WONDERFUL REPORTING ON THIS HE
WILL BE BACK WITH MORE DETAILS
MOMENTARILY.
FIRST IT IS PRIMARY DAY IN FOUR
STATES, KANSAS, MICHIGAN,
WASHINGTON STATE, MISSOURI.
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT, HE
ENDORSED FAR RIGHT-WING
THE FINAL SPECIAL EDITION OF THE
SEASON OF THE BATTLE GROUND
O'CONNOR, HE IS WITHIN STRIKING
DANCE THERE OF BECOMING THE
FIRST DEMOCRAT TO REPRESENT
CENTRAL OHIO IN DECADES.
HE IS UP AGAINST 57-YEAR-OLD
TROY BALDERSON, A STATE SENATOR
ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.
JOINING ME, FORMER OHIO STATE
SENATOR, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY,
CAPRI CAFARO, THE SPOKESPERSON
FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE, KAYLEIGH MCENANY.
YOU WORKED WITH TROY BALDERSON.
YOU ARE NOT A FAN.
YOU DON'T THINK HE IS A WILL
MAKE IT THROUGH THE FINISH LINE.
>> TROY IS NICE ENOUGH GUY, I
DON'T MEAN TO DISPARAGE HIM, I
THINK THERE WERE STRONGER
CANDIDATES IN THE REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY FOR THIS SEAT.
SENATOR BALDERSON WAS CHAIR OF
THIS SEAT HAS BEEN HELD BY
PAT TIBIRI VACATED THE SEAT,
WENT TO THE OHIO BUSINESS
ROUNDTABLE.
WHAT I THINK THIS RACE WILL TELL
US, IT SHOULD NOT BE IN STRIKING
DANCE FOR A DEMOCRAT, BUT I
COUNTY RECORDER, DISTANCED
HIMSELF FROM NANCY PELOSI IN
WASHINGTON, IF DEMOCRATS ARE
SUCCESSFUL THIS SHOWS HAVING A
CANDIDATE THAT MATCHES VALUES OF
THE DISTRICT IS --
TRISH: MORE IMPORTANT THAN
PARTY?
I THINK, YOU'RE ON TO SOMETHING
TO AS WELL.
IN OTHER WORDS HE DIDN'T FIT
INTO ANY PARTICULAR REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM.
DISTRICT, CAPRI, AS A DEMOCRAT
WOULD APPRECIATE.
>> EXACTLY.
TRISH: LOOK AT FOR EXAMPLE, THE
SUPPORT OF UNIONS FOR THIS
I KNOW YOU WORK FOR THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
I HATE TO SAY IT, I THINK IN
SOME WAYS THEY ARE FAR LESS
RELEVANT THAN THE CANDIDATE
THEMSELVES?
>> IT IS AN INTERESTING POINT
BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP
CERTAINLY CAME INTO OUR PARTY
WITH NEW, WITH FRESH, WITH BOLD
IDEAS, IDEAS THAT WERE FOREIGN
THOSE IDEAS WON THE DAY BECAUSE
THEY SPOKE TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, THEY SPOKE TO THE
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS IN MICHIGAN
AND WISCONSIN AND PENNSYLVANIA.
SO MUCH SO, THAT I WOULD ARGUE
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS EVOLVED
TO MATCH THE PRESIDENT, BECOME
THE PARTY OF BLUE-COLLAR WORK
YEARS I AGREE WITH THAT.
I AGREE WITH THAT.
I THINK HE HAS BEEN VERY
SUCCESSFUL, I TOLD THE VIEWERS
OFTEN BEFORE, I'M AN IRISH
CATHOLIC AND MY FAMILY WAS
DEMOCRAT LIKE THEY WERE IRISH
AND CATHOLIC, RIGHT?
THAT WAS JUST PART OF THE DEAL.
WHERE I GREW UP, AND WHAT I
WOULD SAY IS, THAT THOSE IRISH
CATHOLIC, BLUE-COLLAR DEMOCRATS,
THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT IN COMMON
WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THESE
DAYS, WHETHER BERNIE SANDERS
TALK OF SOCIALISM, WHETHER IT IS
ELIZABETH WARREN WITH ELITISM
AND HILLARY CLINTON FOR THAT
MATTER, AND I KNOW, CAPRI, YOU
COME FROM A SIMILAR KIND OF
BACKGROUND.
>> RIGHT.
TRISH: BUT IN OHIO YOU STILL
HAVE MANY OF THOSE FOLKS OUT
THERE SEEKING, RIGHT, SOME KIND
OF REPRESENTATION THAT IS NOT
PART OF THE GLOBAL ELITE BUT IS
PART OF THE WORKING CLASS.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
OR, NEW FOLKS LIKE A
31-YEAR-OLD.
TALK ABOUT CONOR LAM IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
>> I THINK THERE IS SIMILARITIES
BETWEEN CONOR LAMB, THE SPECIAL
ELECTION, PENNSYLVANIA 18.
OVER THE BORDER WHERE I'M FROM,
OVER THE BORDER, WESTERN
PENNSYLVANIA AND CENTRAL OHIO,
WITH THIS SPECIAL ELECTION IN
CENTRAL OHIO.
THIS AREA IS LITTLE BIT MORE
SUBURBAN IN OHIO 12, A LITTLE
BIT DIFFERENT.
WHAT YOU'RE SEEING A MATCH-UP
WITH A WEAKER REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE VERSUS SOMEONE ON THE
DEMOCRATIC SIDE, BRINGING
ENTHUSIASM, IS WILLING TO ACCEPT
CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE TRUMP
DOCTRINE WHILE, ALSO ALIGNING
HIMSELF WITH MORE TRADITIONAL
DEMOCRATIC VALUES AS OPPOSED TO
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS WE'RE
SEEING THIS PLACES LIKE THE
BRONX.
TRISH: IT IS PRETTY INTERESTING
STUFF.
KAYLEIGH, WHAT IS YOUR OVER
UNDER ON THIS ONE?
DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS WILL
PULL THROUGH?
>> I DO.
I DO THINK TROY BALDERSON WILL
WIN WITH NARROW MARGIN, LESS
THAN FIVE.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT IF
HE DOES WIN, IT IS BECAUSE OF
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES' ENDORSEMENT.
THIS RACE WAS TRENDING IN THE
WRONG DIRECTION.
THEY WERE CLOSING THE GAP,
DEMOCRATS WERE, DANNY O'CONNOR
THE HOUSE.
IF WE WIN, IT IS BECAUSE OF THAT
ENTHUSIASM, THAT HE, BASICALLY
WAS LIGHTNING ROD INTO OUR BASE.