Transcript: Trump Hits Shocking Poll Low as Aides Leak: He’s “Furious”

They’re trying to expand the House map by really going into some very difficult districts traditionally for Democrats—ones that lean Republican by four or five, six, seven, eight, that kind of thing. And some of these are in North Carolina, some of them are in central Pennsylvania, some are in Iowa.

But they really are—it looks to me, Democrats, not just American Bridge, but as a party generally—it now looks like there’s a new level of commitment to going into harder races, to contesting tougher places and really trying to shake loose whatever can be shaken loose. That’s what happens, right? In an environment like this, if you go contest these races in hard places, things happen. Funny things happen. Surprising things happen.

Reynolds: You expand the field at a time like this because we look at what’s happened since Trump got elected. Since Trump got elected, Democrats have flipped 30 state legislative seats, Republicans have flipped none. Democrats have overperformed in the elections that have happened—a variety of special elections, state legislative elections. Democrats have overperformed in 85 percent of those seats. That number in 2006 was about two-thirds. So we’re overperforming all over the place.