Mike Johnson: “A special election is a strange animal in politics. They're…”

“There are a lot of polls out there, Emerson, just being one of them, that show this thing is within two to three points between you, Congressman, and Afton Bain. That's. That's hard to wrap our minds around, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, A special election is a strange animal in politics. They're often way off. It's not a bellwether for anything. But this is a deep red district and Matt should win. But the problem is when you have a deep red district, a lot of the people take for granted that the Republican or the conservative is going to win.” (04:38–04:44)

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