTHER STATE.
DOES HE HAVE A CHANCE OF BEATING
MANCHIN?
>> MANCHIN IS IN WEST VIRGINIA
BUT IT IS EARLY.
ROB: I APOLOGIZE.
DOES HE HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING
THE SENATE?
>> HE DOES.
IT HAS GOT TO BE A TOSSUP
BECAUSE OHIO IS MUCH LIKE
INDIANA, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
TURNOUT GAPS REPUBLICANS LED IN
EVERY STATEWIDE RACE IN TURN
OUT.
THAT A HUGE FAN FOR DEMOCRATS
THAT THEY ARE IN TROUBLE.
>> I WAS SO EAGER TO GET TO WEST
VIRGINIA.
SEEMS LIKE PATRICK MORRISSEY
JUST SURVIVED.
OF AN DRAGONTEMPLATE, DON
BLANKENSHIP HAD A LEAD BUT
MORRISSEY JUST SURVIVED THIS
THING.
>> I WOULD DISPUTE THAT BECAUSE
I KNOW PATRICK MORRISSEY.
HE IS AN INDEFATIGABLE
CAMPAIGNER.
I NEVER MET SOMEONE WHO WORKED
AS HARD.
HE CAME FROM BEHIND.
BLANKENSHIP HAD TO LEAD, HE GOT
IN FRONT, THE PRES. GOT
INVOLVED, AND HIS SON TWEETED
OUT, LET'S GET BEHIND, JENKINS,
AN INTERESTING STRATEGY WITH THE
DEMOCRATS, THEY TRIED TO BEAT
JENKINS, THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN
DRIVING JENKINS'S NUMBERS DOWN
BUT HE IS THE ONE CANDIDATE WHO
CAN BEAT MANCHIN WHO IS IN REAL
TROUBLE.
HIS OPPONENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY 14-1, GOT A LITTLE MORE
THAN 65% OF THE VOTE.
A HUGE HARBINGER THAT HE HAS
REAL CHALLENGES NOT ONLY WITH AS
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER COULD BE A
REPUBLICAN, THAT DOESN'T GET HIS
BASE EXCITED AND REPUBLICANS GO